Mumbai

Holi was on the whole playful and high spirited, and people respected my total lack of interest in being covered in staining coloured powder again this year. Oh Mumbai you were doing so well until the moment I saw a man hit his wife in the street and she fell down with a slight roll which protected her head. You just had to keep the domestic violence under wraps for 14 hours, while the other westerners go and look at slums as if India's national treasure.