The temples towns of Mylapore, Triplicane, Thiruvottiyur, Saidapet and Thiruvanmiyur, which are now part of Chennai city, had been visited by the Saivite saints called Nayanmars.
Dioceses of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, a Roman Catholic dioceses of Mylapore, Madras, India
Nageswara Rao Park is a 4-acre park located on Luz Corner in Mylapore, Chennai, India.
The party traveled by sea, departing from the southern port city of Quanzhou and sailing to Sumatra, and then to Persia, via Sri Lanka and India (where his visits included Mylapore, Madurai and Alleppey, which he nicknamed Venice of the East).
January 9, 1606: erection of the diocese of Mylapore by pope Paul V by agreement with the king of Portugal who received power to appoint bishops and priests and, in a generall way, to look after the evangelization of the area (Padroado system and jurisdiction)
The hotel was started as a partnership firm in 1965, when its promoters, A. Venkatakrishna Reddy, M. Ramaraghava Reddy and A. Shyamasundara Reddy, with considerable experience in the real estate and hotel business, acquired land measuring approximately 5,000 sq m in Mylapore, a prime locality in the city, to build a hotel with 20 rooms and a restaurant.
Married to Sangeetha Sivakumar, who is also a Carnatic musician, on November 7, 1997, he has two daughters by name Arya and Anantha, and livse in Mylapore.
Born and brought up in Mylapore, she has to her credit 85 books and has won awards including a Tamil Nadu State Award.
His initial education was at P.S. High School (North), Mylapore, and he did his P.U.C. at Vivekananda College.
It is said to have been the first place of worship he erected, and when it was completed he went to Madras and asked the Bishop of Mylapore to procure for him a statue from Manila, an image of the virgin, in native dress of Tamil Nadu and bearing the child Jesus in her arms, fashioned after a model he had made.
He is an alumnus of one of Chennai's finest colleges, the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in Mylapore,Chennai.
A meeting to pay homage to his memory was organised on 8 July 2005 by AMTI in the Dakshinamoorthy auditorium, P.S.Higher secondary school, Mylapore, Chennai.
It is said to have been the first place of worship he erected and when it was completed he went to Madras and asked the Bishop of Mylapore to procure for him a statue from Manilla, an image of the Virgin in the native dress of Tamilnadu and bearing the child Jesus in her arms, fashioned after a model he had made.
Shekhar and his Mylapore Boys provided stiff competition for another popular drama troupe in Madras, The Crazy Troupe, led by Crazy Mohan.