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A 17-Year-Old girl raped by 28 people including her own father, relatives & politicians in #Lalitpur of #UttarPradesh. FIR filed against Tilak Yadav, Raju Yadav, Mahendra Yadav, Arvind Yadav, Prabodh Tiwari, Sonu Sumaiya, Rajesh Jain, Mahendra Dubey, Neeraj Tiwari & 19 others. +
Victim in her complaint alleges that her Father first raped her when she was in class 6th & then her uncle & relatives destroyed her childhood. Her father then started sending her to hotels & she was raped by politicos and was forced to consume drugs like substances many a times.
#Lalitpur district president of the #SamajwadiParty Tilak Yadav, who has been named in the FIR, said it was a conspiracy against him, he says “ I will commit suicide if implicated; this is the case of martial dispute. I will submit a memorandum to SP & DM seeking a fair probe." +
Have always found the Yoginis a fascinating aspect of Indian history, the isolation of their shrines adding to the theme. And now, artist Seema Kohli has created a Yogini sculpture exhibition at Sunder Nursery heritage park, around a Lotus Pool. 
Traditions survive, evolve over time. Like Gauri - also called Ksemankari & Ajita. Depicted as a 9th cen Yogini sculpture (replica) frm Hirapur, #Odisha. Contemporary Gujarat has Khodiyar Mata, a goddess whose shrine is a stepwell. Both have a croc as vehicle. The same goddess?
And guess which creature happened to enter the Khodiyar Mata ni vav one day. A crocodile, which got mighty upset when locals put vermilion on it. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/…
First pit-stop on my #ExploreUP journey, Bhitargaon in #Kanpurdehat. Amidst squalor, in a village seemingly over-run by a combo of buffaloes & pigs, stands what may be north India's oldest existing temple. This brick temple dedicated to Vishnu dates to Gupta period, 6th century.
#ExploreUP: Having read abt a Lodi-era tomb at #Kalpi, #Jalaun dist, I expected it to be in line with the octagonal Lodi-Sur era tombs elsewhere in India. It turned out to be quite different. Locals call it the Chaurasi (84) gumbad.
#ExploreUP: The tomb @ #Kalpi, was described as that of a 'Lodi Badshah'. Aware that of the three Lodi rulers, two buried in Delhi & third in #Panipat, was puzzled abt the Kalpi person. Turns out to be a brother of Ibrahim named Jalaluddin who propped himself as ruler for a while
