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  1. Monsoon reaches Kerala

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    / June 5, 2012 /
    The pre-monsoon showers have been on in Kerala for the last 2-3 days but the monsoon was not yet official. The Met department was waiting for the 14 designated stations along the west coast, mostly in Kerala (like Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur) to report 2.5 mm or more rainfall for two...

  2. `She toilets’ in Thiruvananthapuram

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    / April 9, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Another first for Kerala. The Kerala state women’s development corporation (KSWDC) plans to build 35 `she toilets’ in Thiruvananthapuram, the first such initiative in the country. These exclusive for women facilities will be set up in city centres and tourist locations. The potable toilets will also have sanitary napkin vending...

  3. Technicolour Kerala

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    / February 10, 2012 / 1 Comment
    I’m bright and colourful. That includes my personality, the clothes I wear, the pictures i take and so on. My eye just picks out colours. Maybe its beause I’m a hardcore Indian, an even brighter Malayalee, and like every other Malayalee, I live upto our stereotype. We love colour and...

  4. Padmanabhaswamy temple petitioner no more

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    / July 17, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple petitioner, T P Sunderarajan,  passed away early on Sunday morning at his residence. he was 70.   Mr Sunderarajan was an advocate and a former IPS officer. He had filed a petition at the Supreme Court and it was based on that petition, that the apex court...

  5. Trivandrum circa 1900

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    / July 15, 2011 / 4 Comments
    These are the photographs of Zacharias D’Cruz, taken from British Library Online galleries (www.bl.uk) as per the Terms and Conditions of Use for the Online Gallery Notes, Favourites, Personal Galleries, and Tag Features. Courtesy (c) British Library Board. All the Shelfmarks are below the picture All these Photographs were taken...

  6. Let God’s own treasure remain with God

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    / July 12, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Suresh Kumar   Why is that a million questions are being asked on what to do with the $22 billion assets whose inventory was done recently? Why is there so much controversy over the temple holding the assets. Why don’t these people pursue the black money stashed away in...

  7. Chain snatching at God’s own temple

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    / July 12, 2011 / 1 Comment
    All the security at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple came to nought with a chain-snatching incident reported at the temple. Security had been upped since the treasure trove was unearthed at this temple in Thiruvananthapuram. The chain was snatched from a woman devotee while she was waiting for ‘darshan’ in front...

  8. The Padmanabha dasas

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    / July 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    This is an article written by Mr B M N Murthy  of Bangalore, who has been writing for the last ten years on various aspects of India’s heritage, history and Sanathana Dharma. He has just been given a special award by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, the `Soham Smarakam Award’ and...

  9. Vault B at Kerala temple not to be opened today

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    / July 8, 2011 / 1 Comment
    The much awaited opening of Vault B at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram will not take place today. The Supreme court has postponed the discussion on the issue to July 14.      Artefacts and jewellery worth over 1 lakh crore has been found from the other vaults and...

  10. Divinity at service of humanity

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    / July 5, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By V R Krishna Iyer   Vivekananda illumined that every religion is the manifestation of divinity in man. Sai Baba in sublime simplicity observed that there is God in every man. God sleeps in the mineral, wakes in the vegetable, walks in the animal and thinks in Man. Therefore, God makes the...

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