It is said that goddess Veda, who wears the works of acharyas as jewels on her, symbolically, has given pride of place to Kurattazhwan’s work by adorning it as her mangalasutra. A staunch devotee of ...

The BJP struggles with the Tamilian duality of being overly religious while also voting for the social justice platform of ...

visited the temple in Virudhunagar. During the visit, while engrossed in a conversation with Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar (Sri Vaishnavite religious guru), Ilaiyaraaja was ...

(Photographs by Purushottam Diwakar) (NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated December 23, 2024) Two Vaishnavite sects claiming ownership over a venerated temple and ...

It is customary to sing them at all Vaishnavite temples, including the famed Tirupati Venkateswara temple. Sri Andal, who was in love with Lord Ranganathar of SriRangam, had composed the ...

Sikh and other non beef-eating communities”, or “within a radius of 5 km” of any temple or sattra (Vaishnavite monasteries). It excludes buffaloes from its definition of cattle. It prohibits slaughter ...

Legendary music composer and Rajya Sabha member Ilayaraja was prevented from entering the ‘Artha Mandap’, the hall before the ...

Balkrishna Mandir There is a huge cattle shed with several cows near the temple. About 400 Vaishnavite families lived here earlier. Now, there are only 150 families as several of them returned to ...

GUWAHATI: In an attempt to link the Aadhaar Card with the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Assam government on Wednesday decided that all applications to get the unique identity card will ...

During the Dhanurmasam, one Pasuram will be recited inside the temple every day. This ritual is practised in Sri Vaishnavite temples during the Dhanurmasam. Besides this, the idol of Lord Sri ...

Busloads of Hindu devotees from all over the country also throng the Sri Sundararaja Perumal Temple, known as the Thirupathi of South-East Asia. Being a prominent Vaishnavite temple in the region ...

The architecture style belongs to the Vijayanagara period. The temple lost its significance during the glorious period of the Shaivite-Vaishnavite religions. Tipu Sulthan later turned it into his ...