The Visa chapter of my personal alphabet is a tough one. It is taking me months (months after arriving here) to be completed, and if at the beginning I thought I’d wait for the end of my adventures in the immigrationland before writing about them, but seems like the end has no end.
It all begins [...]
Archive for November, 2008
V for Visa
Posted in My India on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
U for Urban
Posted in My India on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is something special about the first time I see a city. The spacial image of it that I build in your mind when you get there for the very first time, during the very first hour of discovering, is always somehow different from how that city exactly is. Distances are bigger, or smaller. What [...]
T for Traffic
Posted in My India on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The very idea of dedicating a post to traffic in Delhi is ambitious, to say the least.
Traffic rules the city, it sets the pace of your life here and it’s an uncontrollable force that never leaves you alone.
Because traffic is noisy. None who hasn’t traveled on Indian street has any right to talk about acoustic [...]
S for Same Same But Different
Posted in My India, Same Same But Different on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This story begins in Paris, Rue des Cinqs Diamants. There’s a restaurant there, yes, probably the one you are thinking about, and in that restaurant worked as a waiter a guy with the most theatrical face I have ever seen. That guy often wore a t-shirt that read Same Same But Different. For months, watching [...]
