American writer Thomas Wolfe famously said, “You can’t go home again”. I’ve never seen this quote in context I suppose it’s not necessary because we all somehow instinctively understand the deep meaning of this phrase. I’ve often thought of it over the years as I have travelled and worked abroad, away from my native home [...]
Archive for June, 2007
America – I don’t know you
Posted in Thomas Wolfe on 29 June, 2007 | 2 Comments »
8 amazing things I saw on the way to work today
Posted in India, driving, wonder, work on 26 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A recurring theme on this blog is our experiences peering from the windows of our car. It’s not that we don’t get out and walk around at all, but the fact is, in the car we pass by a lot of places and things that we probably won’t see on our walks between our [...]
Shangri-La
Posted in Delhi, India, Mango Festival, Shangri-la Hotel, fiasco on 24 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tracy had this brilliant idea today to go to the Mango Festival. According to her TimeOut Delhi magazine it was being held at the Pragati Maidan, a giant and rather desolate exposition grounds here in Delhi. Not that I wasn’t supportive of this idea but really, in your wildest imagination what do you think [...]
On Atheism and India
Posted in India, atheism on 18 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stanley Fish wrote a very interesting blog for the New York Times last week called The Three Atheists. In it he discusses the rationale and reasoning of today’s leading atheists, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hutchins (his follow-up blog, “Atheism and Evidence” which talks at length about evolution is equally worth a read). If [...]
Political Winds
Posted in Cisco, Gurgaon, India, Obama, monsoon on 17 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend the warm moist winds were finally blowing out of the east, sweeping out the dry Rajasthani desert air and replacing it with a gooey, sticky humidity that you could feel under your clothes and on the edge of your hairline within seconds of going outside. By the time Friday night had arrived and [...]
Gurgaon makes the news again!
Posted in Gurgaon, India, corruption, power, water on 14 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, it seems this blog has gone seriously visual as I think this is my third video entry in a row.
Here in the WMG house we tend to wake up to CNN International because we find it a little hard to sleep in the morning and because we have an unhealthy interest in American politics [...]
On the president’s watch
Posted in Albania, Bush on 12 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, there’s a lot of bad stuff that’s gone down on Bush’s watch, but this totally cracks me up. Look carefully and you’ll see some guy boosts the watch of the Man With His Finger on the Button of Nuclear Destruction.
I can only imagine if I were the guy who did [...]
