A break from work is always a pleasure. Especially it adds more joy if the vacation is planned for a stay in rural villages, that too during Sankranti (Festival of Harvesting) aka Pongal. Yes, it is a fantastic get away during this season. I spent whole of the last week in my native place. This […]
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Significance of Tulsi Festival
Confused about why people are burning crackers today even though Diwali was celebrated sometime back? Some of you might think that cricket fanatics are celebrating India’s victory over Australia in Border Gavaskar Test series as India is a country where Cricket is a religion! Well, the actual reason is here. In Karnataka as well as […]
Happy Ugadi
I wish you all a very happy UgAdi. If anyone doesn’t know what UgAdi festival is all about, here is a small excerpt on the same: [extracted from Wikipedia] Ugadi (Telugu: ఉగాది, Kannada: ಯುಗಾದಿ – from ಯುಗ yuga, era + ಆದಿ ādi, beginning; the start of an era) is the new year’s day for the […]