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200 rupees. They are like Starbucks – one on every corner.

It just occurred to me that I didn’t take pictures of my view. I’m on the 7th floor just below the smog belt. That is a gas station and a major road, and what I believe are houses. I’m unclear on who lives in that kind of house – I’ve been told upper middle class […]

A car ad.

In a city with over 13 million residents shoved into 500 square miles, there is no wonder that personal space is “very less”. I find this constant flood of people exhausting. Every last square inch of the city is filled with people on foot, in autorickshaws, in bike rickshaws, on wagons, in cars, on bikes, […]

There are many reasons traffic is so bad in India. I’d say amazingly, infrastructure is not the predominant reason. One of the vendors we are looking at is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh – just over the river from us – so we had a longer commute through a mildly more rural area, today. We […]

Click to read. India is happy.

Totally. Just still so happy that Obama is our next president.

I don’t recall if I mentioned that the other night we left after dark and had a near death experience navigating the pitch dark tiny marble-lined stairwell to the office as not only was it not built to US code and each step was set at it’s own non-standard height, but there were giant pipes […]

I love the British infused politeness, here. A sign over the exposed wires awaiting placement of a sconce: My celebratory dinner of dosas at Sagar. Yum. Lets just hope it stays where I put it.