Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Kasi-Tamilagam, an ageless bond
The HinduThe Constitution of India introduces our country by name Bharat, the name by which she has been known since the beginning of our history. The letter of January 20, 1801 of Sarfojee Maharaj, the last ruler of Tanjore to the British resident, Benjamin Torin, who had taken over the control, pleading for not disturbing or dismantling the chain of Chattrams between Kasi and Rameswaram where several thousand pilgrims, travellers and traders were provided three free meals a day and medical care bears a heart wrenching testimony to it. In the 17th century, Swamy Kumaragurupara Desikar of Dharmapuram Adheenam, a great Saivaite institution in the present day Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu, came to Kasi and built the Lord Kedareeshwar temple at the Kedar Ghat on the banks of Ganga. Later his disciples built a Kasi Viswanatha Temple at Thirupanandal near Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district on the bank of Cauvery, another holy river of Bharat. Home to Tamil families In the late 19th and early 20th century, Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi, the revolutionary poet of the National Freedom Movement and an ardent devotee of Bharat Mata came to Kasi for studies.
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