Today I had to suffer the indignity of performing at a high school. For their multicultural day, nonetheless. It was torture, my Hamsadwani only barely washing over the din that was the school hall, the students crowding around the 'stalls' of food, the teachers shepherding their respective flocks.

Why am I in this profession? To be teaching at this ( Read more... )

I am interested in you for how you might think and feel and act ( Read more... )

I'm upset by everything I hear: a dull pain breeds in my temple, and it sends roots down to my throat. It ensues each time the phone rings. It's audacity fed by distance and my powerlessness against making any change ( Read more... )

By and large, most people are too busy to bother with manners. Just a general statement about life, me thinks ( Read more... )

I'm choking on an image of my grandmother as a little girl, running around in a long skirt and pigtails, kohl-lined eyes and a sandal-paste mark on her forehead. This was her land, her house, would've been my land, my house ( Read more... )

Quite unlike anything else, family gets under my skin. Close contact with this 'species' induces a kind of allergic reaction: I break out in blotches of false morality. Not quite a parasitic infection, but not far behind. I'm debating the merits of such perennial bonds. Paradoxically, they're the only people who will loan me money without question ( Read more... )

So, I get to Mumbai at one o'clock in the morning on the thirty-first of March, 2010. The taxi ride from the airport to Shoba Chechi's place is bumpy, to say the least. We stay up chatting until four, and many cups of tea later I fall asleep at about six. I'm dead to the world until noon, then shower, lunch and watch TV (oh my goodness!). The cats ( Read more... )

Ladies' College.

Every time I consider that apostrophe one more hair turns grey.

VEGETARIAN PARTY MENU

GF = gluten free dishes

ENTREMESES

Pan Fresco

Fresh Bread

Aceitunas Mixtas (GF)

Mixed Olives

Ensalada Mixta (GF)

Mixed Salad of Leaves, Tamato and Onions

Tortilla Espanola( GF)

A Traditional Spanish Patato & Onion Omellette

Queso Manchego (GF)

Spanish Manchego Cheese with Olive Oil

SELECCION DE TAPAS

Pisto Manchego (GF)

Slow roasted ( Read more... )

It was quite silly for people to protest Mr. Griffin's appearance on the BBC. Truly a waste of energy and resources. Democracy, freedom-of-speech, blah blah 21st century rhetoric and claptrap ... you get the gist. People need to be aware of everything; and clearly, if the BNP are rallying support (even if only from nutcases) then he has a right to ( Read more... )