DEVI BHAGVATI
'They must not become just another statistic.' Anand Mahindra mourns 5 Army personnel killed in Rajouri, salutes extraordinary courage that keeps 'a billion of us safe'
The business leader said it takes exemplary courage to defend one's country and its citizens.
Army, police pay tributes to 5 soldiers killed in Rajouri encounter
Security forces honored five personnel killed in a Jammu and Kashmir encounter. A 36-hour gunfight in Darmsal led to the demise of two terrorists, including an LeT commander, and five soldiers, among them two captains. A solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the Army General Hospital Rajouri paid tribute to the martyrs: Captains Pranjal and Gupta, Havaldar Majid, Lance Naik Bisht, and Paratrooper Laur, survived by their grieving families. The fallen soldiers' remains are being sent home for final rites.
When ‘our’ Devi Bhagvati is assimilated as ‘their’ mother goddess in Southeast Asia
Devi Bhagavati, the shakti of Shiva, arrived on the distant shores of an erstwhile kingdom of Champa in Vietnam as part of ancient Asian cultural networks. She was assimilated within the prevailing local belief in mother goddess worship and her sanctuary was built by the Chams in Kauthara, now known as the Po Ina Nagar temple in the coastal city of Nha Trang in south-central Vietnam.
