Gujarati Bride

A Gujarati marriage is one of the classic example of ethnicity. Usually a Gujarati bride dress up in beautiful rainbow colors. Her wedding attire exhibits the glimpses of their rich culture heritage. Speaking about the Gujarati bride, most of the Gujarati girls like to wear a sari that is draped in a Gujarati style. For most of the bride, red is said to the auspicious color..

Gujarati Wedding

In India, Wedding is celebrated in several styles and customs since there is a great diversity of culture, religions and traditions. Out of the many colorful Indian wedding rituals and customs, Gujarati wedding is just one of them. Like any other Indian marriage, the Gujarati wedding rituals and customs have three parts. The first part of a Gujarati marriage is the pre wedding ceremony, the weddin..

Gujarati Wedding Menus

The Gujarati Wedding is no longer just about rituals and customs, but it is also about lots of fun and feasting. Food is one of the main aspects of Indian wedding celebration, and one will find various types of Indian Wedding Menus in the different states of the country. After the marriage ceremony, all the guests are invited for the special Wedding Reception party for the special wedding dinner. ..

Tal Sankali Gujarati Dish for Sankranti

This is a Gujarati cuisine that is prepared during the occasion of the Sankranti festival. Ingredients:Til (Sesame seeds): 1 cupJaggery : 3/4 cup Preparation: Roast sesame seeds lightly for a couple of minutes on a medium or slow fire. Remove it from the fire. Grease a flat tray with some butter or cooking oil. Heat Ã

A Gujarati wedding

Pre - wedding ceremoniesMandap MuhuratThe first of the auspicious ceremonies, the mantap muhurat is performed by the families of the bride and the groom in their respective homes a few days before the wedding. The families pray to Lord Ganesh to remove all obstacles. The puja is performed by an acharya or priest before a sacred fire.

A Roman Spectacle

'Gladiator'It's that kind of movie. The one full of blood, guts and glory where the protagonist gets to spout rousing speeches: "I am Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, Loyal Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, Father to a murdered son, Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next!" ..

Maria Stopes

An advocate of birth control, in 1921, Maria Stopes founded the first instructional clinic for contraception. Her clinical work, writing and speeches evoked violent opposition especially from the Roman Catholics. Eventually, she influenced the Church of England to gradually relax its stand against birth control. The failure of her first marriage in 1916 caused her to focus on the probl..

'Breast milk is best milk': Hrithik

We love this man!Bollywood's hottest hunk, Hrithik Roshan is a man with a cause. Hrithik has agreed to feature in a nation wide poster campaign to promote breast-feeding. From October 3, doctors' clinics across the nation will have an autographed poster of Hrithik with the line: `You can always tell a mother's milk baby.' The poster is being printed in nine languages - English, Hindi, Bengali, Mar..

Log mujhe Amar kehte hai!

Earlier, it used to be that Bollywood's biggest stars would be called upon to cut ribbons and lend pizzazz to political functions. Times have changed, it would seem.Tables turnedTwo pols who've been able to draw in star wattage are Rajya Sabha M.P. Subbarami Reddy and Samajwadi Party man-about-town, Amar Singh. Need we add that Mr. Reddy is a hugely successful film financier while Mr. Singh is..uh..

The colourfully striped sari

A Gujarati folk song that brings to life family relations and the daily interactions that define and determine social intercourse.I am being robbed of my colourfully striped sariOh! my sister-in-law claims my sari, my friend!The sari that my grandfather gave me, my friend,With the edging sewn on by my mother,Oh! my sister-in-law claims my sari, my friend!Four boxes of jewellery in the four corners..