jaanapada jaatre photos
There was a folk dance festival in Bangalore and though I missed the event, I’m glad I didn’t miss these brilliant photos by Prashanth Reddy (thanks to Veena for this link! 🙂 )
There was a folk dance festival in Bangalore and though I missed the event, I’m glad I didn’t miss these brilliant photos by Prashanth Reddy (thanks to Veena for this link! 🙂 )
Thanks to fellow blogger Usha who shared this link: The explanation is in Kannada, and apart from some other details, the explanation of the lyrics part is really beautiful. [For non-Kannada folks, I’d typed in a word by word English translation of the song in a learn kannada group long ago, will try to see…
I’ve been lucky to have lived at several places around the world, but have always felt there was something special about India – could never really pin point out exactly what. Maybe I’ll never figure out the exact answer why, but currently I feel that ultimately it comes down to the ordinary average people I…
The campus at Kohlapur was wonderful – a serene place near a village called Alate, surrounded by green hills. There were peacocks roaming all around the place.
This was a pretty interesting explanation of their strange flight patterns…
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Though I’ve somehow gone off track in writing, this is a long pending post. This is about a drawing that a reader mailed me – yes an actual tangible drawing on paper and not a digital version – how cool is that! She said she was inspired by smile cards idea and definitely makes me…