Another important is the Chinese New Year which involves the showcasing of the lion dance and firecrackers and this involves the giving of ang bao which is a red wallet containing money. Deepavali is the festival of light among Hindus, which involves hanging colored clothes, lighting lamps, and...
4a. Ape Island – an island south of Borneo, so called because of the intelligent sort-of-Orangutans that used to dominate the interior, although at this point they have almost all immigrated to Farandoulie (169), where an ape can live like a man. (Saturnin Farandoul, the founder of ...
Located in south-central Nepal on the Terai plains, Janakpur was once the capital of a millennia-old Indian kingdom known as Mithila, and the Maithili culture still thrives here. Hindus believe Janakpur is the place where Lord Ram wed Sita, also known as Janaki, and thousands of Hindus from...
Translated to “Night of the Shiva,” this festival honors Lord Shiva, one of the main deities in Hinduism. During the one-day celebration, different rituals and traditions are performed all throughout the country. Many devout Hindus spend the day bathing and fasting before visiting the sacred ...
especially in considering the view that Atlantis was in Antarctica. That map could only have been made with knowledge of how the Earth looks from a high altitude. Blavatsky had asserted that the Atlanteans know offlying machinesand that knowledge of such machines had passed on to the Hindus. ...
The documentary consists mostly of interviews, with both Muslims and Hindus, of multiple generations, and both sexes, with different views regarding the causes, justifications and the actual events of the violence that occurred, as well as their prospects for the future. 1st March (Thursday) – ...
with a majority of Hindus, andPakistan, with a majority of Muslims; the eastern portion of Pakistan later split off to formBangladesh. Many British institutions stayed in place (such as theparliamentary systemof government); English continued to be a widely used lingua franca; and India remained...
Visited by Chinese traders and Indian literati, theBalinesehad embraced Hinduism by the 7th centuryce. Mahendradatta, the mother ofAirlangga(who ruled Java from 1019 to c. 1049), married Udayana, the Balinese king, and many Javanese Hindus immigrated to Bali. In 1284Kertanagara, last king of...
Most of the population of the territory is concentrated in the southern sector of Chandigarh city.Hindusconstituteby far the predominant religious group, althoughSikhsform a significant minority. There also is a sprinkling ofMuslims,Christians, andJains.HindiandPunjabiare the most widely spoken language...
Although Mughal contributions left a tremendous impact on the sociocultural milieu of the subcontinent’s Muslims and Hindus alike, many trace today’s communal disputes to the grievances that arose in the late Mughal era. The arrival of the British East India Company in the 18th century, ...