ACP celebrates its 1year & India’s 67th

August 15, 2014UncategorizedACP, Announcements, Greetings, Indiaadmin

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Happy Independence Day for Indians back in the motherland and NRI’s and PIO’s around the world!

August 15th also marks 1 year for the Andhra Cultural Portal. So from all of us at ACP (now back from our …

ACP on Holiday

July 14, 2014UncategorizedACP, Announcementsadmin

Hello readers. Due to various reasons (vacations, travel, work, etc) Andhra Cultural Portal will be taking a short break til the middle of August.

Check back with us then, or add yourself to our email subscription list below, …

Amaravati: The City, its Art & its Architecture

July 7, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Architecture, Art, Dharma, High Culture, HistoryN.R.I.pathi

The Great City of Amaravati has a storied history not only in Andhra and India, but in the rest of Asia as well.

Those of you following us on twitter would have read our tweets (storified for your convenience…

Saamethalu (Telugu Proverbs) 2

June 29, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Culture, Language, Literature, Poetry, TeluguVelugu Thalli

Hello Everybody!! Here is the second installment in our series on Saamethalu. As we mentioned previously, Saamethalu are proverbs in the Telugu language. They communicate time-tested wisdom in the form of earthy, frequently poetic single line sayings. Here …

Problem of Indians: Unrepentant Stupidity

June 26, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Culture, Elite, History, Hyderabad, India, Politics, TelanganaN.R.I.pathi

At first glance, many of you may be taken aback by such a damning, and some would even say, questionable, assertion.

After all, aren’t Indians known for their intelligence? Aren’t we famous in the US as Silicon Valley “tech geniuses” …

Gadwal Sarees

June 19, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Culture, Fashion, Sarees, TrendsVelugu Thalli

Uh oh, quite a bit of controversy these days not only in undivided Andhra, but on ACP 😯 . I will lighten the mood with everyone’s, ok we girls’ favorite topic, fashion! 😎

To recognize the birth this month …

Indians are Talkers not Doers

June 17, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Culture, Dharma, Elite, Hyderabad, India, TelanganaN.R.I.pathi

Let us face the facts, Indians are Talkers, not Doers. As usual, Andhras are the worst example of this.

We can talk for hours on end, over tea, over toddy, over tokkudu ladoo—but what does it matter, still we …

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