first-person entries from Delhi —
Miranda's Delhi Diary
An Irish woman learning Hindi in Delhi, one catastrophic conversation at a time. New entries every other week.
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An Auto, A Cow, and the Word "Kitna"
I arrived at the airport knowing four Hindi words. Forty-five minutes later I was haggling with a man about a metal box with no doors, and a cow had right-of-way on a motorway. Welcome to Delhi.
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The Four Words I Knew
Twenty-three hours, three flights, and one dodgy samosa later, I landed in Delhi with exactly four Hindi words to my name. Turns out I only needed two of them.