Recipes with local groceries
Indian cooking with what your local supermarket sells, or dishes that blend two kitchens.
See examples →Join us
Help Us Grow, From Your City
VedaVidesh is built by families from every region of India, living all over the world. We need volunteers, teachers, artisans and local shops from different places.
Volunteers wanted
We need more volunteers, from more places
From Tamil Nadu to Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh to Punjab, and from Sydney to Stockholm: if you know the traditions of your family, you can help other families keep theirs.
- Write about the festivals and ceremonies of your region
- Translate our guides and story books into Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and more
- Record a story or a lullaby with your parents
- Tell us about Indian shops and events in your city
- Volunteers are credited by name on every page they help with
Get featured
Share Your Recipe, Festival, Shop or Craft
Free for families: we add your name and city, and share your recipe or festival story in the festival companions and on social media. Businesses can take a featured listing below.
Your festival, abroad
How your family or your group celebrates Pongal, Onam, Navaratri, Diwali or Holi far from India, with photos.
Your shop or event
Indian stores with festival specials, and events open to families.
List an event →Your craft or book
Artisans and writers from any region of India, or living abroad.
Sell your craft →Featured listings
Put your shop, event or class in front of families
Recipes, festival stories and crafts are always free to feature. For businesses, a featured listing puts you at the top of the Events, Shop or Classes page, in the festival companion for your festival, and in our festival email.
€25Shops and event organisers
€10Teachers
Ask for a featured listingMembership · coming soon
Choose How You Join
Most of VedaVidesh stays free. Members will get the deeper library for a small yearly fee, which helps pay our writers, translators and priests. Join the waitlist and we will tell you first.
Friend
Free, always
Free
- Festival companions and the calendar
- Step-by-step puja guides
- Stories, recipes and the blog
- Free festival reminders by email
Family
For one household
€4 a month, or €39 a year
- Everything in Friend
- Ceremony booklets with every Sanskrit mantra and its meaning (being written now)
- Printable festival packs for children
- Early places and member prices at classes and events
- A members-only festival letter with extra recipes and crafts
Patron
Support the work
Yearly, price coming soon
- Everything in Family
- A gift membership for grandparents or a friend
- Your family name on our supporters page
- Helps pay our writers, translators and priests
Membership opens soon. Join the waitlist now: it costs nothing, and we will write to you first.
Teach with us
Teach the families in your country
We keep only a few classes, taught by teachers who live where our families live. Yoga and chanting teachers, musicians, artists, cooks, and anyone who can teach a language or tell a good story.
- Teach live online or in person in your city
- We find the students, handle bookings and share the class on our site
- Small groups, in English or your own language
- Families can find you by the country you teach from
- Nothing to pay to join
Local artisans
Sell your craft to Indian families around the world
Weavers, toy makers, painters, potters and metal workers from every region of India, and artisans abroad who keep an Indian craft alive.
- We show your work with your name and your town
- Fair prices agreed with you before anything is listed
- Buyers order from you directly: you handle payment and delivery
- Nothing to pay to join