Christine Blog Posts
- ! Thirty-Nine, Hauz Khas VillageOn the recommendation of our children who both work in Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village – known as HKV to the cognoscenti - I went to the cryptically named Thirty-Nine for lunch recently with my friend Asha Framji. We were the only 2 people ea...
- The things you see on a polo fieldSo there I was, last night, after sunset, yomping round the polo field – as one does – and look what I saw. Fading, poor light. Pretty poor iphone video clip. Hand held so a tad wobbly. But here it is, a nilgai wandering across the #1 gro...
- ! Is The Great Gatsby better in 3D?This is an entirely loaded question, of course, simply because I cannot see things properly in 3D. It’s a long story, but basically I have pretty weird eyesight and so all those jazzy effects of 3D are a complete waste of time and space as fa...
- What is cutting chai?India never ceases to amaze me. Or perhaps, rephrasing that somewhat, life never ceases to amaze me. 30+ years of knowing India and I never knew there was a name for those ubiquitous little glasses of sweet, milky chai. It took breakfast in an elegan...
- ! Where to have a round-the-world breakfast in Delhi?In Baywatch in the WelcomHotel Sheraton, New Delhi, that’s where. Located in Saket, right near the malls, the ground floor coffee shop of this business hotel is currently offering the world on your breakfast plate. I was invited to experience...
- ! My favourite moments of The Reluctant FundamentalistI hadn’t read the book, though I know I should have. Have to read it by next week for my Delhi book club, as it so happens, but this review is all about the film. I loved it - it is visually fabulous with photography to die for, and filmed...
- In praise of Delhi’s blazing summers
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THE BLOG - Of heat and wedding horses
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THE BLOG - 8 months old. Rape her. 85 years old. Rape her.I feel so sick I actually don’t know what to say. I have written repeatedly that in my view a rape is a rape is a rape. There is no such thing as a “worse” rape. But having said that, this is one of the most revolting things I have...
- Enlightening the nation…vision of India…steely determination…Yes. Sorry. It’s one of THOSE posts. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you yesterday’s dollop of Nehru/Gandhi sycophancy. Courtesy the Indian tax payer. I would’ve posted yesterday, except that my poor old Mauritian cat, Tifi, had 2 diab...
- Don Draper dating a Bollywood star !!! Well, actually, no, not really, but he might have done…Gentle reader, you really should thank me for sorting out the wheat from the chaff for you, and here is a perfect case in point. Without my sharing these juicy morsels of Bollywood gupshup with you, how would you have known that the divinely deliciou...
- Delicious, divinely bitchy but oh such fun. Meet Mallika Sherawat in her latest avatarShame on me for initially thinking that the Times of India article (below) was – well, rather mean and nasty, and even borderline bitchy about the amazing self made phenomenon that is Ms Sherawat. Having watched the YouTube clip (yes, I know, I...
- ! Where should I stay in Siracusa in Sicily?First time visitors and therefore unfamiliar with Sicily, and faced with a slew of similar looking hotels on the many internet sites we browsed, we were more than a little spoiled for choice, and ended up getting thoroughly confused. One hotel, howev...
- ! Where can I find a good vet in Delhi?If you live in south Delhi and need a good vet (silly phrase, really – who would want an indifferent vet? but anyway, you take my point), so, if you need a good vet, rest assured that there is an excellent practice in Anand Niketan, run by the...
- 2 years old? 80 years old? No problem. Any age is right for rape in IndiaPrepare to be sickened. I made a pledge last winter, at the height of the outrage against the Delhi gang-rape, that I would do my bit – however small – to highlight the shocking violence and sexual abuse that women and girls face in India...
- Where should I stay in Siracusa in Sicily?First time visitors and therefore unfamiliar with Sicily, and faced with a slew of similar looking hotels on the many internet sites we browsed, we were more than a little spoiled for choice, and ended up getting thoroughly confused. One hotel, howev...
- Where can I find a good vet in Delhi?If you live in south Delhi and need a good vet (silly phrase, really – who would want an indifferent vet? but anyway, you take my point), so, if you need a good vet, rest assured that there is an excellent practice in Anand Niketan, run by the...
- A tale of 2 frocks. Well 3 actually.Something is afoot in Cannes on the frock front, and I think we should be told. Well, one of the frocks is actually a sari, but you take my point. I gave you one installment of what Bollywood is wearing on the Cannes red carpet in my blog post a co...
- …brilliant statesman…visionary leader…grateful nation…one man’s vision…visionary…vision…true icon…
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THE BLOG Rajiv Gandhi - Why do I lead SUCH a dull life?Our south Delhi colony has a monthly newsletter which is always good for news of how they are trying to sort out the abominable traffic mess, or ads for pest control, and that’s about it. But – whew – this month’s newslett...
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