Fogged up
Nov 21, 2011
As October approached, the days here began to get shorter. The sun, which used to rise right in front of our window, began its south-easterly
Marken - Volendam - Edam
Oct 6, 2011
For about 9€, you can get a “Waterland ticket” and travel on the Arriva buses all day. Because of the construction work at the Amsterdam Centraal
In which I try to define homesickness
Sep 28, 2011
The hardest part about moving to a new country is not the new job, not the weather, not a new set of rules, mores and traditions, but homesickness.
This non-committal summer
Jun 30, 2011
The seasons in Delhi live inside a neatly organized chest of drawers. Summers get three drawers. Winters one. Spring and monsoons get a small drawer
The Book Fair at Dam Square
May 22, 2011
We were at the second-had book fair at the Dam Square today. While English was rather poorly represented, it didn’t stop us from spending time in
If music be the…
May 15, 2011
[The events in this post took place on the 13th but I finished writing it today just as Azerbaijan were crowned the Eurovision song contest
Rough Draft: On Letting Go
May 12, 2011
One of the hardest things I did before moving to Amsterdam was to give away my collection of 500 odd audio CDs - painstakingly curated over a period
Maastricht
May 9, 2011
My wife is a bigger travel junkie than I can ever hope to be. When I come to a new place I like to - “wear it off”. Going to the same haunts over
The Old New Home at Amstelveen
May 3, 2011
Tomorrow we complete a week in our new home. This is the fifth roof we are sleeping under in less than a month. Six, if you count the flight to
Rough Draft: Spring/Summer etc.
Apr 24, 2011
Those first three days in Amsterdam are about to become three weeks. Here are some more rants and observations - this time with pictures from my
Keukenhof
Apr 20, 2011
The Dutch pronounce V like “Fa” and so for the longest time we didn’t know if the Indian chap gallantly manning the reception on Sundays was Faisal
Rough Draft: The first three days in Amsterdam
Apr 12, 2011
A new job has recently brought me to Amsterdam. More posts like these; some with pictures, will follow shortly. It’s been a wonderful experience in
That nagging feeling
Nov 22, 2010
Time is flying away faster than I can comprehend. Past seems too distant. Future - even distant future - seems uncomfortably close. This passage
Karthik Raja ‘borrows’ from Mahler
Aug 29, 2010
Listen to the intro of this song from the Tamizh movie Ullasam. Stop after ~13 seconds. Now jump to the first movement of Mahler’s 4th Symphony.
Ladakh in April - Day 4 - Snowfall in Leh
Jul 29, 2010
When I drew the curtains off our ground-floor room’s windows I saw a sea of white. My first reaction was that I had been struck by the opposite of
Number 9 Dream
Jun 12, 2010
While I knew that Japan was driven to such desperation during World War II that they resorted to Kamikaze, I had no idea that a similar suicide unit
iPad vs Kindle vs Wood pulp
Apr 7, 2010
This passage I came across recently in Yeats Is Dead, struck a chord:
“I think books are wonderful”, the woman said, evidently bent on
Ladakh Vacation - Day 1
Sep 5, 2009
We were leaving everything behind - well for 9 days anyway - our work, the media, the Internet, the swine flu and the mosquitoes in the Kingfisher
Notes from a Coorg visit in June
Aug 5, 2009
The monsoon is supposed to be at its peak in June/July in Coorg. No such thing this year. An occasional drizzle which would threaten to grow into
Munnar
Apr 11, 2009
After the visit to Bhutan last year, I was convinced that I was not going to see hills or mountains so green ever again. The hills at Munnar might
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