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  • Trance and the Other Shore

    Trance and the Other Shore

    “At the equinox, we stand in trance between gratitude and release, honoring ancestors, balancing opposites, and crossing gently toward the other shore of renewal.”

  • Canara Chronicles — Rice, Revelry and Aunty Sass

    Canara Chronicles — Rice, Revelry and Aunty Sass

    MonteFest Of the Canara Christians. As Aunt Silvi leaned back in her old wooden chair, surrounded by a fragrant waft of coconut oil and incense, she raised an eyebrow at her nieces, Doris and Dahlia, who had come home for Montefest. “Ah, Montefest! You two city girls must have forgotten all about it, no? Too…

  • Traditionally Yours

    Traditionally Yours

    “It is a family tradition” Radhika looked up, every damn thing here seemed to be tradition, which end you eat the mango from to who dices the melon. It was rather irritating.  But guess that was what traditions are all about, the Deshpande family has been thinking, behaving and doing things this particular way, considering…