I blog about India at www.memsahibinindia.com, some sample posts below:

One perception of India is that it is a mainly vegetarian country. This is true to a certain extent. Many people are pure vegetarian, some extend this to not including cheese or eggs - you should see the scramble for eggless cake recipes (no pun intended). Hindu’s don’t eat beef, Muslims don’t eat pork, and Jains won’t eat any meat, dairy, or even root vegetables, onions or garlic, the more strict ones wear masks over their mouths so that they don’t inadvertently breath in insects.
So, when I was invited to a friend’s house on Tuesday of last week, the question ‘’How do you like your steak?’’ was the last thing I expected to be asked. Not only was the menu steak (Holy cow!), washed down with some rather palatable Indian red wines, but it was a Tuesday, the day of the Goddess Vaishnov Devi, or the monkey god Hanuman, depending where in the country you are from. For reasons which, despite me asking many Indian friends, remain far too convoluted for me to succinctly put into a short blog piece, due to these gods, this is the day when even most only vaguely practising Hindu’s refrain from meat and alcohol.
So, when I was invited to a friend’s house on Tuesday of last week, the question ‘’How do you like your steak?’’ was the last thing I expected to be asked. Not only was the menu steak (Holy cow!), washed down with some rather palatable Indian red wines, but it was a Tuesday, the day of the Goddess Vaishnov Devi, or the monkey god Hanuman, depending where in the country you are from. For reasons which, despite me asking many Indian friends, remain far too convoluted for me to succinctly put into a short blog piece, due to these gods, this is the day when even most only vaguely practising Hindu’s refrain from meat and alcohol.