Ezhumalai, is a peanut / groundnut vendor in front of Vadapalani Murugan Temple. When he saw the picture about to be taken, he wore the dark glasses. He also said this is because he likes both Late MGR & the current CM wearing these kind of glasses.
Posts Tagged ‘Vadapalani’
14 Jul
Commoner, week 8
A florist at Vadapalani, or she’s rather a flower vendor, garland maker and holder of many such skills when it comes to Flowers.
One could spot her on the Arcot road, opp the Vadapalani Temple Arch.
19 Feb
Arch
The entrance arch to the Sri Vadapalani Andavar Temple. The ornamental arch shows the direction to the main entrance, from Arcot road.
14 Feb
Vaadhyar aka Purohit
Being a vaadhyar is a profession who carries out rituals for Hindu families, are priests at temples. Here they are part of the Tamil Brahmin society, either a iyer or a iyengar mostly.
I like they way he’s made his poonool a key chain.
Seen crossing Arcot Road.
25 Jan
Ice creams
The wrong season for ice creams! i wonder. The Saravana Bhavan’s dairy foods division place where the ice creams roll out into the city. The containers on storage and ready to be stuffed and rolled out.
Hmmm … yummy creams ……
22 Jan
God in snake
The belief in worshipping snake as a god prevails in Hinduism in this part of the world. “Nagaraja” the King of Snakes is predominantly worshipped using milk and egg at these temples.
Seen @ Vengeeswarar temple, Kodambakkam.
13 Dec
Vehicle of oneness
In front of the Vadapalani Murugan Temple, i just hope this togetherness continues.
12 Dec
Roadside cure ….
The roadside clinics to cure ALL ILLNESS’s never ceases to amuse me so much!
This one claiming to give special treatments for (through Siddha, Ayurveda & Herbal) Asthma, Piles, Nerve’s related, Impotency, Ulcer, Intestines, Psoriasis, Leprosy and many more (including Cancer) on the lane of Vadapalani temple is more amusing to see the laundry list of [...]
30 Nov
Floral tribute
A floral tribute to all the innocents & the commando’s who laid their life at Mumbai.
From the flowers seen at Vadapalani …..
25 Nov
Chime
The Bell in Vengeeswarar Temple, which is about 32 years old. Still the ring is in one’s ears when they sound the bell during various pooja’s. Though now they have various automated bells introduced at temples along with the automated drums too, the sound from such bells are unique and have a character.
18 Nov
Toy land
Irrespective of the social strata, Kids love toys. Probably some last a few minutes, some a few days and a very few last for a longer time to be passed on to another kid.
Dolls, Automobiles, Day-to-day items and Animals are a few of the popular toy categories apart from the electronically operated ones.
A scene of [...]
6 Nov
Abhi, Mani and more
Mani, the canine in picture is part of their family and very protective of the young one Abhirami. When i was preparing to click a picture of them, he was furiously barking and kept quiet only after the GrandMom said its ok. In this preparation i forgot to ask the Grandmom’s name and she could [...]
5 Nov
Clutter, an understatement
Just because you get a free signboard for your office, you don’t ask for 10 more and fill up the common space and confuse your client / prospective client. Looks like i should a run a contest to count the number of signages in this commercial building and the winner gets a FREE trip to [...]
24 Oct
Loss of beat ….
Can you make out what are those “flat plate like” things? The second picture would aid your answer.
Yes the skin of the “thavil” (the percussion instrument of this part of the country) being dried post rains. They need to be taut for getting the real bang while playing this instrument, hence even a little bit [...]
23 Oct
Reviving Old temples
The Collage of Pictures above is of the Truck, which goes every week to lesser known temples in and around Chennai & once a month to other cities of TamilNadu, to revive/clean these “very old-not maintained-lesser known” temples.
They start all sundays about 7-8am in the morning in front of Vengeeswarar temple, Kodambakkam-Vadapalani. Their no.s are [...]
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