Diary of a White Indian Housewife
Thoughts and Experiences of an Expat Living in India
From the category archives:
Two evenings ago there was a knock on the door. It was one of the watchmen. He started speaking animatedly in Hindi. Apparently, the housing society secretary had issued a notice about all the water theft going on. And apparently, quite a bit of it had been taking place from our garden tap….
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One of my readers made mention, in a recent comment, of all the instances of charity work with the less fortunate that go unreported and uncelebrated. Indeed, India’s problems are often more obvious than the organisations and people who are selflessly working behind the scenes, helping to overcome these problems…
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I often get people writing to me, wondering why I choose to live in India. They think I’m a crazy for giving up my high standard of living, to be here with my husband. For sure, India often tests my patience. It’s like a never ending rollercoaster ride. I get frustrated and fed up. However, I can’t deny, I’m still under India’s spell. Here are five reasons why….
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Cinematographer Adeep Tandon is a “man of principles” who “will not succumb to any pressure”. He certainly proved it a couple of nights ago, when he was detained at the octeroi tax plaza in Vashi after refusing to pay a 100 rupee ($2) bribe….
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I was reading a feature in the Mumbai Mirror yesterday, about six people who left their high paying professional jobs to follow their passion and pursue a career in cinema. It made me start thinking of myself and the giant leap of faith I took. However, the big difference between me and those people was that I had no idea of the direction I wanted my life to go in when I left my job. And I was hardly enthusiastic creating my new reality. I had to be pushed by a crisis of mass proportion…
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There’s a saying that we come into contact with hundreds of ideas and opportunities in a lifetime that will make us wealthy, if only we would act on them. Most people don’t realise an opportunity when they see one, doubt that their ideas will be successful, or think that too much hard work is involved. As a result, they never get to find out what the result would’ve been. Hasad Seikh was a 40 year old auto rickshaw driver who recognised an opportunity, and seized it….
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Fear and apprehension welled up inside me as the plane commenced its decent into Kolkata. It wasn’t going to be my first time in India. I’d been there twice before. To me, India felt like and old yet unpredictable friend. One whose behavior I could never be sure of, but I liked anyway….
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