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The Returning - 23/Jan/2012 12:55 - 5252 days ago
And when you came back, Matthew- and your four-year-old body stopped its shaking -and your temperature fell to nearly normal -Yo...
Disability - 21/Jun/2011 09:42 - 5468 days ago
I’m less than a month away from finishing my contract in Delhi and it strikes me that I have written very little about the mai...
Between West and East - 03/Jun/2011 08:23 - 5486 days ago
I’ve just returned to Delhi after two weeks away running around Turkey with my friends, and playing at lots of sports with my ...
Heartbreak - 06/May/2011 12:30 - 5514 days ago
Before I had my heart hurt,‘heartbroken’ was a corny phrase that conjured the listless lines of the heart-limp opening chara...
Sex - 02/May/2011 06:18 - 5518 days ago
When I am outdoors in Delhi, I am followed by pairs of eyes. I have lived places where this has happened before, but the prickly...
Hunger - 13/Apr/2011 10:51 - 5537 days ago
In previous posts, I have blogged of my experience of urban poverty in the course of six months living in Delhi: the man with a ...
Coming home - 03/Apr/2011 07:36 - 5547 days ago
Now that I have been in Delhi for six months, I'm starting to take comfort in some elements of routine. My walk home from work t...
Caste - 31/Mar/2011 16:31 - 5550 days ago
There is a culture of having servants here. In the apartment block where I live, there are three storeys, with two flats on the ...
Poverty - 12/Jan/2011 07:10 - 5628 days ago
After the workshop in Jaipur in my third weekend in India, I saw a man at the train station who had lost the use of his legs but...
Cry for help - 25/Nov/2010 02:47 - 5676 days ago
Sad butbeautiful(many of his songs are sad *and* beautiful, this is the story of the man not waving but drowning).......
Feeling Sorry for Myself While Standing Before the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London - 09/Nov/2010 03:17 - 5692 days ago
Oh yes my friend, I've been there: the insects battering atthe armored lids of your yellowish eyesthe moment you pecked your way...
the three week mark... - 10/Oct/2010 09:39 - 5722 days ago
I've been in Delhi for just over three weeks and haven't written since my first few days. I've been on a rollercoaster of starti...
cheap way to call me! - 30/Sep/2010 09:33 - 5732 days ago
My dad hunted on the internet to find this way to call my indian mobile for 1.5p per minute....and amazingly, it works!From a la...
Shakespeare for bad hair days.... - 20/Sep/2010 10:20 - 5742 days ago
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are d...
First impressions of Delhi - 20/Sep/2010 03:46 - 5742 days ago
I have chanced upon internet just this morning so here are some rushed first impressions. Miss you, I have an indian mobile numb...
Injustice - 26/Jul/2010 10:19 - 5798 days ago
My young son asks me...My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?What is the use, I feel like saying. That two piecesOf bre...
The spaces in between - 18/Jul/2010 13:35 - 5806 days ago
hereandhere....
The new moments - 18/Jul/2010 13:25 - 5806 days ago
Time was away and somewhere else,There were two glasses and two chairsAnd two people with one pulse(Somebody stopped the moving ...
The worst moments - 18/Jul/2010 13:23 - 5806 days ago
Time does not bring relief; you all have liedWho told me time would ease me of my pain!I miss him in the weeping of the rain;I w...
Indifference (or the uneasy feeling, once or twice a day or week, somewhere near cornmarket street) - 18/Jul/2010 13:20 - 5806 days ago
When Jesus came to Golgotha, they hanged Him on a tree,They drove great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary;They cr...
happy xmas! - 26/Dec/2009 11:18 - 6010 days ago
Just wanted to send you this beautifulsong,courtesy of a lovely person I met recently:...
Empty space - 09/Dec/2009 21:22 - 6027 days ago
Term has roared past. A week or so before the city hall lit the twinkly lights that are now shining over shoppers in cornmarket ...
When you are old... - 14/Nov/2009 23:31 - 6052 days ago
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft ...
eastern europe, aka the new western europe, and tipsy croatian trains - 19/Sep/2009 20:03 - 6108 days ago
I've just returned from twelve days with my brother train-trekking from the adriatic coast to the slovenian mountains. Twelve da...
To Those Born Later (about the paradox of fighting hard for a new world, then being so changed from the fight that you are unable to live in it) - 19/Aug/2009 18:59 - 6139 days ago
ITruly, I live in dark times!The guileless word is folly. A smooth foreheadSuggests insensitivity. The man who laughsHas simply ...
Hero(ine)s - 13/Aug/2009 15:09 - 6145 days ago
My friend Adam once bemoaned the fact that we don't have enough idols at Oxford (I add here that he went on to become an inspira...
wallowing in the willow - 03/Jun/2009 12:17 - 6216 days ago
It has been a catastrophic and cathartic few days, and I have only just emerged from the last in a series of all-nighters to pul...
The Burning of the Books - 08/Apr/2009 22:11 - 6272 days ago
When the regime ordered that books with dangerous teachingsShould be publicly burnt and everywhereOxen were forced to draw carts...
energy, souls, plato and mayble the closest thing to a theistic post.... - 07/Apr/2009 23:45 - 6273 days ago
Around about the time before finals-panic set in, just before I would head off to Barcelona with Fab for the sort of sudden sea-...
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