Year: 2011

  • Dussehra The triumph of Good over Evil

    A special day in India today and after the fasting comes a massive celebration of the triumph of Good over Evil – Evil is represented by the evil Ravana and Good is of course King Ram around whom the whole of the epic Indian story of Ramayana is based. Just some thoughts about this year’s…

  • Mezze Snippets

    Today Anna Hazare is starting to blog so you can  read and hear what he has to say. annahazaresays.wordpress.com Today some scientists in Brisbane reported that they have developed a vaccine that can be applied as a nano patch and which doesn’t need refrigeration. In countries such as India where refrigeration is still a huge…

  • Feline frolics

    Cats are an underclass in India, a serious minority, hardly seen, hardly heard. You have to ask yourself why and perhaps the answer is the desi dogs that are SO prolific the poor cats dont stand a chance.If you ask around the answers are that Indians think that cats are carriers of bad luck and disease. It…

  • Sunset at Neemrana

    We sat on the terrace overlooking the valley and took in the great view and the unfolding storm. The clouds had rolled in, darkened the sky, and dropped round, fat raindrops. Then the darkness lifted the sun dipped in the sky and this followed.

  • Neemrana – choose your room and your century

    Neemrana is located about 122 kms south of Delhi and it seems to be an unlikely place in an unlikely setting but it is even more unbelievable when you finally find it. I will not pretend that getting out of Delhi on the highway is anything other than sheer madness. The roads out of Gurgaon are…

  • Move over Mexico Mizoram calling

    A lot of us live here with husbands or partners who are often called away on business, and perhaps some of us are spoilt with the occasional gift, a shawl, a good book, though I have to say mine is not great at bringing gifts home, until the other day when he arrived happily back…

  • A celebration

    Blogging is of course about sharing but I have rarely put my family in the forefront of my blog. Today however marks the exception and while I dont talk about him often or show him I know that in deciding to spend my life with Charles or Charlie, as we affectionately call him, I chose an uncertain…

  • Natural Indian hazards

    We were sitting having coffee with a few women in my living room when water comes gushing out of the A/C mounted on the wall and drips down onto my antique Chinese cabinet. Buckets and mops were hauled in and A/C repair man called. One holds the ladder, the other climbs and as he dismantles it all he…

  • The phenomenon that is Anna Hazare

    Whether you are resident in India or resident abroad chances are you will have heard this name by now. This is the 74 Indian who has sparked a wildfire of indian peaceful protest for the elimination of corruption in India. He is currently fasting and he can be found in Ramila Maidan in the centre…

  • Gulmarg

    Looking all around me and I could be in Switzerland, which I love so much, but actually this is unmistakenly India and it is full of all the beauty of mountains and water but spiced with the green eyes of the local population which makes us stare rather rudely,  kawha tea and Kashmiri food, beautiful stallions and exquisite…