At the end of last year, miles away from Iran and surrounded by Christmas shoppers and images of Santa Claus on the streets of Madrid, I was looking everywhere for watermelons and pomegranates, two fruits traditionally eaten on the Iranian…
Flipping through the 2014 calendar, my mother mournfully remarks that there is just one public holiday each for the months of March and August this year. It is somewhat of a family tradition to sit around the table and count…
“OMG!!” Exclaimed my newly married friend. “I just realized that all you buggers* will be really old moms”. Thank you, thank you for that. Here I am, suffering from quarter life crisis, panicking over no emergency savings fund and a…
Remember that typical scene from a movie where the hero gets down on one knee and offers a rose to the heroine, then asks “Will you marry me?” The heroine smiles, they come closer together and hold each other in…
“No! You are a guest!” my friend almost shouted. Then, turning to the cashier, he said, “don’t take the money please, he is a guest!” I put the thousand rupee note back into my wallet. Stuffing the wallet into my…
So, moving on from our obvious obsession with tea, I’d like to focus on another craze prevalent in Sri Lanka: the ‘fairness’ preoccupation. Fair skin is highly desirable, and it’s often a topic addressed blatantly with zero political correctness. My…
[bilingual article: English + Español] In Mexico, on the 2nd of November, we celebrate el Día De Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. It is a beautiful tradition that honours our ancestors, and exemplifies how the clash of…
