#rituals
66 fall ill after eating food during rituals in Ballia villages
66 people, including 45 women, fell ill in Ballia after eating madua flour roti and bati during pre-Jyutiya rituals; flour traced to one mill and shop.
‘Mahasnan’ of deities performed with rituals
Mahasnan Yatra held at Prayagraj’s Kidganj Jagannath temple; deities bathed with 108 pitchers, enter 15-day Anasar seclusion before Rath Yatra.
6 ancient temple towns in India that feel frozen in time
India’s ancient temple towns are not the places you can visit with checklist. They demand you to slow down. Mornings here are divine; it starts with ringing bells and priests chanting prayers. These cities are centuries old, and they run on rituals passed dow…