Last week, Samata and I combined a personal visit to Mangalore (to attend a marriage) with some work on the “Temples of Tulunadu” project. I was able to visit Belmannu, Bola, Kandalike and Pavanje. In the coming weeks, I will publish small writeups, as usual, on the Anandatirtha website. Visiting these temples right in the [...]
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Last week, there were clashes between two groups resulting in communal tension in Mysore. Result – four temples were destroyed. A former mayor was attacked and property destroyed. The main stream media (MSM) reported about this for maybe …hmmm….let’s see ….two mins?
Read this article here. The report has a few disturbing photographs as well. This [...]
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You can read an article on Komapadavu Sri Vishnumurthy Temple over here.
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Read my new article on the Moodappa Seve held at Nellitheertha over here.
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Several months ago, I had visited Sri Ramachandrapura Matha at Hosanagara, near Shimoga. Recently, we visited the place once again. This time, I had carried my camera and managed to click several photographs. The place is one of the most serene and beautiful places I have seen. Plus the Goshale there is absolutely amazing. There [...]
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Recently, the annual temple festival was conducted at Nellitheertha. The 5 day festival went off very well and thousands of devotees attended the festivities. One of the key highlights of this year’s festival was the felicitation held for Sri Subramanya Tantri, the “tantri” for our temple.
Tantris are a special class of Brahmins revered in Tulu [...]
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