Meeting The Masters

  The reminiscences of my time in India in the 1980s are a sidetrack from the main theme of the blog but some of their contents do occasiona...

During our time in Whitefield Michael, who was a great animal lover, bought a strange looking creature in the Bangalore bazaar. Obviously so...

When we realised that we would not be able to buy a property in India we had to reassess our situation. While living at the Shilton Hotel we...

 After a few weeks in Bombay (see previous Indian Story posts), we took the train to Bangalore which we intended to use as a base from which...

The second place I visited while in Bombay waiting to go further south was the Kanheri Caves which are rock-cut caves about 25 miles from th...

 In 1979 I spent a month in India visiting the north of the country, going to Calcutta, Darjeeling, Varanasi, Delhi, Agra and Srinagar. I wr...