northwestern India, on O ct 22 last year. The deity, generally depicted with a muscular human body, the red face of a monkey and a long tail, is a central character in the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana.
"If Cricket Is a Religion, Sachin Is God," finds an important corollary to India's history in this. Before, because of a stagnant economy, nutrition was a problem. India couldn't outslug rivals. It needed spin bowlers and crafty batsmen. An inferiority complex developed. Despite his great...
Such are the criticisms passed, such the “historical difficulty.” The culprits arraigned are fully alive to their perilous situation; nevertheless, they maintain the statement. The only thing which may perhaps here be objected to is, that the names of the two nations are incorrectly used. It...
There is also a school of some note in Southern California, the arch-rival of the University of California at Los Angeles, where the student body is named after the warriors of Troy. They say that history is written by the winners, who will flatter themselves; but the Iliad shows that ...
Sake, the drink of the Gods in Japan from the very beginning of its appearance in Japan, was a part of early religious rites that were the prototype of what is identified as the Shinto religion today. It was used to purify the temple and formed an import
I understand that some of this trauma is so bone-shakingly deep that medication and years of therapy only scratch the surface of the underlying fear or suffering that pools in the soul of its sufferers like a dark, swelling ocean with no horizon. But I have to say I don’t believe ...
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