On a lighter note, as you may already know, we here at DurGa InterioRs are having a summer sale on almost all our stuff. Initially when we received our first container from India in April of 2007, and opened DurGa InterioRs' doors beginning of May, we underestimated the volume of business that we were soon going to be blessed with. By mid June, it was evident to us that the April container is not going to take us to January of 2008 (when we had planned to go to India for a buying trip). With Christmas in mind and requests from our customers for specific pieces, it was clear that one of us would have to go to India right away. We quickly made plans and within less than a week I was in India. Despite the extreme heat (47 degrees at times) some amazing pieces were sourced.
I was in India for only two weeks or so, but thanks to my many hardworking sourcers who track down pieces for me in India while I am here in Canada, the trip was well organized and we didn't waste too much time locating items. Ultimately it was a tremendously fruitful trip and well worth the heat and dust. I truly believe that India must be experienced in all seasons - granted summer is not the most comfortable season to travel in India - it has a certain charm that can only be enjoyed in the summer heat. Winters in India are comfortable, but also packed with tourists (local and international). You can almost say that India gets "culturally diluted" in the colder months. When you hear more German, French, English and Italian (among other languages) on the streets of Pushkar (little holy city in Rajasthan) than Hindi, you know you are not getting the real picture. You are constantly battling throngs of people in restaurants, historic sites, bazaars, and sometimes trying to figure out if a certain ceremony is an actual event or just a "show" for the tourists gathered around taking pictures. Summers are when the country returns to the locals and the country comes alive with brilliant colours and traditional festivals to venerate the many deities and welcome the rainy season - they are ceremonious, but still manage to remain untheatrical and refreshingly simple. And that experience, of course, can only be enjoyed when you are in the midst of the monsoon weather.
It was, however, nice to return home after all the excitement of the trip and enjoy the cool (almost cold) weather again. We at that time decided to have a sale to make some room in the store for the upcoming container (expected to arrive about mid September) and to bring forth more stuff from our warehouse to showcase what's more to come in the future. The sale has also proven to be quite an incentive to many to finally treat themselves to that certain piece they had been eying for a while. It's fun to be indulgent sometimes and a sale always helps! The sale lasts for about another ten days, so come on down and check it out!
