Jen's Pen

I have been wandering around India for a rather long time now. Here's my view...

My Top Indian Movies

Here are my favourites from two decades of Indian movie watching. In the past two decades, I have watched hundreds of Indian and...

Dear Returning NRI...

A letter by a Western-born OCI to those who decide to make the big move back to India. CONTENTS Are you crazy? - Why are you going back?...

A 'Luxurious' Start to the Day

The glorious early morning routines across India. It happens all across India - I've seen it. But today, it was a group of men bathing on...

Organic Fanatic

Food tastes better in India. Is it because India has the highest number in the world of Organic Farmers? When I lived in my home country,...

Cyclone in Town - Mumbai

My monsoon memories of one windy day in Mumbai. I am a weather-watching junkie. So when there was a cyclone forecast in Mumbai one year I...

“Can I Request a Change?”

Luxury in India - Customisation A highlight of Indian service is the 'tweaking' of individual preferences and requests. I travelled...

The Great Mall of India

Malls in India are different to the West. It was raining in Mumbai, pouring in fact. I had not been exercising consistently due to the...

Wonder Women in Indian Skies

India leads the world of Aviation in one very significant statistic - Women pilots. I like Indian airports. I have been in a lot. The...

The Need for Speed - Indian Railways

India is already a wonderland for this closet trainspotter. With India's first High-Speed Rail project under construction, it's only...

Do you Speak Business? - Lessons from India

My experience in India is that success in business partnerships is about accepting the context and speaking the 'cultural language'....

Mumbai - Then and Now

I first landed on Indian soil in 2000. As the 'New India' emerged, I observed the changes in one of my favourite cities in India, Mumbai....