I love this picture. The dancer is Malavikka Sarukkai. Her form is about as perfect as it can get. She performs a style of Indian dance w...

A note about my context: I'm American. My husband is Gujarati, born in Calcutta, living in Chennai for many years. We eat vegetarian...

Union Railways Minister Nitish Kumar wakes an employee sleeping at the Patna junction Railway Station during his visit to see the working ...

I saw Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Thiruda Thiruda (Thief! Thief!) last night on DVD, for about the fifth time. I think it's one of hi...

Well, I didn't win the New Blog Showcase . I came in second, after Rush Limbaughtomy . That's okay. I got some additional traffic...

A zealous Christian, who was trying to convert a Hindu, found himself getting nowhere. "The thing is," argued the frustrated Chri...

I added the moon phases module to my sidebar after I saw it on Resplendant Reflections/Roving Revistas . I wanted it mainly because it...

Ramesh wears khadi (handspun cotton) kurta-pajama at night. Sometimes he comes down to breakfast in it as well, in which case he drapes a ...

In today's Indian Express , a guide to the spiritual descendents of Adi Shankaracharya, founder of advaita Hinduism. The Kanchi Shanka...

I think the stuffed calf is meant to keep one's cow lactating -- the scent of the calf's body speaks directly to the cow's bod...

As part of my entry in the New Blog Showcase , I have to vote for three other contestants (you can still vote for me, if you wish, by linkin...

I finally got a look at the baby water snake which has moved into our small fish pond. Lakshmi called to me excitedly, and I came running o...

July 3 is the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 'Doubting' Thomas. Thomas came to, and is believed to be buried in - yes! right here...

The Klotz/Sirmon Gallery in New York is having a photography show, Jonathan Torgovnik "Bollywood Dreams" . You can see 24 of the...

Is it very silly? Maybe, but I just submitted under the fire star to The Truth Laid Bear's New Blog Showcase . Any blog less than thre...

July 1 was the day of the annual rath yatra in Puri, Orissa. This is the festival of Lord Jagannath, which gave rise to the English word ju...

My poem, Into the Blue , is up at the July issue of Snakeskin , the British poetry webzine. My friend Helena Nelson, a very good poet, ha...

The people at Ecotone: Writing About Place decided to write today about 'How are we defined and shaped by the place where we live?...

From S. Muthiah's Madrascapes column in today's The Hindu : I'VE JUST heard that 200 years of mapping in India, from Cape Comor...

According to The Hindu , "'Ghatam' Suresh teaches intricate rhythms to students across the globe, staying in Chennai." Th...