Neighbourhood newspaper for Mylapore
Chithirai-pournami on April 23, Tuesday. As dusk set in, the moon rose majestically in the skies and if you looked up from the mada streets, you noticed the illuminated gopurams …
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The annual Vasanta utsavam celebration season is on at Sri Kapali Temple in Mylapore. It runs for 30 days and entered the second week on Monday. A small, circular tank …
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One temple which got a record stream of people this weekend was the Sri Ayyappa Temple in MRC Nagar. Families celebrating Visu, the Malayalam New Year and then, on Sunday, …
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The crucial part of Holy Week at local churches began with Maundy/Holy Thursday services on March 29 evening. The symbolic washing of the feet act was followed in churches in …
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Choristers, young and senior, presented an evening of Passiontide music on Palm Sunday, March 24 evening at CSI St. Thomas English Church. Led and accompanied by Anila Manoharan, the choir …
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This is a Lenten practice which the community at CSI St. Luke’s Church in Mandaveli observes on Palm Sunday. They take out a procession where some teens in costumes and …
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The community at three San Thome churches got together on Sunday, March 24 for a ecumenical Palm Sunday procession. The congregations of three local area churches – of San Thome …
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All around the Sri Kapali Temple, there may be signs of chaos and crowds but inside, everything about the Panguni festival runs clockwork despite a few hiccups. Take the day …
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By all accounts, Friday’s ther procession drew perhaps the largest crowds in recent years of the Panguni festival of Sri Kapali Temple in Mylapore. If there were at least 3000 …
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Four senior Mylaporeans took time off last week to share with Mylapore Times, their memories of the Panguni festival of the 1970s and 80s. Sundari Krishnamoorthy, lived for decades in …
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March 20 morning. Sunshine morning. The Sannidhi Street zone slowly fills up with people who make it a point to attend every procession of the Panguni fest at Sri Kapali …
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The Panguni festival brings to life Sri Kapali Temple at least twice every day. Mornings and late evenings. Abnd each part of the day presents differing pictures inside and around …
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