What is this Place known as?PARSI TEMPLE

PARSI TEMPLE (Agiyari), opposite Benyon Smith High School, Camp Belgaum.

The Parsi Temple in Belgaum was consecrated about 118 years ago. On December 9th 1891.The temple was built by Kurseji Pestonji Boyce. There is a Dharamshala, a guest house for Parsi travelers and also residences for the priest.

In the year 1920, the temple was handed over to the Anjuman for maintenance and for performing the daily rituals. The rituals essentially comprise of fire worship and prayers which are carried forth, five times a day. The chief priest is the only authorized person to perform these rituals. The first of the daily prayers is held immediately after sunrise, later in the noon, immediately after sunset, at night and the last worship is performed at 1am. Zorastrianism is a simple religion and has less of rituals and restrictions compared to other religion. The basic tenets only say that nothing should be done in excess. The prophet Zarathushtra, preached what is known as the "Golden Mean", which says that there should be no over indulgence in any given activity of human life. Parsi religion relies simply on good thoughts, good words and good deeds.     

The religion recommends no fasting or abstinence for any religious function or observance of a ritual. There is no allowance for conversion in this religion. One cannot be converted to Zorashtrianism. This alone has caused for the diminishing of the community. Marriages outside the community are also forbidden and would lead to ex-communication in case of any violation of the dictum. Children of those excommunicated are barred from undergoing the "Navjyoth"or the initiation in to the religion.

"Farwasi", the bird like symbol is all embodying for the Parsis, as it conveys that the soul also has light and fire in it.

The temple is managed by the Anjuman which consists of five elected members. There are only two classes of Parsis-the priestly and the non-priestly class.

The entry into the Fire Temple is restricted only to the Parsi community. The once 2000 and odd number of community today has dwindled to less than 150 souls. At present there are only a few families left in Belgaum city.

Source: Old Belgaum website not live now.

Yedurappa in Belgaum on June 10

CM B S Yedurappa will be in Belgaum on June 10 for the celebrations on occasion of completion of one year of the BJP Govt in Karnataka. He will open an exhibition at the District stadium which will highlight all the developments done by his government. 

Belgaum plays a new host

Record Dharna for 706 days at Belgaum

Office of Deputy Commissioner, Belgaum is a place where from all lifestyles come and protest to get himself or herself justice. Three dharnas at the same office have created record of sorts for the longest dharna may be in Belgaum for sure.

 The dharna by a family of six enters its 706th day; families displaced by the Hidkal dam construction have completed 565 days and the Safai Mazdoor Sangh 469 days.

 A family from Sarwad of Bijapur has been waiting for justice 706 days in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Belgaum. He was allegedly driven out of his village by upper castes who had set fire to his shop and seized his property as well as murdered a relative. The other 565-day old dharna is being staged in another makeshift tent by the 119 families displaced during the construction of Hidkal dam ago who are unhappy with the alternative houses allotted to them.

Source: Deccan Chronicle

Only 1 counter for issue of bus pass

Karnataka police uniting the divided Ekikaran samiti

The intervention of the Karnataka police brought the situation under control at Hindalga where a homage paying ceremony was organized in the memory of those killed on June 1, 1986   in the agitation against the Karnataka Government’s ‘Kannada Sakti’ which was organized by the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti.

On June 1, 1986, 9 Marathi’s Mohan Patil, Parshram, Bharmanna Kadam, Bhavku Chavan, Kallappa Uchgaonkar, Maruti Gavde, Shankar Khanurkar lost their lives in the firing done by the police.

The MES had organized a homage paying ceremony today at Hindalga. The internal spat within the Samiti between the City Samiti and Taluka Samiti came to the fore front.  Already there are two factions in the MES, one is led by Kiran Thakur and other is led by N D Patil. Both the factions paid their respects to the martyr’s in two different functions. There was a verbal spat between the Maloji Ashtekar led faction and the Deepak Dalvi city faction. The Taluka samiti leaders were alleging that the City samiti were not working actively.

Maloji Ashtekar said that 3 Marathi news papers should act in a manner in which the border issue is highlighted in a nicer way. He added that competition should be kept aside and the cause for Marathi should be taken up first by the Marathi media.

Photos: Prakash

Cell phones banned for Cop use

M Shivshankar, Belgaum traffic inspector as a part of reforming the Belgaum traffic and also the people behind keeping it straight has ordered his men, traffic cops not to use Mobiles on duty.

Now it is mandatory for cops to deposit the cell phones at a particular police station before they could go for work. Anyone who is found violating this would be punished, the inspector said. The rule came into effect to ensure that traffic policemen are not diverted from the call of duty and their concentration is not diverted while on duty.

Giving the cops some relief, Shivshankar said that the cops on duty could use the wireless phones with them to send some emergency messages to their families.   It has been a rule that cops cannot use cell phones but it was not strictly implemented, in Belgaum it is being tried.

The cops peeved by this rule but no one has gone against it either.

Where is this Lord Ganesha situated in Belgaum?

Identify the Lord Ganesha in the image and tell where is this temple situated?

Photo courtesy: SP

FIREPOD Belgaum’s own Annual Rock Fest

With the idea of encouraging Rock music in Belgaum, a group of Belgaumites plan to host an annual Rock fest known as FIREPOD in town later this year.

 To get bands more inspired and geared up, they are doing a little prelude, called Prelude to FIREPOD; they will bring you a concert in Belgaum, with performances by bands from Belgaum - NH4 and Idioteque.

Make sure you are there to encourage the scene. All bands from Belgaum are encouraged to contact Amar Kulkarni if they would like to perform at FIREPOD 2009.

Sound and Lighting will be of High Standards and they pitch this should be one of Belgaum's first REAL Rock Concert.

The prelude will be held tentatively on June 20, 2009 and the venue will be declared later, the band said.
You can also get more info on the same from Orkut &  FaceBook event links.

So get ready to get yourself ROCKED!

Acute water scarcity in Belgaum

 Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board (KUWSSB) took a break for its annual maintenance work all of a sudden and for the fourth day in a row many parts of the city did not get any water.

KUWSSB was supplying water once in three days to the city barring the 24x7 wards, but even the 24x7 wards have been affected.

The annual maintenance is being carried out for pipeline repair works and patching the leakages at Hidkal.  Taking stock of this grave situation the private water suppliers are making swift money. They charged Rs. 500 for one tanker of water when the normal rate is between Rs. 350 and Rs. 400.

Hopefully, water supply would be restored by Saturday morning.

Mayor’s hindrance to development work

Past Mayor Prashanta Budavi had sanctioned various development works under her regime worth Rs.1 crore which included 1 lakh worth electrical and 43 lakhs of other developmental works in all wards. But the newly elected Mayor Yallpa Kurbar has shown his red signal to these sanctioned development works by sending a letter of non recommendation to Commissioner on May 14 asking not to go further with those works. 

All these allegations were made by Kiran Sayanak.  

Movies as on 29-05-2009

heatre	Movie	Timings
Big Cinemas	Me Shivaji Raje ….	9.45pm
Ritz Srikrishna
Nirmal	Dubai Babu	12.15pm,3.15,6.15,9.15
Huns	Meri Padosan	12.15, 3.15,6.15,9.15
Arun		12.30,2,4,7
Roopali	Tashan	12.15,3.15.6.15,9.15
Balkrishna	The International	12.30,3.30,6.30,9.30
Chitra	Takat	12,3,6,9
Swaroop		12,3,6,9
Hira	Ye hai Mera Faisla	12.15,3.15,6.15,9.15
Prakash	Gallit Gonhdal Dillit Mujra	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Nartaki
	Me shivaji Raje BB	12,3,6,9
Santosh	Savari	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Globe		12.15,1.45,3.45,6.45
Kindly check the excat  timings with the theatres