Year: 2010

  • Indian Postal Services

    The first stamp of Independent India showing the Indian Flag Take 1Namaste, two stamps please for Europe.No stamps Ma’amFor Europe please ? Yes, I need two.Fingers up in physical demo of numbers required. Ma’am no stamps. What do you mean no stamps ? Ma’am no stamps in post office.Please to come tomorrow, next days stamps…

  • Jaipur a modern city but not like Gurgaon

    Just a small comparison. One city built by Mr One and Three Quarters as he was called ” Sawai” to you and me and he called it Jaipur the “City of Victory”. Without doubt this is one of the first and lasting urban cities that Sawai can be proud of even to this day. It…

  • Bloomin' Bougie

    This Bloomin’ Entry is for N to brighten up her day. The sun is always bright in India but sometimes we struggle to find that inner light.Delhi offers the most hectic of lives, often confined to the inside of a car or a building and taking stock is so much more precious.There is so much…

  • Elephant Safaris

    The does and donts of Elephant safaris :Do choose your partner carefully. An imbalance in body weight may cause severe listing.Do practice elegant landing onto elephant if from a platform or ladder. Do wear trousers. Skirts flap and can reveal all colours of underwear and cellulite as you lower yourself onto elephant.Do find a comfy position.It…

  • The Hawa Mahal Jaipur – The palace of the Winds

    This place is so alive with history that you often find yourself drifting off and thinking what it would have been like to have been living in these forts, palaces and gardens. The recurring thought I have is that for a privileged woman, life had one and only one advantage and that was the communality…

  • Jantar Mantar Jaipur

    I am awestruck on a daily basis. This is another jaw dropping visit.Going to the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur. We are in 1728.On the throne is Sawai Jai Singh II.He became ruler of Amber in 1699 at the age of 11 when his father Maharaja Bishan Singh died. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bestowed upon him…

  • Moustaches Music and Mirrors

    Rajputana – not easy to summarise but if I try my title will give you some direction. They are a proud and passionate people and I come from one such like so I travelled to its Capital full of expectation and I was not disappointed.The first thing you notice is the colours of the changing…

  • Learning Hindi against all odds

    The good intentions are still there and my vocabulary is inching slowly forward but this amongst some staggering statistics from this country which are worth noting. English speakers in India outnumber those in Europe. More Indians speak English than any other language with the exception of Hindi and most Indians are bilingual if not trilingual.That…

  • How was your day in the office dear ?

    Husband arrives home looking a little weary so in a wifely smiley way you inquire: How was your day at the office today dear ? It is not often you get the reply: “Exhausting- had to brief a Bollywood star about her role as our good will ambassador and then have a press conference with…

  • Queen Lizzie's Birthday Bash

    Last night we attended Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday reception. Happy Birthday to her – You have to give it to her she is quite an institution. I should know I have one just like her living in my household. In Private eye they would put their pictures up side by side. Poor love she must get…