When your children are all grown up, married and even the youngest has left for college, you know that the birds have flown away and your nest is empty. At first the freedom of living alone without having to worry […]
It’s that time of year again, families start seeing other more often. October is Octover now, soon thanksgiving and Christmas will be upon us and the longing to be with someone you love will take over. This can be a […]
Anterior to the introduction of Buddhism in to the Deccan by the missionary zeal of Asoka in the 3rd century B.C. the Jaina religion seemed to have found a convenient foothold in Karnataka for its growth. It is but natural, […]
To a superficial observer it may appear as though India is a land mass occupied by diverse social, religious and linguistic groups putting on a mantle of political unity. But a careful study of its present day institutions reveals that […]
Our temples of the Kuladevatas were originally villages deities of various villages. Life centered round these temples and Utsavas in Kartika, Shravana and during Rathasaptami, take place here with all grandeur, and the Utsava murthy is taken round in a […]
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