Tag: #culture

• Dhaka Diaries: Thursday Doors-the Gate to Art, culture and Spring

  

  I love participating in Dan’s Thursday doors. ‘This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world.’ This week, I have just one door- actually, it’s a gate- the gate to the…

  Smitha V

  February 9, 2023

  Experiences

  #awalkinthepark, #bangladesh, #culture, #dhakadiaries, #flowers, #gulshanlakepark, #inspiration, #life, #music, #nationalpoet, #nazrulislam, #poetry, #spring, #thursdaydoors

• Dhaka diaries: In search of a ‘temple’

  

  On Friday, we went in search of a temple for our new home. Unaware of where to find one and with the lack of Amazon in the country, we asked the priest who had come a few days earlier, on the 27th of October, to perform the housewarming puja. This is a prayer done by…

  Smitha V

  November 7, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #bangladesh, #culture, #dhakadiaries, #dhakeshwari, #diaryentry, #explore, #shankaris, #temple, #tourism, #travelogue, #vrindavanstores

• We are connected

  

  The train is chugging along. We’ve booked seats in the AC compartment- the windows are sealed, so, you can’t open them. Since it is the monsoon (rainy) season, it’s cold in the compartment with the AC on. So, I step out with my husband to take a break from the AC and I stand in…

  Smitha V

  June 29, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #culture, #journey, #life, #love, #nature, #people, #poem, #relationship, #SoCs, #statesofindia, #train, #truth, #unityindiversity, #weareone

• Book Review: THE DIARY of MRITYUNJAYA by GS Subbu

  

  THE DIARY OF MRITYUNJAYA

  Smitha V

  September 16, 2020

  Book Review

  #book, #culture, #diaryofmrityunjaya, #fiction, #GSSubbu, #India, #kedarnath, #newbook, #philosophy, #Pilgrimage, #review

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 17 – A Family Anecdote

  

  Our prompt for the day (optional as always) follows Gowrishankar’s suggestion that we write a poem re-telling a family anecdote that has stuck with you over time. It could be the story of the time your Uncle Louis caught a home run ball, the time your Cousin May accidentally brought home a coyote and gave…

  Smitha V

  April 17, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #anecdote, #blessings, #culture, #Day172018, #funnypoem, #GloPoWriMo2018, #India, #Indiancustoms, #NaPoWriMo2018, Experiences, Poetry