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| October 22, 2009 | Malaysian engineer visiting Uttarkasi missing for a month | | Dehradun:
A Malaysian engineer, who trekked to hilly Tapovan in Uttarkasi district of Uttarakhand to meet his spiritual master, has been missing for the last month. Vicknesvaren
Murugesu, who works in New York, flew from the United States to Gangotri - a popular
Hindu pilgrimage town along the Himalayan range on September 18 for a pilgrimage
retreat, reports The Star. The 33-year-old Vicknesvaren who is from Kuala Lumpur,
trekked up to Tapovan, located about 25km from his rest house in Gangotri along
with an Indian porter and was scheduled to return to his base two weeks later.
"He is spiritually inclined and came from the US to visit an Indian spiritual
guru. He was expected to return to his rest house by the end of the month but
there is no sign of him until now," Steven Nathan, Vicknesvaren's brother-in-law
told the Bernama news agency in a telephone interview yesterday. Many spiritual
gurus and followers, who often meditate on the mountainous area, are beginning
to return from Tapovan as the biting north Indian cold winter, which usually begins
in October, has enveloped the Himalayan region. | |
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