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  1. Technicolour Kerala

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    / February 10, 2012 / 1 Comment
    I’m bright and colourful. That includes my personality, the clothes I wear, the pictures i take and so on. My eye just picks out colours. Maybe its beause I’m a hardcore Indian, an even brighter Malayalee, and like every other Malayalee, I live upto our stereotype. We love colour and...

  3. This is what you call a Food Fest !

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    / November 25, 2011 / 2 Comments
    These are photographs received over mail (unknown source). The information says these are photographs taken on Diwali and Annakut Mahotsav (Govardhan Pooja) at Akshardham Mandir. There were 1392 different delicious dishes offered to the Lord.

  4. Odisha during Karthika

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    / November 11, 2011 / Leave a comment
    In Hindu religion, the month of ‘Kartika’ is considered to be the most sacred. During this month, most Hindus in Odisha refrain from eating fish, meat or egg. Some don’t eat even onion and ginger. The next fortnight of the month is spent propitiating their ancestors. Every evening, a covered...

  5. God’s own temple festival

    Posted by Ganesh Narayanan
    / September 29, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Calling Kerala `God’s own country’ may seem like a cliche but if you are part of temple festivals in any part of the state, you will realize the tag is not without reason. Extremely colorful and vibrant, they are different from temple festivals in other parts of India, thanks to...

  6. Saying it with tomatoes

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    / August 7, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By G Mohan   On the occasion of Friendship day today, there is a Tomatino festival planned in Hyderabad.  This is a first of its kind in India apparently and local city websites are agog with details of the fest.   “Remember the cast of Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara having...

  7. The magic of 9

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / July 3, 2011 / 1 Comment
    As the festival is centred around the rath (chariot) journey of the Lord Jagannath and his siblings, it is most popularly referred as the ‘Rath Yatra’. It is a nine-day annual journey of the Gods, hence ‘Navadina Jatra’ (‘Nava’ for nine, ‘deena’ for days and ‘Jatra’ being the local lingo...

  8. Lord Jagannath, the Juggernaut

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / July 1, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Sujata Singh  A Franciscan missionary, named Friar Odoric visited India in the 14th Century and wrote about his visit to Puri in a journal, which he published in Europe later. In his journal, Odoric wrote in detail about the huge chariot of Jagannath and how the devotees threw themselves...

  9. A `youthful’ Lord Jagannath

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The festival of the first appearance of the Lord Jagannath before his devotees is called `Netrotsaba or `Nava Yaubana (new youth). On the sixteenth day, the images in their new form after renovation become ready for public view.   People congregate for Nabajoubana Darshan or to set eyes on the...

  10. Ten roots that cure the Lord

    Posted by Sujata Singh
    / June 27, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Sujata Singh   During ‘Anabasara’, the Daitas offer to the Deities only fruits and water mixed with cheese, and Dasamula medicines to cure his fever. The devotees accept that after bathing with water drawn from 108 pitchers, the Lord needs to take rest. Like human beings they are considered...

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