This Sri Vaishnava gentleman from the holy city of Sri Rangam has shown he has the guts and gumption to defend one of the fundamental tenets of Sanatana Dharma : viz. Varnaashrama, the foundation of all social systems in Vedantic thought. He asserts boldly that all 3 founders of India’s Vedantic tradition — Adi SankaraContinue reading “Real “Sanatanis” and “pseudo-Sanatanis””
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-46
From a historian perspective it can be said that in just a short span of 50 years after Indian Independence, the small community of Sri Vaishnavas that was part of the insignificant Tamil Brahmin population in the three states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, suffered a collective trauma of grievous loss…. The lossesContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-46″
Our Hon’ble Tamil Nadu Finance Minister should please stop echoing Rahul Gandhi’s empty slogan
The TN FM interview to the IE reads — to me at least — as more like a political rant and tirade against the Central Govt. than anything else of great substance in the discourse of actual governance … https://indianexpress.com/article/business/banking-and-finance/interview-with-finance-minister-tamil-nadu-7782897/lite/ The Indian Express 21 Feb 2022 He rants against the conditionality of Central Govt loansContinue reading “Our Hon’ble Tamil Nadu Finance Minister should please stop echoing Rahul Gandhi’s empty slogan”
An R-Day abomination averted, thank God!
As a proud Tamilian myself, I too did feel more than just disappointment… I felt a bit of anger and hurt welling up too inside my heart when I read the news a week ago that the Central …. oops! sorry wrong terminology!…. the Union Government of India, more specifically, the Ministry of Defence, hadContinue reading “An R-Day abomination averted, thank God!”
THE TAMIL NADU POLITICIAN’S FETISH FOR PUBLIC MAUSOLEUMS
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai/tamil-nadu-cm-m-k-stalin-announces-rs-39-crore-memorial-for-karunanidhi/amp_article-show/85612246.cms?fbclid=IwAR0ecMp4ktrGQdJIwLIzYo4QNJuph98tYVfs55k9i8gzbwNa8CojQ7Npvaw Our Tamil Nadu politicians are a cozy country club indeed …. When it suits their separately common (pardon the oxymoron) interest, they will set aside all their political differences, and even personal antipathy, to endorse and support a pet-project of the ruling establishment, while at the same time, giving scant regard, or no moreContinue reading “THE TAMIL NADU POLITICIAN’S FETISH FOR PUBLIC MAUSOLEUMS”