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We Bengalis always follow the never ending 'baro mase tero parbon' trend. After being worshipped from Panchami to Nabami, Ma Durga leaves us on the day of Vijaya Dashami. People bid her goodbye by doing boron, sindur khela and some mishtimukh at the end. Since, childhood, I always went to my relative's place after bisarjan for the kolakoli, pronam and mainly the special homemade nimki.       After the rush of those five days, life seems to have taken a much slower route. If your Puja vacation are not over yet, then the days are incomplete without a little bhat-ghum after the lunch. Though its disheartening for the ones who have to work in the office after their lunch during these days. Nobody can convince us for an evening study during these days.       Soon the ladies in the family starts preparing for the upcoming Kojagori Lokkhi pujo and the smell of narus and moyas are enough to make you drool for some before the pujas. After the pujo ends with lokkhir pachali, one cann

Source: AFP  We all heard about 'crocodile tears' which means to show or create fake sympathy towards anything. However Babiya, a 75 year old crocodile's nature proved this phrase wrong. Babiya is a vegetarian crocodile who lived at Kerala's Anandapadmanabha Swamy temple. The locals believe that babiya was a divine soul believed to guard the cave into which the lord disappeared. Unfortunately when this pure soul Babiya died on October 9th, every devotee and temple officials were disheartened. She might be a mere crocodile but her nature has resulted in what we can say- 'tears for a crocodile'. Nobody knew how she came in the pond since there were no other ponds or rivers nearby.  Babiya had became one of the main attractions of this temple as people believed her to be the messenger of Lord Padmanabha himself which was around 46km from Mangaluru. The crocodiles here are believed to be divine because if one crocodile dies, then mysteriously another one