Close to a billion people of Indian origin around the globe were praying – among other things, for “Lakshmi” (wealth) and prosperity – over the past week leading up to the big celebration of Diwali. It is not unusual for religious beliefs and populist rituals to dominate personal and public behaviour on such occasions and …
Homing in
Homing pigeons must provide a cue to us immigrants. These birds have an innate ability to find their way back home over long distances. Or, perhaps just like salmon – that, having migrated to the ocean, travel back to the riverbed where they were spawned – we immigrants retain a latent urge (in Hindi we …
Photographic memory
There was a time when shopping for a product we would “Let our fingers do the walking”, as popularized in this famous British Telecom advertisement for Yellow Pages from the 1980s. The process of searching for a product, the visits to different retailers for inspecting the quality of goods before selecting and eventually buying an …
Indian Summer
Earlier this week there were a few days when it felt like we had gone back to summer. In fact, as we stepped out into a balmy 30+ degrees C evening at the conclusion of our yoga class our instructor (who is from India) quipped, “My Italian neighbor told me today that we are experiencing …
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