THE temple of Sri Venkateswara (Balaji) at Tirumala, Tiupati in Andhra Pradesh is perhaps the most popular of all the Hindu temples in our country. The story goes that Lord Vishnu as Varaha (the boar) ...

This book on Venkatesa Suprabhatam, a famous morning prayer, gives us a close reading of the text, the discourses that inform it, its influence, and its many meanings The Venkatesa Suprabhatam is a ...

TIRUPATI: The daily ritual of awakening Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala Temple with Suprabhatam will be replaced by traditional Thiruppavai from December 17 in view of the holy Dhanurmasam. The ...

How did an unusual morning greeting by a teacher to his pupil become one of the most popular prayer songs in India? Venkatesa Suprabhatam – The Story of India’s Most Popular Prayer (Westland ...

A file photo of MS Subbulakshmi and her husband T Sadasivam. The latter was the motivation behind Subbulakshmis recitation of the prayer. "Sadasivam thought that a simple temple prayer like Venkatesa ...

Composed around 1430 AD, the Suprabhatam has retained its hold on the minds of devotees all over India, not least because of MS Subbulakshmi’s iconic rendition. After all, how many hymns are sung to ...

Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam was first broadcast in Subbulakshmi’s voice on All India Radio in 1958 on Vaikuntha Ekadashi. The 20-minute hymn became an LP record in 1963, and its popularity continued ...

When Amazon’s voice-controlled virtual assistant device Alexa was launched in India a year ago, some commands or questions with a distinctly ‘local’ flavour would leave ‘her’ flummoxed. Queries such ...

Hyderabad: Starting tomorrow, the morning prayer service (Suprabhatam) at the Lord's temple will be substituted with the recitation of Tiruppavai verses. This change coincides with the commencement of ...