Comments on: Visiting Vasco in Cochin: Part 1 http://missadventures.com/2004/11/20/visiting-vasco-in-cochin-part-1/ Not Content to Sit Still Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: DN http://missadventures.com/2004/11/20/visiting-vasco-in-cochin-part-1/#comment-32 DN Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:52:52 +0000 http://missadventures.com/blog/?p=88#comment-32 If you extend your journey little further south to Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of Indian mainland couple interesting places not to be missed are "Vivekanand Rock memorial" and an excursion to the sea to see the mingling of gray arabian sea blue Indian ocean and green bay of bengal. Same Swami Vivekanand addressed the world religious congress in Chicago in 1893. May be you could also see the temple of Godess Kanyakumari; Lord Shivas wife Godess Parvati daughter of Himalaya. Since you are on the topic of Jews, coastal Maharashtra has been home to lot of Jews. Apparently they are called lost tribes of Jews "Bene Israel". They are quite iter-mingled with the local hindu maharashtrian culture and it will be difficult to distinguish them. Mumbai's public library is named after a benevolent Jew from 19 th century Mumbai - David Sasoon. http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/david-sassoon.html http://www.spiritualjourneys.net/Venues/Poona.htm http://www.the-south-asian.com/March2001/Jews_of_India-Intro.htm http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/indians.html Similar other example would be "Parsis of Western India". Farsis or the ones who came from Persia or modern day IRAN to protect their cultural and religious beliefs from coming religious onslaught; the ones who migrated sometime in early last millennium to western India. I guess Indias host majority has been a generous and kind world citizen through the ages, true beacon of multi-culturalism centuries before the phrase became popular within last few decades. If you extend your journey little further south to Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of Indian mainland couple interesting places not to be missed are “Vivekanand Rock memorial” and an excursion to the sea to see the mingling of gray arabian sea blue Indian ocean and green bay of bengal. Same Swami Vivekanand addressed the world religious congress in Chicago in 1893. May be you could also see the temple of Godess Kanyakumari; Lord Shivas wife Godess Parvati daughter of Himalaya.

Since you are on the topic of Jews, coastal Maharashtra has been home to lot of Jews. Apparently they are called lost tribes of Jews “Bene Israel”. They are quite iter-mingled with the local hindu maharashtrian culture and it will be difficult to distinguish them. Mumbai’s public library is named after a benevolent Jew from 19 th century Mumbai - David Sasoon.

http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/david-sassoon.html

http://www.spiritualjourneys.net/Venues/Poona.htm

http://www.the-south-asian.com/March2001/Jews_of_India-Intro.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/indians.html

Similar other example would be “Parsis of Western India”. Farsis or the ones who came from Persia or modern day IRAN to protect their cultural and religious beliefs from coming religious onslaught; the ones who migrated sometime in early last millennium to western India.

I guess Indias host majority has been a generous and kind world citizen through the ages, true beacon of multi-culturalism centuries before the phrase became popular within last few decades.

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