What’s your favourite part of a festival? The sweets? The gifts? The lights? What else? Where’s the crazy fun part? Like when you fill balloons with coloured water and throw it at random people on Holi. Or dress up as Catwoman on Halloween? Here are some other wild and wacky festivals around the globe that(…)
I have always found dinner disasters very amusing. The ones in which somebody spills chicken gravy on the white dress of the pretty lady sitting next to them. Or when someone struggles to slice the beef with their fork and knife which, by the way is ridiculously blunt, only to have it fly sharply over(…)
Sabadell, Catalonia’s second biggest town, does not come in the news very often. Just twenty kilometers from Barcelona, Catalonia’s capital and biggest city, it is the quintessential step daughter that was never treated at par. Neither does it have Barca’s glitz, nor glamour, nor its touristy appeal. It certainly does not have Lionel Messi. Why,(…)
Disclaimer: For, one day, we shall have kids, and this is how they shall learn history. The Viking Fire Festival? Well, let us first gather some perspective, eh? There is a lot of noise in this world, kids. Some countries wanting oil, some countries not wanting to give oil; some countries wanting more lands, others(…)
After a stony cold winter, February marks the beginning of Spring, as good a time as any to take off and experience some good ol’ culture. We’ve compiled a list of the best fests this February guaranteed to awaken all your senses. Carnivals Galore King Momo has declared the games open! It Mardi Gras, get(…)
It’s raining cats and dogs in Delhi, people. The rain gods really seem to have descended upon us, unlike the rest of their brethren who are supposedly in Allahabad right now for the Allahabad Maha Kumbh Mela, what is billed as the largest and greatest religious gathering on the planet. Astonishingly, the 2013 festival is(…)
So the most you’ve read is the first ten pages of The Secret Seven, a gift on your ninth birthday. And now your most recent love interest, possibly the love of your life, is dragging you to the Jaipur Literature Festival. And you’re thinking, “But Om Book Shop is just down the road”. Well, it’s(…)
How’s your calendar looking this January? We’ve compiled a list of the most happening places to be at this January; rub shoulders with William Dalrymple, go on pilgrimage to (shopping) Mecca, watch a camel beauty pageant (unlike most other beauty pageants, they are looking for ‘least ugly’ rather than ‘most beautiful’!) It’s a new year(…)
1) Punjab So, you are sitting in Punjab and decided that Christmas was the festival you love, more than that dirty, wet holi and that noisy Diwali. And to commemorate the same, you decide to dress up as Santa, and go about wearing that red suit, fake white beard, with a sack on your back, (…)
After every night, comes a new day. After every storm, there is light. And just maybe that’s why the Dussehra comes right after the stormy monsoon season – the celebration of Durga’s victory over Mahishasur, Ram’s over Ravan, good over evil. As a child, I used to love Dussehra simply because father would buy toy(…)
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