Most devotees perform this Pooja with their community, in temples. These temples house banyan trees and the priest helps them perform the Pooja. People, who are not in a position to visit temples for this Pooja, can buy banyan twigs from the market and perform the Pooja at home. The ...

In Hindu Religion, the protection and worship of plants (Vanaspati) are important. Vata Vruksha or Banyan Tree is one of them. A very old lady told us what her grandmother told her. In the olden days, banyan trees would cover a lot of land-area and there would not be even ...

In the course of writing about art and artists, I have been collecting several friends. Brinda Roy Chowdhury Ray is one of them. She is a Hindustani Classical Music Exponent and has done playback singing for award-winning films like Dance of the Wind and several regional movies. We at A ...

My cousin’s father had a stroke last year and it was a terrible time the family had, handling the situation. But, the stroke had affected the peripheral nervous system and they had reached the hospital within the Golden Hour. So, the recovery was not a big issue. The incident shook ...

A Journalist Reveals were on a lookout for an astrologer for some reason. Neha Shinde Jadav, an old PR friend, contacted us when she got to know about it. At that time, we thought what the heck, let’s have her interview as well because firstly she is a lady and ...

As everybody knows we have been on the lookout for female entrepreneurs. My friend Sonali Kelapure started क ख ग… (Ka Kha Gaa…) in October 2017, with her friend Vivek Shukla. It is a platform that introduces everyone to the most exciting and effective methods of writing through interactive creative ...

Father’s Day is celebrated once a year. However, if a child thinks that its parents are good, it will celebrate Father’s Day and Mother’s Day every day. My sister and I are 2 such people. After we shifted to this place, we think God has bestowed a divine couple as ...

We at A Journalist Reveals have been on the lookout for people using environmentally friendly methods for various processes required in our life. One of the requirements was organic farming. It so happened that my own cousin sister, my paternal aunt’s daughter is into it. Vani Murthy was inspired by ...

We have been told time and again that we should have enough of the Macros in our diet. But, our estimate is often wrong and we end up having less or more of one of them. We have a general idea of what happens if we have less of some ...

Oscar Wilde once said, “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Likewise Chitra Visharad (BFA from Chandigarh), Anita Narain is a painter to reckon with. Having given the Government of Maharashtra exam and being a state and national awardee does ...