Archive for January, 2006
The Problem of Helping People
An interesting point was made today by the UNDP driver, on the way back from a meeting. Having worked here for a long time, and taken much of the staff around the country on missions, he knows quite a bit about development work.
There is a drought in Kenya, and the UN and other agencies are [...]
Up God’s Mountain - Climbing Mt. Kenya
Climbing Mt. Kenya’s third highest peak, at 4,980m, is worth every rasping breath and painful step needed to get there and back.
I traveled with four other people - randomly brought together by the Mountain Club of Kenya. We took the Naro Moru route going up and Chogoria coming down, with three of us carrying our [...]
Mountain Madness - Mt. Kenya beckons
Tomorrow, I leave to conquer Mt. Kenya - the 2nd highest mountain in Africa. It has been a trip planned by the seat of my pants, and purely by coincidence. I was headed to the coast this weekend, to meet some friends already there. But I’ve always preferred the mountains, and Mt. Kenya has been [...]
The Nomads Life: A Long Road to Nowhere
Bidisha, of blogspot fame wrote to me recently:
Sometimes, I envy Kaushik. He has seen so much more than me, and somehow seeing places coming up is more interesting to me, than seeing dead civilizations that are content to be the way they are…even Germany seems dead after India
This past thanksgiving, I gave thanks [...]
An intern’s job search in the field.
A friend asked how my work experience at the UNDP had been, particularly with regard to getting into the connected network. Having spent approximately the last 6 months working as an intern - first at the International Trade Centre in Geneva and now the UNDP in Kenya, I have come up with my own simplified [...]
Happy New Year!
Thursday is usually a packed latin night at Pavement. Gypsy, another popular expat bar, has no walking space on Friday and Saturday. This past weekend there was a decent crowd. The roads around Sarit Centre were packed Saturday morning with last minute shoppers and holiday makers. Getting into Village Market on Friday involved tackling a [...]
