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"Each festival celebrated is a landmark for our spiritual growth": This week marks the beginning of celebrations for the Tibetan New Year, with Tibetans inside Tibet and around the world marking Losar, with music, dancing, and religious practices

People in Sikkim will celebrate the Tibetan New Year, Losar, on February 21 this year. In light of the state-wide celebration of the occasion, all banks will be closed on Tuesday. While net banking and online services will remain functional on the day, the physical branches of all the banks in the state will observe the holiday. People are advised not to schedule any tasks that require a visit to the bank for February 21.

"You are never lost when you can see the temple": In Tretayugam, there lived a sage by the name of Yadarishi, son of the great sage Rishyasrunga who did penance inside a cave with the blessings of Hanuman on this hill between Bhongir and Raigiri

Yadagirigutta is a census town in the Nalgonda district in the Indian state of Telangana.

“If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it”: Bedara Vesha of Sirsi town is a unique folk dance with a legend of 300 years which is performed every alternate year to celebrate largest Holi festival of Karnataka, also known as Hunter Dance

The sweet aroma of jaggery, the sound of traditional mortar and pestle, the continuous chatter of relatives, and loud playful children are the signs of a festival in Uttara Kannadahouse .there are hundreds of festivals in a year.

"यतो हस्त स्ततो दृष्टि यतो दृष्टि स्ततो मनः | यतो मनः स्ततो भाव: यतो भाव स्ततो रस:" Bharata Muni's magnum opus Natyashastra is depiction & communication pertaining to emotions of the triple world | Natya refers to dance & drama, Shastra refers to science

Natyashastra is the earliest literature on music and drama – written somewhere around 500 BC by Bharata Muni. Comprising 6000 couplets in Sanskrit and spread over thirty-six chapters, Natyashastra’s focus was on dance and drama, with music as an aid. The title is a combination of two Sanskrit words – Natya and Shastra.

"You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become": Google Software Engr. launches GitaGPT that deploys AI to answer your questions about life problems, “What if you could talk to Bhagavad Gita? To Lord Krishna himself?”

GitaGPT: Following OpenAI’s release of the ChatGPT AI chatbot, tech giants Microsoft and Google unveiled their own versions of it. Google introduced the Bard chatbot, while Microsoft integrated ChatGPT-like technology into its Bing search engine.

"When Shiva beats his DAMRU DAM DAM- Evil Shakes and the Wise Awakes": Sri Endala Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple in Ravivalasa, Andhra Pradesh is one of the largest Swayambhu Shivalinga which kept growing has its origins in tretayug of Ramayana

An ancient temple dedicated to Sri #Endala_Mallikarjuna_Swamy is in the village of Ravivalasa. This linga believed to be swayambhu (self-manifested), measures about 20m in height and 3m in width. According to legend, the Pandavas visited this temple during their exile and met Maharishi Markandeya here.

“I am Shakti, as well as Shiva. I am everything male and female, light and dark, flesh and spirit": History of Shivalinga at Tongaji Temple, Nagoya, Japan, a Buddhist temple of the Sōtō Zen sect located in Nagoya, originally built in 1532 by Oda Nobuyuki

What is the history of Shivalinga situated at Tongaji Temple, Nagoya, Japan? 

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again": Athi Varadaraja, an incarnation of Vishnu is the original Vigraha of Varadaraja Perumal Temple preserved in an underground chamber of temple tank and is brought out once every 40yrs

The Temple Varadharaja Perumal Temple located in the city of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu is dedicated to Lord Vishnu. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Lord Vishnu and is of immense religious importance.

"True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless": Do you know on occasion of birth anniversary celebrations of Netaji Bose on 23 Jan 1949, Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar announced that Bose was alive

Ukkirapandi MuthuramalingaThevar ( உக்கிரபாண்டி முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர்) (October 30, 1908 – October 30, 1963), also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar was an Indian politician. He hailed from the Maravar community, the dominant warrior caste group in his home district in southern Tamil Nadu.

"You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line": Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi - activist journalist who used journalism to aspire political engagement & develop critical thinking among the masses, who lived- and died- for communal harmony

The British polymath Thomas Carlyle’s wrote in his much celebrated work ‘Heroes and Hero Worship, (1841) “[Edmund] Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.”

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