Hasanamapet aka Hasanamapettai is a village situated at Vembakkam Taluk in Tiruvannamalai district. A 25km road trip from Kanchipuram in the Kanchipuram-Cheyyar road. The village was formerly known as Deivanthangal. (Thanks to Mr.Aadiyapaadham aged 90 to share this former name of Hasanamapettai)
Map of Hasanamapet, Tamil Nadu 604402
Falls under Cheyyar assembly constituency and Arni parliament constituency. There is a big proud story in the naming reason of this village. Hasan + Amma + Pettai, where Hasan is a muslim lady name, amma is tamil word to mention mother and pettai is the tamil word to mention a small area. It is believed that this particular village land was donated by Hasan to the people and hence to honour her the name was changed as Hasanamapettai.
Even now the people offer the first respect and prayers to Hasan in her memorial situated in the southwest end of this village and then only they offer their prayers to their Gods.
A village which has lots of tradition entwined with it. Most of the people on this village are predominantly Silk saree manufacturers. The world famous Kanchipuram silk sarees are finely crafted by the weavers of Hasanamapettai.
This village has a very good literacy rate and also the educational capital among the nearby villages.
This village has a very good infrastructure with wide nice and clean streets, water taps, solar lamps etc.
Every street has a temple and a total of 13 streets are there in this beautiful village. The ten day Angala amman festival is very famous along with the Oonjal sevai on every no moon day. The 7th and 10th day of the festivals are block buster events which is really tough to miss.
Apart from that the Soorasamharam in Arulmigu Parvadhavarthini Samedha Ramanathaeswarar temple is a week long fun. It is believed that the procedures they follow in this festival is great even than Tiruchendur Soorasamharam. Once in a while the 20 day Mahabharata festival also conducted.
The beauty of these festivals resides in how people contribute for it. All the citizens of this village, pay their fixed share and also volunteers donate additional money towards these festivals. The arrangers and all the work is completely managed and shared by these village people on a rotational basis and hence these festivals stands out as an example for great team work.
There is a matriculation school and a govt school to build the basics for the kids of this village.
Talking about the youngsters who are so sensible and doing lots and lots of charity works, pongal celebration, independence day and republic day celebrations and everything mentioned above in a constructive way that can uplift the society by increasing the moral values. Hasanamapettai brains have a good value in the job market because of the natural discipline they attain as they grow.
The people of this village believe that if there is a paradise on earth, it is right up there 25 km from Kanchipuram named Hasanamapettai.