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Solar Eclipse: Science, Superstition and Spirituality
The solar eclipse is also has turned mythical as well as a spiritual event in India coinciding with the ongoing Mahahumbh Mela. Haridwar which has seen a huge rush of people for Kumbh mela took a holy dip during the solar eclipse as it is a very pious act. It is very auspicious, it is very fruitful and it can get one salvation. Others stayed indoors meditated and performed havan in what they believed to be a inauspicious period.
No
one
perhaps
enjoys
a
Solar
Eclipse
more
than
the
scientific
community
for
whom
it
is
an
opportunity
to
study
rare
phenomenan
in
the
solar
system.
The
Indian
Space
Research
Organisation
(ISRO)
will
launched
a
series
of
rockets
from
its
two
centres
to
study
this
solar
eclipse
and
its
repercussions.
These
were
launched
from
Sriharikota
in
Andhra
Pradesh
and
Thumba
in
Kerala.
Other
international
space
agencies
like
the
NASA
were
taking
pictures
of
the
Sun
and
broadcasting
it
for
the
audience
to
see.
For
thousands
of
shutter
bugs
around
the
world
it
was
a
never
to
be
missed
opportunity
to
capture
a
magnification
celestial
event
through
their
lenses.
Many
video
journalist
and
photo
journalist
armed
with
their
equipment
had
thronged
to
those
parts
of
the
world
from
where
the
Eclipse
was
best
visible.
Astrologers
were
not
left
behind
in
making
this
event
to
make
their
wallet
bulkier.
After
all,
even
the
non-believers
don't
mind
reading
astrological
predictions.
For the media it was another opportunity to soar its TRP ratings by giving humongous coverage to the event from across the world and giving them the bits and pieces of the eclipse. There was a sharp contrast in the reporting style of the vernacular media and the English media in India. While the folks speaking Queen's language stuck to facts and slammed myths, those broadcasting Hindi and other regional languages tried to cash in on myths and superstitions.
One thing which is true to all these groups is the fact that most of them won't witness such a Solar Eclipse in their lifetime. This solar eclipse was the longest solar eclipse of 21st century and also he longest ring-like solar eclipse of the millennium. So for all those who have missed this majestic site today you might have to wait a little longer for the next such event which NASA said would occur only after December 23, 3043!
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