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I received this mail from one of my friends just now and decided that I must share it immediately with my friends at ikolam. Read on and be very careful in future..

I never gave it a thought. Who would have thought? Have you ever realised girls and ladies who keep their handbags on public toilet floors then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!

That was fairly easy. I used a white linga and placed a lamp in the centre. I drew
an octagonal rangOli because Siva is also an ashTamUrti, i.e., has eightfold
aspects. For mInAkshi, I drew the fish for eyes and rotated one by 90 degrees and
clipped the edge so that it looks like a tilakam. The dark colour was deliberately

As we talked about the sacrifice of a working women in raising up their family,kids,economical status etc, there arises a question of getting support from her man.once i read an Q/A page from Kumudam Snegidhi "when a women feels her life miserable?" the answer was when she is not understood or supported by her man.her chance of winning is reduced to 50% when she lacks his support and understanding.i dont know whether its true or not.

Today we attended the Dilworth - 5th grade spring recital program. Diya had been looking forward to this one for quiet a while! She was given a solo-part in singing a song from the popular movie "Sound of music" (Aidel weiss), in her school-chorus program. The girls did a fabulous job in singing as well as in playing the drums.

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It is not the H1N1 flu that is gripping India.
It's the election fever, dude!
While you're all voting from one side,
somebody from the other side is .....!

Regards! - mOhana

Before I leave lIlASuka, let me dwell upon this topic for one more day (bonus to you
latAjI:-). There are three recensions of SrIkRshNakarNAmRta (SKK). It is the second
volume that is more famous in the southern parts of India. Daily prayers such as
kastUrI tilakam, karAraviMdEna, etc. are from this. There is even an album on

This one is also from SrikRshNakarNAmRta. The innocence of kRshNa, for that matter any
child, is very well described here -

kAliMdIpulinOdarEshu - On the sandy banks of the river yamunA
musalI - balarAma
yAvad gata@h khElitum - has gone to play
tAvat karburikApaya@h piba - drink the milk from the spotted cow
harE - my dear krshNA
vardhishyatE tE SikhA - your topknot will grow!

On May 10th (Mother's day), we attended a unique discourse-concert entitled BHAKTI SUDHA presented by one of Bay area's well known Carnatic vocal music teacher, Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan. The concert featured renditions of and explanations on selections from beautiful compositions of Saint Purandara Dasa and Saint Tyagaraja that expound devotion or Bhakti as the path to realize God and as a means to salvation.