Apr 6, 2023
"Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite": Pravargya vedic rite in Somayāgas can produce explosion in shape of a Nuclear Bomb creating Sun Surface temperatures for few sec using just 50ml of pure Ghee and destroy the viruses like COVID-19
For the past ten years, a small group of dedicated people from various countries has held the vision of Shree Vasant Paranjpe of completing a series of seven Maha Somayags on the banks of the Narmada River in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, India, for the healing of our planet.
Apr 5, 2023
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear”: Mula Gabharu, one among phenomenal patriotic women who fought with Mughals for her husband, for motherland, called the people of Assam to fight Mughals by taking Ahom sword in their hands
History is very well bizarre. There are many such stories buried in it, which very few people know about. In the same history, there are many such stories of women who gave up everything for her kingdom, her country, her motherland.
Apr 5, 2023
"In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary": Sanctuary of Truth, Pattaya - an incredible 105-tall temple made entirely out of wood to honor Buddhist and Hindu values while preserving traditional Thai wood-carving techniques
When your job is to travel around the globe, you encounter so many architectural wonders that eventually you start thinking there’s nothing in the world that can impress you anymore. Then you stumble upon something as magnificent as the Sanctuary of Truth, Pattaya, and your jaw drops to the ground.
Apr 3, 2023
"Temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal": Thirunakkara Mahadevar Temple situated in the heart of Kottayam is one of the 108 revered Shivalayas in Kerala, preserves sculptures and murals of Hindu deities
Thirunakkara Mahadevar Temple situated in the heart of Kottayam city is one of the 108 revered Shivalayas in central Kerala. The temple is about 500 years old and was built by the Thekkumkoor raja.
Apr 3, 2023
"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power": Punkah - the hand operated ceiling fans of Colonial India and a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers extracting constant labor
Sleep is a luxury for those who struggle to get a good night’s rest. While the inability to sleep well can be frustrating in the middle of the night, the necessity for sleep in pre-electricity days produced its own violence in colonial India.
Apr 2, 2023
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”: Revolution underway in India's diamond industry as Nirmala Sitharaman’s focuses on lab-grown diamonds and set the proverbial cat among pigeons in the global diamond markets
‘Lab-grown diamonds, branded wrongly as fake, are a $22 billion market across the world’.
Apr 2, 2023
"Never mind a world that can't see past brutality": Leopold of Belgium killed 15 million Congolese people in 23 years of his rule in Congo by promising a humanitarian & philanthropic mission that would improve lives of Africans, thats how narrative is set
Belgian King Leopold II set out for the Congo and declared it his territory while physically intimidating the indigenous people of the Congo (Kongo). He proclaimed his property to be the people and the land, and he quickly turned the land into a money-making enterprise for himself and his throne.
Mar 31, 2023
"Return to the root and you will find the meaning": Silver rhyton discovered at Deylaman, Iran, inscription & leading art historians identify the artifact as representing Durga Mahishasuramardini, a new insight into high-quality production of silver icons
Just outside the city of Ghazni in Afghanistan is the Buddhist site of Tapa Sardar overlooking the Dasht-i Manara plain along the ancient ‘Southern Route’. On a hillock are the remains of a Kushana-era (2-3rd century CE) monastery complex that was once known as ‘Kanika maharaja vihara’ or ‘the temple of the Great King Kanishka’.
Mar 29, 2023
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen": Golu Devta, also known as justice god, an incarnation of Shiva is worshipped all over the Kumaon & Garhwal region to whom people write their applications on govt stamp paper
India is full of deities for all kinds of reasons and seasons. You have a deity for every kind of request you have for them. Remember the Visa God of Hyderabad, who grants your wish to get a visa of the desired country. Or, Khatu Shyam in Rajasthan, who is the God of the defeated. We have Karni Mata temple near Bikaner, where rats rule as her clan.