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TorontoTakes Onam Sadhya

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  TorontoTakes Onam Sadhya TorontoTakes through the Guruvayurappan temple at Brampton, Toronto. This was a sadhya session with friends at Toronto.  The Guruvayurappan Temple is situated near Countryside Drive and also near Runnymede Crescent. There is a bus stop access to the temple and has extensive car parking area.  The video starts with the Onam Intro with the shot taken from the side of the Temple. They interview the Thirumeni inside who is busy conducting holy pooja for individuals who prefer to have worshipped in front of the temple deities in a formal manner.  This is where the pookalam decoration was done. The common highly sophisticated pookalams are done using coconut gratings but they have managed to do it in flowers only.  May be it is because the mixing of food colours with the coconut gratings takes time to develop the initial decoration. The temple inside is similar to almost all temples abroad. The differences I can see are the Guruvayurappan te...

Toronto the dream city through your lenses

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  EPISODE 1: TORONTO TAKES Toronto, the dream City through your lenses (1) Nathan Philips Square (2) Toronto Eaton Centre (3) Yonge Street (Main Ontario to Minnesota) (4) Yonge Dundas Square The first scene of their take is at the Nathan Philips Square. Nathan Philips Square is one of the most distinguishing landmark of Toronto designed by Canadian landscape architects and Finnish architects. Their introduction to us is quite cool and makes a suspense tone in their journey from Nathan Philips Square to Yonge Dundas Square. I like the fact that the Yonge Dundas Square is shown as a replica of New York Times Square. A mild version of New York Times Square can be seen in the United Kingdom too at Piccadilly Circus.