Archive for the 'India' Category

Power Yoga Goes to Bollywood

The Times of India reports today that celebrities in India, and especially Bollywood stars, are embracing the yoga fitness trend. In the article Celebs stay fit, the yoga way, the fitness expert Leena Mogre is quoted saying:
More and more celebs are taking up yoga because of the results it delivers and also because they have […]

Triveni Ghat in Rishikesh

In January I spent four days in Rishikesh, during the coldest week in years. Schools in Delhi actually shut down because it was too cold for the kids to sit in class. We slept in an unheated ashram room, wearing all the clothes we brought to keep the cold out. In the morning we would get up and wait outside the chai wallah […]

Indian Groceries

I just went to the Indian grocery store to stock up on staples like chai masala and dal, and to my amusement they had added a new section:

I got everything I needed and more, including some jaggery that I don’t know what to do with yet. But unfortunately no Meditarian items…