The sadly never-ending “Tale of Two Cities” that I wrote …. an exercise in futility

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/tamil-nadu/story/vadakalai-and-thenkalai-sects-argue-during-paarvettai-ritual-in-tamil-nadus-kancheepuram-2665796-2025-01-16

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I wrote my book (see below) two years ago out of anguish and great sadness …

Since then, the world of Sri Vaishnavas has not changed . The sectarian bickering and petty-mindedness doesn’t seem to diminish one bit.

As a writer of the book, I’m now left nursing a sense of profound hurt and futility . I’m saddened that my book — a very small and humble effort to record long history of the Sri Vaishnavas with the main intention of bringing about a bit of reconciliation between Tenkalai and Vadakalai sects in our Vishnu temples — has done nothing at all to sensitise my community to the ridicule it continues to heap upon itself through the kind of ugly fracas as reported today in the news-story above and which, in fact, are now a regular spectacle at these annual religious events .

Sudarshan Madabushi

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