Lord Shiva statue in a garden Photographer: Leana Clunies-Ross (via visi.co.za)
Print from an album of 44 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Perur, near the Noyyal river, is 7 kms from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. It is famed for its Pattiswaraswami temple dedicated to Shiva. The...
One of the world’s premier institute, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles. It houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Interestingly, this premier institute […]
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Yogi and mystic, Sadhguru looks at how and why the Chidambaram temple was created and explores its association with Patanjali, the father of modern yoga.
Bronze Statue of Shiva, in form of Natraja (850-1278 CE), belonged to Chola Dynasty, from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Of the three gods of the Hindu trinity - Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Siva the Destroyer and Restorer - Siva was especially popular and widely…
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[hr] On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva — a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian
Our guide to the Trincomalee area and things to do outside of Uppuveli beach. Featuring a temple, a museum, Nilaveli and Trincomalee's markets.
by Sharon Morris Gripping the steering wheel with one hand, our driver blasted his horn at the bus heading straight for us on the narrow, winding road. While I held my breath, the other bus swerved to the inside, passing so close I could admire the nose ring on an Indian woman staring out the Read More...
The innermost sanctum of a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva is called a womb chamber in which a stylized phallus called a linga is installed. Together, the chamber and linga represent the potentiality
1) Desert Festival in Jaisalmer , India The pageantry here is stunning! Seriously. Part 2: 2) Indian army holding Indian national flag Part 2: 3) Deepest Stairwell In The World, Rajasthan, India. P…
