Picture Source: Pinterest Picture Source: Pinterest Picture Source: Pinterest A Cake is a dish that is reserved for special occasions. Like all foods and dishes, they too have a deep history. The first cakes were made in Egypt, they were simple pieces of bread dipped in honey. The round cakes came around the 17th Century, […]
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When we juxtapose Prakriti or nature with Sanskriti or Culture in light of the Vedas, we imagine the former as savage and ruled by the law of domination. The culture is always against the law of the jungle. It upholds itself as a place where the weak are protected by the strong.
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Picture Source: Ramyani Sengupta and Shatabdi Dass Jabalpur is a city that has always been enveloped in culture. For the unversed, this region was ruled by the Kalachuris, the Gondwanas, the Marathas, and finally the British before the independence and thus it saw various historic changes, and each of these rules has left a mark
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“Meenakshi….Her eyes are as golden and graceful as a fish’s. That would be a lovely name for her…” {Rishi Vishwaras on occasion of his daughter’s birth, Lanka’s Princess, Kavita Kane} Unfortunately, India always has adopted a hypocritical policy regarding its treatment of women who are worshipped in the temples and yet step-downed upon elsewhere. The
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