Wandering Wunkers

Six years – or nearly – since we arrived. And now, we are gone again. A lot has happened. This is one of the first pictures I snapped, in our view...

Adam and I have never steered away from banned books – in fact, if a book is banned, there’s a good chance we’ve read it or we want to, sometimes simply...

Apparently, a tigress has “escaped”*  from Jim Corbett National Wildlife Park, and is on a bit of a human-eating binge: there’s anywhere from 8-10 kills currently being attributed to her (there’s...

We confess, the status is a new one to us. #update on the 17th – I will admit we’ve had weather delays on things before, but… well, the “natural calamities” status...

Frothing fit of rage. GURGAON: A day after a 23-year-old woman was abducted and gangraped in the city, the Gurgaon administration on Monday passed an order virtually absolving its responsibility of ensuring...

I create a new category… and almost immediately start finding things that fit in it.  

Only in India would you see something like this. Maoist rebels (communist rebels with a tendency towards violence) lost one of their leaders. From the linked CNN article: “Indian security forces...

You stop questioning the power when it goes off for the 3rd or 4th time that day for at least 10 minutes. I might wake up with a spider the size...

There really isn’t much to say except “Indian English”. Used as a verb, “intimate” (‘in.ti.mate) is: –verb (used with object), -mat·ed, -mat·ing. 1. to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest. 2. Archaic . to make known; announce. I don’t often see or use “intimate” in the verb sense, as...