Woman string flowers into garlands

The flower garlands are hung in sacred places like the temple and the home alter, as well as over pictures of the deceased, over the entrance to the home, from the rear view mirror, and so on.

In Devaraja Market

December 2nd 2008
On Monday, we headed to downtown Mysore to replenish our book supply at a 3-story bookstore, eat a South Indian Thali (set vegetarian all-you-can-eat meal) at our favorite local place (Das Prakash Hotel) ($.90), and wonder around Devaraja Market, an everything market -- veggies, fruit, flowers, cane sugar, pots and pans, plastic-ware, incense, essential oils, wood carvings, everything everything e ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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