Articles in Culture
The Relation Between Long Hair & Consciousness
We are conditioned to think that hair styling is important and how it makes a cool fashion statement. But in olden times it was a different story. An interesting find revealed that long hair in …
The Pagan Origins of Christmas and Easter
Always learning, always searching for answers to questions, perhaps holds true to you as it does to me. I gave up on the religion I was born in, the church, many years ago, I don’t …
Ley Lines and Earth’s Chakras
We know about the main vortexes of energy in the human body – chakras, but I accepted quite naturally that Gaia, mother earth too has Chakras. How we have energy flowing through our body, the …
The Intriguing Apatani Culture
A long time ago we had written about Kayans, the women from Burma who wear thick rings on their necks from a very young age. Those neck pieces were enchanting and repressing, today we shall …
The Wandering Ayurvedic Doctors of India
Traveling around the country in vans, living in open fields, following an age-old tradition of selling Ayurvedic jadibuti (medicinal and aromatic plants)), is the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe from Satna district in Madhya …
The Old Custom of Stilt Fishing in Sri Lanka
This is no ordinary fishing, there might be several methods of catching a fish but this one is mind-boggling. Fishermen in Sri Lanka use stilts to catch a fish. Yes, stilt fishing is an …
The Italian Church with Walls of Skulls
War memorials are built to honour the lives of soldiers or freedom fighters who died during war, but this particular place had a unique way of preserving an important piece of history.
A Cathedral in …
Getting Married, is it Arranged?
“My son is working with an MNC. Wheatish, smart, caring, family oriented, handsome, jovial and rational person respect all religion and traditional values. he is younger of my two sons. Our is a well …
The Bicycle Culture Around the World
Remember those childhood days when your dad bought you a cycle, and you learnt to ride without falling. After several attempts you got it right, and rode with your friends to school and back …
The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca
Indigenous tribes or communities have unique way of living with the most simple and basic things. Its much better than the urban dwellers, whose life can get so monotonous.
Lake Titicaca, which is 3,812 …
