Ram Navami is a Hindu festival celebrated in honour of Lord Rama’s birth, which falls on the ninth day of Chaitra month in the Hindu calendar. Devotees commemorate this day with prayers, hymns, and processions, reflecting on the virtues of Lord Rama and his teachings. Dussehra, also known...
I HOPE the reader will not think I have trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners and customs of my country. They had been implanted in me with great care, and made an impression on my mind which time could not erase, and which all the ...
We turned the dusty drill: We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns, And sweated on the mill: But in the heart of every man Terror was lying still. Death is never far behind: each prisoner’s cell is ‘his numbered tomb’ (Wilde’s was C.3.3., of course). They are dead men w...
especially those of my grandparent’s generation. They were impromptu lessons in family history where I learned the names of extended family, where they fit in the family tree, as well as stories of things they’d done and places they’d been, including where they now lived and worked. Ma...
John took me to the Meadows Place (behind Rehab) and dropped me off at 1:15. We had a call on the home phone answering machine at 1:45 and later on my cell phone, but I was playing music. John went to Bi-Mart and Super 1 and by Seth Motors to check on the car. My car was...