Dubai - Life and Times

As the summer season hits us in theUAE yet again, I am drawn reminiscently back home to the dusty streets of Chennai, in South India....it was a quiet time, the proverbial calm before the storm that was to hurl Chennai into the era of dotcoms and BPO's......drinking lime juice at a little room that passed for a canteen in Chinmaya Vidyalaya, an idyllic time when thatched huts served as classrooms, and teachers could happily thrash children if they misbehaved! Now you can see that my perspective has changed - being a parent does these things to you.....anyway, in Dubai where we heave and sigh with the traffic congestion, the construction overload - all of which we hoped had come to an end with the so-called crash in the real estate......here's a question, "what happened to repatriating expats?" - the place is now more crowded than ever.....