Wishing You All A Beautiful, Loving, and A Fulfilling New Year! Happy Deepavali! M&A
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Tirupati: A Walk Enlightens
Posted on April 2, 2006 by Arun Shanbhag
It was a dream of mine to walk up the mountains to the Tirupati Temple. When I shared this with M, the 14 km hike up more than 4000 steps did not dissuade her. My dream became her's too! Last summer, after a week-long tour of Aihole, Badami, Pattadakal and Hampi, we took an overnight [...]
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Baanganga: Satellite View
Posted on February 20, 2006 by Arun Shanbhag
A satellite view of Baanganga. Its the dark green quadrangle on the left. If you have Google Earth: enter the co-ordinates as above, or in fractional degrees as: 18.945454N 72.793612E But first, in PREFERENCES and the default VIEW tab, select “Degrees.”
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Baanganga: In the Heart of Mumbai
Posted on February 15, 2006 by Arun Shanbhag
After a refreshing early morning run in Mumbai I recounted the route to my parents. I had run from Electric House, via Mantralaya, along the Chowpatty sea face, past Wilson College to the top of the hill. “That's Walkeshwar hill!” my father revealed, “and if you had gone a little further you would have reached [...]
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Ganapati Bappa!
Posted on September 6, 2005 by Arun Shanbhag
Ganapati from our home, 2002. On this occasion of Ganapati Wishing Everyone Days full of Peace and Good Cheer!
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Mangeshi Devasthan, Goa
Posted on May 1, 2005 by Arun Shanbhag
This follows a longer write-up on the Ramnathi Devasthan. The Mangeshi Devasthan in Goa is a crown jewel of Konkani Temples. The Shiva Linga representing Mangesh, was originally in the ancient temple of Kushastali (Cortalim, Salcete Taluka). When the Portuguese destroyed the original temple in 1561, the linga was relocated across the Zuari River near [...]
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Book: Explaining Hindu Dharma
Posted on March 9, 2005 by Arun Shanbhag
I am always on the look-out for good books on Hinduism. And I have seen several requests here for recommendations for good books. Generally I have not been pleased with the books I have bought or browsed. Either they were so academic that they bored me to death, or they were so superfluous, badly written [...]
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Home Shrine: Where I bow my head every morning
Posted on July 7, 2004 by Arun Shanbhag
Every morning I pay my respects to the Supreme Being at a small altar in our spare room. It started with the brass “OM” on the bookshelf during my student days. I purchased the Om along with a booklet of Swami Vivekananda’s lectures, at a road-side stall in Kanya Kumari. Reading Vivekananda’s 1893 lecture to [...]
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Durga Devi – The All Powerful Shakti
Posted on April 3, 2004 by Arun Shanbhag
After my earlier post on the Chicago Balaji Temple, reminded me about the Balaji Temple in Atlanta, GA. I was fortunate to visit the temple in Dec of last year. More than the main deity, “Durga Devi” in the seconday shrine intrigued me. Durga manifests the fertile woman, as the all powerful shakti, full of [...]
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