India, April 28 -- Our Indian calendar is dotted with festivals to pray, seek, adulate and offer thanksgiving for our blessings to the Gods. Since we follow the Luni-Solar calendar, our festivals are mostly calculated according to the position of the Moon, hence they do not fall on fixed dates like the Gregorian calendar. The third day in the waxing phase of the Moon of the Vaisakha month, May 10, 2024, is Akshaya Tritiya.

Akshaya means unending or eternal. We have heard the story of Sudama/Kuchela, the simpleton childhood friend of Krishna. After Krishna became the King of Mathura, Sudama visited Krishna and carried with him a handful of Poha (beaten rice), tied in a corner of his shawl as a gift. Sensing Sudama's embarrassment in prese...