Mrs. WMG does the best she can to get us to see the sites and do the touristy things that are necessary to ensure that we don’t get back home and have some other traveller ask us, “Oh, when you were in X did you see Y…oh, you didn’t, well it was the highlight [...]
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Bombay Dreams Part II
Posted in Bombay, Culture, Holiday, India, Mumbai, corruption, travel on 10 January, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Indian Mothers
Posted in Culture, Gurgaon, India, driving, traffic, travel on 12 December, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I really don’t understand the role of mothers here in India. It must somehow be very different than what I’m used to. I assume that all mothers everywhere love their children. I think there is plenty of evidence of this. The main two ways, it seems to me, that motherly love is expressed are protection [...]
Respect and Affection in Black and White
Posted in Culture, Delhi, India on 21 November, 2007 | 3 Comments »
There are two things that I often see in public here in India that I would really like to understand better. The first is the respect shown to elders in the form of foot touching, the second is the closeness of male friends as exhibited in physical contact such as hand-holding.
I first observed foot touching [...]
Diwali – It’s all fun until someone blows his hand off
Posted in Culture, Delhi, Diwali, Gurgaon, India on 9 November, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Unless you have been inside a fireworks factory explosion or been an oil-rich dictator who got on Don Rumsfeld’s bad side, you’ve probably never experienced anything like the festival of Diwali here in New Delhi. The only thing I’ve ever seen that came close was the time I saw a fireworks show during [...]
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 [...]
