Dec 31, 2022
"Function of ritual is to give form to human life, not in mere surface, but in depth": Kōlams - traditional Indian Patterns that combine Art, Mathematics & Magic, and refers to the belief that Hindus have a “karmic obligation” to “feed a thousand souls”
BEFORE THE FIRST RAYS OF sunlight stream across the rice fields and mud roads in the Nilgiri Mountains, before they force their way through the high-rises in the urban jungle of Chennai and Madurai, the women of Tamil Nadu are up for the day. In the dark, they clean the threshold to their home, and, following a centuries-long tradition, painstakingly draw beautiful, ritualistic designs called kōlam, using rice flour.
Dec 31, 2022
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity": Hear the First Song Recorded on the Yazh, a 2,000 Year-Old Indian Instrument, whose sound “once filled the halls and temples of southern India, Over time, Tamil musical tradition all but vanished"
A Yazhi or Yali (Pronounced yA lee and unrelated to the Navajo name) is a mythical animal that is a chimera of a lion, elephant and a snake. They could have a lion face, its paws (and claws) and tail, fangs of a snake, body, hind legs and trunk of an elephant.
Dec 31, 2022
"You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become": J Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical Physicist recited a quote from Bhagavad Gita after witnessing first Nuclear explosion - "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
No matter how little we know of the Hindu religion, a line from one of its holy scriptures lives within us all: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This is one facet of the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who left an outsized mark on history. For his crucial role in the Manhattan Project that during World War II produced the first nuclear weapons, he’s now remembered as the”father of the atomic bomb.”
Dec 30, 2022
"To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty": Sweden - Muslim Ethiopian migrant, Abushi Shamse Kamal (15) brutally rapes, beats, and strangles little girl Luna (9) with her shoelaces, child left brain-damaged
The heartbroken family is furious at the government and school staff who hid the Migrant’s past sexual attacks on females, strangulation porn habits, and his actual age.
Dec 30, 2022
"Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear": India calls on Pakistan to protect minorities after killing of Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Sindh province, her body was severed, breasts chopped and was beheaded
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): India on Thursday called on Pakistan to protect its minorities after the killing of a Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Sindh province.
Dec 30, 2022
"Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries...endures for a reason": Greatest of all time, three-time World Cup-winning Brazilian football legend Pele passes away at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, was diagnosed in 2021 with colon cancer
Widely regarded as the greatest idol of world football, 82-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, famously known as Pele, passed away at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo earlier Friday.
Dec 30, 2022
"Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong time": Cricketer Rishabh Pant met with an accident near Kotwali Mangalore area of Roorkee, he jumped out of the window as soon as the Car caught Fire, was rescued by locals, he is stable now
Indian ace cricketer Rishabh Pant has met with an accident at the Narsan border of Roorkee in Uttarakhand. The incident reportedly took place when he was returning home from the National Capital.
Dec 30, 2022
″‘I’ll miss you,’ she said with a tear in her eye. Then she gave me a kiss and whispered, ‘Goodbye’": Heeraben Modi merged in Panchtatva who passed away today at the age of 100 in Gandhinagar, PM Narendra Modi - ‘In Maa, I have always felt that Trimurti’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother, Heeraben Modi, passed away in the early hours on Friday morning. She was 100 years old.
Dec 29, 2022
“A bench of Justices chosen through collegium got to choose to decide who has the better lawyer”: Karnataka government supports High Court verdict upholding marital rape charges against husband which is another stark violation of human rights
The Karnataka Government has supported the prosecution of a husband in a case for marital rape. The State has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court supporting a Karnataka High Court judgment which sustained the charges framed against a husband under Section 376 IPC for forcible sex with wife.