As I share with you my little nuggets from my own culture every now and then, I love learning about other cultures just as much. Primarily, the thing that draws me is the parallels that other cultures draws with mine, yet they are distinctly unique. The Monastery at Kushalnagar in Coorg, Karnataka taught me about how Buddhist Monks enjoy their…
Category: Trivia
Weekly Photo Challenge: Entrance
Temple entrances fascinate me a lot, its interesting to see how any culture begins its religious learnings starting from its gate. This is the entrance to the Monastery situated at Kushalnagar in Coorg district in Karnataka. I love the play of warm colors against a cool blue palate in the sky. Too bad I couldn’t do…
May Freedom Be Bestowed
As India steps into its 64th year of independence, there are several issues that stare us in the face, some created by our own, some imported from outside, but mostly all politically centered. However, on this day we enjoy the freedom that came after a struggle of 150 years that the nation spent as a Brit Colony with…
A Bond That Ties
The one thing that I find most interesting across cultures is how we celebrate relationships. Back home in India, every celebration is linked to the solar or lunar calendar and usually follows traditional rituals and norms on how to observe them. And the holy month of Shravan brings with it the start of the Hindu festive season, starting…
Veer Shivaji!
As India gears up for yet another independence day, the air is thick with patriotism. One warrior who demands unwavering respect especially in Maharashtra is Shivaji Raje Bhosle. Fighting the Mughal forces as the leader of the Maratha clan, the young Kshatriya warrior lived a short life that spanned to 50 years but like that…
August Kranti Andolan
The 9th of August marks a very significant chapter in the movement for Indian Independence, with the Civil Disobedience, or “Quit India” (Bharat Chodo or August Kranti Andolan). It was the first time that the common people in India participated in any movement to over throw the British Raaj. Starting in 1942, the movement gained…
200 Posts: We’ve Made It Together!
There is something about milestones that fill us with glee. Be it on the road or in life, it serves as a gentle reminder that we are on the right path and will reach where we set out for. It is also a good time to celebrate, and I believe with all my heart the celebration is the purest form of human emotions.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Colorful 2
OK, by now, you would’ve figured out that I love balloons. In fact, I am a big kid at heart, and I love cartoons just as much. But I love my camera too, and what better way to test my beloved camera by challenging it to recreate vivid hues! I love this shot because it…
The Grand Old Man of India
Dadabhai Naoroji who is fondly called as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader. He died in 1917 at the age of 92 and was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, which was India’s first political party. He was a…
Inviting Him Home
A Gopuram or Gopura, is a structure set in stone and usually brightly painted placed either at the entrance of any temple, or over the deity’s shrine mostly in temples in Southern India or from south Indian origins. Temples in south India are called Koils, and the gopuram structures can be traced back to the…
Snapshots of my World 