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• Your Stories: Accidental Sign-Up!

  Gorgeous Victoria (Aobeamber), from Ukraine, was pressurised to find a husband. One accidental sign-up later, she found one! Her love story shows that... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Your Stories: Indi-Italian

  With some of the most hypnotising blue eyes I have ever seen, Jessica from Italy was born with wanderlust! This powerful story is about believing in love... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Nameless Puppy

  This morning, we woke up early. I had made some tea and opened our curtains and windows to let the new day in. The usual sound of Nagpur’s traffic horns and... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Your Stories: Life As I Know It

  Gorgeous Sarah is 29 years old and lives in Canberra, Australia. We started speaking a couple of weeks ago, during our first conversation I hadn’t laughed that... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Your Stories: From Germany, With Love

  Beautiful Carolin is 23 years-old and lives in Germany, her story is very close to my heart. Reading how she met her husband brought back so many... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Your Stories: Switzerland Meets India

  Larissa is a sweetheart, we met through Instagram and I just fell in love with her and her story. She made a brave decision and has now moved to Delhi for five... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Your Stories: My Hindi Heart

  I first spoke to Crystal after she sent me a message, telling me that she was moving to India from America! We started speaking regularly, became good friends... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• How To Get Dark & Long Lasting Mehendi (Henna)

  This festival season, I had some beautiful mehendi (otherwise known as henna) applied to my arms and legs. What a treat! I really didn’t like (hated)... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Ganesh Visarjan: Lord Ganesh Goes Home

  As the sun started to set, it was time for our clay Lord Ganesh idol to be immersed and I really did not want him to go. After ten days of adoration and worship... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Mahalakshmi Pooja

  The morning after establishing Mahalakshmi and her children in our home, the panditji (priest) came to lead the ceremony to invoke the spirit of the Goddess int... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Hartalika: Honouring the Green and Golden Goddess

  I never imagined I would be making phallus’ out of sand with my grandmother and mother-in-law, but that’s what we did this morning during our two hour... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• The Blind School & Dahi Handi

  Yesterday I started volunteering with Saksham Seva. I will be creating English audio books for the blind in India, being the voice, editing them and adding soun... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Lakshmi’s New Head

  The Mahalaxmi, otherwise known as Goddess Lakshmi, festival is a festival the within Ganesh Chathurthi festival (the ten day celebration of elephant headed God’... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• The Jungle Book: Our Tiger Safari

  

  When my family were in India, we drove to the nearby Pench National Reserve (Nagpur) hoping we would be lucky enough to spot some wild tigers. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• How to Make Your Own Sindoor (kumkum)

  

  I wear sindoor everyday, I love it, but lately I have started to have concerns. What is in that scarlet power I wear on my head everyday? Well, it could be... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Times of India (Times L!FE)

  

  A few weeks ago, TOI contacted me and asked me to write an article for their Sunday lifestyle supplement (Times L!FE). How exciting! Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Pugs Love Sarees

  

  Several failed attempts, a few safety-pin injuries and a couple of swear words later, I can now successfully drape my own saree (this weekend we attended an... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Power Cut Diaries

  

  Load shedding, rolling blackouts, planned power cuts… what ever you wish to call them, they are inconvenient and in the heat, distressing. They happen here on... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Cute Babies of India

  

  Babies of every species are overwhelmingly cute, even those ‘ugly’ ducklings. I have seen so many babies during my first six months living in India and here... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT

• Paithani: My Bridal Saree

  

  Paithani sarees are known around the world as poems of hand-woven silk, using very fine silk they are known as one of the richest sarees in Maharashtra. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT