By Tony Hall Kumb. Ardh Kumbh Mela, photo by elishams A general look at a subject which is close to my heart - I got to love the country, its cultures and history, very much, from when I first went there in 1973 for Oxfam, moving around the villages and towns of Western India for many weeks, to report on and help publicise the drought emergency. It was about two years later that I was transferred by Oxfam from East Africa to India. We moved as a family from Nairobi to be based in Delhi, and Eve and I both 'covered' India, reporting on emergency and development needs and projects. . ---------------- . India really is RICH - in peoples, cultures, history. It has exported hard work, skills and brainpower to many parts of the world for ages: shopkeepers and sugarworkers, engineers and intellectuals - and in recent years, a stream of highly educated computer techies to the West. . Chess was invented in India,and so, they say, were numerals ...
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head