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Special bhasma aarti performed at Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on Basant Panchami

Ujjain (MP) 23 Jan 2026 (ANI): A special Bhasma Aarti was performed at Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on the auspicious occasion of Basant Panchmi. Devotees witnessed the sacred pre-dawn ritual ...
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Remarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.