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Life in Chennai is Now Uber

Taxi services. Little has changed in the last 50 years. You call up the taxi company, ask for a taxi to pick you up and you wait patiently for them to arrive. Only it’s not always that simple in Chennai, especially for a foreigner (although I consider myself more of an almost-PIO nowadays). You call… Continue reading

That Devil Called Inflation

To my utter surprise, I’m coming up to completing five years of living in India. Being an expat usually means you are paid more than the local workers, and India’s strict foreigner employment laws almost guarantees that. One of the things about living in a developing country is that there is incessant, non-stop, almost frantic,… Continue reading

Crumpled Up T-Shirt Day

I have almost reached the age now where doing the ‘smell test’ to see if a t-shirt is still wearable is frowned upon. If I wear a t-shirt, it should be fresh out of the cupboard and neatly pressed. Which is what happens most days. Last night saw quite a big storm hit Chennai in… Continue reading

Smile: Global Catastrophe Is Imminent

Makes for depressing, unhappy reading. But smile: We’re all doomed in the end. BBC News – Resource depletion: Opportunity or looming catastrophe?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16391040For many living in the world today, this nightmare scenario is already a reality. Even for the well-off living in developed economies, it is becoming all too familiar.