Archive for March 2015
Holi Cow
(Paul) A kid’s dream. Celebrating the festival of colors, Holi at Fort Ramathra, a small rural village in central India. We wake up and put on our all-white Indian clothes and learn about the Hindu holiday Holi. For 1,000 years, this religious holiday celebrates the start of spring and the harvest, where the whole village…
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(Navyn) I am half Indian. My dad’s side of the family originated from Gujarat and in the 1880’s decided to emigrate to Tanzania in search of better trading opportunities and soon became dairy farmers. Nevertheless, I grew up listening to Indian music (or culture as my dad called it), attending our local jamatkhana where I…
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