Readers of this blog (both of you) will be pleased to know that from 2011 you'll be able to enjoy my writing in more than short article-sized bursts, because I've been commissioned to write an entire book. Thanks to my brilliant agent, Peter Tallack,...

India has one of the highest rates of recycling in the world. And it isn't because this is a particularly civic society, it's because legions of poor people spend their days sorting through our municipal waste trying to find things they can sell. Some...

Nurse, don't change the beds. I have a filing system here. I have long been an advocate for working from home... Why spend two hours a day on a crowded train, when you have Internet and phone connections in your house that allow you to do everything...

A whole swathe of Delhi is a building site right now, while the government frantically tries to finish the stadiums and facilities for the Commonwealth Games next year. I have to say, given they're less than a year away, you have to wonder whether it...

In case you aren't already aware, I'm in Delhi for six months. It's only been a few weeks so far but my husband and I have already succumbed to the dreaded Delhi Belly (thankfully only for a day and we're better now. Strangely, it was the first time in...