Subscribe to Site Feed

what's new f.a.q about us feedback

history women portraits mythology

arts music culture paintings

tags sitemap timeline index a-z

pictures! stamps erotica biographies

gandhi tribals temples religions

 

Best of AnthoBLOGy • Unripe Revolution • Rooster's Dharma • Don't Know Jack • No Love for Condi • Blogger's Block • Father of the Bride • TinTin's Diary - I • TinTin's Diary II • Hate Bollywood • Child Labor • M.F.Husain Guilty •Marathi & Konkani • Artist's Daughter • India's First IT Guru

Computing, Libraries, Tennis, India & other interests of Vikas Kamat

Things to do for God

Things You do for God Appeasing God is a new section I have opened at Kamat's Potpourri, and it explores the elements of devotion in India. Contents include my own experiences, traditions we've documented, and of course, a lot of pictures on the topic. The first in the series is a report on Gundabala, where people having been Dancing for God for eight-hundred years in a time-tested tradition. The belief is that the deity doesn't refuse any fair requests (example of a fair request are: cure for infertility, matrimonial happiness, success in job-hunt), if you promise to entertain him all night long with a performance of  a song-dance-theater. Also read brief history of the town of Gundabala and an interview with a local family. See Also: • Meeting God • The Bhakti Cults • Song-Dance-Theater Art of Yakshagana (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Last Modified: 11/20/2002

Browse More Entries

About Me:

• My Home Page
• Contact me
• Kamat Family Album

Powered  NOT by Blogger or MovabaleType or WordPress, but by SimplyBlog, a software I wrote to create blogs. See details of implementation or download SimplyBlog.