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International Day of Older Persons 2025 – “Advantage 60”-Marri krishna Hall

Special Event Organized by HelpAge India – at Marri Krishna Hall

Yesterday, HelpAge India, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, organized a celebration for International Day of Older Persons. This year’s theme is “Advantage 60”, highlighting that people above 60 are not a burden to their families or society and continue to possess strength, energy, and capability.

The chief guest, Ravuri Manorama, a freedom fighter and granddaughter of Gandhi, participated in the event. She actively took part in the Quit India Movement and spent nine months in Bellary Jail as part of her imprisonment during the freedom struggle. In her speech, she emphasized that older persons are not sidelined but play a vital role in nation-building. She recalled how leaders like Gandhi, Patel, and Nehru guided the youth regardless of age, showing that age does not limit one’s contribution. The experience and courage of older persons serve as a guiding light for today’s youth.

Mr. Yatendra Yadav, State Head of HelpAge India, Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, stated:

“People above 60 need not feel discouraged. Older adults are a valuable asset to the nation, not a burden. Every senior citizen has the opportunity to live a fulfilling life even after 60. It is the responsibility of governments, organizations, and society to fully utilize their experience and create an elder-friendly environment.”

Prominent participants at the event included:

  • Dr. Satyanarayana Raju, NIMS
  • Smt. Konda Nirmala, Bhoomika Foundation
  • Principal, Roda Mistry College of Social Work, Mr. Parthasarathi
  • State Senior Citizens Committee representatives
  • Fitness Trainer, Vijay Kumar

The event celebrated the importance of older persons, recognized their contributions, and highlighted HelpAge India’s commitment to creating a society where seniors are respected, empowered, and valued.

Peacock Restaurant Opens Its First International Branch in Riyadh

Riyadh – On Friday, August 8, 2025, Peacock Restaurant—a celebrated name in Hyderabadi cuisine from Karimnagar—unveiled its first overseas location in the Al-Malaz area of Saudi Arabia’s capital. The inauguration was officiated by Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Suhel Khan, and witnessed by a vibrant gathering of Indian expatriates and Saudi guests The Siasat Daily.

Founded in 1996 by the late Mohammed Akthar Ali, Peacock has become synonymous with authentic Hyderabadi biryani, kebabs, and hospitality. Its Riyadh outlet is envisioned as a cultural and culinary bridge, serving a variety of cuisines including Indian, Indo-Chinese, tandoori, and continental, along with traditional sweets and snacks The Siasat Daily.

The venture is a collaboration involving:

  • Syed Wayez Ahmed, Group CEO of Wayez International Group
  • Mohammed Asghar Ali, Managing Director of Peacock Group of Hotels and Restaurants
  • Mohammad Ali Al Jaidi, CEO of MAJIC Investment Company
  • Zaki, Vice President of Wayez International Group The Hans IndiaTelangana TribuneThe Siasat Daily

Catering to families and social gatherings, the Riyadh outlet features a dining area for 100 guests and an adjoining banquet hall accommodating 120 guests The Siasat DailyThe Hans India. Reflecting a commitment to sustainability, the restaurant has partnered with Hyderabad-based BioReform to eliminate single-use plastics from its operations The Siasat Daily.

This expansion not only introduces rich regional flavors to a global stage but also strengthens cultural ties, offering Saudis and the Indian diaspora alike a taste of home.

14th Mulam Santha – A Grand Success!

🌿🌾 14th Mulam Santha – A Grand Success! 🌾🌿
📅 Date: 2nd August 2025
📍 Marri Krishna Hall, Tarnaka

🙏 Heartfelt thanks to everyone who made the 14th Moolam Santha a grand success with your enthusiastic participation, love, and support.

🌟 Highlights of the Santha:
🪴 Organic produce stalls
🍅 Direct farmer-to-customer sales
🎨 Cultural performances
🍽️ Annapatra – Free eco-meal service
🪔 Natural turmeric-clay Ganeshas
🌱 Promotion of traditional & sustainable living

Each part of the event received overwhelming response from the community!

🤝 Your encouragement keeps us inspired.
📸 We will be sharing event highlights through photos and reels very soon.

💐 Let’s meet again at the next Moolam Santha!
#MulamSantha #OrganicMarket #TarnakaEvents #SatvikLiving #Annapatra #EcoFriendlyLiving

Mulam Santha Inspires Eco Living at Tarnaka Event

🌿 Mulam Santha Inspires Eco Living at Tarnaka Event

Tarnaka, Hyderabad – July 19, 2025:
A powerful message of going back to our roots echoed at the Mulam Village Festival & Consumer Fair, organized at Marri Krishna Hall, Tarnaka. The event drew attention to sustainable lifestyle practices, organic living, and indigenous products.

Renowned spiritual leader Swami Ramananda Prabhuji Maharaj, President of Sri Sai Dham, graced the occasion and urged the public to support Moolam Santha—a platform that promotes environmentally friendly practices through cow-based farming, traditional foods, and natural products.

💡 Highlight of the Event:

Mr. Krishna Reddy, the chief organizer, was instrumental in the successful execution of the program. His coordination ensured a well-curated experience for both exhibitors and visitors.

“These markets not only revive our traditions but also serve as models for eco-conscious living,” said Mr. Krishna Reddy.

🌱 What Made This Event Special:

  • Visitors experienced a variety of stalls:
    ✅ Organic fruits & vegetables
    ✅ Cow-based health products
    ✅ Handmade crafts and eco-goods
    ✅ Traditional games and cultural elements

🤝 Key Participants:

  • Swami Ramananda Prabhuji Maharaj (Chief Guest)
  • Mr. Krishna Reddy – Chief Organizer

Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organizations – Hanuman Chalisa Parayanam Successfully Conducted-12-July-2025

Jai Sairam!

With the divine blessings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organizations – Tarnaka Samithi joyfully conducted a spiritually uplifting event on Saturday, July 12, 2025.

🙏 108 Times Hanuman Chalisa Parayanam @ Marri Krishna Function Hall, Tarnaka

📌 Date: 12-07-2025
📍 Venue: Marri Krishna Function Hall, Tarnaka
🕘 Time: From 6:00 AM onwards

The event saw an enthusiastic gathering of devotees who participated in the chanting of Hanuman Chalisa 108 times. The entire atmosphere was filled with devotion, divine vibrations, and spiritual energy.

The soulful recitation created a powerful spiritual environment, leaving all participants deeply moved and connected to Lord Hanuman’s grace.

💐 Our Heartfelt Gratitude:

We extend our sincere thanks to all the volunteers, organizers, and devotees who made this event a grand success through their selfless service and heartfelt participation.

We look forward to organizing more such spiritual gatherings in the future with your continued support and participation.

Jai Sairam 🙏

Mana Santha -Mahilaa Abhivruddhi Neti Avasaram-July 5th & 6th-2025

🎉 Mana Santha 2025 – Mahilaa Abhivruddhi Neti Avasaram – Women Empowerment is the Need of the Hour concluded on a powerful and positive note!
💐 The event stood as a vibrant platform to honor the strength, creativity, and resilience of women.
🛍️ With over [insert number] stalls featuring handmade products, organic goods, handlooms, and food, the marketplace was alive with color and purpose.
🙏 Heartfelt thanks to the stallholders, visitors, and our enthusiastic volunteers – your energy made all the difference.
🎨 Today’s creative workshops like Seed Ball Making, Art & Crafts, and Eco-friendly Activities sparked imagination and awareness.
🌟 A special note of gratitude to Sri Krishna Reddy Garu for being the driving force behind this successful initiative.
🤝 The festival became a space for connection – where entrepreneurs shared, collaborated, and grew together.
📸 The smiles, the stories, the sales – every moment captured the spirit of community and empowerment.
💪 Mana Santha – A Festival with Purpose proudly carried forward the mission of Vocal for Local.
🌿 It wasn’t just a mela – it was a movement toward sustainable, inclusive, and women-led growth.
🌈 We are deeply grateful for the support of our community and partners who believed in this vision.
📢 From the entire Mana Santha team – Thank You! Let’s carry this energy forward and meet again, stronger than ever!

🌿 12th Mulam Santha – 14-June-2025

Hosted by Grama Bharathi & CSR Memorial Foundation

📅 Date: 14th June 2025 (Second Saturday)
📍 Venue: Marri Krishna Hall, Tarnaka
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

🌱 What is Mulam Santha?

Mulam Santha is a unique, monthly rural market celebrating India’s roots — promoting sustainable living, natural farming, and traditional livelihoods.

It is a space where farmers, artisans, handloom weavers, millet entrepreneurs, khadi promoters, and eco-conscious producers directly meet consumers.

🛍️ What to Expect This Time

✨ Highlights of the Santha:

  • Organic Millets: laddus, murukkus, papads, traditional snacks
  • Pure Cold-Pressed Oils (Ganuga)
  • Bio-Enzymes, Panchagavya, Herbal Remedies
  • Cow dung & Neem-based natural products
  • Clay pots & eco-friendly terracotta jewelry
  • Khadi & Handloom Sarees, “Gollabhama” Sarees, Natural Fabrics
  • Desi Seeds, Medicinal Plants & Gardening Tools
  • Handcrafted jute bags & household essentials
  • Literature, folklore, cultural roots & craft communities

🎯 A true village-to-home market experience.

🍛 Special Farm-to-Table Lunch – ₹150 Only!

Enjoy a nutritious and delicious meal made with organic desi rice, rooted in tradition and packed with goodness.

🙌 Gratitude & Acknowledgement

We are proud to celebrate the 1st successful anniversary of Mulam Santha!
A heartfelt thank you to the incredible Badruka Volunteers for your continued support and effort.

🧭 Join the Movement – Go Back to the Roots

Bring your friends and family!
Reconnect with nature, tradition, and healthy living through this one-of-a-kind experience.

The Legacy Weaver: Biography of Ramesh Ramanadham

Ramesh Ramanadham

Crafts Revivalist | Textile Designer | Natural Fibres Expert | Handloom Advocate

Ramesh Ramanadham is a celebrated Indian designer, crafts revivalist, and subject matter expert with over 37 years of pioneering work in handlooms, handicrafts, natural fibres, and natural dyes. Deeply rooted in tradition and driven by innovation, his mission is to revive, restore, and sustain India’s rich artisanal legacy, while creating sustainable livelihoods and socially connected ecosystems for craftsmen.

Core Contributions & Expertise

  • Spearheading the revival of naturally coloured cottons to uplift Khadi, restoring its traditional processes and equipment.
  • Revived the 400-year-old handmade paper industry in Aurangabad with INTACH.
  • Leading the holistic revival of Cheriyal Dolls, an ancient craft of Telangana, focusing on eco-friendly materials, story-based narratives, and sustainable market strategies.
  • Engaged with over 36,900 individuals through seminars and workshops, spreading awareness about India’s cultural heritage in crafts.
  • Empanelled designer with NIMSME, and a regular speaker at national and international platforms.

Pioneering Product Innovations

Ramesh holds the distinction of being the first in India (specifically combined Andhra Pradesh in the 1990s) to commercially develop several unique fabrics and applications, including:

  • Cotton-Jute, Cotton-Flax, Cotton-Linen blends in Single and Double IKKAT
  • Kalamkari prints on Madras checks, brushed fabrics, upholstery, and knitted fabric
  • Introduction of eco-textiles like vegetable-dyed handlooms, Katari Wool, Cotton-Lycra, Cotton-Wool blends, and others.
  • Extensive experimentation with natural fibres like Ramie, Banana, Pineapple, Mesta, Sisal, and wild grasses.

Social Impact

  • Conducts monthly workshops on languishing crafts and natural dye techniques.
  • Supported over 2,800 artisan families across India during the pandemic with ration and safety kits.
  • Worked with student and artisan communities across NIFT, NID, IITs, and craft clusters nationwide.

Early Journey & Legacy

Beginning his journey in 1987 with flavoured potato chips, Ramesh pivoted to handlooms after witnessing weavers’ distress. He co-founded Leela Handlooms, later transitioning to R S Krafts in 2015 — a tribute to his great-grandfather, Ramanadham Ramalingam Sr., who was honoured by King George V at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 for his weaving prowess and community work (including building the Ramanadham Canal in Kandukur, Prakasam District).

Recognition & Awards

  • Vishisht Seva Puraskar on the Centenary of Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy
  • Honoured by the Telangana Government in 2022 as “Eminent Personality in Handlooms and Handicrafts”
  • Recipient of the IDEA Asia Award (2020)

Global & Collaborative Engagement

Worked with leading international brands such as Guess Jeans, Diesel, Camel, Grape, and Zuzka, bringing traditional Indian crafts to a global audience.

Media & Web Presence

Featured in multiple media outlets:

Mulam Santha May 17th 2025

CSR Memorial Foundation-Gramabharathi

11th “Mulam Santha”

🗓 Saturday, 17 May 2025
⏰ 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
📍 Marri Krishna Hall, Tarnaka, Hyderabad

Why visit?

Safeguard your family’s health while supporting nature, dairy traditions, literature, craftsmen and indigenous livelihoods—all in one vibrant marketplace.

Market Highlights

  • Ippa Laddu (mahua-flower sweets) & chilled millet ice-cream
  • Farm-fresh mangoes, native seeds, terrace-garden kits & organic bio-fertilisers
  • Wood-pressed ippe (mahua) oil and mind-boosting “verri” sesame oil
  • Pure desi-cow ghee, chenengaaku & wild-sesame powders
  • Cooling bael-fruit and nannari (sarsaparilla) drinks
  • Rare premium rock candy (dhaga mishri)
  • Chemical-free soaps, herbal tooth powder & natural cosmetics
  • Laddus, murukku & biscuits made from desi rice and millets
  • Eco-friendly household cleaners
  • Naturally farmed turmeric, kumkuma, chillies and more
  • Hand-woven saris, fabrics, shirts, towels, dhotis, mosquito nets & cosy blankets
  • Khadi and traditional “Gollabhama” hand-loom saris & garments
  • Nutritious cow-based desi-seed/millet meals
  • FREE “Dava Chai” – caffeine-free herbal tea brewed from 15+ medicinal plants
  • Panchagavya & Ayurvedic remedies with expert consultations

Special Programmes

  • Chief Guests
    • Dr P. V. Rao – Former Dean, PJTSAU; Chairman, Ekalavya Grameena Vikas Foundation
    • Sri T. Nagaraju – Natural-farming master trainer, Basampalli
  • Felicitation
    Honouring Guruswamy Balakrishna for completing a foot pilgrimage from Kashmir to Kanyakumari with sacred cow Ridhi Gomata.

Moolam Santa: Food · Health · Environment · Ethics · Culture

Event proudly supported by Krishna Reddy Garu, Suryakala Garu (Grama Bharati), Malleshyam Garu & Lingam Goud Garu.

Special thanks to the dedicated volunteers from Badruka College for their invaluable support in making the 11th “Moolam Santa” a success

Come, reconnect with your roots!

Kids Summer Camp 2025 – A Joyful Success!

🌞 Kids Summer Camp 2025 – A Joyful Success! 🌞

We are thrilled to share that the Kids Summer Camp 2025, held at Marri Krishna Hall, Vijayapuri Colony, Tarnaka, was a grand success!

For 15 fun-filled days (April 28 to May 14, 2025), children between the ages of 5 to 12 joyfully participated in a variety of engaging, screen-free activities — away from phones, TVs, and laptops for at least 3 hours a day!

Camp Timings: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Sunday: Holiday

✨ Activities Included:

  • Yoga 🧘‍♂️
  • Art & Craft 🎨
  • Reading Sessions 📚
  • Personality Development 💬
  • Indoor Games 🎲
  • …and much more!

We are happy to announce that the camp concluded successfully with a certificate distribution for all participating kids, along with special Mother’s Day gifts! 💐

A Special Thank You To:

🙏 Devaki Madam, Kasthuri Madam, and Nurjhahan Madam and Shaik Mastan ali sir for their inspiring sessions and continuous support.
🙏 Krishna Reddy Sir for his unwavering support throughout the camp.

Thank you to all the parents for believing in us and giving your children a chance to explore, learn, and grow in a fun and nurturing environment.