Monday 9 February 2009

My own private Bosnia


SMS sent on 26th Feb 2009: It’s 22.00 hrs and the ghastly cacophony of new age psycho Kerala-modern, electric-orchestral theme music for “ATTACK ON THE TAJ BOMBAY” booms out below the beautiful bay windows of my five room Rembrandt Suite in the Palace Wing of the Bolgatty Palace Suite on Bolgatty Island in Kochin.

500 Indian architects and interior designers are milling below fighting for ghee at the banks of bains marie as a Biafran display of fireworks threatens to burn the place down. They are all here for the ZONE LEISURE conference for which my lecture POST-ZEN DEPRESSION is billed as SOUTH LEISURE ZONE FOR SPOUSES AND CHILDREN. I think I will deliver my address from the balcony, like a papal homily, and then leave by helicopter.