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Vol. XXVII No. 4, June 1-15, 2017
Praying for rain
At Sri Kapali Temple, Mylapore a varuna japa parayanam, sponsored by the AMN Global Group, was held recently. Sixteen priests spent more than four hours every day, in rituals that are said to help bring rain. Some of them sat in huge vessels of water, with their eyes closed and hands folded.
D. Kaveri, the executive officer of the temple is concerned that the temple tank is dry, but she is hopeful. “The group performing the jappam poured more than five tankers of water into the tank but everything is getting sucked into the ground. Rain is our only hope,” she says.
Civic activists though are amused; they certainly do not subscribe to these acts in reviving a temple tank. Instead, get the storm water drains linked to the tank and the Chitrakulam cleaned so that when it rains water freely flows in, they suggest.
While all the attention is on this tank, the bed of the Chitrakulam is dry and cracked.
– (Courtesy: Mylapore Times.)
Yes the civic activists give a good suggestion. Will the powers that be do the needful? Or on the contrary lay out plots there?