https://www.fox26houston.com/news/child-branded-at-sugar-land-temple-sparks-legal-battle-seeking-over-1-million.amp Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami (JET America) performing “samaashrayanam” on a 11 year old child in Houston has hit the headlines in the local press in Texas, USA. It’s a Sri Vaishnava religious rite of passage. (It’s called “pancha samskaaram”) which all those who have faith in Sri Vaishnava sampradaayam willingly and voluntarily undergo atContinue reading “A Houston Court in America will now pass judgement on the Sri Vaishnava sacramental rite of “pancha samskaaram””
Tag Archives: Chinna Jeeyar
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantin-s”: Part-47
In the decades after Indian Independence — and especially after the Dravidianist Movement triumphed in the 1967 State elections and captured the seat of power in Tamilnadu and held on to it continually thereafter until the present day — the small community of “ubaya-vedaantins”, along with the entire Brahmin populace in the state, suffered traumaticContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantin-s”: Part-47″
Ideological confusion over Sri Ramanujacharya’s historic legacy in Tamil Nadu?
For those who don’t know who Kancha Illaiah is , here is a brief introduction. He is the shrillest, most rabid, most vociferous most-influential, internationally-acknowledged anti-Brahmin Dalit activist, leader, and Ambedkar-ideologue and academician in the country. His well known books are: “God As Political Philosopher – Buddha’s Challenge to Brahminism”, “Buffalo Nationalism –A Critique”, andContinue reading “Ideological confusion over Sri Ramanujacharya’s historic legacy in Tamil Nadu?”