J's Inn Hotel New Delhi

Inequality is one of the worst things for a society - as powerfully argued by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in thier recent book The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better. Unfortunately, inequality is one of the most striking things about India. People with literally nothing live onthe pavements outside homes woth m...

as i sat in my hotel in the small town of sinouli, a well known border crossing with india, feeling bored and a little out of place, i realised that as i was crossing into india today, now would probably be the time to reminisce a little about my stay in nepal.
so after a little searching, i found sinouli's only internet cafe, and am now alm...

so we've vistited the lotus temple huymians tomb (that was prettyfun climbing through bat infested stairways) and the india gate! Was a fairly fun filled day in the heat! ready to move on to the next place now alright! this has become too ordinary :) for our birthdays we're headin to connacht place for big macs to give our tummies a break! had b...

Well we've been here a week but various things have stopped me entering anything on the travelpod. Fear not, I have endless musings on my experiences in a notebook, whether they all make it up here though, is another story (and perhaps that's just as well!). I want to just get some photos happening first. Witness Tara and Iain in Delhi! We arriv...

Well, obviously we have been home for a while now, we got home on December 5th. We left in such a hurry, that I didn't have time to finish up the last of our adventures in India. Don't worry I didn't forget! School here at Davis takes a lot more time up than I remembered. In India I didn't have to go to class so I didn't mind writing, now I hav...

Real Estate Is A Good Hedge against Inflation, Explains Which is a better option if you have some excess funds to invest - stocks or real estate? The most sincere advice you get from friends is real estate. But how accurate is this advice? Traditionally, a house was an asset, usually inherited by a son from his father. Often, it was towards the...

Just before leaving Pakistan I met an Australian guy who had been almost giving away a motorbike helmet and some Kevlar motorbike trousers which he explained that he had left with a friend at the border Indian/Pakistan border along with an Indian Lonely Planet and for a fraction of what he had paid for them I could buy them. I didn't really have...

During the last week of September (and my second week in Lucknow), I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a 5-day workshop in New Delhi on qualitative research methods. The workshop was led by a fantastic anthropologist couple from Edinburgh, Scotland. My boss had mentioned the training to me and Sharon during our meeting on the first day of ...

Date: 25th June

Well... Vaiby (Vibhore) was a bit disturbed with the current state of affairs back in Delhi.
He wished he could jump out of this mess & find a place where he could contemplate life.
I was as usual thrilled & excited by his idea. Although Leh was on our mind since we saw one of my friends' friends photogra...

[mid-May, 2007: It's already been two months since I arrived in Delhi and so much has transpired that I've scant had an opportunity to write about any of it. Finally, after a few weeks of (surprisingly) only mild stomach discomfort, an alien life form has found its way into my gut and is slowly, painfully liquefying my insides. My immune system ...