Onam is a secular festival and close to heart of all Keralites and is celebrated with equal fervor in all parts of Kerala, a southern state in India. The legend behind this festival is . . . more
Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living. --------------Bertrand Russell
On Gather, I'm Looking For ...:
Dear Gatherites,
I hail from a place called, Athicode, Kerala, India. Our church is about 160 years old, build by Portuguese. Every year on the first sunday of January we celebrate the feast of the three wise men in our church. On this day we stage a drama "Koothu" where three people dressed like kings enact their journey to meet the new born baby. This Koothu is in time being from the day our church was built. However because of lack of support the artists performing this act are hesitating to perform in the coming years. I would like to know from you, are there any agencies which can fund for the protection of this traditional art.
