Mahashivarathi Vrat according to Hindu mythology, observance of vrat with discipline helps a devotee to control the great natural forces that afflict a man, rajas guna ( the quality of passionate activity) and tamas guna ( the quality of inertia). When a devotee spends an entire day in the feet of Lord and worships with sincerity, his motion is controlled and evils like lust, anger and jealousy, born of Rajas […]

In a spirit of brotherhood, villagers clean Nand Kishore temple in Bandipora for puja. Muslims have cleaned up and organised a puja at a temple and 1,000 specially-designed ‘Herath’ greeting cards have been produced: this Sivaratri, Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims are bonding strongly, and social media is providing the platform to relive past memories. For the first time since hundreds of Pandit families migrated out of the Valley in the […]