Briton Naomi Canton went to Glastonbury Rock Festival while sitting her school exams and backpacked around India alone at the age of 19. Her parents thought she would settle down and marry an investment banker when she went to Oxford University to study Japanese. Little did they expect the Ivory Towers would transform their precious daughter into a left wing rebel, who instead used the course to learn about Buddhism, and upon graduation signed on the dole to join the Free Tibet Campaign. Several years later she gave up Japanese to study Hindi. In 2007, her adventurous streak took hold again and she informed her parents she was giving up her plush Norfolk apartment to work at the Hindustan Times in Mumbai.
When I was 19, in the 1990s I dated this English guy who had had been to India.
Up to that point I had travelled to Europe and the US, but had not been anywhere considered ‘exotic’.
Yet, on our dates, he used to keep me riveted with his tales of India, wandering around in a lungi, living in a hut in the Himalayas and in a guest house in Paharganj. [Read more]
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged backpackers, backpacking, foreigners, India, paharganj
Mumbai nightlife is getting very exciting. I have always said the two best things about this city are the nightlife and Bollywood. And it is being proved true yet again.
This weekend India’s first ice bar opens up in Oshiwara, Andheri west, Mumbai, opposite the Mega Mall. [Read more]
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged 21 Fahrenheit, Absolut Ice Bar, Andheri west, Bollywood, Bollywood celebrities, Chill Out Ice Bar, cocktails, JW Marriott Hotel, Kashmiri Food Festival, minus 6 degrees Celsius, Mumbai, nightlife, Oshiwara, Sharaf Group
I had the pleasure of seeing a couple of movies at the Mumbai Film Festival organised by MAMI at the weekend.
Well, I say pleasure….in fact, one film was atrocious and the other was groundbreaking and amazing. [Read more]
(7 votes, average: 2.71 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged British Asian, British people, hindustan times, MAMI, Mumbai Film Festiva
This has been worrying me for some time.
I want to know whether a truly global Indian man exists. [Read more]
(26 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged cats, global Indian man, housework, indian food, Karwa Chauth, social life, white wedding
I must let everyone know about a 48 minute documentary film called Terror in Mumbai, made by a British company Quicksilver for Dispatches, a Channel Four programme. Although it was screened on Channel Four in the UK, it has never been screened in India. [Read more]
(7 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged 26/11, Channel Four, documentary, documentary film, Israeli Government, Mumbai, Mumbai attacks, pakistan, Pakistani cell, Quicksilver for Dispatches, Terror in Mumbai, terrorist organisations
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