Katie Revell\’s India Blog

Hello!
 Many, many apologies for the silence from this end; I haven’t been able to get into the blog for the last month or so - reason is still unclear. I’m now in Hyderabad.
We go home tomorrow.
We go home tomorrow..!
 I can’t describe how odd it feels to say that - a kind of distanced feeling, though: [...]

Long time no news. Apparently the Indian government (after heated all-night
discussions) has deemed my blog too damaging to national security interests
and so has blocked it. Actually, this was one of a range of possible
problems set out by the ever-helpful David (Gilmour), but bizarrely is
looking the most likely at the moment…
Considering how quickly time is racing [...]

 I’ve really been enjoying the teaching lately. Most of the lessons have been great - smooth-running, fun and (I hope) useful - and even the less successful ones have been far from disasterous! I guess at this stage in the year I’m just a lot more experienced and have a much better idea of what does and doesn’t work. [...]

Our friend Vikas (one of Subha’s many cousins) got married last night. It was all rather impromptu, with invitiations being emailed around to a select group of family and friends which, flatteringly, included us. Vikas has a slew of interesting qualifications to do with development work and journalism and is currently on an International Rotary [...]

I woke up this morning with ink from the bedsheet imprinted, like a 1980s tattoo transfer, on my arm. Suffice to say, it’s pretty hot in Vijayawada at the moment.
So, our epic Summer travels are now aypoendi, or, for those unfamiliar with the local tongue, finished. In all, we took in eleven states and survived eighteen train journeys (not [...]

This is not a post as such, but rather just a way of getting round the internet madness that has befallen this little cybercafe. We’re supposed to complete something called a “mid-year” report (you’d be right in thinking this is supposed to be done in the middle of the year, but we didn’t get it [...]

For those of you who are enjoying, or preparing to enjoy, a barbeque (is it Summer yet, over yonder?), perhaps you’ll this post will seem especially resonant, or multi-sensory, or something…
We are in Varanasi, one of those cities that the guidebooks describe with adjectives like “bustling” and “grimy” and “colourful”. It is all of those, [...]

There are a few new photos.
And a blog entry on the way, I promise..!

I forgot to mention that we visited that most classic/cliched of Indian symbols while in Delhi, the (can you guess what it is yet?) Taj Mahal. We took a day trip from Delhi to Agra, like proper tourists (I’m still in denial about my own affiliation with the T-word). The - and I shudder to [...]

Having just lost to the darkness of cyberspace the screeds of classic writing I’ve just typed out, forgive me if this entry is a little rubbish.
 So. After months of “I can’t wait to get up North” and “I can’t wait ’til we get to the mountains”, here we are, in the mountains up North. To [...]