By nandan on January 27, 2009
Okay, so today I am going to celebrate The Rabbit Hole Day by writing a post about a matter which I have not used ever. I did not know about this festival. Lane wrote me a mail today explaining about this festival and I thought that I should also celebrate it. I chosen the monkeys of Mathura [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged monkeys in mathura, monkeys varanasi
By nandan on January 26, 2009
This is a big question in India- How much is your salary? Since the India has started developing, people have changed the way they used to talk. About twenty years ago, the first question after meeting someone was- What your parents do? But today the first question is what do you do and then what [...]
Posted in Corruption | Tagged bribe in India, corruption in government offices, india, Varanasi
By nandan on January 21, 2009
Neetu is a sixteen years old girl who lives with one of my relatives in Mau district. She was threw out in the garbage right after she came on our planet. Her parents had threw her in the garbage near Mau railway station. She was in the garbage and just kept weeping and weeping. A [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged male dominant Indian society, women in India, women rights india
By bluerasberry on January 18, 2009
This video is a award winning video on India TV news channel. I sent this video to India TV news channel and it was selected as the best video of the day and I won a color TV. Even though I had to pay twenty-five percent tax and had to make phone calls worth almost [...]
Posted in Varanasi | Tagged ganga varanasi, pollution in ganga, sewage in ganga
By nandan on January 16, 2009
It was kite festival on the 14th and 15th which I like a lot. I used to fly kites for at least four-five months a year but stopped doing it about six-seven years ago. Now I fly kites only on this festival. This festival is called Khichadi. Khichadi is a dish also and everybody cooks Khichadi [...]
Posted in Varanasi | Tagged kite festival
By nandan on January 14, 2009
A student named Allen Roda from University of New York came to my guest house on the 12th. He is doing research on Tabla making which sounds like nobody has done before. He is going to write about everything about tabla making e.i. where does the skin come from, who makes them, where does the [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged ethnomusicology research, family stay varanasi, music classes varanasi, tabla classes varanasi, tabla research varanasi
By nandan on January 7, 2009
There is a Muslim’s festival tomorrow called Muharram . Right before a night of this festival Muslims do a parade in the night starting from different mosques in the city where most of the male Muslims run on the road and beat their chest. By beating their chest they show their sadness. They say that [...]
Posted in politics, Varanasi | Tagged Bakreed, Hindu gods, Hinduism, Varanasi
By nandan on January 3, 2009
It is the first time when I am hosting a family. They are a couple with two kids. Nadia is doing masters with Hindi Literature and Sanskrit from University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her husband is an engineer. They say that it is their family vacation. Nadia goes to a Hindi teacher named Mr. Vimal Mehra. Mr. [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged family stay varanasi, guest house varanasi, Hindi classes varanasi, hindi lessons varanasi, home stay