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All this week a thought has been running at the back of my head, the thought has been trying to make its way on to paper but I have been wi...

I was listening to the song " Aa bhi jaa " from Sur, staring out of windows onto the beautiful lake outside our house. The tiny d...

People often talk about some profound moments that changed their life. So far I have never experienced one, but that changed yesterday when...

We all have had our favorite super heroes at one point on another - Batman and Spiderman for the adventurous folks, Krishna and Rama for th...

                                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Vinglish I recently watched English Vinglish and it r...

Over the past few months I have given some though to work life balance, woman at work and as I was hearing this Sheryl Sandberg talk today ...

So it all finally happened and went well . Given how much I had blogged before the wedding, I had to write something after it was finally d...

Going a little off topic , I wanted to add a blog on one of my favorite topics , the science of love . Movies and love stories are all full...

From our young age as Indian girls we have always been fascinated with the red sindoor on a married woman's forehead. Here are some of ...

Venky explains the meaning of marriage  My friend Krish who is a avid telugu movie watcher provided his own twist to my blog , the meanin...

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...