Neighbourhood newspaper for Mylapore
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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Over 1000 people gathered around the flag staff inside Sri Kapali Temple on Saturday morning (March 16) to participate the signal launch event for the temple’s annual Panguni uthiram festival. …
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Over the next month, Mylapore resident V Samyuktha will be appearing for the chartered accountancy (CA) inter examination. This year, the Rama Navami utsavam at her ancestral home in Elleri …
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After a two hour procession around the Mada Streets, a ‘big fight’ erupted between Karpagambal and Kapaleeswarar and it was left to Sundara Moorthy Nayanar to mediate and bring them …
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After a noisy evening with a huge crowd watching the celestial wedding of the divine couple on Thursday evening, Sri Kapaleeswarar was carried by the ten-headed Ravana on a three-hour …
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It is the one day in the Panguni Utsavam when the action lay centered on West Mada Street, now R K Mutt Road. Devotees in several hundreds packed on to …
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Activist T. R. Ramesh who focuses on temple related issues and has filed cases against the managers of Sri Kapali Temple (HR & CE Dept.) over the last few years …
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Heavy traffic on R K Mutt Road just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday made it challenging for the procession of saint- poet Thiru Gnana Sambandar to reach the west end …
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It’s just after 11.30am on Monday and the chariot has made its way in front of the temple office on North Mada Street – the street is packed and there …
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The Kapaleeswarar Temple festival is the source divinity and joy in Mylapore. The devotion of people attending the daily events is strong. Best seen in the in processions. We spotted …
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