Solar eclipse that will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.080 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including Ryukyu Islands...

The Buddha Purnima festival is a triple whammy celebrating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death all in one. Buddhist sacred sites and temples all over India are inundated with pilgrims. The crowds tend to be made up of more than just Indians - devotees from all over the world journey to their favourite place for this event...