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Writer, Editor & Culture critic. Loves classical music, dance, traditional food. वेदः मम जीवनम्।Author -
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Seems like a whole generation doesn't know that there was an actual revolutionary freedom fighter called
#Alluri
Sitarama Raju, just a century ago! This image was released by British govt. after he was shot dead in 1924.
Do read up about him! One of Andhra's greatest! 🙏🙏🙏
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Can never have enough of this!
Somewhere in Telangana :
"You live on a meagre pension. If you donate 500 rs from that for
#RamMandir
in Ayodhya, how will you survive?"
Cheerful grandmother : "I have my Rama with me! I have no issues!"
What Bhakti! 🙏😭
#RamaNavami
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So Hollywood stars Michael Douglas, his son and actress Catharine Zeta Jones visited the iconic Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur today
No fuss unlike many Indian actors. They came like any other western tourists, spent the day awestruck by the ancient splendour of the temple!
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What a beautiful image via WhatsApp!
Captain Ganesh who is always on ships never misses his daily Sandhya Vandanam and Anushtanam! ☺🙏
Wow! So inspiring! 🙏
#IncredibleIndia
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Something extraordinary is happening in Hyderabad. A giant statue of Saint Shri Ramanujacharya who propounded the Visishtadvaita philosophy has been set up. Today the Prime Minister of India, Shri
@narendramodi
ji will do Lokaarpanam.
A short thread on what it might signify. 🙏
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Meanwhile in Bhooloka Vaikuntham!
The first Prime Minister of India in history to visit the world’s largest and longest-functioning temple! Not a coincidence!
Lord Ranganathar, the Kuladaivam of Bhagawan Rama knows that
@narendramodi
ji will restore
#RamMandir
!
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25 yr old Kashmiri Pundit Ankita Raina from Pulwama is the new poster girl of Indian Tennis. She is current Indian number 1 in women's singles ranker. Yest. she became only 3rd Indian woman tennis player to breach Top-200 rankings and reach a career-best 197 in the WTA chart. 😊
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Hong Kong suspended flights to facilitate migratory birds to fly. What a lovely gesture! Sky is their space and we are the encroachers! 🙂
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Do you know what is historic about today?!
On 11th May 1951, the first President of India Sri Rajendra Prasad ji reopened the ancient Jyotirlinga Kshetram of Somnath in Gujarat. It was reconsecrated after several centuries!
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Auspicious Ekadasi morning with friends be like…🙏🏼😊
How is yours going?
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A friend tells me Lulu hypermarket at Lakshmi Mills in Coimbatore employs only Mohammadean boys. All 400 of them. And 400 girls! All of them Non-Muslim.
Lulu is owned by a Kerala Mohammadean.
Has anyone done a check on this?!
Sounds like a big disaster in the making! 💁🏻♂️
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Saved a poor calf from being butchered by a peaceful. Sold off my gold chain, bought her from that fellow and sent her to a caring Goshala in Mathura. She is now a grown up beauty! Try to visit her as often as I can! 😍
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My kinda climate activist! With enough real work to show! 🙏
Not like some pretentious directionless 'ToolKid'! 😏
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He is a 92 year veteran Vidwan. He was in coma the whole of last fortnight. Doctors gave up. His family members and students came to the hospital and began reciting Mantras. He not only got out of coma but began trying to recite with them!
धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः
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BREAKING NEWS! World famous Carantic vocalist sisters Vidushis
@ranjanigayatri
announce withdrawal from the
@musicacademyma
festival!
Finally we have artistes who can speak up!!
More power to you Vidushis
@ranjanigayatri
!
May you continue to inspire!
RT widely!
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Kannada TV reporters got no chill! 😂
Yaarappa ivanu? Yaava channel?! He really chased that fellow!
Ivange Kannada Rajyotsava kodbeku! 😂
Great job!
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This is such a beautiful sight! A cow happily camps in the middle of a group of Patashala Vidyarthis chanting Shukla Yajurvedam and patiently listens to them without disturbing anything.
गोब्राह्मणेभ्यः शुभमस्तु नित्यं
लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनोभवंतु ॥
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She stood in front of his Sannidhi and her Bhakthi poured out in the form of a Thiruppugazh!
So beautiful!
May Lord Muruga bless her!
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Great news to end this day and week!
@AmitShah
ji tests negetive for
#Covid_19
! May god bless him with many more decades of great health! 🙏☺️
#JaiShriRam
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OMG! This 75 year young veera Marathi Naari from Pune shows her skills on the main road to survive!
If someone finds her, please help her! She should ideally be teaching young girls this beautiful martial art!
Pranams to her! 🙏
@AUThackeray
@Dev_Fadnavis
@anandmahindra
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A friend sent me this beautiful image.
The amount of music, talent, power, courage and inspiration in one frame!
#MSSubbulakshmi
#LataMangeshkar
#SJanaki
#PSusheela
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First the temple bells were broken. Then devotees were attacked. Then they killed the Poojari. The temple was set on fire, no worshipper, no priest. No Hindu. No witness. The walls were covered with soot, the ceiling collapsed, the floor cracked. Thousands of Pundits displaced.
First the azaan was silenced. Then the muezzin was attacked. Then they killed the imam. The mosque was set on fire, no worshipper, no imam. No muezzin. No witness. The walls were covered with soot, the ceiling collapsed, the floor cracked.
Allah sees all you do.
#GuruGram
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There are several legends about the ancient original Somanatha Jyotirlingam that was put into the ocean (Jalaadivaasam) to protect it from Mohammadean invaders. That it was a Spatika lingam with properties to float in water was one of them!
What if this is that?!! 🤔🤩🙏🏼
The fishermen of Bharuch Kavi found Spatika Shivlinga floating in the water. In the Gulf of Khambhat, the Shivlinga got caught in a fishing net in the sea water weighing more than 100kgs still floating🙏🏼
#HarHarMahadev
ॐ
#OmNamahShivaya
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Sadguru Tyagaraja Swamy’s eternal composition. comes to my mind!
“Entha Muddo! Entha Sogaso!”
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She is 89! Performing a fairly difficult Shyama Shastrigal Swarajathi in Ragam Bhairavi.
Really inspiring to watch the one and only iconic Vyjayanthimala Bali. Dancers half her age don’t perform so well!
May god bless her with good health always!
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A slice of Shiva Tandava Stotram for Pradosham. Choreo. by Kelu Babu with music by Pt Panigrahi. Performed by Ratikant.☺ 🙏
जटा टवी गलज्जलप्रवाह पावितस्थले गलेऽव लम्ब्यलम्बितां भुजंगतुंग मालिकाम्।डमड्��मड्डमड्डमन्निनाद वड्डमर्वयं
चकारचण्डताण्डवं तनोतु नः शिव: शिवम् ॥१॥
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So much truth in what his grandmother told him! So relevant for today’s world! Can’t deny her wisdom!
Sometimes it feels as if
@SriNithyananda
was caricatured beyond proportion! For no apparent reason!
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The great Sanskrit scholar Vidwan Vinayaka Udupa ji honoured with prestigious 'Badarayana Vyas Puraskar' from
@rashtrapatibhvn
. A master of Alamkara, Tarka, Mimamsa, Nyaya and Vedanta. Doesn't believe in writing. Everything has to be learnt byheart! Can recite entire Rig Veda! 🙏
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All his life he lived an atheist, peddling communist garbage. One day something snapped! He ran to Yadigirigutta and cried and returned a transformed man. His new-found Hindu spirituality made the leftists very uncomfortable. Hope he finally found his peace!
Atma Shanti! 🙏🏼
Popular Telugu singer Gaddar passes away in Hyderabad today
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Midweek cheer! These Sirkazhi twins are absolutely brilliant!
May Lord Muruga bless them always!
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The other (and fairly unknown!) side of the most celebrated Telugu cinema comedian and actor Sri Brahmanandam Garu!
Absolutely amazing! 🙏☺️
#JaiShriRam
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High energy mornings in another part of the world 😍😍😍
Sustaining auspiciousness.... 😊 🙏
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Vasundhara Devi, famous with her screen name Kanchana, was born in Prakasam dist in Andhra. Worked as an air hostess, she was a super star in films. Her land worth 50 cr in Madras was stuck in a court case. She won it, promptly donated to TTD for a temple for Padmavathi Devi.🙏🙂
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Languages I speak fluently
- English
- Hindi
- Sanskrit
- Telugu
- Kannada
- Tulu
- Konkani
- Tamil
- Marathi
- French
- Urdu
Languages I partially know/understand very well
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Japanese
- Punjabi
- Malayalam
Languages I am learning
- Sharada
- Pali
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Today is the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916 - 2004), the greatest diva of Carnatic classical music in this century! And, forever!
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Today is the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Madurai Shanmugavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916 - 2004), the greatest diva of Dakshina Bharata Shastreeya Sangeetam in this century! And, forever!
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Thai Poosam greetings to everyone! Palanimalai is glittering like a diamond!
Harohara! 🙏☺️🙏
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Kanchana was an air hostess who became a superstar actress in her time, both in Telugu and Tamil. Her land was being illegally occupied by the obvious landSharks in Madras. She migrated to Bangalore outskirts after being threatened by them.
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1971, Aadi Parasakti.
#Sridevi
as a child artiste playing the role of Lord Muruga in the lap of
#Jayalalithaa
playing the role of Goddess Parvathi. Glorious Tamil mythological cinema!
#Epic
#IndianActresses
#TamilCinema
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In recent times… this! 🤩
Fabulous idea, script, scenography, aesthetic, overall execution and a joyful experience watching it! Kudos to the Pandey brothers!
They don’t make Ads like these anymore!
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This beautiful ancient prayer by my Oduvar friend Sri Srinivasan Ramani. Had he taken to full-time Carnatic music, he would have been something else! He is happy and blessed to be serving the lord! 😀🙏
May India heal to normalcy soon!
लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु! 🙏
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Friday blessings! 🙏🏼
Old Chandamama covers are absolutely gorgeous! 💥😍🙏🏼
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Tyagaraja sang "Bantureeti Koluvu Iyyavayya Rama.." Give me the job of being your loyal servant..
Here are two great Bhaktas of Lord Rama who actually served him all their life!
At 93, both Advani ji and Parasaran ji...what a beautifully inspiring image! 🙏
#JaiShriRam
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Post (one of) the quietest pictures you have....
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How many of you knew this original song which Carnatic classical musician
@Bombay_Jayashri
sang in a later movie?!
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Circa 2021, Srirangam. Andal and Lakshmi chilling in the Mandapam.
Shubha Prabhatam! 🙏😊
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Wow Madras! My driver this morning was Minakshiamma! A mother of 3 who she sends to school and runs her auto rest of the day!Threw her drunkard husband out of the house! Educates her kids. Wants them to join the Indian Army and serve the country! What style and swag!
#Respect
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If you are in Kumbakonam and want excellent Sathvik (no onion/garlic) food, head to Maami Mess in North Gandhi Park. Run by Meenakshi Maami for 42 years now!! All her employees are women. Homely and delicious Iyer Brahmin food. Served hot on a banana leaf. 😍 🙏
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On
#Dhanteras
or Dhanvantri Trayodashi, a short thread in honour of Lord Dhanvantri, the physician of the gods and the lord of traditional medicine.
An amsa-avatara of Lord Vishnu, he was born on Aswiyuja Bahula Trayodasi during the churning of the ocean.
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Wow! Rajmata Pramoda Devi Wadiyar gifted a beautiful Mysore style painting of Panchamukha Anjaneya to PM
@narendramodi
ji on his visit to the Mysore Palace!
That painting looks stunning! Wish we could get a closer look at it!
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Historic day! Vedic chants ring across the Kashmir valley as Sringeri Jagadguru consecrates the temple of Sharada Devi in Teetwal.
Kashmir, or Kashyapa Vihara, was always known as Sharada Desham. The land of great knowledge that was visited by every great saint and philosopher!
#Jagadguru
#SriSri
Vidhushekara Bharati Mahaswamiji performing Pran Prathishta at the Ma Sharda shrine near the LoC, Teetwal,
#Kashmir
Live Streaming & Full video here:
या ब्रह्माच्युतशङ्करप्रभृतिभिर्देवैः सदा वन्दिता
सा मां पातु सरस्वती भगवती
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Shocking news from Kerala. Eminent Mohiniyattam dancer Dr Neena Prasad was literally driven off the stage in the middle of her performance because a local district judge Kalam Pasha was irritated by the show!
Absolutely humiliating!
Wth is happening in Kerala?! 😡
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Made my day! The original members of ‘Shakti’
@jmcl_gtr
,
@ZakirHtabla
and Vikku ji meet and chill out! Like old friends of a band must! Over half a century of music and memories!
Missing L Shankar here!
More power to them!
Happy weekend everyone!
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On the auspicious morning of the first Ekadasi of Aashada!
Vitthala! 😍🙏
May he protect everyone! 🙏🙏🙏
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Five year old Samarth of the Trayambakeshwar Patashala in Nasik chants a tough Mantra. For his age, he is fantastic! I know many decades older to him who can't do it this effortlessly. A real prodigy indeed! God bless him! 😊🙏
#IncredibleIndia
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Wishing everyone lots of good health and blessings on the last Karthika Deepam of this decade on the English calendar! ☺🙏
Some wonderful videos from Tiruvannamalai, the one place to be today! Putting them in a short thread. 😍
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In other Sunday morning news from Kottur Elephant Rehabilitation Centre near Thiruvananthapuram, Raja the little calf, hugs his caretaker.
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Holy Karthika Pournami abhishekam & 1032 birth anniversary of emperor Rajaraja Chola at the ancient Brihadeeswara temple in Thanjavur. 🙏
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A vintage video for
#WorldMusicDay
! No concept of selfies and everyone behaved civilised back then!
That’s Bharat Ratna MS Subbulakshmi after a concert. Look at Rasikas thronging to meet her. How she holds her husband’s hand and walks out greeting everyone.
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Stubble is burning on its own milord! Nobody is responsible!
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CJI NV Ramana: you are making it as if farmers are responsible for this....
#SupremeCourt
#AirPollution
#DelhiAirPollution
#DelhiPollution
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The 1974 movie starring Krishna in the role of Raju was a super duper hit! It was the 100th movie for Krishna. They would air it on good old
@DDNational
during Independence or Republic Day.
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An exquisite Murti of Lord Vishnu has been unearthed in Sakleshpur. It is in brilliant condition. It is Lord Vasudeva (going by configuration of what he is holding in his hands) from the Hoyasala era. Observe the beautiful miniature Dashavataras on the Prabhavali! 😍🙏
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Absolute honour and pleasure spending time with Veda Brahmasri Parameshwara Deekshitar in Chidambaram. He is a master of 6 Veda Shakhas!
-Rig Shalaka Shakha
-Krishna Yajur Taittreya & Maitrayani Shakhas
-Sama Kauthuma Shakha
-Shukla Yajur Kanva
-Atharvana Shaunaka Shakhas
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After Yoga, 'turmeric latte', neemstick toothbrushes , desi cow ghee...finally the west is exporting leaves from India! 😂
Who knew Brahminical patriarchy was so eco-friendly I say.....😎
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Breaking news! From the world of Carnatic music!
Vocalist Vidushi
@Bombay_Jayashri
has been selected for as the Sangita Kalanidhi designate for 2023.
Congratulations!! 😊🙏🏼
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Absolutely delighted! My dear friend and the iconic Bharatanatyam artiste and silver screen diva of yesteryears Vyjayanthimala Bali has been awarded the prestigious Padma Vibhushan award!
At 91, she is still more active than women half her age!
🥳🙏🏼🤩
#PadmaAwards2024
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What does it mean when the world's most popular Buddhist spiritual leader offers prayers to Lord Shiva?! Even if he licks the Abhishekam honey inadvertently in the middle!
The Dalai Lama is suffering from cancer and seeking solace in Shiva?!
Will his Buddhist doctrines agree?!
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On the eve of Maha Shivaratri....
Arunachala Shiva Arunachala Shiva
Arunachala Shiva... Arunachala...
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Auspicious Ekadasi morning!
A beautiful Yajurveda Parayanam underway here!
May positive energies protect the world!
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On the 103rd birthday of Bharat Ratna M S Subbulakshmi, some old footage of her at home, singing in front of the portrait of the Kanchi Paramacharya. ☺🙏
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Wonderful news coming in from the ancient temple of lord Venkataramana in Mulki in remote coastal Karnataka!
The temple is one of the holy places for the Saraswat Brahmin and GSB community.
A short thread about the latest news with some history follows. 🙂🙏
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Every year beginning Mahalaya Paksham, my friend's family invite Vedic pundits and scholars to their ancestral home in Amalapuram in Andhra and have a week-long Veda Parayanam till the Amavasya. This is a family tradition going back to 10 generations at least, she tells me.😊🙏
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There is enough protein in Sambar and Vadai. Enough healthy fat in cow ghee. There are people who have eaten this every single day in their life and are living beyond 90!
So take your theory elsewhere! Market it to dumb people. South Indian breakfasts are good by themselves.
Typical South Indian breakfast.
Where is the Protein in this? Where is the healthy Fat in this?
Please don't say urad dal in Idli/Vada or dal in a bit of sambhar is protein.
Not trying to demean anyone, but it's important to know things & make changes accordingly.
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Why o why isn't this brilliant product more popular?! Far superior to all the disgusting chemical toothpastes in the market!
One of the finest Tooth powders made from herbs. A product of the famous BV Pundit's Ayurveda Bhandara. 🤩🙏
#VocalForLocal
#AtmaNirbharBharat
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Beautiful! Grandmother reading Ramayana by Sandhyadeepam, celebrating Karkitakam or Ramayana Maasam, the last month of the Malayalam calendar. It is believed Valmiki completed writing the Ramayana in this month. Walk into any temple after sunset in Kerala and experience this!😍
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When NTR got the Tank Bund built to connect the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad across the Hussain Sagar lake, he installed the statues of all the iconic Telugus on one side of the road. Among those is a beautiful life-size statue of Alluri Sitarama Raju.
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OMG!! Someone I know got off the
#CoromandelExpress
few stations before for something,missed the train, got stranded only to find out that it went ahead and met with this massive accident! Their baggage was still in it! They lost all that. But life was saved!
What Karma! 😱🙏🏼
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The person behind this huge project is Sri Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, easily the most popular spiritual leaders in the Telugu lands today.
You might like him or not, like his philosophy or politics or not, but he has been working for Dharma significantly in the Telugu states.
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#NowPlaying
: Some beautiful Nagaswaram by this young Vidwan Sureshwaran from Thiruvidaimardur.
Blissful!
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An inscription in Honehalli near Tumkur records the passing away of the great Emperor Sri Krishnadeva Raya on the 17th of October 1529. We knew from later sources that a lunar eclipse had occurred the day he died. But exact date was speculated. Brilliant new discovery. 😊🙏
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Woke up to this brilliant brilliant news of playback singer SPB garu donating his ancestral house in Nellore to the
@KanchiMatham
. It would become a Veda Patashala soon, under the guidance and blessings of current Acharyal Shankara Vijayendra Saraswati. ☺🙏
A short thread.
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Sri Srinivasa Murthy Deekshitulu, a veteran Archaka in Tirumala passed away. As per custom, the fire for final rituals is sent to his residence with temple honours as a mark of respect for his services to the Lord. This was the same respect Devadasis received.
Atma Shanti! 🙏
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Got the news of the sudden demise of a dear friend Sri Suresh Ghanapatigal in Bangalore this morning. Wonderful scholar, very generous with his knowledge and always accessible. He was only 57.
Atma Shanti 🙏🏼
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Happy birthday Shri
#LKAdvani
ji! ☺🙏
Ahead of the
#AYODHYAVERDICT
, this old footage that will inspire many more in the path of truth!
#JaiShriRam
🙏☺
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Here
#SPBalasubrahmanyam
talks about dubbing
@ikamalhaasan
's 'Dashavataram' into Telugu, where he rendered his voice for numerous characters! What an extraordinary mimic! 🙏
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Steaming hot Kanchipuram Kovil Idlis for a cold winter Sunday!
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"Maybe Rama is not such a big icon in the south...". 🙄
What crap!
South has produced more Rama Bhaktas and literature on Rama than anywhere else!
Kambar
Gonabuddha Reddy
Narahari
Ezhuthachan
Atukuri Molla
Bhadrachala Ramadasu
Tyagaraja
One can go on and on....🤷♂
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Some lovely Thilang for tonight....
Vidwan Injakkudi Mariappan performing in the ancient Meenakshi temple in Madurai. ☺🙏
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