Title: Roundabouts in Delhi (
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Train to Mumbai and an almost marriage proposal - 03/Nov/2012 17:14 - 4415 days ago
"What is your favourite Indian sweet?" "Um. Gulab jamun." "What shape is the...
Dusty laptop - 12/Jul/2012 15:24 - 4529 days ago
This isn’t my story but I wanted to share it as it made me laugh so much at the time and is a perfect example of the kind of s...
Singing in the rain - 09/Jul/2012 15:16 - 4532 days ago
On Friday evening the rain finally arrived. One second the sun was beating down and the next it had disappeared behind a sheet o...
Neighbourhood watch - 25/Jun/2012 03:26 - 4546 days ago
I live in a flat on my own in south Delhi. It’s a great little flat. Badly patched up concrete walls, a large crack in the cei...
Sleeping melon - 02/Jun/2012 08:05 - 4569 days ago
It’s really hot in Delhi at the moment. 46 degrees kind of hot. That same self-combusting kind of heat I talked about last yea...
In transit - 10/Jan/2012 17:22 - 4713 days ago
One of the best and strangest things about travelling andliving abroad is going home. I returned home to England for Christmas a...
Pagdandi - 11/Dec/2011 05:57 - 4743 days ago
‘Head, shoulders, knees andtooooes, knees and toooes, and eyes and ears and mouth and nooose!’Me, my best Indian-English acc...
Diwali - 27/Oct/2011 14:18 - 4788 days ago
A cycle rickshaw narrowly misses a collision with aRoman candleDiwali.Definitely my favourite Indian festival yet. The biggest f...
Mum in India; Rajasthan, a waterfall and a lot of hand sanitiser - 17/Oct/2011 16:43 - 4798 days ago
“Goand have a look at your sink!”Mumhas been in Delhi less than 12 hours and she emerges from the kitchenbrandishing a wire ...
Quite a week - 09/Sep/2011 14:40 - 4836 days ago
Evenby Delhi’s standards this has been quite a week. Abomb blaston Wednesday andan earthquake the evening of that same day, th...
Kolkata. A football match, a polar bear and cake. - 07/Sep/2011 17:51 - 4838 days ago
AlthoughI’m not the biggest football fan and can count the number of live matches I’veattended on three fingers, I was sold ...
Kolkata. A football match, a polar bear and cake. - 07/Sep/2011 17:51 - 4838 days ago
AlthoughI’m not the biggest football fan and can count the number of live matches I’veattended on three fingers, I was sold ...
Cows and Krishna - 24/Aug/2011 18:12 - 4852 days ago
Chandelier balancing (carefully held together by live electric cable)I’d recently begun to worry that after eight mo...
Kumaon. Several jeep rides, a few landslides, a lot of rain and a baby goat - 05/Jul/2011 14:06 - 4902 days ago
It was back in April when my friend Liz talked about making a trip to Kumaon for the weekend to visitAvani, an NGO that works wi...
What not to wear...to an important meeting - 17/Jun/2011 03:26 - 4920 days ago
If you’ve been following the most recent months’ blog entries then you may have noticed that there hasn’t been much mentio...
Yeh nila durvaza hei (A little bit lost in translation - part 2) - 26/May/2011 15:46 - 4942 days ago
The blue doorFor five weeks now my flatmate Zoe and I have been taking Hindi lessons once a week in a bid to up the stakes and t...
Recipe for bread in a pan - 17/May/2011 16:58 - 4951 days ago
Craving fresh bread but have no access to yeast or an oven? What you need is bread in a pan.I wanted to share this recipe as it ...
A-Z of insects in India - 11/May/2011 14:45 - 4957 days ago
Absolutely enormous antAbsolutely enormous antsthat feed off the normal sized ants. The small ants do all the hard work whilst t...
Always keep an onion in your pocket - 09/May/2011 14:12 - 4959 days ago
“If you don’t like eating them raw then just carry an onion in your pocket.” This was the advice I was given the othe...
A safer Delhi - 07/May/2011 17:55 - 4961 days ago
The other evening I was waiting on the metro platform at Central Secretariat on the women only section of the platform. It was a...
Tea - 02/May/2011 14:12 - 4966 days ago
Britain, next to Ireland, is the world’s biggest tea drinking nation. Collectively we drink 165 million cups of tea a day whic...
Tigers, cricket and corruption - 19/Apr/2011 12:24 - 4979 days ago
Apologies to my regular readership of three (Susmita, Liz& Yolanda) and occasional passers-by from the Ukraine, Malaysia, So...
Park Life (part 2) - 09/Mar/2011 17:10 - 5020 days ago
View from remaining secret location of solitudeIt’s not that I am someone who enjoys long periods of solitude or prefers to be...
Cricket - 07/Mar/2011 13:58 - 5022 days ago
On Saturday Score Foundation (the organisation I work for) joint hosted an event to welcome the Dutch cricket team to India and ...
Did Delhi just get quieter? - 20/Feb/2011 16:35 - 5037 days ago
Cadbury's elclairs, the new small change.It’s now been about two and a half months since I arrived fresh off the plane onto In...
A little bit lost in translation - 08/Feb/2011 18:52 - 5049 days ago
How not to make friends in HindiFor eight weeks now I’ve been greeting our landlady with the standard greeting of, “Namaste ...
Park Life and a religious lesson - 30/Jan/2011 18:07 - 5058 days ago
I headed to Lodi Gardens this morning full of good intentions to spend a day intensively working on my Hindi. My first mistake w...
Jaipur Literature Festival - 25/Jan/2011 19:05 - 5063 days ago
Nam Le, Leila Aboulela, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHaving not yet been outside of Delhi since I arrived on 12thDecember, I decided ...
Pavements, curbs and gradients - 17/Jan/2011 18:06 - 5071 days ago
This morning a colleague of mine who is visually impaired was hit by a motorbike as he went to get on the bus. The bus had stopp...
Katie doesn't share food...at least that was until I came to India - 07/Jan/2011 17:15 - 5081 days ago
This is just a reconstruction of an empty plate and not the actual plate ofpotato curry mentioned in this postMy work has a real...
Ode to the Hot Water Bottle - 04/Jan/2011 14:25 - 5084 days ago
There are a lot of things I have my granny to thank for; my pretty ok baking skills, sarcasm, a love of orange lollies and choc ...
Bargain hunting - 03/Jan/2011 13:27 - 5085 days ago
Bargain hunting, haggling, neither are things I’ve ever been very good at. I’ve been known to haggle in foreign countries be...
No room for complacency - 31/Dec/2010 07:14 - 5088 days ago
This has been a great week workwise. Now that I am starting to get used to the way in which people at my organisation work and w...
Christmas in Delhi - 27/Dec/2010 05:00 - 5092 days ago
Our Christmas Tree. A present from theneighbours.Christmas EveIt was 10pm and I was sat watching Bridget Jones’ Diary to get m...
First impressions of my placement - 23/Dec/2010 07:13 - 5096 days ago
The organisation I will be working for over the next two years is an NGO providing advice and support to blind and visually impa...
Toilet roll and eggs - 19/Dec/2010 21:00 - 5100 days ago
I’ve officially been in Delhi a week now and I don’t feel like I’ve actually done all that much in terms of how much I wou...
Day 2 in Delhi - 14/Dec/2010 04:00 - 5105 days ago
Making garlands outside Sai Baba Mandir So, the difference a day makes. At least I was a bit less scared of Delhi tod...
Arrival in Delhi - 13/Dec/2010 03:00 - 5106 days ago
(AM)I arrived in Delhi in the early hours of this morning when most of the city was asleep, although I didn’t realise that at ...
The illusive visa - 29/Nov/2010 17:20 - 5120 days ago
The small piece of paper that caused so much trouble and finally arrived on 29th November...
"Employment visas take a long time madam" - 24/Nov/2010 20:58 - 5125 days ago
I wasn’t sure whether to include this as my first blog entry but I think it’s important that I do because it’s been a sign...
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