For my mother, who was born and raised in orthodox Rawalpindi of the pre-Partition times, the sight of a teenaged girl in a frock riding a bicycle on the lane opposite her home and whistling as she ...

Vijayawada: A huge rush of devotees was registered at Kanaka Durga temple on the fifth day of nine-day long Dasara celebrations. Goddess Kanaka Durga was worshipped as Sri Maha Chandi Devi for the ...

Bakhrabad residents, who worship Goddess Chinnamastika — an incarnation of Kali who chops her own head — will display their chandi medha (silver filigree backdrop) in the public by carrying it during ...

Surendranagar (Gujarat) [India], December 2 (ANI): The famous Maa Chamunda temple in Gujarat, is the only temple in the country where two forms of the goddess Durga are seen and worshipped together.

Even though Kali puja does not command as grandeur and fanfare as Durga Puja in the Millennium City, the trend of chandi medha (silver tableau) seems to have percolated to the puja committees. The ...

HYDERABAD: When one needs solace, one turns to God. K Chandrasekhara Rao, the man spearheading the Telangana movement, surely needs it urgently. Telangana has seen everything in the past one year: ...