Festivals

In North India, some people consider a month beginning after the full moon day. In the South as well as in some other parts of India, a month is considered to begin from the new moon day. In the South, particularly in Karnataka, the first Friday of Shravan is considered ...

According to mythology, this earth is balanced on the hood of Ananta Snake. The earth needs to be balanced in every way. People should not be poisoned from animals. Kala Sarpa Dosha and Rahu-Ketu Doshas should be neutralized. For these reasons, Naga Panchami is celebrated. This time Naga Chaturthi and ...

Last Friday, August 4th, we celebrated Varama Lakshmi Pooja at home. Shravana month is going on right now. In Karnataka, we celebrate the second Friday of this month as Vara Lakshmi or Varamahalakshmi Pooja. On that day, Goddess Mahalakshmi blesses the devotees with many boons. We decorate the main door ...

We get to celebrate 2 Gudi Padwas in a year – one is Chandramana Ugadi and the other is Sauramana Ugadi. Ugadi is another name for Gudi Padwa or New Year. Yesterday, this festival was celebrated at Shree Balaji Temple, Mira Road, Mumbai. The programs began from the morning and ...

Yesterday, Hanumat Jayanti was celebrated on a grand scale in India and some foreign countries. Everybody knows who Lord Hanuman is. He was an important part of the epic Ramayana. He was instrumental in the reunion of Goddess Sita and Lord Rama after Ravana had abducted Her. Yesterday, we celebrated ...

Dad always brings potato vadas from a Jain’s shop. The Jain is Dad’s friend. But, when Mom makes something at home, it is a different stuff altogether. Today, she had made herbal potato vada. I had that and am writing this article today. The Konkanastha girl’s query was how is ...

Our Lady of Intolerance and her customers, particularly a man belonging to another religion another one belonging to her own caste, have become so jealous of us that they want to kill my Mom. They have all indulged in black magic and made sure that we have to visit the ...

A question was raised by someone over the phone about how people from Karnataka celebrate Holi. There are 2 types of Maharashtrians – Konkanathas and Deshasthas. Alliances with Deshasthas is possible for people from Karnataka. Today, things have advanced so much that a Konkanastha girl, we know, has been married ...

Nowadays, ladies even perform Shraddhas. It happened with us. We had collections of heirlooms handed down from past generations to ours in our family. Our Lady of Intolerance stole them, when we had gone out. We went to an ashram and told them about it. They told us to perform ...

Vedas and Upanishads say that people performing Shraddhas perform Mahalaya Shraddha for those, who have died without children; people, whose death is not known to their relatives and those, who had accidental deaths. Even today, good people perform Shraddha to these people. My father himself does it. Thus, sonlessness and ...