Tweet This winter I have spent a lot of my free time sitting in front of the computer thinking of writing, but just haven’t been able to take my hands out of my pockets. It’s been so damn...
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Posts Tagged ‘ delhi ’
The Many Benefits of a Harsh Winter
Dummy’s Guide To Staying Safe In Modern India
Tweet Newspapers these days are full of reports about people having all sorts of weird things happen to them. Murders over parking slots, rapes, thefts, acid attacks, battered kids slammed against walls, Abhishek Bachchan having a baby, and what not. Makes you long for the good old days of chain snatchings, tires being stolen...
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In India, Kindly Adjust
Tweet If ever there were a well adjusted country, it has got to be India. We define adjustment. It’s all over the place. Ever been on a train? You stand in line to get a ticket, breathing a heavy sigh of relief on getting that prized confirmation. (Well, these days you wait with bated...
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Damned If It Rains. Doomed If It Doesn’t.
Tweet So Delhi nearly drowned earlier this week. The reason - a few hours of relatively heavy rainfall. Everybody has been going crazy due to the incredible heat. Farmers have been going crazy in the absence of rain. People are dying. Farms wear a barren look. Everybody is yearning for some respite. When the...
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Stayin’ Alive
Tweet Folks, i am still in India and i am also still alive. So far i have not gotten into any road rage related incident, and neither have i got injured in a police lathi charge. Apologies for the long silence on this site. A lot has been happening, and overall i am very...
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