India

SHIMLA 2006 December: Friday In the morning I drew back the bedroom curtains. The Shimla valley lay stretched beneath. Parakeets and large black ravens wheeled among the tops of the pine trees at eye level; monkeys squatted and played on […]

2006 November: Sunday Old Delhi was the last leg of the tourist Golden Triangle. After the Amber Palace of Jaipur and the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort of Delhi had its work cut out to impress. However, as both the […]

Having completed the shows in Delhi, the party has gone travelling on the tourist trails of India: 2006 November: Friday Moving eastwards we left the hills of Jaipur behind and travelled across the flat country towards Agra. Along the roadside […]

2006 November: Sunday Next morning I sat in the front garden of Shalendra and Vinod’s home in Gurgaon. Although we still had Malcolm’s talk on GB Shaw and Ann’s talk on Pontius Pilate and Shelley to come over the next […]

2006 November: Wednesday Returning on the overnight train from Varanasi, we were met by Vinod’s husband Shalendra outside Delhi main station. As our trip down the Ganges had been something of an indulgence, I was now keen to find out […]

[So far – the group has temporarily left Delhi on a tourist trip by train to Varanasi on the Ganges.] When I re-awoke at 4am, we were somewhere near Lucknow. The air conditioning vent was right next to me, and […]

INDIA – NOV/DEC, 2006 GURGAON 2006 November: Friday The shows in India were perhaps the best organised, most widely publicised, and most prestigious of all the tours. And, for the only time, I was not alone as a performer – […]