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The Bombay Blog: February 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Tuesday, February 09, 2010. Big Rock Kandy Mountain. Oh dear my titles keep getting worse. Anyway, I had my best train ride ever the other day, which is saying something for someone who grew up near the Severn Valley Railway. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Big Rock Kandy Mountain. Grendle goes for a daunder. View my complete profile.
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The Bombay Blog: August 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Sunday, August 08, 2010. Biscuits with the Brothers. Who votes for these things anyway? Perhaps you have to descend to the level of voting in an International Airport Award before you can recognise the gaping chasm where your soul was supposed to be – about which more in a moment…). We meet the Brothers from Brahma Kumaris.
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The Bombay Blog: February 2011
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Saturday, February 19, 2011. Travels with my auntie maggie’s remedy. In Jaipur for the annual literary shindig: and it’s pretty clear that this country takes the American approach to writers - treating them as celebrity intellectuals (celebrectuals? But I’m a courteous, well brung-up person (sometimes), so I rage inwardly and sit on the ...
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The Bombay Blog: March 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Sunday, March 07, 2010. Next week: a treatise on the fundamental role in Indian culture of The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Grendle goes for a daunder. View my complete profile.
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The Bombay Blog: Canis lupus over-familiaris, I suspect
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Friday, March 18, 2011. Canis lupus over-familiaris, I suspect. Does that sev puri seller’s technique of washing pots and pans in a muddy puddle really get them clean? If I keep looking around like an owl on E, or like Chris Evans in his toothbrush days. Will I get across the Nasty Junction in one piece? Shouldn’t you be at school?
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The Bombay Blog: January 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Saturday, January 30, 2010. I try my old ‘but sir it wasn’t me they started it sir’ routine, but that hasn’t really worked since infant school. Still it’s not a problem: one conspiratorial wink to the youngsters later, and they’re back on my side. Lovely literature tonight with Anne Waldman, a survivor from the Beat Poets, bezzy mate of Ginsbe...
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The Bombay Blog: January 2011
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Saturday, January 08, 2011. Soniaji and Kenniji get stuck in a lift. I remember when I realised that Bill Clinton was not, in fact, the lost lovechild of Elvis and JFK. It was when I first read that his favourite musician was the execrable Kenny G. From that moment on, Bill was cool no more. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Bombay Blog: September 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Elephant in the room. Saturday, September 04, 2010. Fort Cochin – outside tourist season – offers a much-needed break from the chaos and cacophony. It’s the kind of place you can wander around aimlessly, avoiding the goats and the puddles from the intermittent drizzle, the only hassles coming...Encouragingly, what...
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The Bombay Blog: November 2010
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Some nice people have invited me to come and live in India for a while. (You might call that a post-colonial guilt-edged opportunity ho ho.) Foolishly, I said yes. Saturday, November 06, 2010. Obviously this merited deeper investigation, but since my companions were professional vocabularians I realised I’d need to draw deeply on my reserves of Wildean wit and eloquence if I was fully to engage them. Why on earth would they do such a thing? The international tourists who came for Games? Arriving bang on ...