Anna CrichtonNov 30, 20174 min“…but Ma’am, if we drew cartoons we’d get put in jail.”It’s getting cooler, very comfortably – 26 degrees once the sun is up and a very sleepable 12 degrees at night. But it’s also the start...
Anna CrichtonNov 17, 20174 minThere's a Rampur Hound in my bedA most exotic creature, a now rare canine breed who once adorned Maharaja’s lives and palaces is right now sprawled on my unmade bed. The...
Anna CrichtonNov 6, 20174 minGuest is like GodI’ve been invited to lunch by Divanshi, the girl who swam across the Ganges and back. I think I’d prefer to be an ordinary mortal,...
Anna CrichtonOct 29, 20174 min‘I’m going into Publishing’I’m going into publishing, as they say (well once said) – RAGPICKER & CRICHTON LTD: Purveyors of Fine Quality Indian Debris Books – books...
Anna CrichtonOct 20, 20174 min"She swam the Ganges and back" said a proud fatherSounds like bombs are exploding all over – it’s Diwali today, the equivalent of our Xmas where new clothes, sofas and white ware are...
Anna CrichtonOct 16, 20174 minFinding the Magicians…TO NEEDLE THEIR MAGIC. Wake up, more like blown up, from the action of the furious overhead fan, though perhaps a wiser cooling system...
Anna CrichtonOct 11, 20173 minVaranasi (Benares)DOWN TO EXPLORING… AND WORK, AND A FEW CURIOUS OBSERVATIONS Delhi was a trip inside a washing machine full of debris, precious lives...
Anna CrichtonAug 6, 20171 minA small cylinder of ashMy Dad died four months ago today. He’d just had a sip of tea and put his cup down on the hospital side table, and, so I’m told, gasped...
Anna CrichtonAug 1, 20171 minLife on and off the drawing boardA day in the life of Anna Crichton published in the International Design Magazine Threaded