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Something That Bugs Me About Westerners In India
I’m getting more and more bugged as the weeks have gone by about Westerners in India. For some strange, unknown reason, they…
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Living In India Tip #329: Expect The Unexpected
India is a place of unexpected surprises. In order to survive, you must come to expect the unexpected and not let it…
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Pancake Parties
I was invited round to a pancake party (erm, because it’s pancake day) being thrown by some other Brits here in Chennai.…
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Convince, Confuse or Corrupt
I was talking to the lawyer today that joined us and was asking about law practice in India. He showed us the…
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A Road Trip to Thanjuvar
Thanjuvar is an old Indian town that has an even older temple, 1,500 years at the last estimate. It is said to…
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Three Men Get Locked in a Room
It sounds like it could be the start of a bad joke, but no, today it actually happened. The hilarity of the…
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Life After Freelancing
So I have decided to give up freelancing and forge a career in a ‘proper’ job where one works 9 till 5…
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Goodbye, I’m Going Home…
Good bye India, I’m leaving you for a smaller, richer country 🙂 It’s certainly been fun while it lasted, and we’ve had…
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Christmas Shopping!
So here I am in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim country and Christmas is coming (and the geese are apparently getting fat),…
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Speaking & Learning Tamil
I know it’s everyone’s life mission to learn to speak Tamil, a language spoken in the south eastern part of India, Sri…
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