Village Fair

It’s been a good vacation to native this time, as there was a village fair.
Summer vacation wouldn’t have been better without village fair and family get together.
Samuhik vivah (Mass marriages in one roof) had been organized on this fair occasion to help those who cannot afford marriage cost individually.
They have been conducting group marriage ceremony from fast 5 years.

Really it is an appreciable effort by village leaders. It helps those who cannot afford marriage expenses. All village people and surrounding people voluntarily contribute for this event and make it successful.

This time there were 24 couples entered into marriage knot. This is not an easy task to handle, requires prepared plan to execute and control the crowd. Enough food was prepared but the serving of food was not managed properly.

Yamanuru - shrine: Symbol of Secularism

Yamanuru, a village located near Navalagund in Dharwad District. There is a temple which is indeed a symbol of secularism, where all religious people worship. Distant located devotees visit this place on every Thursday.
The temple attracts all kind of devotees, irrespective of caste and creed. Though temple looks like Muslim dargha externally, it has Hindu god idol (Ganesh) on front door. God name also resembles combination of Hindu and Muslim name. The tradition is that, most of the devotees take a dip in a small stream of water. Devotees don’t bother to take a dip in highly contaminated water. They call it as a tradition and belief to take bath before visiting temple. I feel it’s a height of belief to take bath and drink such impure water in the name of devotion.

Here I have uploaded some pics of this holy place.