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Janardanan, matchless dancer and teacher, upholds the ideals of Rukmini Devi and the standard of Kalakshetra. Of time, you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's
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The legend of Akshaya Tritiya Next Hindus in different parts of India celebrate the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya for different reasons...According to the Hindu calendar, Lord Parshurama, the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu was born today.
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12 May 2013 During a festival to honour a Hindu goddess, one mother and daughter took a horrifying tumble while running on hot coals. The celebrations were to honour Maha Mariamman in Jalandhar in the Punjab region of India. Both were injured,
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Among the most famous of the legends goes thus: Goddess Durga is engaged in a battle against the demon Raktabija who clones himself each time a drop of his blood drips from his body. As the battlefield is filled with the duplicates of Raktabija,
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A slight man, dressed casually in denims, Rakesh Sidddaramaiah was indistinguishable from the dancing, screaming hordes that descended on the house of the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly on Friday. The eldest son of Chief
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Reference to Thulukka Nachiar demeaning, some say King Tirumalai Naicker shifted the venue of the Chithirai festival from Thenur to Madurai aiming to reconcile the Saivites and the Vaishnavites. But the Chithirai festival involves not just Hindus but
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A spiritual trip by a group of villagers for a temple festival took a tragic turn on Sunday when four of them, including a mother-daughter duo and a boy, drowned in a pool of water in an otherwise dry Cauvery River at Perugamani, a few kilometres
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I was in Madurai for a workshop and I befriended a group of college students in the Meenakshi temple...Outside the temple, standing with their foreheads smeared with vibhuti and kumkum , they gave me their names Joshua, Charles, Mukundan, Vincent,
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When the gods marry on earth Next Over one million devotees visit the Meenakshi Amman temple in Madurai for Chitirai Thiruvizha which also celebrates the marriage of Lord Shiva to Meenakshi. T he Meenakshi Thirukalyanam (the divine marriage of
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The Brahma Kumaris of Global Peace House, Sector 15-A, a local branch of the organisation, will be organising a unique public function named 'Awaken Your Inner Power' to bring out the significance of the Navratri festival as well as to celebrate the
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