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Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:04 PM

Hooray for Gays! Goodbye, Section 377.

After an arduous cross country road trip (actually a really incredible re-introduction to the US; Iowa is actually beautiful), I made it home to San Diego, CA. When I left for college, I wasn't terribly sad to shake the sand from my shoes of this...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:56 PM

From the wrong side of town

Every city has multiple faces. The slums and the residential areas, the ghettos and the huge apartment complexes, the lower middle class housing and the glitzy commercial areas. We all know these faces exist, yet only truly know one face. We live, school...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:39 PM

I ♥ the FRRO.

If you had asked me last month how I feel about the lovely Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), I likely would have had a few choice words not publishable even on a random blog. I despised the place. I thought of it as a bureaucratic wasteland...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:04 AM

Monumental Moments: Delhi in Threes

In this week's Expat show ( Listen now ) we try our hands at the "Lists" that everyone seems to enjoy making at the beginning of a new year. We look at our personal "Top 3" moments in Delhi - the good, the bad and the downright...
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Friday, November 21, 2008 3:32 PM

Hindi for Delhi

"Do you know any Hindi?" my friend asked me when I announced that I had got a job in Delhi and intended taking it. "No" I replied breezily, "but if I can survive Chennai without knowing any Tamil"... I walked away from that...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:26 PM

Food for thought

Anyone will tell you that it is difference that excites the expat. (not always in a good way, but still). The whole look and feel of a new city with all its differences really do make you realize that you're SOMEWHERE ELSE and the whole world really...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:07 PM

Settling in Delhi: 1

This show talks you through finding a house through brokers and on the Internet, how to negotiate house leases and most importantly how to deal with landlords! Mel, Mitra and Aruna (who are now veteran expats) share some of their experiences in looking...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:18 PM

I am Expat

Delhi can be intimidating to the uninitiated. It's large, it's busy, it's crowded, it's noisy... and the sheer variety can overwhelm you. And all the more so if you happen to have just moved in from another country. The questions seem...
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