Dharamsala is nice at this time of year

Canine fanciers,

Looks like MJ Clarke is having a whale of a time on the sub-continent.
First he was caught driving a tuk-tuk around the streets of Bangalore at pace, not like a Ferrari or anything, but still:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6is5PRroo]
In between Bangalore and Ranchi he was posting photographs of himself on Instagram doing normal touristy things with legions of adoring fans in front of historic monuments just to say on Facebook "been there, got the t-shirt!", he dropped by to say hi to a group of poor suffering children, who of course asked him to show them his batting style and he was promptly trapped plumb in front LBW second ball by a 17-year-old girl [shock! horror!], then he was taking selfies in a white kaftan-like arrangement with unknown beautiful European women covered in pigments of all colours during Holi [the free love festival], in what looked like some kind of very well-stocked Hospitality Tent.
And that's only what he's been doing in public.
It's exhausting.
He's having so much fun it may well have gone to his head to the point where he appears to be edging towards...[dramatic pause]...going over to the other side.
Found myself very much taken aback by a headline in The Times of India that read in bold print "Michael Clarke praises a resilient Vira Kojli for Ranchi heroics".
Heroics? What heroics?
If you don't believe it, here is yr actual ridgey-dige quote: “I think it’s [shoulder injury] actually a lot worse than people know or that Virat is leading on,” Clarke said. “I think he’s trying to do everything he can to get out onto the park because he knows how important it is as captain to lead from the front. He certainly deserves credit for doing that.”
A Medicine Man and Mind Reader.
Always good to have on the business card.
The sun must have got to him; mad dogs and Englishmen and all that.
Going on to read the editorial, it claimed, "It is welcome to see someone from the Australian camp, albeit a former cricketer, praising Kohli for his efforts at Ranchi."
Which suggests Pup just might be in the pay of someone or another, on drugs, or is about to go stark raving bonkers.
Leaving that aside, at 1-1, after a memorable, fighting rearguard action to draw in Ranchi, Straya just needs to make damned sure they don't get rolled in the series decider.
God only knows what kind of pitch they will serve up after rolling out three dead-set shockers in a row, so let's just hope there's some divine intervention as the Dalai Lama lives up the road, and if he's at home and not busy, he's sure to drop in at the ground for a day [which he did during an IPL match].
The Dalai is a massive sports fan, although footy is more his go, he's been to the G and has a complete collection of AFL jerseys given to him on his many visists Down Under in a bid to get him to barrack for the right side.
Back in the Raj, they used to say that Dharamsala is nice at this time of year, a top picnic spot and it should remind all Strayans of being back home among the verdant fields and rolling hills of Old England, and one can still get a decent gin'n'tonic there, just like in the Heart of The Empire.