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  • The Lords of the Road

    The bus slowly stops, the door opens allowing the hot air inside, suddenly one becomes aware of how cool it was within the bus. it also allows a swarm of people who barricade the entrance these the  “auto drivers,” These people are a tourists first exposure to the city. You can be assured that they…

  • Akshaya and Akshata

    Akshata Abundance of nourishment was the focus of the Vedic society this was symbolized by grains of rice. Called the akshata. When sanctified through use in a ritual it became “mantra-akshate” that which was empowered to unlock that particular blessing for you. Literally Akshaya means something which does debilitate. So Akshaya Trithya commemorates that potential…

  • Sultan Batteri

    Sultan Batteri

    At Boloor Mangalore stands on the mouth of the river, it overlooks the confluence of the Gurupura River with the sea. The monument was built by Tippu Sultan after destroying a large number of churches’s built by the British.  Though a watch tower it was armed, so that the British did not enter into the…

  • The Thirst Quenchers of Hyderabad

    The thirst quenchers.. It is wonderful to see how rituals associated with an event alters with the need of the terrain, then there is further modification with call of time.  One of the simplest joys of life, “water” it does not resist, it flows, when we plunge our hand into it, all that we feel…

  • Adivaram Angadi.

    Adivaram Angadi, , To me it sounded like a Sunday market. Once I entered it reminded me of a very sophisticated   “santé” vendors with their  home-grown ware selling it once a week. Instead of the shoddy sari’s and mundu’s it was a carefully groomed “ethnic chic” in the air. It was to take place at…

  • DesiZaika Raichur adige with udupi oota– Bringing Raichur food to Udupi

    Udupi  the temple town of Karnataka, has lent its name to the hospitality industry by lending its name to  become a cuisine cult “Udupi hotel” most of these that we see today, are the standard cosmopolitan fare that homogenizes various cuisine to create one standard taste. Though the traditional Udupi cuisine if you want the…