Posts made in March 14th, 2024

Religious wars

Posted by on 14, Mar 2024 in 2024 - An Indian Winter, Asia, India, Tilly the Tandem | 2 comments

Religious wars

Surprisingly the area around Kanyakumari is Christian and full of churches, big brand new immaculately kept, expensive and very impressive churches.  It’s impossible to get a full night’s sleep here as one or other of the religions, or in an unheard of unifed religious movement, all 3 of the religions will endeavour to wake you up from 4.45am. First the Hindus start with their music, then the Christians start with their service which is more chanting and then the Muslims pipe up with the call to prayer by which time the Hindus are at it again and we go on like this until the...

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