The goddesses
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The Nepalese select a four-year-old girl to be the Royal Kumari, regarded as the living incarnation of Taleju, a fierce demon-killing goddess who has eight buffaloes sacrificed to her every year. Once the girl has her first period she ceases in the role and a new child is sought. Ten such living goddesses are spread around Nepal but only the Kumari, who is kept in a Kathmandu palace, is visited once a year by the King who asks her permission to continue his reign. The girl can only come from the Buddhist Sakya community of goldsmiths and there are various appearance and behavioural criteria for her selection.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Halo slips from the Walking Goddess
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Chief minister of Tamil Nadu, southern India, Jayalalitha, 45, is pictured on huge cut-outs all over towns and cities, although her popularity is declining. Former film star Jayalalitha became propaganda minister in the 1960s when she had a relationship with film hero M G Ramachandran, who went into politics. Her party, the all-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, no longer supports the minority Congress government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in New Delhi. Her former friend, civil servant V Chandralekha, alleged Jayalalitha organised an acid attack on her after she complained about state corruption.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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This is Dynasty, Indian-style
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India's extremely wealthy Hinduja family is believed to be investing vast sums of money in the wedding of three of its sons, which is to take place on Jan 15, 1996, at the Royal Western India Turf Club. There will be 10,000 guests, and more than 500 rooms have been booked in the highest quality hotels in Bombay. Having a wedding for three sons at once is designed to ensure equality, as the family believes in sharing equally among its members.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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