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Gyara Murti - New Delhi

The impressive sculptures are a depiction of Mahatma Gandhi's famous Dandi March

This massive black sculpture is sheer poetry in stone. You’ll spot it on the T-junction on Sardar Patel Marg from where roads lead to Willingdon Crescent and Teen Murti House.

The sculpture, by Devi Prasad Roy Choudhary, depicts the famous Dandi March led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 against oppressive salt taxes imposed by the British regime.

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Kavadiya

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Kavadiya

Kavad Yatra , the world’s largest trek of Lord Shiva’s devotees beginning around July 30 from Hardwar and concluding at Augarhnath Temple in Meerut City or Pura Mahadev in Baghpat on Shivratri.

The annual Kavad trek sees over five lakh saffron clad kavadias singing hymns or folk songs as they merrily trek with the Kavads containing Ganga Jal from Hardwar to perform Jalabhishek at the Shivalaya of their choice.

Although most of them perform the Jalabhishek at Augarhnath Mandir or Pura Mahadev, many of the devotees perform the same in the Shivalaya of their villages.

Kavadiyas are pilgrims who collect Kavad, holy water from Ganga to perform puja at their local temple. Kavadiyas walk all the way from their native to Gangotri or Gaumukh and then return back to perform puja at their local Shiva temple with this holy water. While returning back with holy water they are not supposed to keep the water on ground at any point of time.

The kavadiyas comes from different parts of India and sometime the entire journey may take more than a month. People from different strata of life perform the journey with such a dedication and faith, something seen to believe.

All along the highway, one can see young men and sometimes women walking, carrying a colorfully decorated Kavad (a piece of bamboo with two pots on each ends).

Most wear hawaii slippers, some wore cheap tennis shoes, some wore the soles of their feet. They just kept on walking. Our driver, Prithvichand explained that these were pilgrims who had travelled to Hardwar (or Rishikesh), collected Ganga jal in pots, tied it to their Kavads and were walking back home, several 100 kilometers away.

We saw several hundred people at least. The look on the people's face was one of quiet determination. The devotion and discipline is quite incredibleIn India travel was developed in the form of ‘Tirth Yatra’ (pilgrimage). ‘Shantanu’, the father of ‘Shravan’, and his wife were blind and unable to travel but they were so curious for their ‘Tirth Yatra’ that his son ‘Shrvan’ made a ‘kanvar’, a special carrier, for his parents and he carried the kavad on his shoulder to fulfill their desire.

The great ‘Devarshi Narad’ always used to be on travel only. The ‘Char Dhams’ were purposely made to facilitate and make popular the travels.

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