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The fever of T20 is here

T20 is the game of cricket which is limited by 20 overs instead of 50. Let’s see the history of cricket, cricket was brought to the country by the british rule during 18th Century. The game is played with 11 players on each side, the game started with Test match which was 5 days long and had two innings, the match got ended on the ending of the innings. Then came the ODIs, these were special as the game ended in a day,  hence the name One Day Innings or ODIs. These matches became popular and cricket fever became good in India after the introduction of players like Mohinder Amarnath, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev and others. Even out of all the cricket players of the Indian Team, the most well known Batsman with highest run is none other than Sachin and he is said to be the god of cricket in India.

When cricket was introduced each over had seven balls and now it’s six, although most of the Indian population likes crickets and watch it regularly there are some people who don’t like the game despite it being popular. The main reason for the non-likers of cricket is media, media hyped cricket to such a level that no one even cares about the National Game Hockey or even the Olympics, several cases have came which shows the post-winning condition of Olympic athletes. This divide is created by media and they also add it to hypocrisy as a local and private tournament of cricket like IPL(Indian Premier League) provides cricketers with massive amount of capital just to play while many of the Olympic athletes who have won previously for the country don’t even get a penny, this hype is not only created by media but many other factors are also there but major part of this divide and hypocrisy is created by media. While observing the short time period of 90 minutes for games like football, basketball etc. ICC(International Cricket Corporation) decided to give rise to a new game where the overs will be reduced to 20, hence helping players to play comfortably.

This reduced the time of playing and helped players get rest if they have to play on the next day, and then like the Cricket ODI world cup, T20 Worldcup also started and guess who was the first winner of the tournament, yup! It was Team India. Now its the sixth t20 World Cup tournament which is going on the previous two matches were very difficult for India , they were India vs Bangladesh and India vs Australia and India won both of them. For celebrating this type of happiness there are many things one can get and one can also celebrate it as a party. It is a fact that a party remains incomplete without a cake so you can get cake with order online cake in DelhiNCR, same day cake delivery in DelhiNCR and cake delivery in DelhiNCR with anyone of the popular online gifting portals just like Winni, so why wait the next match is today of India vs West Indies, so get in front of your TV seat and enjoy the match with a sweet, delicious and fesh cake.

Amigo Secreto : the custom of making everyone happy

Secret Santa is a tradition followed in the Western part of the world according to this tradition the members of a community or group are randomly assigned as a person’s Santa to whom they have to give a gift anonymously. It is derived from an old Christian tradition, this ritual is known as Secret Santa in the US and the UK; as Kris Kindle (Christkindl) or Kris Kringel in Ireland; same names as Ireland and also Engerl-Bengerl is the name of this tradition in many parts of Austria; Kris Kringle in Canada and Australia, similarly its known as Monito-monita in the Philippines while its name in Dominican Republic is Angelito and in Germany it is referred as Wichteln. "Wichteln" is called as the deed done by a Wichtel or a wight, so its meaning is a good deed. In Poland, this tradition is celebrated on the 6^th of December (Mikołajki). All of the above names are derived from traditional gift-bringers on Christmas, while the American custom is named after Saint Nicholas infamously proclaimed as Santa Claus, while the names Chris Kindle and Kris Kringle are both variations of the original name of the gift-bringer in Austria, Christkindl, which has its meaning as Christ Child which can be said to provide a link to Jesus Christ. There are exceptions in the UK where the gift-bringer is traditionally known as Father Christmas and the Philippines which has the Three Kings as their gift-bringer referring to the three kings who bought gifts for Jesus. While in Latin America the use of amigo secreto which means secret friend or amigo invisible referring to an invisible friend. So this Christmas be an amigo invisible for someone and secretly present them with gifts of happiness, you may also present a cake to symbolize Christmas pudding, so gift a cake through order online cake in Pune or same day cake delivery in Pune and spread happiness across their face.

This tradition is also popular in India, where in many colleges, offices and in some school it’s celebrated and for its celebration the name of the people present are written on pieces of paper and folded and everyone has to randomly pick a piece and in it will be written that whose amigo secreto you are and accordingly you can get or order a gift and secretly keep it at a place where the recipient may see it and see their surprise on receiving your gift. So we can say it is a form of surprise gift but gifted in its own unique way. Christmas is considered as the time when gifting is the most common custom so secret Santa is another way of being Santa for someone may he be older than you or even younger than you so you can also share the merriment of the eve. So get ready may you also be surprised as someone may be your secret Santa too and get in the feeling of the Eve and the holidays.

Be the disciplinarian with Hades

Today we will journey to the world after the living i.e. the underworld where Hades, the Greek God of Dead and riches resides, he was the chthonic god of the underworld so the underworld is also known by the same name as his i.e. Hades. Hades refers not only to the god but also his realm also has been named after him. Hades is regarded as the eldest son of the titans Cronus and Rhea, while being the eldest son but he came out last from his father’s stomach when he regurgitated his children. He and his brothers Poseidon and Zeus were the main reason for their father’s defeat and they divided their realms and Godly duties, Zeus being the one who caused their father’s regurgitation took the endless sky and air as his realm and became the Lord of Sky while Poseidon received the power of all the seas and water bodies so became the Lord of Seas and Hades received the underworld and being just below the Earth he became the richest god in terms of wealth as all the Gems and riches under the Earth belonged to him in addition to him being the king of a realm where all the dead souls of all the mortals come, hades can be considered as most powerful in terms of armies as he can raise the mortal souls as undead warriors so it is said that Hades had the largest army of the three. These three controlled the main and primary forces of nature so they were considered as the Trinity of the Greek gods, while solid Earth which is the Titan Gaea, their grandmother belonged to all three of them in the same way. Hades is often portrayed with his pet three-headed dog called Cerberus who is considered as his gatekeeper and guard and doesn’t let any of the dead escape from their fate. He has a bident which have only two points as compared to a trident and his signature weapon was the infamous Helm of Darkness which is said to render Hades invisible and shrouded in darkness or emit pure waves of fear which generally paralyzed all the enemies around him. Similar to other Olympians he also have a roman equivalent or aspect known as Pluto. He may simply represent your uncle or your father or a relative who is excruciatingly strict and doesn’t allow anyone in his family or under him may it be personally or professionally to flout the rules or go against his set rules and regulations and hands out punishment, he may be considered as a man with a bad personality but knows about good so Hades is similar to him so anytime you like the discipline he maintains anywhere appreciate it with a gift for Uncle in Pune or gift for relative in Pune and make them drop some of their strictness even for a short time, if there is any special occasion, then get him a cake with order online cake in Pune or sameday cake delivery in Pune and make him happy and see the sunny side of life.

If we talk about the origin of name Hades then it’s uncertain, but it shows his ability of being only seen after death as it may have a meaning as The Unseen One. The people were fearful of invoking his name as him being the God of Death, so it’s believed his Roman form got the name as Pluto, which shows his connection with all the precious minerals and metals under the Earth because it means Wealthy, he is also known as the giver of wealth as it was believed that all the precious metals which were unearthed were due to Hades giving them to humanity. He was also the stalker and lover of the Goddess Persephone and tried to obtain her through abduction but in the end Persephone due to eating an underworld fruit and after understanding Hades’ love happily agreed to become the queen of the underworld despite being a goddess of Springtime and vegetation.

Personify your love with Aphrodite

Aphrodite, the Greek goddess personifying love, pleasure, procreation and beauty, she has her Roman equivalent or aspect which is also the name of a planet, Venus. Like many ancient Greek gods or deities, there are many stories relating to her birth or origins. Written in Hesiod's Theogony is one of the theory of her birth as she was born at the place where Cronus or Kronos cut off Ouranus’s or Uranus's genitals after his castration and threw it in the sea where she arose from the foam created from the parts (aphros), while in Homer's Iliad, she is considered as the daughter of Dione and Zeus, the lord of sky. According to texts written in Plato (Symposium, 180e), these origins are considered as the origin of two entirely different or separate entities named Aphrodite Ourania and Aphrodite Pandemos. Her beauty made other gods fear that they may fight due to their rivalry over this beauty and it would lead to interruption of the peace among them and may lead to war, so Hera and Zeus, the queen and king of gods married Aphrodite or Venus to Vulcan or Hephaestus, who was not seen as a threat due to his ugliness and deformity and he was one of the strongest gods in strength due to his being Lord of blacksmiths, craftmen, metals and fire. In spite of her marriage Venus had many flings and a string of lovers which included both gods, men, dryads and other intelligent creatures, we can take the example of a god as Ares, the god of war and from men we can consider Anchises who was the father of Aeneas, the man who founded the Roman Empire. She also took part in the legend of Eros and Psyche, and later she played the role of both Adonis's lover as well his surrogate mother. Valentine's Day, which is also known as Saint Valentine's Day is a celebration which is observed on the day of February the 14^th each year. On this day It is celebrated across the globe in many countries by giving gifts for her in Pune while in some countries it is a custom to give chocolates to men or boys by a girl who either helped her or of she loved him, if a girl gave chocolates to the one who helped her than it is called customary chocolate while if she loved her then it will be love chocolates, you can also order online chocolate cake in Pune or order gifts for your love in Pune by many online portals.

This Day began as a liturgical celebration and it is celebrated on the occasion of one early Christian saints who was named Valentinus. Several stories relating to martyrdom were invented for the people who celebrated the later Valentine’s days belonging to February the 14^th, and it all added to many new martyrologies. One of the popular account of the aforementioned Saint of Rome states that he performed many weddings for soldiers who were not allowed to marry which is one of the reason for his imprisonment while the other reason being the ministration of Christians, who were persecuted under the rule of the great Roman Empire, other legends also tell that during his imprisonment, he also healed Asterius, the daughter of his jailer. Love is said to be the most popular and powerful emotion in the emotional rainbow, it is rightly said that love can even move mountains and love can make and break a family, relation and make others connected by the ties of love happy.

The cosmic egg of creation, Kushmanda

Now comes one of the many theories of creation of universe, there are many theories about the creation of universe, in every culture different stories are believed which make the basis of religions and gods who people follow. The most popular theory is called the big bang theory according to which a big blast bought the sun and all the planets come into their positions, while according to one of the ancient civilizations, the Greeks and Romans have the story as follows:

In the beginning there was nothing except and entity called Chaos, from Chaos came Erebus, the darkest part of the universe, then love and beauty came into existence, due to which Gaea was born from Chaos, Gaea also called Mother Earth or Mother Nature, she gave birth to Ouranos or Uranus or the sky, the sky (Ouranos) and the Earth (Gaea) came together and gave birth to the one-eyed Cyclopes, the hundred handed Hecatoncheires, and the twelve Titans. Ouranos threw his children Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes in Erebus, due to this Gaea became angry and she plotted against Ouranos made the youngest titan Cronus or Kronos castrate Uranus using a sickle, Uranus’s spirit scattered in the skies but not before cursing Kronos with the same fate as his. Kronos became the next ruler, Kronos married his sister Rhea, but then he remembered Uranus’s curse so he swallowed five of his children but Rhea saved the youngest named Zeus and hid him on the island of Crete where he was raised by nymphs. Rhea replaced the baby Zeus with a stone in a swaddle which was again swallowed by Cronus, after growing up Zeus made up a solution and tricked Kronos into drinking it, due to the solution Cronus vomited the elder five siblings namely Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon and Hades and with Zeus all the children of Kronos and Rhea ran away, after rescuing the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires forged new weapons out of which the three most powerful ones were Zeus’s lightning bolt, Poseidon’s trident and Hades’s Helm of darkness, they threw off Kronos and locked him in Tartarus and kept their promise to the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires and setup a council of Twelve of them and ruled thereon.

In Hindu mythology the stories are basically celebrated as of the two most powerful of the trinities I.e. Lord Vishnu or Lord Shiva, anyone of them can be considered as the creator as there are different stories relating to them, one of them can be said that out of chaos came Lord Vishnu riding a snake and from his navel grew a Lotus on which Lord Brahma was present, Lord Vishnu said, “It is time to begin” and Lord Brahma remaining in the lotus flower, floated and tossed the seas. He lifted up his arms and calmed the wind and the ocean. Then Brahma split the lotus flower into three. He stretched one part into the heavens. He made another part into the earth. With the third part of the flower he created the skies. Then Brahma created life which contained plants, trees, flowers, grass, animals, birds and humans and so life and Earth were created.

Another story which is related to Lord Shiva goes similarly as, Out of chaos came Lord Vishnu sleeping on the snake Vasuki and out of his navel grew the Lotus with Brahma in it, both meditated in their respective positions for many years, when they awoke they started fighting as they both were proud of their knowledge them out of nowhere came an endless black lingam or shivling out of which a voice came that the winner will be decided by one who finds either the end or the start of that lingam, none of them were unable to find its start or its end so they returned dejected and Lord Shiva appeared from the lingam and told them that they were part of Him, as conceived by both Lord Vishnu and Brahma, Mahadeva or Lord Shiva  was complete in himself as they were male aspects while Lord Shiva was complete as he/she has both male as well as female aspects, Lord Brahma prayed and asked Lord Shiva for his female half also known as Adishakti and used her to create Earth and life, but due to most of her energy spent she was spread thin into the nature, then Lord Shiva can be said as Purusha while Adishakti can be said as Prakarti, so the unification of Prakarti and Purusha results in life, after some time Adishakti incarnated in Sati who married Shiva but due to her arrogant father Daksha she later immolated her but again Devi Adishakti reincarnated as Parvati and this time she labored herself to became the same as Shiva and married him.

The last theory is given as the world made by the fourth form of Adishakti or Parvati, Kushmanda as a female can only give birth, so this theory is also popular and the tale goes on as:

When the universe was non-existent and darkness prevailed everywhere, Maa Kushmanda produced the Cosmic egg with her smile, bringing light to the universe. She is said to give direction to the Sun God, Surya. From the glance of Kushmanda’s third eye, a lady with complexion of lava was created having eighteen arms and three eyes, clad in a warrior’s armour with helmet and saffron clothes, she was armed with weapons like battle-axe, arrow, sword, lotus, rosary, conch-shell, bell, noose, trident, discus, mace, thunderbolt, shield, spear, goad, bow, whine-cup and a waterpot with handle. She was seated on a lotus and was roaring viciously. Kushmanda named her Mahalakshmi, the originator of wealth and prosperity.

Then from the glance of Kushmanda's right eye, a benevolent lady with complexion of milk was created having eight arms and three placid eyes, clad in white clothes with a crescent moon on her forehead. She was armed with weapons like trident, discus, small drum, arrow, conch shell, bell, bow and a ploughshare. She was seated on a gem-studded throne and maintained a serene smile. Kushmanda named her Mahasaraswati, the originator of knowledge and art.

Then Kushmanda's created a man with her child Mahakali having five faces, fifteen eyes and ten arms. His complexion was fair and he was clad in tiger-skin. A serpent was coiled around his throat and he wore a crescent moon on his forehead. He was armed with weapons like battle-axe, antelope, thunderbolt, skull-cup, Damru, bow, arrow, trident, rosary and a Kamandalu. Kushmanda named him Shiva, the destroyer, recycler and the transformer.

Then from Mahalakshmi she created a man with four faces and four arms. His complexion was red and he was clad in saffron clothes, holding lotus, book, rosary and a waterpot. Kushmanda named him Brahma, the creator.

Then from Mahasaraswati a man having four arms with dark complexion was created, clad in yellow clothes. He held a discus, a conch-shell, a mace and a lotus. Kushmanda named him Vishnu, the protector and proisperor.

Kushmanda created a woman having four arms and fair complexion. She was lad in red, holding her two lower hands open while her two upper hands held a goad and a noose. Kushmanda named her Shakti, the divine female who was an incarnation or part of herself. Kushmanda then re-absorbed the major part of the triple Goddesses (Mahalakshmi, Mahakali, Mahasaraswati) and then gave Shakti to Shiva, Saraswati to Brahma and Lakshmi to Vishnu as consorts. She then entered Shakti as an orb of great energy.

Kushmanda is Goddess Shakti herself, the first being of the entire universe and she is only the one who created this universe by making her half being as Shiva. Adishakti took herself into three forms, one of the three splits was her own form. Kali and hence we find Adishakti as well as Kali being wife of Shiva. The other splits were Saraswati and Lakshmi. She is invoked using the mantra

Surāsampūrṇakalaśaṁ rudhirāplutamēva cha |
Dadhānā hastapadmābhyāṁ kūṣmāṇḍā śubhadāstu mē ||

So celebrate the goddess of the cosmic egg of creation on the fourth day of the auspicious festival of Navratri and help people with creative ideas and gifts, who knows that Kushmand or Goddess Durga gets happy and gives blessing to your creation.
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Get to know the fierce warrior mother Chandraghanta

The third day is given to the goddess of war or the fierce but gentle Chandraghanta, she is considered as the warrior aspect of Durga, there are many stories around her as she is the goddess of war.

The story last time was that Parvati was born as younger sister of Ganga and daughter of the shiva devotee Himavan while Mahadeva was meditating alone in a cave, the deep meditation of Mahadeva was to be broken or Mahadeva should have to be awoken from his deep slumber, after lot of tries to awake him, Parvati hadn’t succeeded, Mahadeva had a fear that if he again tries to marry any other incarnation of Adishakti, she may leave him again in the same way as Sati and he didn’t want to destroy or imbalance the world again due to which he didn’t wake. The god and goddess of erotic love, attraction, desire and affection, Kama tried to help by reaching Shiva and shooting an arrow of desire. The destroyer Shiva opened his third eye in his forehead and burnt the arrow with the cupid Kama to ashes, but due to love being one of the primal desires, Shiva gave him the boon to be present anywhere love, desire and attraction is present. Parvati didn’t lose her hope or her resolve to win over Shiva, so she began to live in mountains like Mahadeva, engaging in the same activities as him, which were of asceticism, yogin and tapas. These activities came to draw the attention of Shiva and awakened him. He met her in a disguised form, tried to discourage her, telling her his weaknesses and personality problems. But Parvati was adamant and refused to listen and insisted in her resolve. Shiva had taken oath that he will not marry any woman but on seeing her Shiva finally accepted her and they decided to get married. Not only Himavan and Ganga but all the Gods and humans were happy for the marriage to come. Shiva’s attendants were called ganas or bhootganas or ghosts due to which when Lord Shiva came with the procession of gods, mortals, ghouls, goblins, sages and ascetics, the king and queen of the were terrorized by the horrible form of Lord Shiva and Parvati’s mother fainted due to it. So to save her parents she changed into a beautiful Goddess who persuaded Shiva to re-appear in a charming form.

Then Shiva appeared as a prince and impressed Parvati’s parents and the marriage was completed to complement his princely avatar known as Chandrashekhar Goddess Parvati took the avatar of Chandraghanta who has eight hands holding a Trishula (trident), Gada (mace), bow-arrow, Kamal (lotus), Kamandal (waterpot), khadak (sword) and Ghanta (bell), while the last one of her hand remains in abhayamudra or blessing posture. She rides a lion representing bravery and courage, she waers a half moon on her forehead in bell shape soto emphasize her as well as Mahadeva’s connection to the moon, similar to Lord Shiva she also have infamously destructive third eye in the middle of her forehead, this makes her somewhat perfect half of Lord Shiva and appropriate to unite with him. In the word “Chandraghanta” , the word “Chandra” means moon while “Ghanta” means bell, so we can say she is a goddess having moon in the shape of bell on her forehead. She can be said to be one of the form which closely resembles Goddess Durga, her devotees are said to devepol an aura of divine splendour. It is said that Chandraghanta is ready to destroy the wicked but for her devotees she is like a mother who cares for her child. She is the one who defeated the demon Dhumralochan and his entire army. She is invoked by the mantra

Piṇḍaja pravarāruṛhā caṇḍakōpāstra kairyutā |
prasādaṁ tanutē mahyaṁ candra ghanṣṭēti viśrutā ||

So get the feeling of divine splendour and worsahip Devi Chandraghanta and celebrate the third day of Navaratra with gifts of splendor among your closed ones.

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