Not precisely Delhi-ghtful
Date: 30 April Location: seat 45, Carriage C4 (upper class), “express” train from Delhi, NCR to Jaipur, Rajasthan. Notable sightings: So many bare bottoms, thankfully blurred, as the poorest Delhites […]
The Capitol.
Date: 28 April Location: Elma's (for morning tea), trendy Hauz Khas village, Delhi Notable sightings: Fader. They're playing the Temper Trap album here. Landing at night, in a city I've […]
“The accumulation of time in walls”
Date: 27 April Location: seat 35A, Jet Airways flight from Trivandrum to Mumbai, en route to Delhi Notable sightings: Indian airplane food. Not as bad as you might think. (Effect: […]
The Deep South: the ocean and the opium
Date: 26 April Location: deck chair, sunny Kovlam Lighthouse beach, watching the Indian boys try to surf (so many lols) Notable sightings: the Indian Ocean from India, cold beers (a […]
Lime, coconuts and juicy juicy mangoes
Date: 24 April Location: front deck, bamboo houseboat, Keralan backwaters Notable sightings: lots of other houseboats There's quite a lot of magic in Kochi. Sprawling across several islands just off […]
Grouchy Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Date: 24 April Location: my favourite seat on the bus, somewhere on the Malabar coast near Alleppey (now Alappuhza) Notable sightings: first glimpses of the famous Kerala backwaters from the […]
Miss Manners goes to India
Date: 23 April Location: Kochi (formerly Cochin), Kerala Notable sightings: acres upon acres of coconut trees; Kerala means land of the coconuts and the Keralans use coconut oil, coconut meant, […]
Lady India behaving badly
Date: 22 April Location: the windiest road, high in the tea plantations near Munnar, Kerala Notable sightings: KFC (Keralan Fried Chicken), real cinnamon off a cinnamon tree (don't recommend), huge […]
Heffalumps and woozles
Date: 19 April Location: Our balcony, Rangerwood Nature Palace, Periyar, Kerala Notable sightings: some of the cast of the Jungle Book, heffalumps I have two stories for you, both of […]
The supporting caste
Date: 18 April Location: looking out at the jungle, Periyar National Park Notable sightings: yesterday, an elephant blessed me with his trunk at the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai; today, […]
An unsettlingly big place 