Vedanta Kesari Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was brutally killed on the night of August 23, 2008  as he  was opposing conversions of hapless tribals into Christianity and working for the welfare of the local forest dwellers in tribal dominated Orissa’s Kandhmal district.  Born in 1924 in village Gurjung in the forest-dominated […]

A recent verdict of the Madras High Court bench comprising Justices Mahadevan and Adhikesavalu has clearly said that 100 years plus old temples, including single idol temples, have to be categorised as ancient heritage. The properties which have been offered to temples by devotees out of their free will, on […]

Meet the Doctor of doctors (Vaidhyanaathaa). He is the presiding deity, Lord Shiva,  of village Vaitheeswaran Kovil in Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu.  As per legends,  an ace doctor that he is, he prepares and prescribes medicine. His divine consort, Parvathy, revered  as Baalaambikaa ( Thaiyal Naayaaki ) takes upon herself […]