Year: 2009

Off to the British Council for a book launch by Mark Tully who has been the BBC correspondent in India for many years. Now retired I believe but spending a large part of his time in India. Recently knighted. Met some interesting locals who were there. A very respectable gentleman in a blue and white…

Hell’s Kitchen – India Style – This is the material of all good contemporary TV programmes on making improvements to your home. If it wasnt so lamentable it would be hysterically funny.My landlady, bless her, decided to modernise my kitchen so she brought in an outfit called Italian Kitchens Indianised. The name says it all.…

As we were walking in the field the other day with Tara accompanied by the new additions George turned to me and said “Chini is Tara’s personal trainer!”The second picture is of Yogi the stray who has adopted us and looks like yoghurt.

A week spent largely unpacking boxes shifting them from one room to another and feeling very hot. Only momemts of relief were dipping into the pool when we had a chance and then simply soaking in the noises and the scenes going on. Mercifully where we are there are no horns only the beautiful sounds…

No I have not given up already, nor am I on a airplane back to Switzerland,( though occasionally sorely tempted) just had no internet and was busy trying to track down the container which did a now you see me, now you dont act for a few days. It took many telephone calls, some to…

This is for my sister Niki who wanted to see the Moghul monument opposite the apartment.

Riotous Roads as observed by a hapless foreigner.Yes it is a sea of motorbikes, pedal bikes and autorickshaws interspersed with colourful carrier trucks, sedate sedans and mad man-eating taxis.We counted one spewing out 20. No one is unscratched or unscathed in this seething mass of moving machinery. Order I hear you say order ?Well not…