Sending this Kuswar your way this Christmas from the EIMC family ❤️

(Kuswar is this plate laden with sweets and also the custom of exchanging Christmas sweets with friends, family and neighbours that many Christian groups - the East Indians one of them - follow in India).

Getting ready for today's protest at August Kranti Maidan, by ensuring:

- clothes are nondescript & comfortable
- comfortable shoes
- phone emptied of important data
- enough water
- Bridgefy's installed (in case of a communication blackout)
- traffic, safety & legal information is at hand

Have I missed anything?

#CAAProtest #India #Mumbai

Waiting for my community’s leaders as well as my religious spokespersons to speak out against the Citizenship Amendment Bill and express some sort of solidarity with the protesting students, but sadly, most of them campaigned for the BJP during the recent elections and it’s going to be crickets for a while. Sigh.

#Mumbai

One of the nicest things to hear at airports in this day and age of globalisation and migration is surnames from the subcontinent pronounced awkwardly yet determinedly by mouths not used to the tongue twisting usually required for our names, over the announcement systems.

You’re doing a good job, Sheila/Bob!

But for those keen to catch some East Indian cultural action this month, I did share December’s East Indian event list on the EIMC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B5myx92FWOa/?igshid=h5z6pqiocwjo

It’s chock-full of things happening in the US, and Bombay and you don’t even need to be an EI to attend a lot of the events mentioned in there.

#Mumbai #India #EIMCEvents

Posting on Mastodon has taken a backseat as I get ready to wrap up my day job and take off on a much-needed vacation.

Where I will continue to look for stories and unspoken histories anyway, so now that I say it aloud, it’s not really a vacation 🤷🏻‍♀️

Countering all the depressing stuff coming out of Maharashtra with this colourful photo.

About an East Indian lugra wearer from Bassein/Vasai (a tiny town in Western Maharashtra).

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5UkrYxlQoa/

Bonus: the very ornate entrance door (in the background) from the 16th Century shrine built by the Spanish Dominican Missionaries in 1577 (we have some super-old churches in Bassein).

Look up the #EIMCLugraLegends series on IG for more of our EI traditional saree: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/eimclugralegends/