The \’Not Bad\’ Tale Of My Driving Instructor

If I were to promise you a world hitherto unseen, unheard and unfelt by a mere shift in seating position, kind of like the blog version of a red and blue pill, would you believe? Surely, the sights and sounds of this mundane reality are unfazed by angles – my pet monkey (if I hadContinue reading “The \’Not Bad\’ Tale Of My Driving Instructor”

Master of all Nations, Citizen of None: The Life of a Gulf NRI

Fa\’ar al qarya wa fa\’ar al madinah The city mouse and the village mouse.  These were the first words of Arabic I studied, back in April of 2005 where this story begins. It begins then because that was when I moved to Dubai, from the serene city of Muscat, Oman. Along with the numerous difficultiesContinue reading “Master of all Nations, Citizen of None: The Life of a Gulf NRI”