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Daily Life In Brampton, Canada
A Hindu priest blesses devotees during the Sree Ganesh Chaturthi Mahotsav festival in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on September 14, 2024. Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival that celebrates the arrival of Lord Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mother, Goddess Parvati. The festival features the largest clay (earthen) idol of Lord Ganesh in Canada. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Brampton, Canada
Hindu devotees offer prayers during the Sree Ganesh Chaturthi Mahotsav festival in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on September 14, 2024. Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival that celebrates the arrival of Lord Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mother, Goddess Parvati. The festival features the largest clay (earthen) idol of Lord Ganesh in Canada. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Brampton, Canada
A woman looks at fancy silver-plated Jhumki-style earrings displayed at a stall selling costume jewelry and temple jewelry during the Sree Ganesh Chaturthi Mahotsav festival in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on September 14, 2024. Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of Lord Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mother, Goddess Parvati. The festival features the largest clay (earthen) idol of Lord Ganesh in Canada. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Burma (Union of Myanmar), Asia - 2011
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Travel To Burma: A Touch Of Freedom?
Has life become any easier for Burmese citizens? Has the recent "election" of a new government given reason for optimism?
Revisiting the country after almost a decade - and an encounter with Aung San Suu Kyi - leaves a mixed impression. Should we go there on holiday ?
Admittedly, a handful of well-stocked supermarkets in Yangon, some clubs and a few trendy restaurants were not there before. And after spending 15 out of the last 21 years in house arrest, "The Lady" is now free to move about. Nobody I met seemed to regret the generals' move to the countryside, after having built a grandiose monument to their own isolation in the brand new capital of Naypidaw, built at huge expense in a country remaining one of the world's poorest. There they comfortably reside, miles away and out of sight from the squalor and poverty to which they have sentenced their 50 million countrymen.
The November "election" did offer a few seats in the new parliament to a somewhat disorganised opposition, and in theory at least offers a forum for political dialogue - although the revised constitution guarantees the military continued power. Critics describe the new constitution as mere window dressing, camouflaging the regime's reluctance so far to engage in open public debate.
Regardless, little of this presents much hope to Yangon's homeless or the poor street hawkers and the merchants, still resigned to display their shoddy goods, cheap souvenirs and outdated magazines on the decrepit sidewalks of the city, plying their trade in the fumes from cars emitting grey clouds of exhaust - for those lucky enough to afford the scarce petrol. Nor does it change the lives of the rice farmers and oxcarts drivers in the countryside, or the destiny of women, hunched over small heaps of pebbles, fixing holes...
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A tourist takes photographs in the Shwedagon, the most revered and famous pagoda of Rangoon in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) - 2008
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A tourist takes photographs in the Shwedagon, the most revered and famous pagoda of Rangoon in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).
A tourist takes photographs in the Shwedagon, the most revered and famous pagoda of Rangoon in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) - 2008
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Animals Church .
The Church of the Good Shepherd in Lower Sloane Street in London has no time for dogma . Headed by Rt. Rev H.P. Nicholson , it claims to be a revival of the Ancient Catholic Church , ' Catholic ' in the ' true ' sense of the word .- meaning that it embraces people of all creeds , races and colours , as long as they recognise the Christian God as the God of Love . It also opens its doors on the first Sunday of every month to animals , for special services of dedication and healing . On these Sundays , people bring along their sick animals to be blessed by Dr . Nicholson , and many cases of miraculous healing are on record . Dogs , cats, birds, tortoises, rabbits - all kinds of pets crowd the pews with their human owners ; and the sound of the organ and the singing of hymns is punctuated by growls and yaps and hisses as the animals wait their turn to go to the alter .
Picture shows :- And Dr . Nicholson lifts up another little boy who has brought his toy dog along to the church .
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