For the last two months, Venus Colony at Alwarpet had scores of people turning up to the locality as the head of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Vijayendra Saraswathi stayed in Asthiga Samajam to observe the Chaturmasya Vratam.
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Arulmigu Sri Varasakthi Vinayagar Sri Pushpavalli Amman temple located at NGO Colony, Kamarajar Nagar, Choolaimedu is an old temple with its history dating back to the formation of the colony in 1950s.
The library at Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore has numerous books spread across different sections that caters to different readers. But for many years now, the library has been providing engineering books to students using a book bank.
At a time when India tried reaching moon’s southern pole as part of Chandrayaan 2 project, Prem Sumanth, a ninth standard student from St Bede’s Academy Senior Secondary School and a resident of Mandaveli won the second place in Voice 2019, a national-level concept based essay writing competition, conducted by Department of Science, Government of India, writing about the possibilities of human settlement in Mars.
In the temple town of Mylapore, there are numerous temples and idols that are centuries-old. Sri Valampuri Vinayagar Temple is one such place of worship, with its idol dating back to several centuries. Located at Arundel Street, it is a very small temple with only one sanctum for Lord Vinayaga.
After Pichaikkaran, director Sasi is back with Sivappu Manjal Pachai starring Siddharth and GV Prakash Kumar along with Lijomol Jose and Kashmira Pardeshi, making their Tamil debut.
Saidapet houses many temples that are centuries old. Sri Thirupura Sundari Sametha Sundareswarar Temple is one such Shiva temple that is present in the locality for many years now. The shrine also has a strange connection to the Thirunaraiyur Soundareyswarar Temple and it is commonly referred to as Vada Thirunaraiyur.
Eight years after making a sleeper-hit film ‘Mounaguru’, director Shantakumar is back with an intense thriller titled ‘Magamuni’, starring Arya, Indhuja and Mahima Nambiar in the lead.
We have seen some sport professionals or practitioners of martial art venture into coaching only when they retire as that is usually the basic norm. But, doing the unusual are two young lads in their early twenties, who have taken up Taekwondo coaching and are successfully running a centre in Alwarpet.