Source: HPI
KAUAI, UNITED STATES, March 23, 2003: Prof. R. Vaidyanathan gives his view on “inauspicious Thursday” which led Air India to cancel a Thursday flight out of North East India. He wrote, “I read with interest about people in Guwahathi considering Thursdays as not auspicious. It is not the people of entire North East. This belief is mainly in Assam. In Karnataka, a large number of people consider Thursday to be auspicious and the well-known Saint Raghavendra is offered special prayers/puja on that day. A popular song by actor/singer Rajkumar starts as ” Guru vara Bandhamma” etc. (who came on a Thursday) regarding Saint Raghavendra. But many people in Karnataka consider Tuesday to be inauspicious. The train from Bangalore to Madras is not crowded on Tuesdays. They will not start factories or construction or long travel on Tuesdays. There was a report some time before that the Bajrang Dal students demanded that Tuesday be declared as weekly holiday in Lucknow University suggesting Tuesday is important/holy for Hanuman. It would be an interesting study to find out inauspicious and holy days as believed by different communities in India.”