Best Line: “We aren’t so different. You waste too much of your time talking to somebody you think is an idiot at the other end of a Call Centre telephone call…so do we.”
Archive for October, 2007
Papa CJ on Call Centres
Posted in Call Center, Delhi, India, work on 21 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Deepa Mehta wrote and directed a series of films called “Earth”, “Fire” and “Water”. Tonight we watched the last one, Water, a film that was so controversial here in India that violent protests forced her to scrap her plans to film in here and the production was moved to Sri Lanka. The story is about [...]
Rickshaws
Posted in Gurgaon, India, Rickshaw on 20 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
While reading The Issue today I came across a very interesting and informative article on rickshaws. If you are interested in this important bit of Indian transportation culture, I can recommend this article. Normally we ride in man-powered rickshaws out here in Gurgaon, but we do often take the autorickshaws when traveling and compete with [...]
Vanilla Charles
Posted in Ray Charles, planning on 18 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago after seeing the movie Ray about the life story of singer Ray Charles, I remember remarking to Mrs. WMG how uncannily similar the two of us are. Well, OK, I’m not blind of course and I can’t play the piano, haven’t had the same problems with drugs and I’m not famous, but [...]
Rickshaw ride to work
Posted in Gurgaon, Rickshaw, driving, traffic, travel on 10 October, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Mrs. WMG had an appointment with the acupuncturist this morning and took the car so I had to catch a rickshaw to work today. A rickshaw is a great way to get around really unless you live in Gurgaon where the dust in the air makes you squint and a layer of grit covers your [...]
The Dharamsala Street Con
Posted in Dharamsala, India, McLeod Ganj, Personal service, corruption, travel on 6 October, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My brain spends a lot of its free time trying various algorithms that will help explain reality and make some kind of sense out the world and the meaning of life. So far I haven’t really come to any definitive conclusions, but certain ancillary insights do arise out of this activity from time to time [...]
India – Clean up your act
Posted in Dharamsala, India, McLeod Ganj, driving, fear, litter, travel on 1 October, 2007 | 13 Comments »
We spent this weekend in Dharamsala, home-in-exile to the Dalai Lama, political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Actually, we stayed in McLeod Ganj, a town just a few kilometres from Dharamsala. McLeod Ganj is a tourist town and frankly we weren’t that crazy about it, but I think I’ll write about that some other [...]
