Archive for December, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Merry Christmas, everyone!
I have a present for one special reader. A reader of this blog mentioned on her own blog recently that one of her goals in 2008 is to get published in Writer’s Digest. As someone who has twice been published in WD, and has the same goal for 2008, I’m […]

A Spin Around Mumbai - Part II

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Notes from my Mumbai journal continued. See Part I here:
http://www.mridukhullar.com/journal/2007/12/23/mumbai-i/
Touching all senses
I’m woken up daily by the sound of the doorbell. For the middle class in Mumbai, there’s a person to take care of everything—there’s the breadwala, the doodhwala, the sabziwala, the garbagewala, the laundrywala, and other assorted “walas.” They all arrive […]

A Spin Around Mumbai - Part I

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

In early 2007, owing to a personal problem that seemed like a massive disaster at the time, but would prove to be a temporary setback, I made a hasty decision, packed up everything I owned and moved to Mumbai. As much as I loved the city, I found the arrangement not quite […]