When it comes to children’s books in Telugu, we haven’t found much! We even scoured each and every bookstore in Hyderabad last fall, to no avail. The few things we found for children in Telugu were actually only in the Telugu script,
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I suppose it happens more often than not when parents of two different races have a child: the child ends up looking more like one parent than the other. In our case, I got the short end of the stick: I’m very
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I feel a new spice obsession is beginning! This time with chaat masala. To be sure, chaat masala was a staple in our pantry even before I started dating hubby, due to a roommate with a love of the stuff. But it
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Hubby came through with a great idea for the theme for peanut’s first birthday next month: afternoon tea! I think it’s particularly fitting for us as you’ll see below, and will also be a fun way to blend cultures which everyone now
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Today two new traditions were born. The first is what will become our annual Sankranthi / Pongal party. The second is a commitment among our friends to start regularly celebrating all major Indian holidays together in a more formalized way. This afternoon,
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Tonight peanut and I attended the artist talk for Darshan at the School of the Visual Arts in Manhattan. Having backed the project on Kickstarter, we were
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Today I took our munchkin to Park51 (otherwise known – incorrectly – as “the ground zero mosque”) for the NYChildren photography exhibit (photographer Danny Goldfield). Even at nine months she had an absolute blast. She’s a very social gal, and simply delighted
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So we’ve been tying a black string onto our daughter’s leg because the gold/black bangles she’s been wearing (first on her ankles because they were too big) keep breaking. Apparently the thread serves the same purpose, but I’ve had a hard time
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Good find! To date, my time on YouTube had been limited only to viewing links sent by friends, every so often. But in my frustration for not having any Telugu resources for our daughter, I searched and was psyched to come across
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