Oct27

May your lamps burn brighter

Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Diwali and bright and prosperous New Year ahead. May your lamps burn ever brighter today and evermore. May Laxmi enter your lives without taking up the room that Saraswati must occupy.
This year, with the markets in a nosedive, it may be that you will light a few lamps less, […]

Oct22

Trueroots - Buy One, Get One Free promotion is back!

As you may have seen on the trueroots homepage, trueroots International Calling Service is offering its best promotion: the Buy One, Get One Free.
It’s their way to wish you and your family a bright and colorful Diwali.
For the occasion, trueroots is offering a Buy One, Get One Free promotion until October 30, 2008. For those […]

Sep29

Nine nights of rapture

Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Navratri. Just as on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone’s Irish, during Navratri, we are all Gujju. For while it is celebrated in many parts of the country, no one does Navratri with as much panache as the Gujaratis. I recall wheedling out passes to some of the more well-appointed Navratri […]