Year: 2010

  • March 8th is about all women throughout the world

    Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. She chose to go on the 8th of March in 2003 and I could not think of a better day for her to leave this life as it is International Women’s Day and she is the one person who gave me my grounding to face life as a…

  • And I am not the only one writing about Tigers

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/india-vanishing-tiger-rajasthan See Guardian Sunday edition with this interesting and disturbing article.

  • 1411 and hopefully more to come

    I cant over emphasize the sheer beauty and emotion of seeing a tiger in the wild. For those of you who have not done it I urge you to go- you will also understand the huge importance of the campaign SAVE OUR TIGERS which is going on at the moment in India. Just think, your…

  • The deciduous forest

    This is the time when the trees turn and the leaves fall – there is a Hindi expression “patachara” for this season which means the time for falling leaves.  The seasons here are defined more as dry and wet. So the wet season is followed by the dry season and this is when the leaves…

  • A Morning of Monkeys

    It is not often in a lifetime that a teenager is woken by monkeys and not a nagging mother. This is what happened to Anthony on our weekend away in Pench. This is Rudyard Kipling country and splendid it is.Nestling in the deciduous forests at the corner of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states this is…

  • Living in India

    Living in India you often feel the need to help. A lot of us find instant niches and there is an abundance of good causes. You can start with the very small, charity starts at home, with your staff,  to the very big, finding a cause and running with it succesfully. I have become involved…

  • Walking the dog

    It is at weekends when my husband and I like to take the dog for an extended walk. It is not always what she wants (small parenthesis here to explain she is an adored, spoilt, large and slothful Lab whose favourite place is a bed or a sofa preferably snoring away and if that is not possible…

  • Book club delhi style

    The most hysterical exchange happened at my bookclub this morning. Friend picks up the phone and rings Delhi Bookshop “Hello do you have water for Elephants ?” Silence on the other side. “Hello hello, yes hello have you got water for elephants?” “Water for Elephants, no ma’am we do not have any water for elephants.…

  • La cuisine indienne a la Parmesan

    For those of you who have followed this blog from the start you may be aware that I have a part time cook who has been christened Parmesan and who is the funniest bloke in miles. Its not just the spicy cooking that keeps us sitting up, its his chanting and singing and his stern…

  • Terrorism and Faith

    There is something surreal about being in the midst of a pyrotechnic people where nightly my sensibilities are assaulted with a barrage of firecrackers and blasts the strength of which sometimes seem eerily close by. I use the words carefully because I have been through a war, I know what it sounds like and it…