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  1. All pray and no play for Suresh Kalmadi

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    / April 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Suresh Kalmadi is in prayer mode in his native village Kalmadi near Udupi in Karnataka. The New Indian Express reports that the former IOA boss offered a sacred `Chathupavithra Naagamandala Seva’ on Friday. The prayer, following the advice from an astrologer, is an attempt to overcome ‘Naagadosha’. During the Commonwealth...

  2. Shirdi closing in on Tirumala

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    / April 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Tirumala is India’s richest temple. But Lord Venkateswara is likely to be overtaken by Sai Baba of Shirdi, if present trends are any indication. Sai Baba, who combined the teachings of Islam and Hinduism, came to Shirdi in Maharashtra in 1850s and became a popular...

  3. Tirumala temple starts 2012-13 with a record

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    / April 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The richest God in the world started the new financial year 2012-13 on a high note. Lord Venkateswara’s shrine at Tirumala received the highest hundi collection ever – Rs 5.73 crores – on April 1, setting a new record. A clear sign that this is one place where there is...

  4. Indian Pastoral Service?

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    / February 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Indian Express reports on Kerala’s additional director-general of police Alexander Jacob, IPS and says he could well have been Indian Pastoral Service. That’s because for the past three years, Jacob who is now posted as ADGP (Prisons), has been preaching the gospel and praising the lives of saints on the Catholic...

  5. Ahobilam, a test of endurance and faith

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    / January 25, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By R V Rajan It was a trip that I was dreading because it involved a test of endurance and a test of faith! A test indeed, of my capacity to endure trekking with a walking stick on very rough, stone-ridden forest paths, with lots of ups and downs! Climbing...

  7. Oh, my God !

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    / January 5, 2012 / 2 Comments
    If you or anyone in your family is appearing for SSC or Inter Board exams in Andhra Pradesh, you better not write the name of any divine being on your answer sheet. For if you do so, you may end up being debarred for a period of up to eight...

  8. Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki…

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    / January 2, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Friday at noon, for a short while, I was running around the Chembur Cremation Ground/Electric crematorium looking around for Tulsi leaves. I was there for a friend’s cremation and the last rites involved placing, among other things, tulsi leaves (which an uncle had forgotten to buy from the market) on...

  9. Where Kansa is king

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    / December 31, 2011 / Leave a comment
    One would have heard about a week-long theater festival but this goes on for eleven days.  Every year around this time in December-January, the small town of Bargarh in Odisha indulges itself in hosting the world’s biggest open air theater, an epic play `Dhanu Yatra’ or locally called `Dhanu Jatra’. The annual festival enacts episodes of the Mahabharata including...

  10. Santa Claus-ed

    Posted by Nivedita N
    / December 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Nivedita The `beard-clad’ man in bright red clothes and laughing hysterically scared me, all of six years. I refused to take any gift from this stranger, even though my mother cajoled me to. I even cried when he insisted on carrying me. Finally, with great difficulty, I posed for a picture...

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