Last year, Aruna Vijay, a northern-origin Jain woman raised in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, became a successful Masterchef India finalist, even though she insisted she won't cook eggs and other items considered non-vegetarian. She now has a cult following, but the current social climate requires somebody like her, such as the fictional Annapoorani, to go that extra mile to 'belong' in …
Days ahead of the grand ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered prayers at the Shree Kala Ram Mandir situated along the banks of Godavari in Maharashtra’s Nashik. The ‘Yuddh Kand’ of the Hindu epic Ramayan, which depicts Lord Ram’s return to Ayodhya, was played in Marathi at the temple for …
Headless statues, limbless statues, columns with their roofs missing. Situated by a vast lake is Wat Phra Ram, initially built as a cremation site for one of the first Ayutthayan king, Ramathibodi I, but later turned into a temple. Buddha’s head in the roots is just one of the many marvels at Wat Maha That, built in 1374 and set …
