Book Review: Hitching Rides with Buddha
Hitching Rides with Buddha ***1/2 had peaks and lows - parts that kept me really fixed and others that felt like it was just rambling. Overall though, his insight into…
doctors
I'm sitting in Breach Candy Hospital - the Lonely Planet lists this as the 'best hospital in Mumbai, perhaps even all of India'... pretty decrepit if you ask me. anyway,…
bangles
Nizams Hyderabad is full of them! everywhere you look there is a stall or shop selling bangles - I bought a bunch of them and prob got robbed blind but…
Web2.0 needs to be easier
I, like others, am a little concerned with the Google-fan ideology that anything Google touches must be better, but not enough to push me to summarily choose Yahoo instead. About…
trains and cell phones
I got on my first train ride today (last-night) - three-tier sleeper. not that bad actually. There are 8-beds per cabin - two sets of 3-tier bunks on one side…
Gandhi saves the trip!
GandhiAshesPune Everything I read described Pune as being the cleaner, milder, summer retreat city for Bombay (Mumbai) - but i was kinda disappointed. the city seemed just as polluted, the…
Book Review: Transmission by Hari Kunzru
made me laugh a lot - maybe it is because I have been to each of the cities described in the book and that I could get the humour about…
belated Happy New Year
ok ok - i know i haven't emailed since leaving for india and many of you have been emailing to find out where i am (i am assuming it was…
Hippie central
Just got back from Goa – i think there should be some sort of lawsuit against speedo for selling suits to people who should not be wearing them… first nite…
Indian Big Mac
I finally caved and went to McDonald’s… wow! i think in most McDonald’s they have specific machines to help make their food, in India, i’m sure here they have a…