Bahai
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My ridiculous 2004 fasting article
The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…
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One Nineteenth
The chilly mornings and nights and windy days over here have made way for unbearable heat. That must signal that one nineteenth of the year in which Baha’i Bloggers and Baha’is alike are abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sundown has started. Not like the fast my Ethiopian Orthodox roommates do for two…
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Ajanta to Jaipur to Delhi to Oblivion
(Journey North Begins, Paris to Bangalore to Dharwad, Dharwad to Belguam to Panchgani, Panchgani to Mahableshwar to Pune to Ajanta) Like a kid in a candy store. After the monks ran out of ideas they started to build the same thing in different sizes. The above two photos should make an optical illusion that is blowing your mind…
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First 19 Day Feast in Dharwad
One of the very cool things about Baha’i communities around the world is that they tend to take the form of the culture they are in, this is especially so when the members of the community are made up mostly of local people rather than travelers like myself. The best place to see this play…
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Krishi Mela 2007
Special regard must be paid to agriculture. -Baha’u’llah, Tablets 90 When I arrived to the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences on the 30th, my new home for the next 6 months, I wasn’t able to get an accurate impression of the campus because it happened to be the site of a public municipal…
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Just Added: The Meaty Compilation
First item under the works category of this website and in the menu your right, my left, is the 2002 compilation, The Meaty Compilation. It’s a work in progress so check it out and leave your comments.
Samuel Benoit 