Suchin Dailies

Panoramic view of Triveni Sangam (meeting of rivers Ganga and Yamuna) The sheer volume of people from all over the nation, descending at Allahabad for a spiritual dip in Ganga mixed with Yamuna river at Sangam, was something to be experienced being right there. Watching it over the TV or videos on websites would not have given us the same feel of actually looking at the mammoth assembly of people.  I stayed with Chandra Mouli, my long time buddy, in Hyderabad for two days. Enjoyed hospitality of his mother and sister who packed us 4 zip locked Puliyogares for our journey. Our first hurdle was to get the confirmed tickets to Allahabad on train. Having booked online, we were put on waiting list that was around 200 initially and was down to 20 something previous night. Next morning it was WL7! and charts closed! Mouli wanted to know if we should go or drop out since no ticket means we need to go unreserved, with no hopes of getting a seat for the next 36 hours! But I thoug...

T his post has nothing to do with Pope laying down his resignation. But it has only triggered me to look into 'matters' inside Vatican. Just out of curiosity I started to visit their official website and started searching for 'Hindu' and 'India'. Not a surprise to me that I found records of 1886 and older.  Some of the recordings of history of Christian push in India of those times, are painful to read, from the perspective of 'conversion' and that too a planned one leaving no stones unturned. How they worked with various christian groups to play with innocent minds of Hindus and slowly convert them without creating any suspicion in the minds of neither the public nor the authorities.  India was not their only target. Wherever they perceived gullible people they ruthlessly invaded with their religion, at even costing their lives. I wonder sometimes, why the eff would Jesus have ever preached such enforced conversion of humans to believe him?  Ther...