by Devjani Bodepudi | May 7, 2016 | Travel, Uncategorized
There are times when it’s important to step forward into simpler times. We’ve taken a break from the daily grind before we head back into the throes of it. We’ve been in Hyderabad for over a month now, with a week’s break in between on a tropical island. Time stops...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Apr 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our last day in Calcutta coincided with the Vivekananda Road Flyover disaster. The bridge collapsed and crushed over 20 people, injuring many more. Two days after the event, people are still trapped under rubble. Friends are marking each other and themselves as safe...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since that Misty Morning, not much has happened really. The world of pets in Kolkata is a quiet one. Dogs must be kept on a leash and we must walk them away from civilization. At least for the most part. With regards to the rest of my life, well I seem to be edging...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was depressingly grey all day today, in Hyderabad, with a persistent rain that fell on and off with varying degrees of intensity throughout the daylight hours. At first I was joyful, almost jubilant, donning my long lost cardigan that I had left behind on my first...
by Devjani Bodepudi | May 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality....