By Piyushi Dhir
When I landed in Ivory Coast a year ago, I was rather delighted with the weather. The notorious African sun was nowhere to be seen, and despite being situated so close to the equator, it was far from hot. Days were cloudy and one could comfortably sit without a fan or air conditioner during the […]
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Mumbai from the Eyes of a Delhite: Part 4[This is the fourth in a series of blogs about Mumbai]As our honeymoon period at Trident began approaching its end, we launched into a desperate hunt for roofs over our heads. While all my fellow colleagues paired up in twos and threes to share the joys of […]
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Mumbai from the Eyes of a Delhite: Part 3[This is the third in a series of blogs about Mumbai]In my early days at Mumbai, I learnt that living and navigating in this city was largely about the ‘East’ and the ‘West’. Try asking an Auto wallah if he’ll go to Bandra and pat comes the […]
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Mumbai from the Eyes of a Delhite: Part 2[This is the second in a series of blogs about Mumbai]My first six weeks in Mumbai were spent in the cocooned world of The Trident across my office. In typical corporate style, we were housed in great luxury during the ‘honeymoon period’ of our new jobs, when […]
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Mumbai from the Eyes of a Delhite: Part 1[This is the first in a series of blogs about Mumbai]Despite spending the first two decades of my life hopping from the dense forests of Assam to the cool climes of Wellington, from the deserts of Jodhpur to the quiet locale of Udhampur and even the metropolitan […]
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Africa- a journey of constant new discoveries and rich new experiences. From the very beginning since I arrived in Ivory Coast, I was drawn to the women here. Perhaps, because I could relate to them when everything else was foreign or may be, because they were such a contrast to the stereotypes of women I […]
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Ringside View of Elections in AfricaA Political History Bathed in Blood Five years ago, Cote D’Ivoire conducted a long over-due round of presidential elections. Gbagbo, who was then ruling the country, had conceded to elections after ten long years, but refused to accept the victory of the new candidate, Alassane Outtara. What followed was a […]
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As India celebrates its 69th Independence Day, I am sitting one continent away in a country many people haven’t even heard about: Cote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast. So when I was told that all Indians in Ivory Coast have been invited to the Indian Ambassador’s house on the morning of 15th August, I knew that […]
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