
5 athletes get ₹5 lakh incentive
The Hindu
Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Youth Welfare and Sports Development Siva V. Meyyanathan distributed ₹5 lakh special incentive announced by the State government to five athletes from the
Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Youth Welfare and Sports Development Siva V. Meyyanathan distributed ₹5 lakh special incentive announced by the State government to five athletes from the State who got selected for the Tokyo Olympics. Eleven sportspersons from the State will be among the 120 representing India at the Olympics in Tokyo. While the State government distributed ₹5 lakh to the six persons who got selected earlier, the special incentive for the other five were distributed at a function here on Thursday.
Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












