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Happy Bangladeshi New Year! Pahela Baishakh

2017-04-212018-02-21

Pahela Baishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar. It has been celebrated within urban and rural communities since Mughal emperor Akbar inaugurated it in the fifteenth century to align with harvest season and tax collection. Irrespective of its...

Wall of the Lord: Famed Pilgrimage Temple Branches into ICH Promotion

2017-04-212018-07-19

Nathdwara is a famed Vaishnavite pilgrimage site in the Aravalli Hills, fifty kilometers northeast of Udaipur, Rajasthan. Hundreds of thousands of devotees annually visit its central Shrinathji Temple to worship a fourteenth century icon of Shrinathji, a beloved child incarnation...

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