CHENNAI SANDESH July 20, 2017 CHENNAI WITNESSES KINDNESS IN KHAKI An instance of kindness in Khaki. Shri. Manivannan, a special sub-inspector of police, attached to the Kasimedu police station, Chennai, got a special invite last week from the Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan, a sweet surprise for him. […]
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CHENNAI SANDESH July 13, 2017 THEY LEARN PRANAYAMA FROM A 3 MILLENNIA OLD TAMIL TEXT The large audience at Tambaram Tamil Sangam meet recently were overjoyed to learn that over 2000 poems of Thirumoolar, a Tamil mystic who lived three millennia ago, had dealt with pranayama that the world today […]
CHENNAI SANDESH July 5, 2017 TN FARMERS: SEENI TULSI CAN REPLACE WHITE SUGAR Even as India emerges as diabetes capital (with as many as 5 crore people suffering from type-2 diabetes), there is some good news, sweet news rather: Seeni Thulasi (Stevia Rebaudiana) a sweet variety of Tulsi can replace […]
VEDA RECITED BANG ON THE LAL CHOWK, SRINAGAR The Sankaracharya Hill and Lal Chowk (yes, Lal Chowk!) in Srinagar of Jammu and Kashmir reverberated with Vedic chants for six days ending on Sankara Jayanti (April 30), thanks to the daring act of the devotees of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Sankaracharya. More […]
When Chennai hearts melted for a brave Odisha kid Over 200 persons, men women and kids , all hailing from Odisha and living in Chennai, happily celebrated ‘pana sankranti’ or ‘vishu pa sankranti’, as the Odisha new year is called, at the holy precincts of Sri Jagannath temple near the […]
Evils Of a Secular Govt administering Hindu Temples A recent incident inside the Madhava Perumal (Vishnu) temple in Mylapore, Chennai vindicates an old demand by Hindu organisations asking the secular state government to quit from Hindu temple administration. On March 7 a Christian wedding was permitted by the Executive Officer […]
Chennaiites worried about unprotected children ** Seven year old Haasini of Porur, Chennai, was sexually assaulted and ruthlessly burnt to death. ** Rithika, a three year old was raped and killed. ** Another child, Nandhini, was kidnapped, raped and killed. The recent increase in such bone chilling, gruesome crimes shook […]
A book speaks of decline of the river bank civilization of Chennai It was not a just book release function though a book titled ‘THE GODS OF THE HOLY COOVUM’ was released last week in Chennai. The book traces the tragic history of how a 72 km river that bifurcates […]
The Bull comes to the help of the cow Though ‘Jallikattu’ demonstrations spearheaded by spontaneous upsurge of students but sabotaged by anti-social and anti-national groups was in the news over the past fortnight, it had a healthy fall out mostly unnoticed. It is this: hundreds of cows packed in trucks […]
The persisting question of ‘music before mosques’ Police used force to disperse scores of members of Ganesh Festival committee including Hindu Munnani and BJP cadres who resorted to a road roko after officials denied them permission to play music while crossing a mosque during Vinayaka idol procession in Aruppukottai near […]