Love and Marriage

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Call me a hopeless romantic, but almost all of my conversations with the Indian contacts inevitably circle around one of their most important traditions – arranged marriages. The immense complexity of Indian society, including (but not limited to) the caste,…

A letter from the lakes

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The turboprop flight from Delhi to Udaipur takes about 1 hour, but it transports you from the sub-continent’s crazy capital into the land of princely warriors and artificial lakes surrounding their castles and palaces. Many of the princes are still…

Letter from a jungle

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Imagine taking a flight from an antiseptic shopping mall of Dubai and landing in the chaos of Indian jungle just 3 hours later! There are monkeys running across the road, elephants walking next to the rickshaw’s, thousands of people everywhere,…