Daily Gratitude

Balloons over Cappadoccia, Gratitude

What are you grateful for today ? Am deeply thankful for the house help that I have and that I had in the past

New age feudalism

The India government in a rather unpopular move abolished the privy purse in 1971. Basically it was free money being given to the erstwhile royal families who agreed to merge with the Indian Union in 1947. Then there was the Zamindari system which was also about land owners (aristocrats) and land users (commoners). There were … Read more