Here are some pictures taken on my phone while driving to the airport!
The Delhi Golf Course as seen from the balcony outside the meeting room
The white domed structure is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor, Humayun called Humayun’s Tomb, as seen from the balcony outside the meeting room.
An example of Mughal painting – seen around the hotel
Sun setting behind Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace) – on our way to the airport
A sculpture in the airport
Nine Lives – William Dalrymple
A mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.
A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.
William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit
This was such a tiring week that I spent the weekend sleeping – catching up on sleep and probably storing sleep for the next week, which also shows promise to be equally tiring!
Last Monday, I went to Delhi for a work trip, the flight there is worthy of a post all by itself. I’ve seen examples of rude Indians, but the people on that flight took it to a new level. When we entered the gate to the flight, we were welcomed by a big group fighting and this fighting was carried into the flight. Luckily I was able to watch a couple of movies I had not seen, so this didn’t bother me too much!
The rest of the week was hectic to say the least. I don’t sleep too well out of my home, so I think I survived on around an average of 3 hours of sleep daily. This was compounded by BB & GG calling me around 3:30 – 4 am local time daily so that I could talk to them before they left for school. Hopefully the trip next week will not be so bad as it is in the same time zone as Singapore!
I didn’t see anything of the city, except on the way back to the airport, but I’ll post some pictures later this week….
Have a great week folks!
BB & GG had their Prelims this week. English and Maths done with Science still to go.
S was really on the ball this week, coming home early daily to ensure that GG & BB concentrated on their Prelims as I was away the whole week. I am expecting the Parent-Teacher meeting next week, but I will away again next week. Sigh! What to do?
We have to concentrate on the Listening Comprehension which will happen in around 3 weeks time. After that it’s two weeks to PSLE!!!
I just booked a short break for the week when the PSLE papers will be marked. Hopefully we’ll be able to forget this exams for a while…
Inspector Singh’s expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political intrigue to get to the bottom of a very murky and complex crime Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but the young man’s mother demands that Singapore’s finest (in his own opinion) rides to the rescue. But solving a murder in a country that practices socialism “with Chinese characteristics” is a dangerous business, and it soon becomes apparent that getting to the bottom of this calamitous killing will be his toughest case yet.
