Ajay from Bombay

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Exercising in the monsoons

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I know of people who love to go on night runs in the rains during the monsoons. I tried this a few years ago, but somehow the combination o...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Frogs herald the arrival of the monsoons

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I have witnessed twenty monsoons in Bombay and until this week I felt there wasn't thing about the season or its arrival that I would h...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Like a southern Russian summer

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I can safely say that has been the most beautiful June in Bombay in living memory. The rains arrived in the city on the first of the month,...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

How to keep the streets of Andheri West as clean and empty as they are now

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Under normal circumstances it would take me exactly a few seconds before bumping into someone in the densely packed streets of Andheri West...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Seeing Bombay from an entirely different perspective

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I haven't left the city in six months. This is my longest continuous stretch in my hometown since 1998, when I was a teenager. Of cours...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Palakkad red rice and our heritage

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India’s now-eased lockdown has forced even the strongest opponent of tech billionaires to try and source some groceries online. One of the ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

The summer of Covid-19 in Bombay

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Old readers of this blog know that I absolutely love the months of April and May in Bombay. The humidity doesn't really bother me that ...
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Ajay Kamalakaran
Author of Globetrotting for Love and Other Stories from Sakhalin Island and A Week in the Life of Svitlana. I love languages, Russia and the Himalayas
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