30 in 2005

I’m not going to argue with this . Although I said at dinner in Chinatown on this very wet and windy Friday night that I would. But I’ve dec...

Arrived in Kolkata on Friday night, a flight delay made unecessarily irritating by an airlines lack of organisation or compassion. It was a ...

We all do it here in Delhi. The minute the cop at the traffic lights stops someone they are on their mobile phones, using connections, dropp...

It's 7pm. After two days of traversing busy, dusty roads I am convinced that most delhi-ites have no real regard for their life my life....

For once it was a relatively uneventful flight. The only points of drama were whether V's flight back from NYC would land on time and ma...

One of the many gifts that London gives its natives and visitors are its numerous markets. This past Saturday I and two friends took shelter...

On the train this morning, for no very good reason, I was thinking about the advent of the world wide web and how that irrevocably changed o...

First, lets get the laughter out of the way. I may not look or sound it but in my youth (as it were) I was greatly taken by the Boy Bands - ...

Where pictures meet words . This is Tirana's vast central square. On one side is a horseshoe-shaped ensemble of government buildings in ...

This year in an effort to be healthier I made a more conscious decision to make and eat dinner at home during the week and take lunch in wit...

Friday evening was fun . Very fun. Almost nobody last minute ditched. Almost everyone showed up on time. Other than the fact that they opera...

This Friday I am playing the six degrees of separation game. Of which I am the inventor and rule maker. It all began when I met a school cla...

Capital: Tirana. Other cities of note: Laç, Shkodra, Durres, Vlora and Elbasan. All connected by a roadworks and train system. Population: E...

A selection of building photopgraphs from Tirana, Albania . The one in the top right hand corner is of a drab dull untouched building but t...

I like symmetry. This is a well documented fact of my life. So when V and I became 'an uncle' with the birth of V's brother'...

Ok, so not really ALL about Albania but it was the catchiest title I could come up with and I need the motivation as: a. It’s the very ...

After years at college and working away from home, three-fourth of the way into 1997, I moved back to where my Punjabi heart lies, good old ...

You know how people often say that New Year is just a celebration and Jan 1st just another day. Well, IT’S NOT . New Years is the chance to ...

This is the review of a less than good restaurant that I have been meaning to write for ages. A Japanese restaurant was recommended by a Jap...

I've long wanted a lovely desk calender to adorn my workspace, something to bring a smile to my face when I glance away from my computer...