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Category: geopiety

  • A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…

  • Ushas the Lady of the Dawn

    #Colgate3600charcoalGold The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea…” the smell of coffee wafting up, and I was transported to Bailoor my childhood holiday home, the destination of all forbidden things, like the morning coffee, the swim in the river, the hot rice porridge, the tangy mango pickle, evening of cards and gossip.…

  • The Discarded Gods

      mornings I am rushing to Vasco, for classes at MES College, but since the drive is beautiful and I belong to generation that has to be 5mnts ahead of appointment I leave home a little early. I get off at chicalim take the local to zuarinagar and walk down. The bus-stop at chicalim used…

  • A little light on Deepavali.

    A little light on Deepavali.

    Banditu deepavali siri sobaganu pasarisi lokava belagutali.– this is a popular kannada poem that translates to Deepavali arrives bringing with it abundance and light. We have been celebrating Diwali in the same age old manner for hundreds of years with crackers, oil sweets, heavy unhealthy food gambling and what not… are we really Sunita I…

  • Bathukamma@Durgashtami.

    Bathukamma@Durgashtami.

    Sometime back I was researching the nature related festivals in southern India.  The floral tributes of Onam ruled the roast, somewhere between the lots I found a lesser known festival of Telangana One very interesting festival I came across was called the Bathukamma, and it is celebrated in the state of Telangana. This is a…

  • Earth Overshoot Day

    Every body talks about development, connectivity, which somewhere translates to just  construction work, this is taking a toll on our ecology, the list that is damaged is so long that I am using a cheat sheet. We have out shot the planets capacity to support the need and the greed of the global population. To…