Significance of Krishna Janmashtami Festival As per the scriptures in Hinduism, Sri Krishna was born on the Ashtami Tithi or the eighth day of the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada in the town of Mathura. He was born to Devaki and Vasudeva. Devaki was the sister of the demon king...
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and hi...
on last year’s pilgrimage to the Himālayas, i had prayed on a trek to Gomukh: “free me. i will do whatever it takes.” when the whatever it took came, it was not what i had imagined, and it broke my heart. i had thought i had known heartbreak, but all paled before the pain...
What is better than joining the festive merriment at Banke Bihari, the place where Lord Krishna is believed to be born? This is the heart of the festival, where celebrations are enjoyed just a day before Holi. The temple welcomes the devotees with its gates wide open from 9 am to 1:30...
year-old timnit gebru on a path toward working for the future megacorp. at the time, gebru lived with her mother, an economist, in the ethiopian capital of addis ababa. her father, an electrical engineer with a phd, had died when she was small. gebru enjoyed school and hanging out in...
the first president of the United States was born on February 22, 1732, and was celebrated on the 22nd of February from 1879 to 1970. However, in 1968, to give federal employees a three-day weekend, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act movedPresidents' Day to the third Monday in February, wher...
Similarly,or much more seriously a Gandhi statue was vandalised in Payyannur during the CPM protest a few days back. Leader of the Opposition VD Satheeshan raised his concern and alleged that the CPI (M)’s action even without respecting Gandhiji was a destructive and dangerous one. Let us ...
What year was the Guru Granth Sahib written? The Vedas can best be described as When was Book of Exodus written? When did Moses write the Book of Genesis? When was Krishna born, according to the Hindu calendar? Is the Bhagavad Gita a scripture? When was the first book of the New Testa...
Diwali is celebrated in Leicester and London every year. This is not surprising considering that Indians make up the largest foreign-bornpopulationnow living in the U.K. Celebrations are also held in Belfast, Edinburgh, Birmingham, and other multiculturalcitiesacross theUnited Kingdom. These celebrat...
which this year was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in 1938, the film - the last in the Indian-born Canadian director's controversial trilogy, Fire, Earth and now Water - opens with an eight-year-old child bride having her head shaved and being made to wear ...