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Saptapadi  Saptapadi or Nagavalli is considered to the one of the most important events of the marriage . This is where both the bride an...

http://www.sirishavikram.net/wedding/images/talambralu4_small.jpg Talambralu For most of us talambralu is probably the most fun eve...

Diverging from my marriage research a bit . I met Karin today and she gave me this wonderful saying on Love , which I thought was very apt ...

Earrings Although earrings are not essentially a marriage symbol , most Indian girls get their ears pierced within a year of being born ,...

Toe rings It almost seems like my search on meaning of  rituals has come to an end once Vaishali suggested that I take a look at this blo...

To keep everyone up to date on the items that are there next in my list , here are some of the things people around me suggested i study ab...

Kashi Yatra Based on the traditional hindu system , a person's life is divided into four ashramas. A person spends his life in each one ...

Arundhati nakshatram There is a ceremony in the south indian marriage where the husband takes the wife and shows her the Arundhati vashishta...

Mangalsutra My first post on hindu marriage customs . All of us follow the wearing of the mangalsutra so sincerely but have we ever wo...

Relationships Recap Before I moved on to talk about the customs in marriage , I thought I should recap a bit and talk about the main influen...

The Traditional Hindu Marriage I was whiling away time and complaining about how I really don't have anything worthwhile to do , that wh...

The century of the self Just finished watching Adam Curtis's documentary about the history of psychoanalysis , public relations , Freud ...

The Gandhian legacy !! Over the past year or so I have been keenly aware of the power that is being vested on the common man all over the ...

Awareness vs Sensitivity Yesterday was one of the days when you sit down for dinner with a bunch of new people and you are thrown into a tot...

Are we doing enough ?? Reading about the recent campaign in India against corruption , the freedom movement in Egypt and the struggles in Li...

Death I am in one of those moods today to write about a not much talked about topic , but of which I often think . Our normal excuse always...

Counting my blessings ... A lot of times in the past 4 years the thought has crossed my mind that I should write a blog about my friends , f...

Spirituality I rarely venture to try to write on this subject , mostly I think because of my lack of definition to what that word completely...

A plum's story Got up in the morning to this lovely article "A plum once said, 'just because a banana lover came by, I converte...

Beauty in details Was reading an article yesterday when I came upon this wonderful concept " Look at everything as if you are looking a...