Blogs about: Living In Delhi
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We are tourists, we are attractions
Our visits to tourist attractions like Jama Masjid or the Red Fort often reminded us that Westerners weren’t the only tourists in Delhi. There’s a middle-class India thriving far beyond Saket Citywalk… more →
Our Delhi Struggle
a wrinkle in time: life on India's half-hour offset
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jenny and dave wrote 3 weeks ago: India is one of the few countries in the world whose time zone is unevenly offset from the standard … more →
the bank that ruined our slumber
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jenny and dave wrote 1 month ago: The neighborhood’s nightmare began one evening around three AM, dragging us out of our slumber … more →
dave and jenny in Gulf Life magazine
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jenny and dave wrote 1 month ago: Several eagle-eyed readers have, while taxiing down the Heathrow runway or descending into the hot B … more →
the kid on the bike
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jenny and dave wrote 1 month ago: It was during a walk we took just beyond the northwest reaches of the Old City—where the chaotic lan … more →
surprise: it's us!
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jenny and dave wrote 2 months ago: Though we have a new blog entry scheduled for later this week, readers of the Hindustan Times in Del … more →
ajit the driver
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jenny and dave wrote 3 months ago: Every morning I’d call the local taxi stand for my ride to Gurgaon. And every morning they’d send a … more →
a tale of two tailors
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jenny and dave wrote 3 months ago: I always brought my shirts to Tej & Co. Drapers and Tailors, until the Monday morning when the p … more →
the economy of our empties
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jenny and dave wrote 3 months ago: Unlikely economies exist around everything in India. Including empty liquor bottles. I’m not t … more →
gol gappas
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jenny and dave wrote 5 months ago: The one Delhi street food we refused to eat on the street was gol gappas. Gol gappas are hollow sphe … more →
Chaddha Saab's 444
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Nikhil wrote 5 months ago: I took your advice. I am moving out of the bug-house. Yay! For the uninitiated, here’s a short … more →
hot sweaty bribery
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jenny and dave wrote 5 months ago: Delhi is peppered with small parks — 18,000 of them, if The Hindu’s dubious figures are … more →
a zoning violation
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jenny and dave wrote 5 months ago: The smell would appear suddenly every two to three weeks, billowing up the stairway from the basemen … more →
autorickshaws in Delhi: some practical advice
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jenny and dave wrote 7 months ago: The best advice we can give to anyone attempting to travel Delhi by autorickshaw is this: ignore the … more →
it's official: Our Delhi Struggle will be a book!
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jenny and dave wrote 7 months ago: It’s finally official. The blue ink is dry and the envelope is closed and the contract is airm … more →
peeing men
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jenny and dave wrote 7 months ago: We’re certainly not the first commentators to observe this scourge. You see them everywhere yo … more →
roshan di kulfi
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jenny and dave wrote 7 months ago: Before we left Delhi, Jenny and I did our best to make it to our favorite restaurants one last time. … more →
strays
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jenny and dave wrote 8 months ago: Every square inch of Delhi is claimed by gangs of stray dogs who viciously and vociferously defend t … more →
the maid in the morning
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jenny and dave wrote 9 months ago: It happened on the very first morning in our flat, and it would happen nearly every day thereafter. … more →
the hole and the dispute
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jenny and dave wrote 9 months ago: In the middle of the driveway in front of our flat is a gaping square hole that will one day break s … more →
