jEDI blogs

Summing up the present day India with a single pic.

This pic sums up the land I love in so many ways.
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And thus cometh the day when the good Lord left the colorful homeland for the bland, monotonous, gloomy, miserable shores of a foreign land to carry on with his pointless existence. At least that’s how it felt that day anyway. I’d like to think now that I went back to my old existence, something starkly [...]

Day 25 of my stay in the Bharatvarsha. This is the day before I finally depart. A sad day for me and that too for my friends and dear ones, or at least that’s what they pretend. A full month of me can make people very happy and equally miserable. Depends on how you look [...]

Day 24 was a pretty hectic day by my standards. By my current standards I should say, because these days I’m not as active as I used to be or would be if I still lived in India. That probably also explains why I never needed any exercise in India. The everyday struggle, the rat [...]

I realize this has dragged far too long now. I was very upbeat about this ‘India series’ when I started, like so many other things in life, but I found it getting harder by the day as I moved from one day to another. Sometimes you find it hard to live through an experience again, [...]

16th Feb 2006. Day 22 in the motherland and it’s a slightly slow day. Mostly because another ODI is on. This time around I plan not to see the whole thing but catch up bits of it during the day. The meeting I spoke about in the previous post got postponed. I wasn’t too disappointed [...]

Its been 20 days since I left the comforts of my peaceful laid back existence for the hustle n bustle of a place I call home. Well, home in theory at least, considering the number of years I have stayed away from India. In fact, for all practical purposes it has long ceased to be [...]

Day 20 in the motherland and love is in the air. I mean in theory at least, since it’s the 14th of Feb and Valentines Day. My opinion of Valentine’s Day isn’t very high, to be frank. I feel this was a day invented by flower shops and greeting card companies. It is not surprising [...]

Day 19 in the motherland and old habits die hard. I had convinced myself that I wouldn’t watch any more ODIs involving Bharat. Of course, this was as silly as one of those New Year resolutions. You have them just for the sake of having them. When everyone and their grandmother around you are hooked [...]

Even though Delhi is now littered with malls and all sorts of knew construction, there are shopping areas which I feel haven’t changed in decades. Whether its your Karol Baghs or Chandni Chowks or scores of other places like that, majority of people still shop in there. Maybe its for the experience, maybe they like [...]