Sign In
Learn bits
History & Culture
Mahesh

21/11/22 22:43 PM IST

Kashi Tamil Sangamam

In News 
  • Prime Minister of India inaugurated the month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Kashi Tamil Sangamam 
  • Kashi Tamil Sangamam celebrates many aspects of the historical and civilisational connection between India’s North and South.
  • The broader objective is to bring the two knowledge and cultural traditions (of the North and South) closer, create an understanding of our shared heritage and deepen the people-to-people bond between the regions.
  • It is being organized by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with other ministries like Culture, Textiles, Railways, Tourism, Food Processing, Information & Broadcasting etc. and the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  • The endeavour is in sync with National Education Policy (NEP), 2020’s emphasis on integrating the wealth of Indian Knowledge Systems with modern systems of knowledge.
  • IIT Madras and Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are the two implementing agencies for the programme.
Significance 
  • King Parakrama Pandya, who ruled over the region around Madurai in the 15th century, wanted to build a temple to Lord Shiva, and he travelled to Kashi (Uttar Pradesh) to bring back a lingam.
  • While returning, he stopped to rest under a tree — but when he tried to continue his journey, the cow carrying the lingam refused to move.
  • Parakrama Pandya understood this to be the Lord’s wish, and installed the lingam there, a place that came to be known as Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu.
  • For devotees who could not visit Kashi, the Pandyas had built the Kasi Viswanathar Temple in what is today Tenkasi in southwestern Tamil Nadu, close to the state’s border with Kerala.
Source- PIB 

More Related Current Affairs View All

08 Aug

Concerns about Sulphur Dioxide

'Recently, the government decided to scale back its 2015 mandate requiring coal-based thermal plants to install flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) devices (clean-air equipment) that r

Read More

08 Aug

Prime Minister Internship Scheme

'Based on the review of the two pilot phases carried out for the PM Internship Scheme (PMIS), the Ministry of Corporate Affairs is planning to undertake certain tweaks in the schem

Read More

08 Aug

Are the Rohingya ‘refugees’?

'The Supreme Court will decide whether the Rohingya in India “are entitled to be declared as ‘refugees’” or whether they are “illegal entrants”.

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps