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April 6th, 2018 
Right, where does one start in trying to explain the Salman Khan verdict?
For Indian readers, or those familiar with the Indian scene, it is simply a case of whether or not you think justice has been done, in a 20 year old poaching case against a swaggering high-profile Bollywood actor.
Nailing my colours to the mast here, I think justice has been done.
And yes, you’re probably right, my use of the adjective “swaggering” just now, is indeed a bit judge-y,
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Click to continue reading The strange case of the Bollywood star & the slaughtered gazelles
April 4th, 2018 
…that if you drive a classic car in Delhi’s unforgiving traffic, you will get a guaranteed smile.
Or, in the case of the driver of a bright orange DTC bus, a smiling thumbs up and a “bahut buriya” (excellent), as he towered above us at the red light.
There is a definite magic about an old car, and I have yet to see anyone not smile at us in the traffic. Lots of people slow down to take a grab shot with their mobile (they’re the slightly alarming ones, the bikes leaning in super-close to get a photo), but the […]
Click to continue reading It is a truth universally acknowledged…
April 2nd, 2018 
There is no such thing as a dull day in India.
No. Such. Thing.
Trust me.
Take today, for instance.
We left our friends Shefali & Christopher’s house in the Tirthan Valley at 7 o’clock, to head home to Delhi.
Our car was loaded to the gunwales, because we’d had a puncture, and had to put on the emergency tyre, which is smaller than the actual tyre, which then had to go in the boot because it wouldn’t fit in the prescribed place, thereby reducing luggage space…hey, you are following me here, right?
So, yes, as I said, loaded up […]
Click to continue reading Bharat was indeed bandh today
March 28th, 2018 
Am back in my happy place, aka the Tirthan Valley in Himachal.
The sky is the deepest of blues, the Tirthan river is rushing past, below my window; there is non-stop bird-song (though I get that in Delhi, too, to be fair) and something I definitely don’t get in Delhi, there is the sound of drumming for the gods.
The drumming, far off but approaching, is that of a devta (god) on the move. I guess, from the sound, that it’ll be another hour or so before the procession wends its way below our balcony.
We saw 4 different devtas […]
Click to continue reading Back in the Valley of the Gods
March 17th, 2018 
When it comes to a super dear friend like the designer Sonam Dubal, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m proudly and unashamedly biased.
If ever I needed to make a full disclosure statement about my relationship with Sonam and his clothes, it would go something like this:
“I have known this lovely man for years, and he has designed many outfits for me and for my daughter Anjulie, and I trust him implicitly when it comes to anything to do with fashion.”
So with this in mind, if you are expecting an impartial, critical review of Sonam’s show […]
Click to continue reading In praise of talented friends
March 15th, 2018 
And so, last night, for a while, I got to hang out with Delhi’s beautiful people, courtesy of Amazon India Fashion Week.
Quick heads up – one of my cousins-by-marriage is the designer Ashish Soni, and so off we trotted, daughter dearest and I, to watch his show, the final show of the first day of India Fashion Week 2018.
And WHAT a show it was. Showmanship in every sense of the word.
Ashish is super well-known for his menswear,
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Click to continue reading Old fashioned glamour to the fore at India Fashion Week
March 11th, 2018 
Many, many moons ago, an Indian friend visiting England for the first time, said he had finally understood the British obsession with talking about the weather.
Since Blighty can experience several weather changes in one day, small wonder, he said, that we talk about it all the time. Always an evolving topic of conversation.
Here in Delhi, the weather isn’t unpredictable the way it is in England.
Winters are short, chilly and terrifyingly polluted.
Holi comes, and we head towards summer, which is always long – very long – and hot.
The rains come and wash everything clean.
Then it’s […]
Click to continue reading Now, about our wonderful Delhi weather…
March 2nd, 2018 
Last night we were privileged to be invited for a concert performed by the band of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and it was one of the jolliest, most easy-going evenings I’ve had in a long time.
The venue, New Delhi’s Siri Fort auditorium, has been the scene of so many horrid concert experiences over the years.
But not last night.
In the past, we have had to wait outside in the street for ages, in long queues, despite having paid tickets, only to be allowed in minutes before curtain up, in an undignified scramble for seats.
No such scenario last […]
Click to continue reading Such fun!
March 1st, 2018 
First day of March, folks.
Which means warmer weather on the horizon.
For British friends, shivering in the snow & reeling from the Beast from the East, this might seem like good tidings.
For we Delhi-walas, however, with Holi being celebrated tomorrow, today marks the beginning of the end of the current lovely weather, and of all those gorgeous spring flowers and beautiful blooms, as we hurtle towards summer.
And, if we are to believe what we read in the papers, we’re in for a scorcher this […]
Click to continue reading The spring is most definitely sprung
February 23rd, 2018 
Advance warning.
This is going to be nothing but breathless, gushing, enthusiastic praise for THE most amazing park that has just opened to the public.
Yesterday, Delhi’s so-called “Central Park” was opened to the public, and I am blown away by it. The old familiar entrance gates of Sunder Nursery, at the back of Humayun’s Tomb, are the same, but the new vistas…something altogether different.
Thanks to the stellar work done by the totally amazing Aga Khan Trust for Culture,
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Click to continue reading A stupendous, fabulous new park in Delhi
February 21st, 2018 
Ever since I was given a bird feeder by O.P., one of the lovely fellas in my running group, my balcony has seen even more squirrel activity than usual.
Quite.
No sooner had we poured in the millet, than the squirrels descended en masse.
They have always hung around on our balcony, scampering across the railing and knocking over the bowls of water I put out for the birds, but the bird feeder brings them in all day long, non-stop. So much so, that I even bought a special dedicated squirrel feeder for them – a glass fronted box, so […]
Click to continue reading Your hindi word of the day – gilhari
February 17th, 2018 
I have my British girlfriend Liz Jackson to thank, for alerting me to the news that Pierce Brosnan, aka James Bond, is in trouble with the Delhi government.
Back in 2016, I’d shared with you the news that the dishy Mr. Brosnan was promoting pan masala in an ad that was a pretty poor imitation of a 007 moment.
I love Mr. Brosnan and always have, but his choice of ad left me saddened. Here’s the link, to refresh your memory.
Now it appears that Mr. Brosnan has fallen foul of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, and the […]
Click to continue reading 007 in trouble in India
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