The General Elections are about to take place later this month in India. In a country of 1.1bn people where there are over a dozen official languages and large swaths of the rural areas have very low literacy rates, it’s incredible that elections manage to take place at all. You could easily compare India to Europe. Imagine if all the countries of Europe, with their different customs, culture...

Living in India, I have cable TV which has blessed me with 10 sports channels, at least one of which will be showing live action football on Saturday or Sunday. This means I’m able to watch the Premiership matches which you guys in the UK can’t, such as the 3pm Saturday matches. It also gives me 3 English movie channels, so when there’s no football, there’s likely to be at least...

There is no real point to this post, just general / random musings Being quite an independent minded kind of person, when it comes to making money, I always like to be in control of how much I earn. This can be very good, but if you are relying on your own efforts and you become lazy, you can fall flat on your face, err, as I found out…oops! This is why I currently like the concept of having...

A friend of mine posted this picture on Facebook, so I stole it off him. Look at the picture…does it make you even a tinsey winsey little bit jealous?? Honestly, I really can’t say that I miss British weather, not even a teeny tiny little bit. Does it stem from being a guy and liking things to be the same and not change? I don’t know, but waking up in the morning and know that the...

When I came to India in the first quarter of 2008, the economy was still pretty much in full swing as I set about building my team of superstars. As I interviewed candidate after candidate a few things started to irk me, such as their belief that by changing jobs it could net them a 100% to 300% pay rise. There seemed to be a belief that pay was related to experience, not expertise. When an SEO analyst...

I thought I’d better write this as a little public service announcement for any Foreigners who are living and working in India for more than 6 months. As you are aware, you have to register with the FRRO in your city. This is fine (albeit, ensure you have an office boy on hand to run back to the office to fetch the papers that were not mentioned in the original checklist). What they don’t...

I’m sat in the immigration office in chennai and writing this post, waiting for the office boy to deliver some paper work to me, It’s good to see the wheels of indian bureaucracy are still rusted together. An indian friend once told me that 80% of taxes in india go on paying for govt staff and govt pensions. If you visit any indian govt office, you can well believe it. The confusion...