Posted by: Aadisht on: July 30, 2009
My mom was doing her grocery shopping and ran into an old acquaintance who normally wouldn’t talk more than a “kem chho” (how are you) but this time was very excited to share the good news of her daughter’s marriage to a “NRI chokro” (Non resident Indian bridegroom). After my mom congratulated her, she started [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 29, 2009
(written in honour of Katpadi Katsa’s upcoming nuptials) Kitty Aunty has always enjoyed weddings. But in the past few years they have been incredibly important to her. Now that her children have left the house and she no longer teaches junior school, being the centre of all weddings is how she occupies herself. Kitty Aunty [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 29, 2009
A bus ride in Shanghai. It was late in the evening and the bus was amazingly crowded, but I got in nevertheless. There was hardly any space and it was difficult not to step onto each other’s toes. While standing there, trying to balance myself in the midst of a lot of local Chinese; it [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 27, 2009
While growing up in India, particularly during my graduation course, we were constantly talking about the only other economy in the world that was growing faster than India – China. China had always fascinated me and I wanted more than anything else to get a first hand experience of working and living in China. So [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2009
It looks like my run of no posts will continue for a while. So for the next few weeks, there will be a guest blogger at Givvup Only Are There. Please welcome Samtaben. Samtaben is currently in China. Since the government there has blocked wordpress.com and blogger.com; I offered her a guestblogging stint rather than [...]