Year: 2011

  • The Royals

    Hopped over to the UK to do a few odd jobs but also to enjoy the spectacle of the royal wedding and even your die hard republicans will agree that it was a grand and lovely affair. Just to give you a small flavour one of the biggest department stores in London called Selfridges had…

  • A comment I wanted to share with you

    My blog on Coronation Park raised this comment from a reader and with their kind permission I would like to share this with you all. She said: Your pictures remind me of the poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley: “I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the…

  • Coronation Park

    Some distance from the Civil Lines in Bhai Parmanand Marg, little known and visited is Coronation Park. This is the famous venue for the last Durbar in India on 11th  December of 1911.The first Durbar was in 1877 to commemorate Queen Victoria as Empress of India. The second was to commemorate the accession of Edward…

  • British India of Bygone days

    One of the most appealling aspects of living in India is that it is almost an open history book. With little imagination and some background you can actually visualize places and people as there is so much evidence of past times here still. So it was with considerable interest that I visited North Delhi to explore that…

  • Indian twists and charms

    In Europe you microchip pets. For those of you who are not aware of this system, your pet has a microchip inserted by a small shot gun into the back of their neck. This microchip which is the size of a grain of rice has a unique number on it.You are then the registered owner of this…

  • Jazz at Nehru Park

    Nehru would have liked this – a collaboration of European embassies and learning institutions coming together to bring Jazz to Delhi on a beautiful evening in Nehru Park. The event takes place over three nights and if you havent gone along, tonight is your last chance. I was there last night and was probably the oldest thing…

  • Life here is like this …

    Amidst the more serious news  – A seventy year old man called Anna Hazara is on a hunger strike to protest at the level of corruption in the country. His cause is spreading like wildfire and protests and support rallies are being reported on a daily basis. There is a superbug in Delhi water – as…

  • India Cricket Champions

    For anyone who may have missed it in the world INDIA have just won the WORLD CUP IN CRICKET.Congratulations Team India ! The parties went on all weekend.

  • In the right direction

    It is easy to be critical in India – so much, on so many levels, isnt right but today is a reason to be cheerful and encouraging. Sometime back I reported on the 1411 tigers left in India – the news just out is that  the tiger population has increased to 1541-1875. This is one of them…

  • Morning Greeting

    Colour palettes with gossamer wings Around them bumble bees sing. Butterflies in such delicate shimmer Oh the world is a- glimmer. My friend Ruchira Mittal’s greeting to me this morning !