The General Elections are about to take place later this month in India. In a country of 1.1bn people where there are over a dozen official languages and large swaths of the rural areas have very low literacy rates, it’s incredible that elections manage to take place at all. You could easily compare India to Europe. Imagine if all the countries of Europe, with their different...

Living in India, I have cable TV which has blessed me with 10 sports channels, at least one of which will be showing live action football on Saturday or Sunday. This means I’m able to watch the Premiership matches which you guys in the UK can’t, such as the 3pm Saturday matches. It also gives me 3 English movie channels, so when there’s no football, there’s...

There is no real point to this post, just general / random musings Being quite an independent minded kind of person, when it comes to making money, I always like to be in control of how much I earn. This can be very good, but if you are relying on your own efforts and you become lazy, you can fall flat on your face, err, as I found out…oops! This is why I currently like...

A friend of mine posted this picture on Facebook, so I stole it off him. Look at the picture…does it make you even a tinsey winsey little bit jealous?? Honestly, I really can’t say that I miss British weather, not even a teeny tiny little bit. Does it stem from being a guy and liking things to be the same and not change? I don’t know, but waking up in the morning...

When I came to India in the first quarter of 2008, the economy was still pretty much in full swing as I set about building my team of superstars. As I interviewed candidate after candidate a few things started to irk me, such as their belief that by changing jobs it could net them a 100% to 300% pay rise. There seemed to be a belief that pay was related to experience, not expertise....

Warning! This post discusses a very controversial topic. Do not go any further if you are easily offended! There’s a nice saying in English which is: every day is a school day. It means that you learn something new each day. This is exceptionally true when you are immersed in to a foreign culture. However, today was a school, college and university day. I was talking to a work...

An old staff member was putting on a bit of an Am-Dram production at her college. She asked if I wanted to come along, so how could I refuse? Armed with my fellow culture vulture (also a Brit) we got tickets and waited with intrepidation. That’s until I found out the play was about women empowerment. I then looked forward to it with a certain amount of dread, convinced I would...

Guest blogging is for lazy people who want to invite others to contribute to their blog. People get invited because they may have interesting things to say, be an authority voice on a particular subject or maybe it’s just a friendship and you think it’s cool to have others write on your otherwise very personal website. To be asked to guest blog on someone elses site is...

I came across this list on my travels around the internet. I’ve bolded a couple of the items that are very true! ———— We Indians are easy to identify! We are like this only So true, lets start the list 1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes. 2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil. 3. You...

I love being an expat, I love working in a different country, and most importantly I love being in a place where you don’t have to wonder what the weather will be like - it’s always shorts and t-shirt weather. It’s always lovely and hot. Give me blazing sun over winter blues anyday. I’d say 95% of the time I love being in India. The other 5% of the time I’m...