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Articles with tag: temple

An Ode Called Amritsar

Ammara Ahmad   Jul 14, 2008   interacts: 141


On hearing that I was about to visit her ancestral city, my mother gave me instructions to reach her childhood home from the railway station...

Vanishing temples of Thar and Nagar Parkar

Ameer Hamza   Oct 29, 2006   interacts: 16

Thar desert has a splendid collection of ancient temples, testimony to the presence of colourful Hindu and Jain kingdoms. We don’t know the exact number of temples in the area but one document states their number to be 14.

Why Shankar Failed?

Anil Kala   Jul 1, 2006   interacts: 15

It is time now for you to experience the proximity of God.

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey   May 3, 2006   interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

In the Dying Light

Farzana Versey   Mar 8, 2006   interacts: 215

I do not see the dead bodies of Varanasi. It is like wanting to remember something that one has cherished as it was. I am not denying what happened, I know it is something that needs to be probed into, but I cannot get myself to even think

Charnaamat

Chanchal Pal   Mar 24, 2004   interacts: 14

Prithvi Raj Chauhan fought Ghori at close by Thanesar. Shaikh Chilli’s maqbara that smelled like a pesticide and fertilizer shop was impressive

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