I’m moving to Delhi! That’s right, I’m setting off and moving my shiny bald egg-head to the vast metropolis of the capital city of the India. It’s been a long time brewing, but if you’ll allow me 5 minutes of your time, let me explain the what, why, who and Read more
From New Year in Delhi, to having to move house, to hearing about the suicide of a friend, the past three months have been… a thing. Take a journey with me to the core of what’s going on in my head. Look to your left and see the new special Read more
Lockdown Terror in India When last I wrote to you, it was the beginning of April and India’s 1.3 billion residents were confined to their homes. It was the nationwide Janata (“janta”, meaning ‘public’) Curfew – a government move to protect the people from that terrifying new threat of COVID-19. Read more
Hello from quarantined India! What in the hell happened?! When last I was writing to you, I’d celebrated new year and Christmas and was well into the routine of 2020. Right now I’m hiding in my apartment in solitary confinement, at war with an invisible enemy which is killing tens Read more
Hello! Namaste! My first year in India was filled with wonder and awe, providing for good blog content. However, now that cows being in the roads and the air being filled with incense have become normality, blogging has become more about the work and the children I work with – Read more
I have a new view from a new balcony in a new flat in a new part of Goa. Wanna see? Of course, non of it is new in any objective way. This flat and balcony have been here for maybe three decades. The view and the area have been Read more
Read about the stranger who threatened to punch me in the face, the highs and lows of the past year, and find out what’s ahead in 2019. Plus lots of cute pictures.
Time is a funny thing, isn’t it? All that can be experienced and lived by a soul, out of the infinity of possibilities and variations, is ordered into a nice neat line for us – a line of moment after moment after moment. Sometimes our brains slow these moments down Read more
Indian drivers make such idiotic decisions that sometimes I secretly want them to get knocked just a little bit… I’m so glad to get that off my chest. So, recently I had the pleasure of showing a close friend around Goa. Ash moved from the UK to Kolkata in February Read more
A big, fat, dark-brown grain of rice appears in the exact same spot on the floor under my Dalek painting every morning when I wake up. To people from warmer climates the problem is clear. It seems that an OCD-suffering gecko has been lining its scaly sphincter up every night Read more