Anjulie Kalsia Blog Posts

This weekend, we were spoiled by the weather, though apparently it is downhill all the way from here. The searing heat was broken first by a spectacular dust storm on Saturday and then by rain yesterday -  and a rainbow as well, a rarity in Delhi. ...

Earlier this week, I reported on an appeal for everyone to get out of their cars and sing the national anthem at 10am last Monday morning. Guilty as charged. I was actually out and about at the designated time, but to my chagrin, ne’er a singer...

So, I resume the fabulous chronicle of Akanksha and Yuvraj’s wedding in Hyderabad where I left you – with Yuvraj arriving on horseback, preceded by his dancing mates, for the “milni.”  This is a garlanding ceremony, when the...

Eish, talk about coming back down to earth with a resounding thump. After partying away the whole of last week, first at a super golden wedding jamboree in Jodhpur and then a fabulous wedding in Hyderabad, our return to Delhi last night was prefaced...

Talk about great timing. I get to travel around the Golden Triangle for 5 days, as part of TheDuoEscapade that I have been telling you about, AND get back to Delhi in time for dear Sonam’s show at fashion week yesterday. Anjulie and I went (of...

This weekend Delhi was treated to 3 days of wonderful sufi music at the Jahan-e-Khusrau festival, held in the magnificent Arab ki Sarai in Humayun’s Tomb. Anjulie and I went for 2 of the 3 evenings. What a treat. On Saturday, straight from the...

Yesterday’s finals of the 4 goal turned out to be quite an event in the end. Firstly, we had the Vice President of India as chief guest = mega security detail = Anjulie & I were initially refused permission to enter since we didn’t ha...

Living in Delhi is odd. For so many reasons and on so many levels, all of which I won’t go into here. But one of these reasons is one’s social life, which often seems rather like Jekyll & Hyde. From end March to mid October-ish it is...

It has been another eye-wateringly cold and windy day here in Delhi, and as I type I am wearing sweater+fleece+fleece AND I have a heater on & yet I think hypothermia is about to set in.  The plight of the city’s homeless pavement dwellers...

Well, perhaps not exactly typical, given that we are already an atypical Delhi family, but here goes. After weeks of gaudy made-in-China fairy lights and my rather small Delhi-special Xmas trees, arrived the big day – or Bara Din as it used to...

And another perfect, perfect (and did I mention perfect) day in London ? Perfect in this context was not the weather, which was grey and overcast but not actually that cold, but 3 exhibitions in one day. So much happiness. The day started with the Va...

Yes, yes, I know, it has been ages since I blogged, and my only excuse is that I am in London, and that is absolutely no excuse at all, I fully accept. We flew here on Friday, loaded to the gunwales with warm clothing, so terrified was I by the weath...

There is nothing quite like being a tourist in your own city.  The hugest fun. Anjulie and I spent today in Old Delhi with my South African friend Pippa and her house guest, Rebecca, and we did the whole 9 yards.  As in the whole 9 yards. Red Fort,...

Don’t ask me where the days have got to. Not a clue. Since getting back from Malta, it seems as though everything is on fast forward, between jetlag and house guests and work and weddings. Ah yes, weddings. It is wedding central this week in De...

One of those days when I despair of this country and the government we have. Yes, how did you guess ? A Gandhi family memorial day, so as per usual, as happens year after year after year, our tax rupees are wasted on huge newspaper ads. You have to w...

So there we were, daughter dearest, Yoda and your faithful blogger, out for an evening stroll through the forest at the polo club. Chat, chat, chat until we literally fell over what looked like a deep hole in the path with – yikes -  a snake.

Guilty as charged. Jolly holidays & regular blogging do not necessarily go hand in hand, and certainly not in my case, if this last week is anything to go by.  I last posted from New York, and since then we have spent a couple of busy days in Lo...

India keeps muttering and mumbling about medical tourism, which should really be a huge money-spinner for this country. I, for one, have never doubted the competence of doctors here in India, and put my money where my mouth is/was, by having Anjulie...

It’s 6 am and I am up and miserable. Anjulie flies back to London this morning, and if anyone, I repeat anyone, trots out one of those fatuous clichés about giving your children wings to fly blah blah, I will probably scream. Today I may well...

Out of the noisy welter of stories competing for attention today…fog…cold…traffic…someone threw ink at a poster of Sonia Gandhi…teenager gang-raped and set on fire by her rapists…I decided to share 2 items with you...