Dasara Goluvu is celebrated with the at home with the traditional wooden Pattada Bombe couple dolls which is widely available in Tirupati. The usual collection is Dashavathara, Krishna and Gopikas and a huge variety of dolls made of clay and oil painted. I...

Dasara or Dolls Museum, is what I call, is celebrated arranging the dolls . :) I wish the doll collection grows in the coming years.  The Kalasa, Saraswati Pooja and Ayudha Pooja The main attraction is the Pattada Gombe. The Pattada Gombe is...

Rangoli in front of my house on Sankrathi '10.© Manasa. All rights reserved.addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa'; ...

October and November were great seasons for celebration. Be it festival or wedding or a house warming ceremony. Two of my close friends (guys) got married whom I have known for decade. Choosing gifts especially if your friend is a guy is a...

Yesterday was my cousin's wedding and I got an opportunity to click loads of pics. South Indian weddings have lot of rituals like Vara Pooje, Kashi Yaatre, Gowri Pooja, etc... More explanation will be added soon. Here are a few pics: Dry fruits...

I am back attending the wedding of our family friend. The wedding Muhurtham was too early and I was too lazy to wake up early on a holiday. My mother's effort spent for an hour in waking me up bore fruit. We reached...

Oh My God! A couple of hours ago, I learnt that today, June 15th, is Father's Day. In the noon, post lunch, my father was reading the news paper supplement edition on which was printed bold-Father's Day. I realized that I had completely...

Happy Ugadi to one and all. Ugadi marks the beginning of the New year Lunar Calender of Hindus. We have a cycle of 60 years, and each of them have a specific name and the year which we will be ushering in is...

It had been almost half an year that I had met my old friends. Last Saturday, a friend of mine invited me for her betrothal ceremony which was on the very next day. Only six of us could make it up. unday, had...

It was 9:30 in the morning. I reached my cubicle and logged on to my PC. Well, the first thing which most of us do is check the emails. The first email of the year was from one of my friend stating that...

Jan 5: It had been several months that I had listened to the talk of my favorite, famous RJ on Radio City 91.1fm, the city's first private radio station launched in 2001. That evening I hurried home as early as possible so that...