Kurma

Scrolling through Kripamoya's great blog, I read with pleasure the report on the wonderful Rathayatra Festival held in London last weekend.

I attended it three years back. Such an exciting event! {scroll down when you get there.}

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.

It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;"

spoken by Portia, from The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare