April 2009 - Posts - Still single in the city

April 2009 - Posts

The sad tale of trying to get an Indian visa…

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Yesterday night at 9.54 pm, I got this email from Brian. Think I told everyone that Brian plans to visit Delhi next week and he's been trying to organise an Indian visa. I thought this was hilarious, so will leave you with this till I get back to Dubai. (He was nice enough not to call me up and complain, and instead sent me a hugely entertaining...

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Taking my argument forward...

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I've just come back from a breakfast meeting with a couple of expats. Not Indians. These people are expats from the developed world, and both of them were quite bright (MIT and Harvard stock -- if there are people out there who believe ‘educational pedigree' matters), rather unlike what The Independent said about below-average Westerners making...

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Bengali Food and Defending Dubai

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I discovered this weekend that one DOES get the best hilsa ( ilish ) at Dubai's Deira fish market. The fish I devoured at the Lahiri household was from the Padma river in Bangladesh -- historically and traditionally, the best place to get ilish from ("Padma-r ilish -- there is nothing quite like it," my grandfather, the granddaddy of eating...

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Men and Massages

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
This week, I got to know the Lahiris - from Calcutta, but living in Dubai for the past 30 years. Mr Lahiri, a wonderful, avuncular sort, asked me if I was missing baarir khabar -- ghar ka khaana . Obviously, I said. So I've been invited for a hilsa-and-mutton lunch this coming Friday (I believe there is a Sharjah fish market, that has such good...

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Going on a Date

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
A considerably younger friend of mine went on a date this weekend (she was meeting the young man for the first time). It was a momentous event -- momentous because I'd have never done what she did on Date Eve: go shopping for new clothes and shoes. I tried very hard to remember how I would have ‘reacted' to going on a date when I was her age...

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