(By Mrs. WMG)
For months my colleagues have been complaining to each other about the air conditioner in our office. There are eight of us sharing the office, and according to them the room is always too cold when the A/C is on. I’m pretty comfortable, because I sit neither under it nor in its [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Our Punjabi Air Conditioning Maintenance Man
Posted in India, work on 30 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Being a Rock Star
Posted in India, travel on 26 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I mentioned in my last entry, after our day at Brijghat we spent the night at a place called The Fort Unchagaon in the town by the same name. A place that is distinguished by the fact that it is not on any map and in fact is a one-hour drive from [...]
The Road to Pradesh(ion)
Posted in India, Uttar Pradesh, travel on 25 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Sir…this road…very dangerous at night”, our driver Raj Kumar said in his broken but fully understandable English. We had just turned on to a single lane track that runs along a canal in what felt like truly the middle of nowhere but is actually somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, the Indian state that lies just south [...]
A Tasty Afternoon in Delhi
Posted in Delhi, India, travel on 19 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today started off pretty weird with a little family ruckus, the details of which I think I will save for my autobiography but suffice it to say two messages on my mobile from my mom and an incoming one from my brother before I’d even turned on my computer this morning got my attention. Thank [...]
India at 60
Posted in India on 15 August, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My subtitle for this entry is, “And it feels like we’ve been here that long”. It’s been a hard couple weeks since we got back from holiday. So dark a turn has the mind taken that I’ve had to delete three blog entries I’ve written because they were just so negative. There are a couple [...]
I was so wrong
Posted in India, monsoon on 9 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You know, one of the great things about blogging is that you get a public forum to say just about anything you want no matter how stupid or insensitive it is. The problem is that sometimes it becomes glaringly obvious that you are being stupid and insensitive and there’s really nowhere to hide. Such is [...]
The long and winding road to Munnar
Posted in India, Kerala, travel on 2 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Between Periyar and Munnar here in Kerala there are 70 kilometres of winding mountain road and 30 kilometres of bone-jarring, bladder-stretching, gut wrenching, vomit inducing moonscape that passes for tarmac and results in a 4-hour journey time between the two. We spent last night, our first in the hill country, in Periyar which The [...]
Cruising down the river
Posted in Cruise, India, Kerala, Vembanad on 1 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As we float down the river this morning past a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Rama, a woman’s voice blares out over a loudspeaker filling the air with the exotic echoes of Hindu incantation and tropical south Asia. The morning monsoonal showers that came upon us so quickly after our short walk on [...]
