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| A video grab of Janamashtami Rath Yatra at Lal Chowk, Srinagar |
Staff correspondent, September 7, 2015, NewsCrunch
A group of Kashmiri pandits took out a colourful Kashmiri Janamashtami procession at
A video from The Kashmir Monitor shows the group chanting Hare Krishna in loud speakers and dancing on the streets. Three girls dressed as
Greater Kashmir reports that the procession, which began from a temple at Barbarshah locality, passed through the city's nerve centre, Lal Chowk, without any incident.
The video also shows theKrishna devotees distributing Prasad on the street, occasionally even stopping passing vehicles.
Janmashtami festival was also celebrated at Shankaracharya temple and Hunuman Mandir at Amira Kadal, which saw a heavy rush of devotees.
The video also shows the
Janmashtami festival was also celebrated at Shankaracharya temple and Hunuman Mandir at Amira Kadal, which saw a heavy rush of devotees.
The Janmashtami procession, traditionally taken out by Kashmiri Pandits, stopped for nearly 15 years after militancy broke out in late 1980s. It resumed in 2004 and has again become an annual event in