Category: festivals
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Happy New Year/Navreh/Nowruz/Ugadi etc etc to everyone 🙂Wonderful how different parts of the world welcome the new season (spring) during the same time of the year 🙂Maharashtrians erect a Gudi (as in the pictures) outside their homes, a symbol of prosperity, growth, one which wards off evil. Funny thing, I was giving sweets to the maid,…
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Happy (belated) diwali to everyone! my diwali rangoli!! My unexpected blogging break happened over this one week, owing to various reasons.Anywho, looking forward to a lot of randomness which has been planned.cheerio!~nightflier
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a 26 year old’s advanced birthday gift to a 30 year old Of course, Aai and KT think, we should give more age appropriate gifts. But then bro insisted and crossword was giving a 20% discount. Who would let go of a bargain on a gift ? 😛Since then weekends, train travels have been scrabble-ed! And…
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I have a few questions here people! The pooja thali for referenceimage – google First how I arrived at them. Today while the rakhi tying ceremony, I remembered a lot of things Aai used to tell me as a kid. Don’t slouch, bend neatly, rotate the supari (areca nut says wiki..how fancy) and gold ring…
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Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous Diwali !! This is my second Diwali away from home, in a string of ‘away-from-home’ Diwali’s, a routine which looks kind of set now. On the first away Diwali, I was in Mysore. Trying hard to catch a glimpse of those festive lights in the markets…