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The Indian Wedding, or Shaadi as its called in Hindi, is a feast-to-all-the-senses kind of an experience, delightful and fun filled, unless of course, you are the one getting married. Well, we are not going to talk about the aftermath just yet.
For now, here is a picture essay of a wedding I attended in Spain this summer. This visual experience would not be complete, without somehow including in your head, the sounds of the jingle of the bangles, the music of the folk dances, the DJ playing it up for us on Bollywood dance floor, the shrieks, the murmurs, the laughs and the sobs, the sounds of kids crashing into the tassels of the bead curtains and the plenitude of well wishes, the chants and the hums.
Enjoy!
The Indian American Life
Momentous: A Poem On The Value Of Time
- It's not the lack of money that makes me cry like my heart is about to burst.You want to know what it is? It's something you have or don't more than I do, because there's no straight finish line here.It ticks away silently mocking our indignant ways...
Want to Transcend the Plight of Life? Meditate.
- Why this guide: (Long claim.) It has no hyperbole or BS.Things you will need: Just your phone. BUT, out of reach on a 20 minute timer. Nothing else, not even a Sanskrit prayer or an orange robe. - What is meditation: The action of inaction Nothing but...
India 2016: My Village’s Point of view
- Shot on iPhone * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - 0 - Travel Around The World
Perceiving My Anthropology
- I don't know what moves him.I remember the day he came back home tohide his red eyes behind that newspaperafter he lit his mother's pyre.This is the man, the brunt of all my emotions,whose lifetime fits in this poem. It's mostly the appalling nature of...
The How and The What Of Eating Animals
- "As in any kind of factory, uniformity is essential. Piglets that don't grow fast enough - the runts - are a drain on resources. Picked up by their hind legs, they are swung and then bashed head first onto the concrete floor. This common practice is called...
Who On Earth Are You?
- This is an invite I drafted for an upcoming employee resource group ice-cream social. The event aims at promoting diversity discussions among peers, thereby enhancing our modern global work culture and the strength of our social networks. - Tell...
If Oreos Were Pets
- The ghostwriter for this short story is my 7 year old. According to him, this is how I would write about the lady bug who has come to live with us. - - 0 - Hi, I’m Rachana. Its been my dream for years to do something to consciously...
What’s Wrong Witchuu? – Nov, 2015
- If you were not actively living in 2015, chances are you were writing a memoir. And to understand the over simplified mundaneness of my daily life and to infuse it with some much needed excitement, I read them all - those of the living, some of the...
Stirring the Melting Pot of London
Travel Around The World
An Indian Summer Wedding Circa 2015
- The Indian Wedding, or Shaadi as its called in Hindi, is a feast-to-all-the-senses kind of an experience, delightful and fun filled, unless of course, you are the one getting married. Well, we are not going to talk about the aftermath just yet. For now, here...
Karma Yoga and the Secrets to Inner Transformation
- *** Source: Lessons of Life of Bhakthi (Devotion) from the Ramayana: By Swami Tejomayananda, an Indian spiritual leader and head of Chinmaya Mission. These are my notes on the discourse I attended when he visited Atlanta in July of 2015. - I...
Writer-At-Large – A Krash Kourse on The Kardashians
- Tag line: From the perspective of the Indian-American experience. Below is the quickest way to educate yourself about the most coveted reality family of America. The Kardashian - Jenner family. Bruce Jenner WAS the family patriarch, the dad of some 15 kids....