soulchaser

"What do I think of India?"
"From within, the industrial and economic drive is despoiling the landscape with it's affection for consumerism, and from without, foreign enemies threaten the cultural values. Commercialism, driven by the greed of our richest industries (and ourselves) is knocking on the door. Like a poison gas it is slowly creeping into the country..." Read More

(Be sure to read the comments to this post - they're very good!)

And why I've come to love it here:

"The River of Life"
"...never will you know how many times the sharpened edge of a sepulchral scythe has come within a hair’s breadth of your enlivened soul in just one hour on the streets of Delhi!" Read More

"The Beggars of Delhi's Main Bazaar"

"Ajay has no muscles in his legs. He moves, crablike, by grabbing the balls of his feet with his seemingly huge hands, muscled by their continuous labour, and using his arms to lift and move them....." Read More

 
"Balaji Bhavan - a review"

"It isn't worth writing a bad review of Balaji Bhavan hotel in Dwarka. You wouldn't be able to stay there even if you wanted to. And you would want to, until you've finished reading this that is....." Read More

"Run to the Hills - A Guide to Matheran"

"In 19th Century India the life expectancy of an Englishman was just 38 years, such was the havoc reeked upon the colonialists’ bodies by tropical disease. No wonder, then, that the British took to the hills....." Read More

"The Skies and the Streets of Dwarka - Part 1 "

"Mark Twain said of Indians that 'with them all life appears to be sacred except human life'. Walking along the riverside in Dwarka it occurred to me that dog life should perhaps be added to his statement......" Read More

"The Streets and the Skies of Dwarka - Part 2"

"...They are the gaps, the unconquered, uncolonised and hitherto protected wild places of the civilised town. They are the downs, glens, vales and valleys to nature’s hills and mountains, and in these recesses the babbling brooks and raging torrents gather and shape the landscape with their deposits of gold and withdrawals of trinkets, food and tchai...." Read More