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Did you know that the Indonesian 20,000 rupiah has Ganesha on it?
Ganesha as Kangiten in Japan
Ganesha is known as Phra Phikanet in Thailand. Also in the logo of their department of Fine Arts!
How exquisite are these from Thailand ...
Maharakta Ganapati in Tibet.
Ganesha as a beautiful filipino tattoo.
Ganapati as he is known in Cambodia.
These old sculptures from Pakistan should come as no surprise.
Ganesha from Afghanistan.
We even have Ganesha on a Czech stamp! And Laos. And Sri Lanka. And Thailand of course.
Is God a male or female? Who knows ... let me end with Vinayaki, a female version of Ganesha; this from Odisha.

Happy Ganesha Chaturthi!
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This is an interesting question. How much wood does a newspaper consume?

So I weighted a few hindus ... paper that is. And found it weights about 75-90 grams on a typical day and ~130 grams on Sunday. Rounding off, this amounts to about 40 kg a year.
A tonne of newsprint uses 12 trees. So 40kg is about half a tree.

If you subscribe to two papers you are probably cutting off a whole tree (of course, other papers may have slightly different number of papers and hence weight).
The Hindu has a daily circulation of 1.4 million. And I counted about 35 million in the top 20 circulating papers.

So the Hindu is looking at 700,000 trees.
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Yugadi (New Year) today in Karnataka and many other places of India.

ಯುಗಾದಿಯ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು

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In a lunar calendar, what is important is the tithi. Unlike the seven day week which we now follow (introduced much later in India), tithi is based on the fifteen days between full moon and new moon (and vice versa).
So a lunar month has two phases/paksha, depending on the waning (krishna paksha) and the waxing (shukla paksha) moon. Each of the pakshas has 15 days in them as tithi.
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Today, the sun transitions from Dhanur Rashi (sagittarius) to Makara (Capricorn). Hence Makara Sankranti. We have have a Sankranti ever month but this one is special.

Days get longer while nights shrink. Temperature starts to rise.

Winter is going!
It also marks the beginning of Uttarayana, the six months when the Gods are awake. Apparently the best time to die. Lot of people hold their breath until Uttarayana (ok ok).
One of them is Bheeshma. A boon allowed him to choose the time of his death and he waited patiently on his bed of arrows for Makara Sankranti.
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