Last few days I’ve had the Bangalore IT blues. This is what you get when you are in a cramped sweaty cubicle in 100 degree heat, hoping that the power doesn’t cut out, thankful you are on a laptop with full batteries so that when the power does cut all that will happen is that […]
The debate is raging in my head. Raga-ing in my head, perhaps. What is the music of India that has such a strange and wonderful hold on me, and where is it headed, and where and how can I get an understanding of it? Much of the clash between new India and old India is […]
Chennai has a well earned reputation for being a difficult city to get around in. In fact this is both true and untrue. Your two main options are auto and bus. There is a train route that cuts down the coast, and links to the airport, so it’s not a great deal of use in […]
Actually when I’d heard that Pongal was on its way to Tamil Nadu, my first thought was that it was that someone was having me on. Just go down to Marine (pronounced ‘marriner’) beach … pongal is always here (Marine beach is a favourite place for folks living rough to have a morning crap … […]
