This Diwali, the festival of lights when the goddess of wealth Lakshmi is worshipped, the Indian mobile users will experience a new technology wonder on their handsets.
Any guesses on what this new wonder could be? An animated SMS? A multi-colour multimedia greeting card? No, not really.
Thanks to a mobile application downloadable free of charge from India's first multi-lingual portal, Webdunia.com, users will now (starting November 1, 2007) be able to offer Aarti to the Goddess Lakshmi on their hand phones.
Webdunia.com's newly created 'Lakshmi Poojan' application for (Java enabled) mobile phones, can be downloaded from http://wap.webdunia.com to get a divine experience.
After downloading this application, mobile users have the option to choose between Pooja, Pooja Vidhi, Pooja Muhurat and Aarti. Users can perform Pooja in the same manner they do at home by lighting a diya (lamp), offering garlands, fruits and betel nut leaf to goddess Lakshmi by simply using mobile phone key pad.
This Lakshmi Pooja will be available only in Hindi and Marathi. Webdunia portal's language editions extend to the top 9 Indian languages.
Online Pooja can be performed from anywhere in the world just by the click of a button on most mobile phone models (independent of the Service provider). Webdunia is also offering eco-friendly online 'Fireworks' to add to the festival spirit in all the 9 Indian languages.
How to download Lakshmi Pooja application
Log on to http://wap.webdunia.com from WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phone. After selecting the language, the user gets an option to download—Hindi or Marathi Lakshmi Poojan application.
The downloaded application can be run from the mobiles without visiting the site http://wap.webdunia.com again and again.
Users can enter in the vast world of mobile content with help of latest technology where they can get various services such as mobile cards, logos, Easy SMS, News, Cricket, Jokes, Astrology etc. on their mobile in 9 Indian languages Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
Apart from this Webdunia.com has introduced unique services like Astrology and Festivals on its 9 Indian language portals. Webdunia's online festival section is already popular with the users.
On the auspicious occasion of Diwali, Webdunia brings online 'Lakshmi Poojan' especially for its Users, where one can perform online Pooja from anywhere in the world just by the click of mouse. Webdunia is also presenting eco-friendly Online 'Fireworks' to add to the ongoing festive spirit.
About Webdunia
Webdunia, India's largest multi-lingual portal, offers quality content to the people of different religions, cultures and age groups. Nine Indian language portals of Webdunia offer channels like news from the world of politics, sports and human interest stories, Bollywood, Life-Style, Religion, Science, IT, Career, Astrology, Literature, etc. Live cricket commentary, ticker and Webdunia Poll are some other major highlights of Webdunia language portals.
Email service is available in 11 languages—Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
Headquartered in Indore, Webdunia Content and Technology development centres operate from Chennai, Indore and Thiruvananthapuram.
Notes to the Editors
1. Webdunia portals are in 9 languages
2. Email service is available in 11 languages-Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
URL of Online lakshmi Poojan
http://hindi.webdunia.com//religion/virtualpooja/2007/laxmipooja.htm
Online Fireworks URL
http://hindi.webdunia.com/religion/virtualpooja/2007/rocket.htm
http://hindi.webdunia.com/religion/virtualpooja/2007/anar.htm
http://hindi.webdunia.com/religion/virtualpooja/2007/fuljhari.htm
http://hindi.webdunia.com/religion/virtualpooja/2007/rassi_bomb.htm
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Sanjiv Kataria
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sanjiv.kataria@webdunia.com
sanjiv.kataria@gmail.com
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customer.care@webdunia.net
