The westerly breezes that bring the hot desert air and dust from Rajasthan have not yet begun their job of turning this cool Delhi winter into spring. So chilly has it been that this week public schools were shut on account of the cold. On this morning, the last morning of our [...]
Archive for the ‘Gurgaon’ Category
Wind Beneath our Wings
Posted in Delhi, Gurgaon, India, travel on 3 February, 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 [...]
Transitions – a new beginning
Posted in Call Center, Delhi, Gurgaon, India, travel, work on 7 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s Friday morning here, the sounds of men banging hammers against concrete have been going for well over an hour now. They say in New York, or is it London, that you are never more that 10 feet away from a rat, well here in India the equivalent is that you are never out of [...]
Earthquake!
Posted in Delhi, Gurgaon, India, earthquake on 26 November, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At 4:43 this morning we were awakened to the creaking and swaying of our building. I was having a bizarre dream about Mrs. WMG drawing on my face with a marker because I was wearing a pink shirt (look it’s a dream). It only lasted a few seconds but that was long enough to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Romans never made it to India
Posted in Gurgaon, India, monsoon on 19 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Monty Python film “The Life of Brian” is a culturally defining film for Britain the way that Gone With the Wind is for the US. This speaks volumes about exactly how different these two societies really are – but let’s save that for another time. In an hilarious scene from this film set in [...]
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 [...]
