We're going on vacation. Whee! Mohini, by Raja Ravi Varma, 1895

(Via tiffinbox ) Southern Exposure : Highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world. Terrific photographs from the Subcont...

Here are three poems from A. K. Ramanujan's Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar . Nammalvar (approx. AD 880-930) was...

We had coffee on the balcony. Wicker chairs, a wicker table, potted plants. The balcony wall is solid and high. Above our heads were palm...

Metafilter has a link to Walrus , a new Canadian magazine. I found there an article, Lingua Franchise , about the way Asian languages are ...

Digital technology displacing signboard artists   Hoarding painters mourn the loss of their livelihood with vinyl signs gaining popu...

Meenakshi I am a green goddess. My name means Fish-eye: like a fish-mother, whose eyes never close, I'm always watching over ...

L: T found an old silver hammer, and he put it over his shoulder like an axe and said he was Parasuram , and walked up and down the house l...

I took this picture, from the side of a truck, because it illustrates the way Hindu gods are so proximate, so intimately known, that you c...

Aniket Prakash Jadhan, 9, shows a painted hand of approval after making his mark on a mural by JJSchool of Arts students at the banya...

(via Mirabilis ) 12 days of Kitschmass - "for the best bad taste religious gifts." Don't miss the Mother Teresa With Child ...

Dublog is back. Here's one from there, with good photographs of Bombay, and an entertaining text: Bombay Bazaar Photography and ...

No Woman, No Bride What happens to society if women become extinct? This is the subject of "Matrubhoomi". GOWRI RAMNARAYAN talks...

I'm a memsahib now. But when I lived in Washington, D.C., I tuned in every Sunday morning to a radio program called Stained Glass Blue...

There are more than a billion people in India. (There are more than four million people in Chennai, of whom more than one million live in s...

Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England (via Special Places ) tells the stories of the people who migrated to England from all over...

(An AP article, published in The Hindu , but not available on its website) Kolkata - Just about every night, when the workday ends and thi...

Vaishnavite Temples in Tamil Nadu Saivite Temples in Tamil Nadu Preserving Place - the Ecotone group blogging topic for December 1....

I went outside to inspect the garden. It's the most pleasant time of year, which means that the temperature varies between 70 to 87 deg...

Waiting like a morning-garden spider spinning daydreams, hoping for a dragonfly, fearing something hardly fit to eat. Waiting to be an...