In anticipation of my first visit to Kolkata (Calcutta) I was scanning internet for images of the city, but little could be found. As a matter of fact, ...
If you decided to go to India to study yoga on your own, it is easy to get lost in the ocean of information about all the schools, institutes and retreats offer...
About 3 months ago I fulfilled my long-standing dream - I packed my bags and headed off to Mysore, a birth place of modern yoga as we know it. I neither...
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When I was taking off to Mysore I was full of determination to find the Teacher. I heard that normally it just happens and the Teacher comes at the right tim...
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Flowers. In India - flowers are everywhere. In the streets, in the temples, in the richest and in the poorest of houses, on the gods, in the hair, flowing on...
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This week India is celebrating one of its biggest and most important festivals - Diwali, a festival of lights. The festival is celebrating a defeat of the ...
Goa airport is a known entry point of India for those, who are looking for a rather relaxed holiday, a type of vacation, for which most of India would be an unl...
I’m not Hindu and in fact, I do not consider myself to be a follower of any particular institutionalized religion. Before I started to dig into the meaning of r...
Have you ever seen how black pepper grows? Did you know that a famous Garam Masala is not a mixture of several spices, but can also be derived out of a single l...
Forts in Goa
India is famous for its forts and palaces, the best witnesses of history and evidence of the bygone majesty and military power of kings. Forts ...
After recent numerous conversations with people heading to India for the first time I realized that travel expectations of many first-time visitors of India are...
If you are invited to an Indian wedding and you’ve never been to one, deciding what to wear and how to wear can become a challenging task! This blog post is wri...
"We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever I have become yours. You are thought and I am sound. May the night be honey-sweet for u...
Two weeks ago I published a blog post, describing the first day of the Indian-German wedding in Lucknow, where I was a guest in November last year. Today I woul...
Indian weddings! Who hasn’t dreamt to be a guest at one of those colorful fairy tales? If you’ve ever watched at least one Bollywood movie or you have at least ...
Five hundred years old walls keep more secrets than a human mind can ever possibly imagine. There is nothing that they haven’t witnessed: forbidden romance, tri...
In recent years the world has seen numerous „You Tube Sensations“: girls who look like dolls, Gangnam style and Harlem Shake, epic talent show failure...
A picture of an Indian wedding has always been clear in my head. Not that I had a chance to visit it live before, but the amount of bollywood movies watched and...
Finding it difficult to breathe, I was still trying to break at least one hand free to make a bit of space around, grasp for air and squeeze through a crowd wh...