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Express News Service 10 January 2025 TIRUCHY: About 1.5 lakh devotees descended on the Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam of the district to witness the ceremonial procession of Lord Namperumal through the ‘paramapada vaasal’ or ‘sorgavaasal’ gate as part of the ongoing Vaikunta Ekadasi festival in the early hours of Friday. Marking the first day of […]

Published in the Hindu, May 03, 2019 Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu unveiled commemorative postage stamps on the 750th birth anniversary of ‘Vedanta Desikan’ a religious philosopher, at the Sardar Patel Conference hall at the Vice-President’s secretariat on Thursday. Mr. Naidu praised the postal department for the initiative saying the release of the stamp was “to

Published in the Hindu Business Line, July 20, 2018   British parliamentarians cutting across party lines joined several Hindu leaders in the UK at the House of Commons complex in London to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Vedanta Desika, one of India’s leading spiritual masters. Desika, who taught the path of ‘prapatti’ or loving

Published by New India Express, 7th May 2019   CHENNAI: Kanchipuram has a historic, but not oft-visited temple dedicated to Kuresha or Kurathazhvan, one of the most loyal disciples of the famous Srivaishnava preceptor, Ramanujacharya. Born in Kuram (Kura) village near Kanchipuram, Kuresha studied under Ramanujacharya in Kanchipuram and subsequently followed him to Srirangam. According

Published in the New Indian Express, 06th June 2019   CHENNAI: Thoopul or Tirutanka, an ancient part of Kanchipuram, is well-known, as it is home to a Vishnu temple dedicated to Deepa Prakasar and also because is the birthplace of the illustrious Srivaishnava scholar, philosopher and preceptor (Acharya), Vedanta Desika (1268-1369 AD). Thoopul has a