Year: 2011

  • Arushi Girls home – a Salaam Baalak Trust Home

    It is to my good friend Celia Marsh from Switzerland that I owe this initiative as she very kindly and generously supplied the money for it and I put it into operation. I visited Arushi girls home sometime last year and was struck at how well organised it was and how the girls supported one another. I…

  • Rewari

    Did you know that there is a special place not far from Delhi where Steam Engines and their controllers live ? Yes, for all of you out there who were brought up on Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends and model railways this is a little corner of India worth exploring- it is called…

  • Cos they are both Special Boys

    Today’s post is dedicated to two wonderful men, one lives by my side and the other was the first Prime Minister of India.They are honoured today for their illustrious lives.Both are capable of abundant love. I am fascinated by them in equal measure and whereas the quotes of one are profound and finite the quotes of the other are somewhat cynical…

  • Seher and Subash

    These are my little choclit kids – they belong to the landlady’s driver. The family came from Bihar  because the wife has some health problems which at great cost and a lot of time the driver is trying to solve with limited success it seems. The result it that they have been living on our compound…

  • Fleeting Moments

    My previous post generated a lot of comments and I welcome each and every one of them though I may not agree with all. NIMBY by the way stands for NOT IN MY BACK YARD. My friend N, is familiar with this term as it is something that occurs in every corner of this planet not just…

  • NIMBY

    I was waiting to be collected from a well known shopping precinct. I stood on the corner by a small kiosk that sells sweets and tobacco pouches, both popular in India, and manufactured “singly” so people can afford them. The trouble with that is that men buy them, tear them open and throw the packet…

  • Moet Chandon introducing cousin Mohit Chander

    Moet Chandon introducing cousin Mohit Chander LVMH owned Moet Hennessey India, the importer of Moet Chandon Champagne plans to produce in Nashik a premium version of the French bubbly that might be christened as Mohit Chander (MC), writes Subhash Arora who believes the nick name will be Chandon as in the other non-French countries where…

  • Chini

    This is Chini our Indian stray who we adopted when we moved here. She moves like a gazelle, she has the eyes of a seductress and she is the best guard dog in the world. Sadly we live on a compound with non dog lovers and Chini was returned to the dog sanctuary from where…

  • Kanha National Park

    You know what it is like going to a National Park and having that weighted expectation of seeing the BIG ones. Well we dont – we go along and we enjoy the park for what it has to offer and this takes the pressure off for the driver and the guide and makes it a…

  • Madhya Pradesh in the springtime

    We are drawn to MP like bees to a honeycomb and in this case there was evidence of that as well with these honeycombs all over this kapok tree.The countryside was full of flowering trees and the houses had a very distinct style to them. Swept courtyards, square houses, most painted a very distinct and vibrant blue colour,…