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Padayatra from Puri arrives at Holi Gate Today
Mathura, 2015.10.22 (VT, DJ): As Sharad Purnima approaches and Braj is busy celebrating Rama’s Dussehra and Navaratri, celebrations of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s visit to Braj in 1515 are beginning to hit...
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Traditional Hindu rituals making comeback in Braj
Mathura, 2015.10.22 (Brij Khandelwal) IANS, BS): Rituals and traditions once going out of fashion are back in favour in Braj Mandal, the ‘Leela Bhoomi’ of Sri Sri Radha Krishna. Each year, the...
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Mathura families make Ravanas for Jaipur for generations
Jaipur, 2015.10.22 (TNN, Ashish Mehta): Seventy-year-old Mohammed Hanif was seen giving final touches to an effigy of Ravana at Adarsh Nagar Ramlila ground in the city on Wednesday afternoon. A knife...
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Padayatra from Puri arrives in Mathura Thursday
Vrindavan, 2015.10.22 (AU, DJ) The Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsava, the festival celebrating Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s arrival in Vrindavan 500 years ago, is going to be celebrated in November but it is...
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Guest lineup for Prakash Mahotsava includes President, Governor and CM
Vrindavan, 2015.10.24 (AU): Many celebrations are on tap to mark the 500th anniversary of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s coming to Vrindavan in the month of November. At least three major committees have been...
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Sri Chaitanya comes to Vrindavan (Part I)
hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇeti kṛṣṇeti mukhyān mahāścarya-nāmāvalī-siddha-mantrān | kṛpā-mūrti-caitanya-devopagītān kadābhyasya vṛndāvane syāṁ kṛtārthaḥ || When will I be fulfilled in Vrindavan by practising the...
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Mother India in Ruins
Samita Sorkar, 2015.10.24 (Huffington Post) I was born in Canada as the only child of Hindu parents who taught me the spiritual value of simple living and high thinking. We had never went on family...
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Auspicious month of Kartik Niyam Seva begins in Vraja
Vrindavan, October 26, 2015: In Vrindavan, the forty-day-long Kartik Niyam Seva begins from Shukla Ekadashi, which this year fell on 24th October. Some devotees begin their vow a couple of days later...
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Vrindavan deities in Jaipur
Jaipur, 2015.10.26 (Shoba Narayan, Mintonsunday). The year: AD 1669. King Mirza Rajah Jai Singh, who was at the Mughal court, sends a messenger to the temple priests at Vrindavan with some chilling...
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Night vision cameras to curb eve teasing, traffic menace
Mathura: Uttar Pradesh police is all set to install night vision cameras at 51 places within 12 square kilometers area of Vrindavan, in a bid to curb eve-teasing as well as counter the traffic snarls...
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Sharad Purnima resembles the epitome of Divine Love
MaharaasBhakti conferenceMaharaasVrindavan, October 27th 2015: The festival of Sharad Purnima was celebrated in the temples of Vrindavan on Tuesday to mark the Divine Event of Maharaas Lila. It is...
View ArticleWater Ministry pilot project for waste water recycling in Mathura-Vrindavan
New Delhi, 2015.10.28 (KNN) The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has sought for transaction advisory support team towards a public-private partnership (PPP) for...
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Adhokshajananda Tirtha calls for law banning cow slaughter
Mathura, 2015.10.28 (PTI): Amid the beef row, pretender to the post of Puri Shankaracharya Adhokshajanand Tirtha Maharaj today called for a central legislation banning cow slaughter even as he was...
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Vrindavan struggles to manage its solid waste
Vrindavan, 2015.10.31 (IANS): Uttar Pradesh’s holy town of Vrindavan, where it is said Lord Krishna spent his childhood in ancient times, is faced with a major problem of disposing off its solid waste...
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Karva Chauth: An old curse forbids observing in Braj village
Mathura, 2015.10.31 (TOI): A day when women from across the country observe fasts, praying for the long lives of their husbands, women in the quaint town of Surir in Mathura District, do not celebrate...
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Glorious Humanist of Krishna’s Abode
Vrindavan, 2015.11.01 (Padmashri Geeta Chandran, Indian Express) It was about twenty years ago that I began visiting Vrindavan often to have a dialogue with Shrivatsa Goswami at the Caitanya Prema...
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Nimbarkacharya Jayanti Mahotsava commences from Sunday
Vrindavan, 2015.11.05 (VT). The 172th Nimbarka Acharya-Vrinda Jayanti Mahotsava celebration shall commence from Kartika Krishna Panchami, Monday 1st November 2015, at the historic Nimbarka-Koat temple...
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Nepali Bhajan Ashram destroyed by land mafia
Vrindavan, 2015.11.07 (AU): Greedy speculators looking to profit from rising land values in Vrindavan continue to wreak havoc in the holy town. On Thursday night, a group of 50-60 armed persons...
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Prakash Mahotsav: Light and sound at Kusum Sarovar on 17th
Govardhan, 2015.11.07 (VT): The 500th anniversary of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s arrival in Vrindavan will see numerous celebrations conducted by several groups of devotees following in his tradition. One...
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Ascetics, widows seek police action after huts razed at midnight
Vrindavan, 2015.11.08 (Brij Khandelwal, TNN): Hundreds of locals staged a protest after the Bhajan Kuti of Nepali Samaj was razed to the ground allegedly at the behest of a temple priest in the Kotwali...
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