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 [...]
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The Romans never made it to India
Posted in Gurgaon, India, monsoon on 19 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Monsoon Shmonsoon
Posted in Delhi, India, monsoon on 24 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Short but heavy spell of rain handicaps Delhi- Hindustan Times
I suppose the people in Mumbai don’t feel this way, they’ve had some pretty serious flooding there, but we’re utterly underwhelmed by the monsoon here in Delhi. I remember, living in America, whenever it would rain for days on end or pour particularly hard [...]
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 [...]
