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 We celebrate festivals with immense joy and excitement, but in every region the methods are different. Holi, the fun-filled and messy festival of colours is what we Indian love to celebrate with our hearts wide-open. We don’t care about getting dirty because it is how Holi is meant to be celebrated. But there's Holika Dahan also. Holika Dahan is a festival celebrated one day before the festival of colours, Holi. It is celebrated as a festival of victory of good over evil and a triumph of a true devotee. There are many legends associated with this festival. One of the most significant legends is the story of Prahlad and his aunt, Holika.                   Have you ever tried to find out about any other similar festival like Holika Dahan, in this blog I'm going to write about just like our country India, how many other countries celebrate the festival of Bonfire which we call it Holika Dahan.  Guy Fawkes Night (Bonfire Night) - Engla...

 *When God Is a Traveller* Arundhati Subramaniam  (wondering about Kartikeya/ Muruga/ Subramania, my namesake)  Trust the god back from his travels, his voice wholegrain (and chamomile),  his wisdom neem, his peacock, sweaty-plumed, drowsing in the shadows.  Trust him who sits wordless on park benches listening to the cries of children fading into the dusk,  his gaze emptied of vagrancy, his heart of ownership. Trust him who has seen enough— revolutions, promises, the desperate light of shopping malls, hospital rooms, manifestos, theologies, the iron taste of blood, the great craters in the middle of love.  Trust him who no longer begrudges his brother his prize, his parents their partisanship.  Trust him whose race is run, whose journey remains, who stands fluid-stemmed knowing he is the tree that bears fruit, festive with sun. Trust him who recognizes you— auspicious, abundant, battle-scarred, alive— and knows from where you come.  Trust th...

 I'm composing this blog on the grounds of a Web Quest task assigned to me by my teacher to know more about the task,  CLICK HERE .  J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling, pen name of Joanne Rowling, (born July 31, 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England), British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, about a young sorcerer in training. The first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997; also published as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), was released under the name J.K. Rowling. (Her publisher recommended a gender-neutral pen name; born Joanne Rowling, she used J.K., adding the middle name Kathleen.) The book was an immediate success, appealing to both children, who were its intended audience, and adults. Featuring vivid descriptions and an imaginative story line, it followed the adventures of the unlikely hero Harry Potter, a lonely orphan who discovers that he is actually a wizard and...

Hello Readers,  I'm writing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me by my teacher. To know more about the task CLICK HERE  . Trailer of the Movie                   Imagine if one day someone comes to you and says that you are the descendant of a Holy bloodline. What would you do if one day someone comes to you and says that your grandfather was not your real grandfather, he was just your protector? , what would you do if someone questions the very idea of God and the myths around his marriage and his descendants? What would you do when you come to know that you don't like riddles, puzzles and mysterious but you yourself are a key to all the puzzles, riddles and mystery? You wouldn't believe right, yes the same things happen with Sophia. I'm talking about the world famous and one of the most controversial books, DA Vinci Code written by Dan Brown. It's a mystery thriller which revolve...