Our Journey

our experiences

Archive for April, 2013

Position and connections is everything

In India most people don’t value other people unless they know them. They only value the position and the connections of a person. For some reason, the normal processes just do not work smoothly. If you want to get your work done, you need to get the orders from the top brass. For example, the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Navratri

Navratri is a Sanskrit word which is made of two words – Nav and Ratri. Nav means nine and Ratri means night. During these nine nights and ten days, the eight different forms of powers are worshiped. Navratri occurs twice in a year – at the beginning of the spring and at the beginning of […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Holi can be fun

Recently we celebrated our first Holi in India after coming back from US. Holi is the most colorful festival, when people throw colors on each other. So it was exciting to be celebrating it after 20 years. But as the day came closer, I started hearing from people that they were not planning to play […]

Read the rest of this entry »