Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the famous Kandaswamy Kovil in Sri Lanka's Jaffna city on Friday. In pictures shared on social media, Sitharaman was seen amid a crowd of templegoers.

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Sitharaman is in the country on a three-day visit. "Smt @nsitharaman visits Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil in Jaffna during her three-day official visit to Sri Lanka," her office posted on X.

The Selva Sannithi Murugan Temple in Jaffna. — Photos: ABBI KANTHASAMY I didn't just visit Jaffna in Sri Lanka. I returned to it, like a forgotten verse in a prayer whispered by generations.

This photo taken on Feb. 23, 2025 shows the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Located in northern Sri Lanka, Jaffna is a coastal city heavily ravaged during a long-term civil war.

Tamils in Sri Lanka have witnessed an escalation in the attack on Hindu temples in recent weeks, a trend that they note is part of the State’s “ongoing Sinhalisation project” in the island ...

Jaffna’s cream shops, just outside the temple complex grounds, is where everyone meets up to cool off. So, whether it is post prayer in Nallur temple, after a hard day’s labour or school, or a secret ...

Many upper-class families in Sri Lanka sent their children to Jaffna. Swami Arumuga Navalar, a Saivaite, and well-known for his literacy in Tamil and English, translated the Bible into Standard Tamil ...

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