65 year old `shravanbal` takes elderly kin for wari
(WorldNews India)

Villager pulling his septuagenarian brother and sister-in-law along in a small carriage The myth of of `Shravanbal´ is one many kids are acquainted with, speaking of a devout child who carried his aged parents in baskets for a pilgrimage. Mirror ran into a real-life character of this sort at Wednesday´s Palkhi - a 65-year-old resident of Pune district who is physically toting his elderly brother and sister-in-law on their quest of devotion. This is the seventh consecutive year Phulchand Kaygude from Bakuli village is walking in the wari, but not alone. The Kaygude trio is an unusual sight for warkaris, too, and stopped ever so often for a `darshan´. The senior...