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Rain and floods no dampener to Haj spirit
This is the time of the year when Muslims from all over the world congregate in Mecca to stone the devil. It is a ritual that has to be performed by every Muslim provided he is fit and has the financial ability. However, due to the sudden floods in Jeddah...
Tags: stone the devil, demon king ravana, effigies, dusserah, floods, stampede, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Stoning of the Devil, Jeddah, Ravana, Hajj, Geography of Saudi Arabia, Environment, Disaster Accident, Weather, travel
Sri Lanka's Ramayana trail
Lanka :: India | 9 days ago
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The Ramayana trail in Sri Lanka was touted as the ultimate religious experience: a trail of 52 sites related to the epic including the garden where an abducted Sita was imprisoned, the spot where she went through fire to prove her chastity and even a...
Tags: Sri Lanka, India, Ramayana, ramayana trail, Ravana, Lanka, Rakshasa, Kingdom of Kandy, Chiranjeevins, Trincomalee, War Conflict
‘Ramayana trail’ draws heavy flak
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 15 days ago
Credibility The issue was whether it was advisable to promote a fiction for the sake of marketing Sri Lanka. The participants at the meeting did not rule out possible negative consequences of this promotional campaign in the long term...Sirimal Ranawella (Emeritus...
Tags: Ramayana, Sri Lanka, North Indian Hindus, Rama-Seetha, Ravana Ella, Archaeological Survey of India, Ravana Falls, Ramani Samarasinghe, A.K.Ramanujan, ramayana trail, Colombo, Rama, Sinhalese people, Sita, Hanuman, Ramayana sites in Sri Lanka, War Conflict, Lanka, Ravana
Kasab replaces Ravana in Indore Dussehra festival
Bhopāl :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility In a break from tradition, an Indore-based organisation would burn the effigy of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, instead of demon-king Ravana. `The present day`s biggest enemy is terrorism and thus we have decided...
Tags: Ajmal Kasab, Ravana, India, Bhopāl
Aishwarya Rai Swine flu
Aishwarya Rai Swine flu, Noted Bollywood Actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is down with a “chest infection” and “flu like symptoms”, leaving many of her fans and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan worried. Amitabh...
Tags: Swine Flu, India, Aishwarya Rai, Ravana
Tusker goes on rampage at Abhi-Ash Ravan shoot
Thrissūr :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility On Wednesday morning, Mani Ratnam was shooting for the Abhishek -Aishwarya starrer Ravan on a location close to the Athirappally waterfalls in Kerala. A tamed elephant, called Kunju, had been brought to the site. The initial idea was to keep the elephant...
Tags: Mani Ratnam, Ravana, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan
The Mahayana
Dear Friends (and Foes),Since my childhood, the two epics: the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have fascinated (and flabbergasted) me and my wit (if any) to a large extent.Why so, to unveil… let me begin with the Ramayana.The king Dasharatha had got...
Tags: ramayana, mahabharata, sushovan, ram, sita, laxman, ravana, urmila, dasaratha, dhritarashtra, yudhisthir, arjun, draupadi, duryodhan, krishna, hanuman, sugreev, bali, kitten, kitchen, karna, kunti, manthara, kaikeyi, surya, society, ekta kapoor, balmiki
Hanuman and Hindu sentiments in New Zealand
A Hindu youth conference is to begin in Auckland today and Hindu sentiments have been hurt. On the eve of this conference, there has arisen a problem with regard to a computer game that shows Hanuman in poor light. Hanuman was a mythological character...
Tags: hanuman, lord rama, sita, lakshman, ravana, computer game
Is this a coincidence?
Director Mani Ratnam had a third heart attack on the sets of his latest movie Ravana. The first one was during a film festival in 2004, and then there was the second one while shooting for Guru. And now on the sets of Ravana. This also has Abhishek Bachhan...
Tags: mani ratnam, guru, ravana, abhishek bachhan, super celebrities
Moral policing and honour killings
The boundaries keep getting blurred. The self styled members of the moral police brigade keep popping up to take corrective action when they feel that others are not toeing the line that they have drawn. The origin of the line can be traced to the days...
Tags: ramayana, rama, lakshman, sita, ravana, lakshman rekha, ghaziabad, physical relationship
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