On my 10th Diwali here, the fact that such a fabulous country, full of brilliant, enterprising, resourceful, family-minded, caring people seems suddenly less than welcoming is tragic…
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Smile, each time? Nod one’s head? Pretend to have to check your phone, just as you cross them for the nth time? Avoid eye contact?
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Oprah Winfrey's remark that "Running is the greatest metaphor for life" was so spot on this morning when running became a metaphor for India.
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Being so old, guess what, you win things. Law of logic, really — there are not that many wrinkly people out running, so the competition is way less.
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In a country which has a disproportionate number of desperately poor people, everyone I know certainly has Too Much Stuff
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Why is game viewing in India so totally tiger-centric, to the exclusion of all else?
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Sitting on a dusty platform in a dusty forest, with hens and tinsel around me, I wept and wept for my mother. In a way I hadn't in my own church, surrounded by my own icons.
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With my mother's death, my "there" home is soon to be closed down and disposed off.
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What other option is there, realistically?
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The joys of winter in North India...
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