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India Travel Advice Part 2

India Travel Advice Part 2

Following on from my last post providing India travel advice for women, I thought it would be worthwhile to provide a few more tips that I’ve found handy while travelling across India. These ones are relevant regardless of gender: Eating

Rakhee Ghelani October 3, 2014 Health, India, Pollution, Uncategorized, Women 5 Comments Read more

Expats Behaving Badly

Expats Behaving Badly

Something happened this week that made me so mad I felt compelled to write about it. Of all the things that annoy me about living in India, the thing that makes me most upset is when I see someone with

Rakhee Ghelani April 28, 2014 expat, India, Poverty 16 Comments Read more

Happy Anniversary to Me : 2 Years Living in Bombay

Happy Anniversary to Me : 2 Years Living in Bombay

This week I celebrated two years of living in Bombay. To be honest, I never really believed that I would stay here that long, but now Bombay does feel like home. I have close friends here, established networks and am

Rakhee Ghelani March 24, 2014 expat, Food, India, Mumbai, Uncategorized 10 Comments Read more

Slum Tourism: Dharavi

Slum tourism drums up all sorts of bad connotations. For this reason I avoided doing the tour of Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai for a long time. Finally, after a little convincing by a friend I decided to see

Rakhee Ghelani February 1, 2014 India, Pollution, Poverty No Comments Read more

Bollywood: Where Heroes Can Be Villains

There is an interesting thing I have observed in Indian culture, if someone is admired, lauded or dare I say worshipped, for some reason they seem to be above the law. They can do as much wrong as they want,

Rakhee Ghelani June 26, 2013 australia, Culture, India, Movies, Travel 11 Comments Read more

Superpower for Some: Infant Mortality and Maternal Health

Superpower for Some: Infant Mortality and Maternal Health

India doesn’t seem to be a lucky country if you are a newborn child or woman who has survived into adulthood.  I have written before about the treatment of women in India here and here  and it is not an issue

Rakhee Ghelani May 10, 2013 Culture, Education, Health, India, Medicine, Poverty 9 Comments Read more

The Magic of Rural Rajasthan: Homestay Experience

The Magic of Rural Rajasthan: Homestay Experience

When I was invited to visit a homestay in rural Rajasthan I just could not say yes quick enough.  It had been almost a year since I was last in Rajasthan and since my visit to Kutch, I had found

Rakhee Ghelani March 19, 2013 Art, Culture, Divinity, India, Poverty, Travel, Uncategorized, Women 4 Comments Read more

Theft on Indian Railways

Theft on Indian Railways

Yes, as you can tell by the title, theft on Indian Railways really does happen unfortunately.  I travelled Indian Railways through most of my backpacking journeys across India, and in 9 months never had anything stolen nor felt unsafe.  That

Rakhee Ghelani March 11, 2013 India, Travel, Uncategorized, Violence 21 Comments Read more

Keeping the Poor Down: India’s Growth Strategy

I really struggle with seeing the poverty in India, and I have posted before about my struggles with poverty, charity, apathy towards the poor and my observations of some of the middle class. I have come to the conclusion that

Rakhee Ghelani February 19, 2013 India, Poverty, Uncategorized 16 Comments Read more

Will India ever be a "real" super-power?

When you live in India, it is almost impossible to go a single day without reading something about corruption.  Bribes, kick-backs and ‘gratuities’ are a daily part of living here. My first official experience of this was when I was

Rakhee Ghelani September 23, 2012 India, Poverty, Uncategorized 19 Comments Read more
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