RIP Danish Siddiqui
A young man was killed today in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Danish Siddiqui, a renowned Indian photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, worked with Reuters. I have never met Mr. Siddiqui but I …
Meet the brothers Socialism, Communism and Leninism
Sometimes India makes me laugh out loud with sheer delight. And the story I am about to share with you now is one that did just that. This is the …
The strange tale of the drunk cattle
To put the following completely dotty story about drunk cattle in perspective, you first need to know that the Indian state of Gujarat (where this story takes place) is a …
Meet the matching tailors of Kerala
Hello, here I am, back to blogging after a month. Guilty as charged. In my defence, it has been a pretty stressful month, during which I lost two very close …
Bit of an own goal…
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Please take 20 seconds and read the brief text (below) about these so-called Spanish “equality stamps.” Someone really didn’t think this through, did they? …
What an insensitive storm in a linguistic tea-cup
So yesterday this happened: By way of explanation for all my non-Indian readers, many of the country’s nurses come from south India, particularly from Kerala, where their native language is …