India Aside
Mumbai has always been the bustling, legal and financial centre of India even when I was last there in 1977 as a teenager. It has changed. Not that there is less bustle, but the whole enterprise here...
View ArticleThe Art of Visiting
Am happy to report my friends have returned from Mumbai ans that all-in-all they had a lovely couple of weeks holiday. One of the highlights was going to a village in Matheran, an out of the way...
View ArticleMumbai Visited
India is not an easy country for Westeners if they keep their eyes open. One can be lost in the seemingly happy smiles of beggar children and because we know how terrible it is to be homeless in a cold...
View ArticleDo We Need To Be Different
The rise again of the sectarian violence in India, just the same old story mirrored around the world, will produce the same responses in commentators that we have to be taught to hate, that tribalism...
View ArticleEmancipation
The most obvious and essential ingredient to modern society is equality under the law. It is an aspiration not a fact as the UK doesn’t have it although it is getting there but in India there has never...
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