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Category: Rhythm Indiana

  • Dakshinayana.. the summer solstice.

    June 21st the summer solstice. Solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion in relation to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. The solstices together with the equinoxes are connected with seasons and many cultures have elaborate rituals and associations to commemorate this.…

  • Akshaya and Akshata

    Akshata Abundance of nourishment was the focus of the Vedic society this was symbolized by grains of rice. Called the akshata. When sanctified through use in a ritual it became “mantra-akshate” that which was empowered to unlock that particular blessing for you. Literally Akshaya means something which does debilitate. So Akshaya Trithya commemorates that potential…

  • Sultan Batteri

    Sultan Batteri

    At Boloor Mangalore stands on the mouth of the river, it overlooks the confluence of the Gurupura River with the sea. The monument was built by Tippu Sultan after destroying a large number of churches’s built by the British.  Though a watch tower it was armed, so that the British did not enter into the…

  • Dealing With traffic offenders.

    Parking on the footpath. Vendors hogging the footpath Bullying auto drivers Are parts of the great Indian civic society.  We live and survive through it.  The next level of this is– the motorists who break the traffic rules.  Most of the offenders don’t stop when signalled, and then there are few diligent ones who do…

  • Bennekudru – Mulamahastree – Ammana gardi

    . The Justice deliverer of the Mogaveeras. The legends say that Parashurama, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu reclaimed the land from Sagara the Sea God to carve out Parashurama Kshetra.  He got the Brahmins of Aichatra to reside here. He gave them a boon of abundance and got them married to the local fisherwomen. Thus…

  • A Hero Remembered.

    Lachit Borphukan of Ahom. While the nation divides it self’s into Nehruvians and Sanghi’s there are other heroes who have laid down their lives in the service of their mother land.  A few like Bhagat Singh or Azad from the cowbelt do get recognized when the Nehruvians and Sanghi’s are magnanimous. Among the unacknowledged heroes,…