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The Mangaluru Diaries

The Mangalore Diaries

Festivals of Mangalore: ISKCON Rathotsava

International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) organises Sri Jagannath Rathotsava in Mangalore once in a year. Every year, the splendidly decorated chariots of Lord Jagannath roll down the avenues of dozens of Cities across the world including Los Angeles, New […]

The Mangalore Diaries

Festivals of Mangalore: Aati Kalanja

Aati festival in Mangalore is one of the regional festivals of the territory. The Aati festival of Mangalore is celebrated by the Nalke community of Mangalore as a reverence to Kalanja, a minor spirit. Aati Kalanja Festival is folk dance […]

The Jaipur Journal

Faking Manipal

Bollywood studios to replace panel of writers with translators

With the amount of original content coming from OTT platforms, producers are running haywire to convert black money to white for the next unoriginal masala budget eater. Many actors from Bollywood have also reportedly expressed [...]

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Home and Belonging in Manipal

What do you call Manipal? A city, town or a village? Which other place combines the Cosmopolitan vibrancy of a city, the demographics of a town and the intimate scale of a village so seamlessly? Manipal is essentially a settlement […]

National & World

Kings, Kingmakers and Politics

The last two days had all eyes fixed on Karnataka as Congress made its last stand in one of the few states it is in power. The proposed coalition seemed to have given some respite to those seeking to keep the BJP from forming the Government but in a swerve the Governor invited the BSY led BJP to form the government giving him 15 days to prove his majority. Here is a recap of all the developments in the past two days leading up to this. […]