Category: geopiety
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Yellamvasya
New Moon is an powerful natural event for new beginings.
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World Food Day
It’s the world food day. The theme of the year is grow, nourish and sustain together. Covid took from us the false food security that we all had. Suddenly there was lack not of food but of distribution so that made it so. After that came the locust attack the worst one in the past…
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Akshaya Trithiya
Akshaya trithiya is about some that does deplete, or something that is unperishable. No please don’t tell me about Virus and covid19 that is the kind of poor joke that I normally make. I’m sharing three of previous posts before that, I would suggest, lets just a take a moment and reflect on our daily…
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Thoku Emong — a festival of gratitude.
Most folk festivals are about gratitude, and thanks giving. So is the Lothas Naga festival of Thoku Emong. Thoku means feast, and Emong is halt. The festival is celebrated by the Naga Lothas tribe in the first week of November. The government however has currently declared 6th– 7th of November as the festival days though…
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Brahmaputra Baits
Assam or Prajyotishapura… the land on the banks of Brahmaputra to me has been romantic space. When I want to think exotic I used to try to visualize Guwahati. The transit zone from the mainstream to the mystic mysterious east. Guwahati on the Brahmaputra takes its name from Guwa or areca nut and Haat or…
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Naraka-Chaturdashi
Today is Narakachaturdashi, The organic nature of this festival doesn’t cease to amaze me. Growing we heard the story of Narakasura who captured 1600 women, made them his slaves eventually Krishna the Yadava rescued them. The legend also as it that Narakasura could only be killed by his mother. As Deepavali approaches kids begin collecting trash like old clothes, and old news…
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