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Happy Diwali

2 November, 2013

Somehow time has been flying by, and I’ve been neglecting this blog… Not sure whether it’s because I’ve been extremely busy at work, or because I don’t have quite so much to say about India these days. Possibly both. Anyway, Monsoon is over and now it’s Autumn. Sort of. A couple of weeks back, Monday morning was suddenly cooler and slightly hazy. The day-time maximum is now less than 30 degrees every day, and overnight it’s comfortably below 20 and […]

Small Things #5

4 December, 2012

About 8.30am, and I’m walking to work down a residential side-street. A woman comes out of her house with a large bowl of food scraps. She goes to the corner of the street and calls something out. A huge black and white friesian cow comes waddling up to her, and she puts the bowl down on the ground in front of it. As it starts eating, she touches the cow on its rump, mutters something, and blesses herself.