Tag: culture

World Day Of Cultural Diversity 2022

We are identical In the fact that we are different. You are you and I am I individually together lets live this life.

May 21, 2022
International Roma Day

April 8th Romani culture awareness The international Romani culture day is to create an awareness of the Romani culture. Romani’s as Diana Muir Appelbaum describes them are unique for they have never defined themselves with territory, they do not carry with them traditions of an ancient distant homeland from which their ancestors migrated. Nor do…

April 8, 2019
Athiti Dev(il)obhava

Athithi devo bhava… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Bq_eBlYM Really? What about the responsibility of tourists, nobody talks about that, not even the effervescent travel bloggers. Yesterday we went Basilica Bon Jesus at Old Goa, the place was swarming with tourists. The guidelines to tourists are placed all over the Basilica, “Do not photograph people” being the most prominent one.…

May 15, 2017
Hindi Diwas

This is the ultimate insult to me as an Indian… I am not Hindi I am a respectable south Indian who can speak all the five southern languages, in addition to HINDI for this day is a declaration that my language and my people are still under threat. Of course I find the label Indian…

September 13, 2015
country roads take me home

This was the days when I was a junior doctor at SDME Dharwad, We had a student from the Mundgod Tibetan settlement. A soft-spoken well-behaved girl. But she did the forbidden that is she fell in love with an Indian boy. I met her couple of years later; she was no more the exuberant girl…

July 14, 2011