Purity of Silver: Hallmarks & How to Check It
Ask three jewellers about the purity of silver and you’ll get three different answers. One says “pure silver.” Another says “92.5.” The third taps a tiny stamp and moves on. Here’s the short version. Purity of silver is the share of pure silver in an item, counted in parts per 1,000. A 925 mark means […]
60 Years of Madurai Silver Craftsmanship
Walk down South Masi Street in Madurai before eight in the morning, and you’ll hear it before you see it — the soft, rhythmic tap of a hammer shaping silver wire into a payal. That sound has echoed from the same family workshop for 60 years. In 1963, Mr. A.K. Jeganathan Chettiyar started a small […]
Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple Kumbabishekam 2026
On September 17, 2026, between 7:40 AM and 8:10 AM, priests standing atop the golden vimanas of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple will pour sanctified water over the temple’s twin shrines — a moment the city has waited 17 years for. This is the Maha Kumbabishekam, the grand re-consecration of one of India’s most visited […]
