Me freelancer. You…?
At the end of the ‘work year’, or more accurately, at the beginning of the ‘great holiday’, is perhaps is a good time to reflect upon how some things have gone. Not evaluate. Reflect. In this spirit, one experience, which clearly brought to the fore that twenty years in the Netherlands haven’t (yet) eliminated the…
The long toes index
A Dutch intercultural trainer came up with a country-wise scale to measure the tendency to feel offence. He called it ‘the long toes index’. And guess which people, according to him, most easily felt that their toes were being stepped on. Indians. Oversensitive. Easily hurt. Insulted. On the other hand, I do hope he also…
She is highly educated, lives in a city of the Netherlands and wants her son to wear a turban. What to do?
The Netflix mini series Bir Baskadir (see my post She wears a headscarf, watches trashy television and is smart. What to do? ) reveals the divisions in Turkish society. Between rich and poor. Between religious and secular. Between the rights and privileges that men have as opposed to women. Between the highly educated and the…
If something can go wrong it will
Why one’s antennae for sensing ‘if something can go wrong it will’ should be activated in India. Especially if one is an ‘NRI’ …or a non-resident Indian. And if one doesn’t have them and wants to work or live in India, then it might be a good idea to grow them. Like horns.
‘Globalization’ – 2021
As I look through the windshield at forbidden fireworks creating silent fountains against the fast fading light, Peter Frankopan’s clipped British accent provides the soundtrack. A new era is about to begin as 2020 is a few hours away from passing on. In an interview for BBC’s ‘hard talk’ programme, he reveals that while two…