Here’s wishing all our Keralite friends a very happy Onam! May this, the harvest festival, herald a harvest of fortune and felicity in your lives.
Desi friends and relatives who have lived abroad for many years tell me that Indian festivals used to be rather difficult to celebrate outside India. Barring a few major north Indian festivals (Navrathri, […]
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Tags: celebration, festival, harvest, Kerala, Keralite, Mallu, NRI, Onam
One of the most popular desi tracks on the UK charts features none of the scantily-clad dancers, exotic locales or quaint videos that have become de rigueur in music these days. Instead, this unlikely hit features two firemen, some ‘uncles’ and ‘aunties’, an important social message and a wicked hip-hop-meets-bhangra sound. This is […]
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Tags: Apache Indian, bhangra, fire brigade, fireman, Harvey Sahota, London, Music, musician, promo, Punjabi MC, rapper, Stephen-Remell Coleman, Taz
Tomorrow marks the beginning (for most Muslims) of the holy month of Ramadan. Considered sacred by Muslims primarily because it is the month in which the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed, Ramada is also a time of austerity and self-discipline for Muslim people. Fasting from dawn to dusk in Ramadan is […]
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Tags: Arab, fasting, feast, festival, Food, Iftaar, India, London, Montreal, mosque, Mumbai, Pakistani, Paris, Persian, Ramadan, treat