Vaal Vacha Gostam Temple, also pronounced as Vaal Vacha Kostam Temple is a Mahishasura Mardini temple of Kanya Kumari district, originally built in 12th century, and renovated 2-3 times later. The temple is situated...
Kumaran Asan – one among the three Malayalam great poets of modern times gave new dimensions to Malayalam poetry in the 20th century. He was born in Kayikkara of Thiruvananthapuram district, where Asan Memorial...
It was quite unexpected. Bollywood lost two great actors in quick succession – Vinod Khanna and Reema Lagoo. Lagoo was fully active in the entertainment industry and only in her late 50s when death...
There was a time when Nirupa Roy, Durga Khote, Sulochana Latkar and Achla Sachdev gave new dimensions to onscreen mother roles in Bollywood. Since late 1980s the trend was created by a new set...
Pooram was once conducted with just 8000 rupees. This amount was enough to celebrate the whole event in grand way. When small celebrations have slowly moved to a big platform and more than one...
There are several temples in the Tamil Nadu border districts of Kerala which worship deities associated with Tamil Nadu’s popular culture. Mutharamman is a popular goddess of Tamil Nadu, and a few temples are...
Nadodi Nritham – folk dance form of Kerala, is a representation of social, cultural and traditional life of Kerala. The songs usually sung by a solo male singer have a story to tell, related...
Sree Krishna Temple Neyyattinkara is regarded as ‘Guruvayur of South Kerala / Thiruvananthapuram District’. It lies on NH-47 Neyyattinkara, on Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil route. The temple is indeed famous for Ammachi Plavu, the big jackfruit...
Parakovil Sri Krishna temple is situated at the hill top of Thirumala hills. The temple is located 6 kms away from Thiruvananthapuram city, and is known for the Krishna temple built on huge rock,...
Thirumala is located in the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram city, and the place name is coined from two words – ‘Thiru’ and ‘Mala’ which means Holy Mountain. Parakovil, which literally means rock temple is situated...
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