Year: 2012

  • Oprah in Jaipur

    The anticipation was palpable and people started arriving early to catch a seat for the “O” moment. We sneaked around to where the press was at the front and a lovely AP man gave us his seat. We were less than five metres away from the front stage by this time absolutely packed with cameramen…

  • Surrepticiously Salman

    Salman Rushdie has been kept away from the Literature Festival in Jaipur. The rumours that were flying around mentioned fanatics still determined to do him harm, a government wanting to keep its Muslim voters and organisers who, though daring, had their wings clipped. Sitting in a packed tent of eager participants, we waited to hear the authors.…

  • Camels on the highway

    I went to a session about positive thinking yesterday in Delhi and this morning I was up at 5 am to get on the train to go to Jaipur. The road was dense with fog  and we travelled at a snail’s pace through it. The cold was penetrating and the roads were empty.Suddenly we came across…

  • Twitters,scents and swimmers

    The sea life, the bird life but also the flora in this little coastal strip of India is quite remarkable and I only saw a little bit of it which I am sharing with you. On our way to Tiracol Fort the air was heavily perfumed with the scent of cashew flowers and buds. When…

  • Goa poles

    Starting off the new year on a beach is probably one of the nicest ways to set off on a new voyage of discovery, experience some financial waves, curious predictions and swelling hopes. So we said goodbye to 2011 and welcomed in the new year with fireworks falling into the sea and sand under our feet. Goa continues…

  • 2012 What kind of a year ?

    Will it be the end of the world as some calenders like to forecast, the end of the eurozone area as a fiscal unit, the end of the euro as we have known it, the end of Britain in Europe, the end of unleashed spending, the end of Obama, the end of dictators and autocrats…