horse sacrifice

if you wanna ride
don't ride a white horse

Laid Back
"White horse"
(Tim Stahl/John Guldberg)

Pic lifted from here. If the costumes seem out of place, look again , it's not the ashwamedha

And now for some old favorites -

Growing up, there was a time when there was only one channel on t.v and programmes were made with the intention of doing more than capture eyeballs.

Roshan Seth as Nehru in the Bharat Ek Khoj series is a memory that carries over very pleasantly - the Nehru topi and the pleasing drone sitting right next to Swami and friends , Girish Karnad's Turning Point and Prannay Roy's The World this Week. With the internet, it is more or less impossibe to leave anything completely behind.
this & this will cheer you up ( or make you cry - depending on your style )

In the age of mirrors of mirrors, I got this from soumyadip who got it from somewhere else who ....

And in case you're curious, they chants are from RV 10.129 and RV 10.121 respectively