I live a little away from Mumbai. When I had some work in the city, I decided to stay at Fabhotels Embassy Park, Kalina; with 2 other girls. We stayed there for 2 nights and spent one night at a friend’s home. We booked the order from Goibibo.com. The booking ...

The Chaturdashi appearing during the Tulasi Vivaha days is called Vaikuntha Chaturdashi. On this day, worshipping Lord Ananta Padmanabha, standing Lord Vishnu with sheshanaga and Goddess Lakshmi is good. On this day, Lord Vishnu is ready to bless everybody with the doors of Vaikuntha open. On this day, people performing ...

Recently, we came across the profile of Sudhindra Holla, Country Manager, India and SAARC, Axis Communications. He is a well-known stalwart in the surveillance and security industry. He is also an avid reader, a yoga practitioner and Yakshagana (a folk dance from Karnataka) dancer. Very few people know about Yakshagana. ...

It has been some time that we at A Journalist Reveals wrote about artists. We recently found Mandeera Manish, who is a Gold Medallist in her field of Bharatanatyam. She agreed to do an interview with us and this is what she had to say for our questions: When did ...

Karva Mata Story is as follows: A family had seven brothers and a sister in a village. They were all married. The sister had come to the brothers’ house on Karva Chauth. On this night, it is important to look at the moon through a sieve, perform arghya to the ...

On Shakashta Chaturthi of North Indian Kartik month, falls Karva Chauth as well every year. Married women (with their husbands alive) and girls, who are engaged to be married, fast during this festival for the wellbeing and long lives of their husbands. Some women may not drink even water during ...

The Chaturthi after Pournima is called Sankashta Chaturthi and this time it was a very powerful one because on the Kojagiri Pournima the moon rose with all its 16 rays. If Lord Ganesha is worshipped on this day, all troubles are resolved. People, who cannot celebrate Sankashti in the entire ...

Besides a headache, neck pain is another torture that is felt by many people particularly those who work on the computer. We, again, contacted famous neurologist from Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Dr. P P Ashok to shed some light on the problem. Excerpts from an interview: When we think of neck ...

We cleaned and applied cow dung, etc. on the place of worship. We have to draw Ashtadalapadma rangoli on that place mixed with turmeric powder. Some people extend the rangoli by adding more petals within each petal. At the 4 corners, we have to draw lotuses with leaves. The 4 ...

The Chaturdashi after Vijaya Dashami is auspicious for the worship of Lord Varaha, the third avatar of Maha Vishnu. Lord Varaha should be worshipped with Bhumadevi, the reason being Maha Vishnu is the protector of everything on earth. Demon Hiranyaksha took away the earth and dropped it into the primordial ...