Hindustan Times
When I started planning to move to India in 2005, my friends said I was mad. “How can you work in a newspaper there? You don’t even speak Hindi,” one said. Read more
(39 votes, average: 4.28 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Filed under Europe, Expat on the edge, India, Mumbai · Tagged bhangra, Bollywood, Brick Lane, Hindi, India, India Shining, Indian men, Leaving, Mumbai, Mumbai terror attack, slumdog millionaire, UK
“India has an amazing ability to muddle up things. The goons in Bihar are running the show when the country is aspiring to be a world leader,” author Charles Allen once said in an interview to Hindustan Times. Read more
(27 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge, India · Tagged Charles Allen, Commonwealth Games, corruption, CWG, delhi, fiasco, India, Indian Government, Kipling, Paradise, world
I watched Spain beat the Netherlands in the World Cup in a small trendy but casual Moroccan-style café/bar called Mocha in Mumbai on Sunday night. The atmosphere was amazing. Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged alcohol, atmosphere, Bandra, Barista, BBC Café, beer, Brits, cafe, CCD, Dutch, England, FIFA World Cup, football, hookah pipes, Indigo Deli, Italy, Juhu. JW Marriott, Khar, Kit Kat shakes, Long Island, Mocha, mozzarella paninis, Mumbai, Netherlands, Pali Village Café, Quench, Saif Ali Khan, Spain, Spanish, UK, USA, wine, WTF!
The heavens have opened and the rain is pouring. Who cares if there is a leak in my kitchen and Mumbai’s roads are waterlogged once more? Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge, Mumbai · Tagged Barista, Bollywood, karan johar, london eye, monsoon, Mumbai, mumbai roads, rains
Well, well, well. I did not have my anticipated reaction to Kites. At all. The way the film was promoted was such that I thought it was going to be mere ego boost to Hrithik Roshan – a chance for him to dance around, flex his muscles and kiss and dance with several foxy women. Read more
(23 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge, India, Mumbai · Tagged acting, action, barbara mori, Bollywood, cross-cultural marriage, film, foreigner, hollywood, hrithik roshan, Indian, kites, love, marriage, movies, multiplex, Mumbai, religion
During my school years in the UK there was an English literature class in which the teacher explained that the message of the novel we were analyzing was that life was full of up and downs.
That stuck in my head at a very young age. Read more
(12 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged Alphonso mango, Bollywood stars, English literature, Feel the fear and Do it Anyway, novel, protagonist, Samaritans, UK
I have just returned from a trip to the USA. It was amazing, and the country is near-perfect, in my opinion. So, although I share Mark Tully’s views on many aspects on India, I disagree with him on one point: Read more
(31 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge, India · Tagged america, evangelical Christians, geisha girls, George Bush, healthcare, India, infrastructure, Japan, kimonos, Mark Tully, Modernisation, Shintoism, UK, wrong ambition
I recently had the pleasure of meeting and then interviewing Sir Mark Tully, a British writer and journalist, considered to be an expert on India, who lives in Delhi. Read more
(18 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged architecture, BBC correspondent, BBC Radio Four, British writer, entrepreneurial, indian media, Indian readers, Industrial production, journalist, managerial revolution, pragmatism, print media, religion, Sir Mark Tully, UK
If you are having one of those days when everything in the world seems to be against you, and things just keep getting worse, then read this. You are not alone.
Last weekend I had one of those awful weekends, that just got worse. It started with Friday night. Read more
(15 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged awful weekends, boss, breakup, chick flick, divorce, dying relationship, great girlie escapism, karan johar, Karthik Calling Karthik, life, marriage, Meryl Streep, raj kundra, shilpa shetty
My friend will be arriving to stay with me very soon. And I am full of a bundle of emotions. What will she think of India? Will she like it? Will she be able to get around or will I have to accompany her? How much money will she have? Does she know how expensive it is here in Mumbai? Will she want to see the page 3 glamour scene? Or will she want to wander round slums? Read more
(11 votes, average: 2.45 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge, Mumbai · Tagged 5 star hotels, australia, Bandra, Bandstand, Bob Christo, China House, Dharavi, foreign tourist, Harbour Bar, Hare Krishna Temple, India, Mumbai, Prithvi Theatre, roof top paries
