Tag: india

  • Indian dolce vita. What do laddoo taste like?

    Indian dolce vita. What do laddoo taste like?

    Birth of a child, promotion or Diwali – in India, none can happen without a proper grand celebration accompanied by traditional Indian sweets. Friend’s engagement? Have a chewy and sweet karachi halva. A passed exam? Take a bite of a rich and syrupy doughnut – gulab jamun

  • ‘Today we drink only Bloody Mary.’ Period in India

    ‘Today we drink only Bloody Mary.’ Period in India

    The period is a taboo topic in societies around the world. Even in fairly liberal European countries, we’ve only just started to talk about menstruation out loud. How was a song about a period created in a country where up to 23% of girls drop out of school when they get their first period?

  • Things in Pakistan are not what they seem

    Things in Pakistan are not what they seem

    Why is it easier for us to get along with Ahmad than with Vijay? We talk about Pakistan, ‘India’s evil twin brother’ with Dr. Jakub Wilanowski-Hilchen, an Indologist

  • 50 years ago, Indian ecofeminists protected forests in the Himalayas

    50 years ago, Indian ecofeminists protected forests in the Himalayas

    Despite the fact that environmental movements may be primarily associated with activism in the “West”, they have a long and rich history in South Asia. It has been 50 years now since the foundation of the ecofeminist Chipko movement in India – a movement of women who hugged trees in resistance to tree felling

  • Poles were also refugees. They were hosted by an Indian Maharaja 

    Poles were also refugees. They were hosted by an Indian Maharaja 

    We are used to the fact that it is white people who save those fleeing war or persecution. It wasn’t always this way.

  • Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    I know Ola from the choir. We unexpectedly ran into each other at an event at the Embassy of India in Warsaw where she was dancing the traditional Indian Kathak dance. We haven’t seen each other for years so I didn’t know Ola had been married to Dawood, a man from India. Today they form…

  • Feminist Qawwali or just plain advertising?

    Feminist Qawwali or just plain advertising?

    Did you think a battle of the voices is a Western invention? Musical skirmishes had been organised in northern India and Pakistan before it was cool