I have asked to make up one of her (pun intended) fantastic stories about these two goats I found in the hAt (weekly market) at Miao...

Here I am, quoted in the Indian Express by Saritha Rai, a journalist whom I respect.

This is for (a) my non-Indian friends, but it’s for (b) my Indian friends too…jalEbis, as (b) and many of (a) know, are sweets, made of flour batter that has been fermented, fried and then dunked into hot sugar syrup. Which of us have not fallen for the jalebis at weddings, hot off the syrup kadAi….?

I was mightily tickled by this one:

In Dibru/Shaikowa, we stayed on the banks of a water body called Magori Beel (beel is lake) which connected to the Magori river. As we went around looking at waterbirds, I saw this horse all the time: