Swami Balendu describes how Ashram guests often get to join the family for wedding parties they are invited to. Read about their first question: is it really okay if we come along?
Swami Balendu introduces his readers to four girls of his school. Read in which ways their family seems to live very traditionally Indian.
Swami Balendu tells about the most recent visit of his wife to the local gynecologist.
Swami Balendu describes with an example why couples of two different cultures have to find a balance of habits and lifestyle.
Swami Balendu describes how there are limits to what you can expect of yourself and why you should not be disappointed if others are in some fields more able to fulfill such expectations.
Swami Balendu tells how two of the Ashram staff members left their job because they had chicken pox – and didn't want to take their medicine!
Swami Balendu describes how he personally changed from doing many culture-based formalities to not doing any of them.
Swami Balendu writes about formalities in India, especially invitations that are accepted but neither necessarily meant nor really responded to seriously.
Swami Balendu describes how many Indians don't keep their words, stand up business partners and even friends frequently and don't even think anything wrong about it.
Swami Balendu dedicates a diary entry to the popular Indian habit of coming late. Always and for everything. A different perception of time!