The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) which has been administering the affairs of the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara has now become “eco-friendly” by installing a non-conventional solar energy plant…

Thiruvannamalai This hill town and district gets its name from the presiding deity Annamalaiyar. On the full moon day of every month, devotees circumnavigate the Annamalai hill and the temple…

Muslim Yatras  1.  Cheraman Juma Masjid, Thrissur, Keralais the oldest mosque in India built in 629 C.E. and reconstructed in the 11th The mosque has an an­cient oil lamp which…

  At Sravanabelgola, 62 miles from Mysore, on a hill 470 feet above the plains and reached by nearly five hundred steps, stands the colossal statue of Bahubali, 57 feet…

  Char Dham (four abodes/seats) Yatra  The Char Dham covers four pilgrimage places – north, south, east and west - in India and was established by Adi Shankara. Badrinath Rameshwaram…

  A pilgrimage, a yatra, is a divine experience. It is an internal journey as well as an outer journey. A true pilgrimage takes us not only to a source…

    Legends say that kings along with their queens would set out on a pilgrimage to invoke the blessings of God. They would finally enter the forest after their…

  The Prithivī sūkta (Book 12) of the Atharva Veda devotes 63 stanzas in praise of the earth and nature, human dependence on the earth and the respect that should be given to her. Earth…