Around the world people have been celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi this week. Holi marks the beginning of spring and huge parties and processions take place with everyone throwing coloured powders and coloured water at each other in an epic paint fight – hence the popular name, a festival of colours. Everyone wears white...Read More

With Diwali just around the corner, I wanted to share with you the story of Diwali, as told to me by my Nanima. The story is written in the Ramayana and is about Rama, the reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, and his wife Sita, the reincarnation of the goddess Lakshmi. Rama grew up in Ayodhya as...Read More