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Although the wedding was over, the trip to Bhubhaneshwar wasn’t and everyone was looking forward to Orissa darshan. Like other Indian states, Orissa has a rich history dating back to the BC era and famously to [...]
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With the wedding ceremony and the reception over, everyone was much more relaxed and eager to get some sightseeing done. Unfortunately for us, we couldn’t really sleep in or have a lazy morning as we were supposed to get our wedding registration done in the local government office. Even though more than 300 people witnessed [...]
Patrix | India, Personal, Travel | 8 Comments »
Everyone around seems more interested in the happenings on the wedding night than the wedding itself but unfortunately, those details cannot (or should not) be divulged. So if you came back expecting those details, you can leave now so I can proceed with the more ‘boring’ details :)
The wedding ceremony and lunch followed by the [...]
Patrix | India, Personal | 11 Comments »
Blogging your wedding day can be a difficult task because it might be the one post that your children or even you are most likely to read about in the distant future. You want to capture all the details but everything seems like a blur because so many people and so many things happening on [...]
Patrix | India, Personal | 21 Comments »
The wedding rituals started with the haldi ceremony which is done first at the groom’s home and later at the bride’s home. In Oriya tradition, they have a similar ceremony to kick off the wedding rituals called Mangan Handi which has something to do with pots that I am not completely sure of. Ash wasn’t [...]
Patrix | India, Personal | 4 Comments »
On day two, our wedding party at Ginger had only ten people in the morning and the rest were due to arrive later that afternoon. We had arrived a day earlier just to be on the safe side and avoid the vagaries of the airline industry (one of my dad’s planning characteristic). The haldi ceremony [...]
Patrix | India, Personal, Travel | 7 Comments »
The fact that we were going to be flying across the country to a state that hardly anyone had visited for a wedding enthused many of my relatives. Either the fascination for visiting a new place or the excitement of trooping down in one big wedding party, we were nearly 40+ people flying down to [...]
Patrix | Personal, Travel | 11 Comments »
Flying down to India for our wedding was always going to be a nervous journey in anticipation of things to come. Although we flew through that obnoxious and ill-planned Paris airport, we hardly got an opportunity to experience the lack of hospitality of the French airport personnel. The advantage of numbers worked in our favor [...]
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We are back in College Station and unfortunately have landed up with a bad bout of coughing and sniffling; Ash in particular has it really bad. I’m sure we picked up the bug in Bahrain and it was somewhat ironic considering we had survived the entire India trip without falling ill although people around us [...]
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Don’t you fret, this blog is still alive. I left India today morning and am currently in Bahrain at Ash’s parents. The past couple of weeks have been intensely busy and hectic and I’ve had hardly time to check email let alone blog. The wedding was great and everything went smoothly including the trip to [...]
Patrix | Personal | 11 Comments »
Just two more days until we leave for Bhubhaneshwar for our wedding. Ash is currently living with her aunt in Mumbai with her mom and sister and I’m all the way up in the mainland in Panvel. The first few days were crazy with wedding shopping and last-minute preparations. However, the most time-consuming aspect of [...]
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From a much heated discussion with few friends.
A married woman with two girls in an abusive relationship with her husband should not divorce him because it might affect the ‘arranged marriage chances’ of her daughters in the near future i.e. divorced family ke ladki se kaun shaadi karega.
I was the only one (strangely) who found [...]
Patrix | India, Personal | 13 Comments »
Although promises not to blog during this all-important trip to India shall be mostly be kept, occasional updates shall be made in view that strict enforcement of the above stated promise cannot be done remotely by the person who made the law. Ash and I touched down in Mumbai today morning after more than 36 [...]
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We’ll be leaving for India in a few hours and I get the same mixed feelings of excitement and nervousness that I feel each time I make this trip. As Ash pointed out recently, my India trips have always coincided with a major relationship change in my life and this time is no different as [...]
Patrix | India, Personal | 10 Comments »
I know it is December and time already for snow to fall but you see, in Texas we like to savor our season and tend to hang on to them for a little longer. I’m sure Texas doesn’t readily leap to your mind when you think of a glorious autumn with red trees along melancholic [...]
Patrix | Images and Photography, Personal, United States | 10 Comments »
I recently sold my old camera, Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom via Amazon Marketplace where I have had a sellers’ account for more than a year. I was damn pleased to have sold it within a week of putting it up for sale. The camera worked great and had produced great photos for me over the [...]
Patrix | Personal, World Wide Web | 12 Comments »
After waiting for more than two+ years, I finally got myself a DSLR - a Nikon D40. Although I had a digital point-and-shoot Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom for nearly two years, the pleasure of taking photographs with an SLR is something that you cannot explain. Most professional photographers tell you that the camera does not [...]
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Few years ago, few of my friends got married. Now they have kids. Also, I was friends with all of them individually before they got married to each other. Well, I was actually ‘more friends’ with the guys than the girls but then one of them was my roommate and the other a best friend [...]
Patrix | Observations, Personal | 17 Comments »
This is a Ganpati carved from a supari that rests on one of our side tables. I admit, the photo doesn’t indicate its size but if you know how small a supari is, you get the idea. And yes, this was taken by my latest acquisition, a Nikon D40. And nope, it wasn’t the first [...]
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This weekend was slightly different from the other mundane ones as we continue to countdown to our day of departure. Texas A&M University’s International associations got together and hosted the first Brazos Valley Worldfest in historic downtown Bryan. Bryan is College Station’s twin city and is more like small town American complete with Main Street, [...]
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Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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Underwhelming. Johansson is miscast but continues her run of being the 'other woman'.
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