Culture

Republic Day 3
In India, ‘Republic Day’ is celebrated on 26th January. It commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. Thus, Republic Day celebration is the moment to remember the coming […]

Republic Day in India

Lohri Festival
One of the big Punjabi festivals occurs today in India : Lohri festival. It is one of the popular Hindu and Sikh festivals which is celebrated with traditional passion and enthusiasm in most parts of India. Lot of people believe that the festival was originally celebrated on winter solstice day, being […]

Lohri : Bonfire festival

furniture market
 Inside Delhi’s popular neighborhood Lajpat Nagar, not far from its famous clothes market, you can find one of the most hidden and preserve traditional specialized market, known as Amar Colony Market. Not easy to find indeed, this open air market lays along a quiet peaceful street in which you are […]

Amar Colony, Furniture Market 

Allowing yourself a greedy pleasure without guilt and make a responsible gesture at the same time ? That is what offers Garden Delight.   1/  The project birth In February 2008, four French meet around a mango plantation . They decide to rehabilitate and revitalize the mango trees to produce […]

Garden Delight, tasty jams from India

Here we are: India, the crowd of its inhabitants, its multitude of smells and its colorful diversity, not to mention the incessant noise. Zoom in Rajasthan (literally “land of kings”), focus on a “small” city of only 3 million, Jaipur *. This town is fairly recent, since the majority of […]

Cyclin’Jaipur

Paneer tikka? Palak kofta ?? Gobhi masala ???! You see these strange nouns in an Indian restaurant menu and you are wondering whether you are going to have a good meal today. That gibberish (not always translated into English) is often encountered by tourists in India.         […]

Name of Indian dishes : translation most wanted ?

Festival
Gurunanak Jayanti is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the 1st Guru and the founder of the Sikh religion Guru Nanak Dev. The birthday of Guru Nanak Dev falls on Kartik Poornima (full moon day) in the month of November and this year it is on 6th of November. […]

Gurunanak Jayanti festival

Rangoli
Rangoli is a painting made on the ground in a particular technique. This is a very common and popular art in India. The rangolis are often made ​​on the ground in yards or before the doorsteps. We find even more particularly in the (many) festivals, where they take the scale to […]

Rangoli

After enjoying this delicious drink in India, you could wonder : “Where I can buy it?” That’s simple! There are two nice places in Delhi for you to feast : Mittal Teas (Mon-Sat 10 am – 7 pm, http://mittalteas.com/) from R80 for 100 grams of Assam tea to R20,000 for 1,000 grams for some […]

Where to buy good tea in Delhi?