Surya Devta requires us to not shirk our responsibility but fight against those who try to dismantle this great civilization at every step.
Category: <span>STORY</span>
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Arasavalli Suryanarayana Temple – Part 1
As control of Hindu temples by the government gets more widespread, temple priests find it harder and harder to continue their ancestral occupation.
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Memoirs of a Kondh in Konark – Part 3
Surya Devta once again rises up in his abode at the Konark Sun Temple.
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Memoirs of a Kondh in Konark – Part 2
The idea of severing ties with their ancient culture seems to have easily for those who have converted, now leading a life bereft of any roots.
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Memoirs of a Kondh in Konark – Part 1
The evangelizing forces that have swarmed through the tribal belt ensure that the indigenous way of life is nothing but a distant memory.
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The Autumn Wind
The haunting experience of returning to ones homeland from where you were once cast away.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Martand Temple, Kashmir – Part 3
Tilak was banned, janeu was forbidden, Hindu clothes could no longer be worn, temples could not be built or renovated...and of course a foreign tongue and script rode roughshod over Kashmiri and Sharada, despite such desperate attempts at usurping a beauteous land from its original inhabitants, it did not perish.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Martand Temple, Kashmir – Part 2
The night was endless, and the ground shaky, the waters seemed to invite her to jump in and not resurface ever, yet dawn broke with its promise for brightness, shining its orbs on the cragged edges of the Zabarwan, and as she looked towards Mahadev’s peak, she prayed for his assistance.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Martand Temple, Kashmir – Part 1
A young woman's journey amidst the turmoil to reconnect with her past as she struggles to straddle the complexities of the present.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Modhera – Part 2
The followers of Surya Devta still rever him even after centuries of turmoil.