blogs about london

Footloose in London

soumitra_biswas — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:32:35 -0700

London was at its glorious best as we touched down at Heathrow in an April afternoon by Air India’s AI-111 from Delhi. Our gang of four comprising Rakesh, the honcho from Indian Oil with a mischievous smile, Rintu, the lady with lyrical giggles from IIT-Kharagpur, my colleague, Naveen and myself proceeded for the immigration.

London Calling

bigface — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:01:37 -0700

Literally a clash of personalities, Travel to London is always exciting, the electric city that anyone should experience at least once.

Book review: Shinya tokkyu (Midnight Express) by Kotaro Sawaki

jani — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:44:39 -0700

Suddenly I thought: wasn't coming to this place the reason I had continued on my journey for so long? I was brought here by a countless series of coincidences. Those coincidences did not need a word like "god" to explain them; no, it was just the wind, the water, the light, and yes, the buses. Thanks to public buses I was brought here...

Falling water from the sky.

lisap — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:13:32 -0700

These stories contain far too many references to the distasteful weather, and I probably sound more obsessive and fixated than usual, but rain has fallen every day I arrived in this sunshine-deprived land of incessant precipitation, and I’m beginning to crack. Some permanent images from my current life include:

Falling water from the sky, spraying, spitting, hissing. Prolonged vitriolic cries of disgruntled seagulls. Outrageously frigid wind in the summer. Settling cold infiltrating the tender marrow. A mere four channels of televised crap