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| On The Occasion of Dhanteras which falls on 06th Nov 2026 | | DHANTERAS POOJAN | | | RAVI ROHMETRA
Happy Dhanteras making the start of Diwali on 06-11-2026 with rituals like cleaning homes, buying gold and performing puja for wealth and health purchasing gold, silver and other auspious items lighting diyas and performing luxmi and Yama Puja. This major hindu d=festival also known as dhantrayodashi is celebrated two days before Dewali. Devotees worship lord Kuber. The day is also celebrated at dhanwantri jyanti, honouring the god of medicine.
Dhanteras is the first day of the five-day Diwali Festival as celebrated primarily in Northern & Western part of India. The festival, known as “Dhanatrayodashi” or “Dhanvantari Trayodashi”.The word Dhanameans wealth and Trayodashi | |
| | | | The Unsung Hero of Kashmiriyat | | A Tribute to Sarvanand Koul Premi | | | Omkar Dattatray
TORCHBEARER OF COMPOSITE CULTURE
Sarvanand Koul Premi was born on 2nd November 1924 and was a legendary Kashmiri poet, journalist, research scholar, Gandhian, social reformer, and above all, a great human being. As Late Sarvanand Koul Premi’s birth anniversary approaches, it is fitting to pen down a tribute to this luminary. Premiji was not merely a poet, writer, thinker, and intellectual; he was a revolutionary, a true advocate, torchbearer, and proponent of Kashmiriyat, syncretic culture, and Hindu-Muslim unity.
Throughout his eventful life, Premiji laid down his precious life for preserving Kashmiriyat and communal harmony. His firm advocacy for composite culture did | |
| | | | Poison in the Air, Politics in the Way: The Public Pays the Price | | | | Lalit Gargg
Festivals are meant to spread happiness; not poison the very air we breathe. Diwali, the festival of lights, symbolises illumination, joy, celebration and goodwill. But when the brilliance of festivities fills the skies with toxic smoke, when children and the elderly struggle to breathe, and when ordinary citizens are forced to yearn for clean air, it becomes imperative to reflect seriously on our festive traditions and collective social responsibilities. The irony is that even an issue as critical to human survival as pollution has become entangled in the smoke of political controversy. When people’s very lives are at stake, viewing such a problem through the narrow lenses o | |
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