23 feb, bharata yatra 2008, hyderabd to washim the drive from hyderabad to washim is something like from hi-tech to pre-tech; from the head to the heart. on either side of the roads were full with the farms of grapes, oranges, sunflowers, barley and wheat. as we entered maharashtra, one could feel the change of […]

hyderabad, 22 feb, bharata yatra 2008, we crossed karnataka then into andhra state. after some distance  our car broke down in the middle of the road. it wouldn’t even move from the spot. there were no apparent reasons why it should not move. where we broke down, there was a temple nearby and a festival […]

Before coming to Mangalore, i had made a resolve that I would find a spot near the spigot where the Tirthum (Abhishekham water) would flow out of the Temple.  Inside the Temple, Amma was going to pour a few dozen pots of sacred water imbued with herbs and sacred mantras.  The murti’s first Abhishekham – […]

22 feb, bharata yatra, hyderabad, andra pradesh hyderabad was huge programme. there was an LED screen put up in the ground. you could see amma even when u go over the bridge of the far road. so clear and nice.  it was so beautiful. it was too cold, in fact chilling at night. the wind […]

22 feb, bharata yatra 2008, raichur, karnataka. the sun was still on the horizon, in its count down. we were 20 km away from karnataka – andhra border. amma’s van pulled over to an office compound. it was the seed collection office of karnataka govt. the moment amma entered there, an old man, in his […]

21 march , bharata yatra 2008. we reached bellari at 7 am the next day. last 20 hours we have been driving. of course there was a chai stop. but it was a straight drive. we stayed in jindal steel factory guest house. the road to the factory was horrible. that is the reason why […]

20 march, bharata yatra 2008 after the mangalore brahmasthanam installation we started off to hyderabad at about 11 a.m. the landscapes of western ghats are beautiful. its a lovely sight of waves of mountains one after the other. its really beautiful. on either side plantations of betel nut, pepper, cardamom and coffee. as amma pass […]

16 feb, bharata yatra 2008, enroute bangalore to mangalore the yatra from bangalore to mangalore was beautiful and tiresome. about 30 kilometers, the road was very bad, but afterwards, the road became smooth and nice. on either side of the road were coffee plantations, beetel-nut and pepper crops. i never knew karnataka has so much […]

Mangalore is a large city in the state of Karnataka along the coast of the Arabian Sea.   It’s cleaner than most cities I’ve seen in India and more developed.   The buildings are taller and the architecture is more western or european.    The program site is on the grounds of Amma’s Vidyalayam which opened 9 years […]