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Real Life Shravan Kumar of Ramayana

Shravan Kumar, the youth who exhibited unparalleled parental devotion in the epic Ramayan by carrying his blind parents on his shoulders, is being emulated by Kailash Giri Brahamchari by carrying his blind mother on his shoulders on a Char Dham Yatra. The 36-year-old Kailash Giri Brahamchari is a native of Wargi village near Sankat Mochan town in Madhya Pradesh and he has been carrying his 80-year-old blind mother on his shoulders for 12 years. All this to fulfill his mother’s vow – she had promised to go on a religious journey if her only son recovered from an accident. Gautam Sarkar writes about this unique and nowadays rare Mother-Son relationship in The Telegraph, Calcutta “When I was around eight years old, I had climbed a tree top and then fallen down. I broke my hand and my blind mother prayed for my recovery. She pledged that if I got cured, she would set out on a religious voyage to all the important shrines in the country. I recovered very quickly without any medic

Cambodia Hindu Temple Preah Vihear Added to UNESCO World Heritage List

The 11th century Preah Vihear Temple located on a mountaintop on the Cambodia-Thailand border was included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List on July 7, 2008. Preah Vihear Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and dates back to the first half of the 11th century AD. Unfortunately, there is an ongoing dispute regarding the ownership of the temple between Cambodia and Thailand . Although the temple is situated in Cambodia , the main entrance lies at the foot of a mountain in Thailand . In 1962, the World Court had ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia . But successive Thailand governments did not agree to this ruling as public opinion in the country was against acceding the ownership of the temple to Cambodia . Forget the political reasons; the Preah Vihear Temple has all the qualities needed to be part of the UNESCO World Heritage List The World Heritage Committee quoted the following reasons for making the temple part of the UNESCO’s World Heritage: