Ok, well for those of you that said I was being over optimistic with the dating of ‘my new Indian male interest,’  err, well you were right. It lasted three weeks, to the day.

Good thing, probably, as neither of us wasted the other’s time. Read more

I have spent the past few days with monsoon food poisoning and been stuck in my flat together with my cats for a few days, waiting for the diarrhoea to wear off, and also to gather my strength. I went nowhere and did nothing and so was panicking about what would I write about in this blog. Read more

I went to an interview this morning in a Mumbai hotel basement. A young Indian woman in a sari greeted me. I presumed she was one of the hotel staff, as at these high-end hotels, they often dress in saris, so I smiled and walked past. She shouted out my name and it turned out she was the PR woman waiting to meet me. Read more

It’s taken me a while to work this out, since the initial difficulties of properly dating Indian men have been so all-consuming, since moving here, but I have recently figured that if you get an Indian guy to take you seriously, they are pretty romantic. In fact, they beat English men hands down. Read more

In The Hindustan Times recently, on the comment pages, Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research at Harvard University, wrote an opinion piece called The Indian Dream. The views expressed were the personal views of the author. Read more

Everyone knows the difference between a good and a bad party.

But few of us know how to make a party good – as a host. Now that it’s party time in Mumbai and the ‘season’ has begun, there are plenty of parties to attend. But how can we make sure the ones we hold are good? Read more