Celebrating Indian Festivals in UAE

I know I've been late to put up this post, but I say better late than never! The reason why I was too busy to post was due to the festival of Raksha Bandhan coupled a number of birthdays in the family. As all the Hindus and others who celebrate this Indian festival already know that his year there was a major confusion as to when Raksha Bandhan really is, the two dates being 20th and 21st of August. As most people struggled with picking up one perfect day, I was fortunate enough to celebrate it for three! I spent day one in Al Ain, day two in Dubai and day three also in Dubai with the last of the lot who came back to the country that day. When it comes to traditional Indian festivals I am bias towards Indian Mithais (sweets) instead of the new trend of cakes, chocolates, brownies, cupcakes, doughnuts and so on, I'm sure you get the picture. So instead of picking up something from the number of Indian Mithai shops (Bur Dubai has one on every corner, where as alain not soo man