Today’s THE HINDU front-page news report above caught me really by great surprise. Reading the above column set me wondering about how the DMK , an avowedly anti-Hindu Party “traditionally associated with atheism and anti-Brahminism”, suddenly decided to elevate Dr. V. Maitreyan, a Tamil Brahmin, who sports his caste-mark and Hindu identity upon his foreheadContinue reading “The DMK’s Evolution and THE HINDU’s: by Darwinian principle of (un)natural selection of species”
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Prof. David Schulman and Sangitha Kalanidhi-designate T.M. Krishna: “birds of a feather”?
The Madras Music Academy’s (MMA) invitation to its c. 1500 members has just been sent out to them today. I am a long-time member and I had mixed feelings swirling through my mind as I read the invite card. I was mystified by the presidential choice that MMA has made. To me it seems trulyContinue reading “Prof. David Schulman and Sangitha Kalanidhi-designate T.M. Krishna: “birds of a feather”?”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49
C. The deliberate assault on the most sacred institution of Hindu personal law: the wedding ritual solemnized by Brahmin priest If the father and Party patriarch, M.Karunanidhi, towards the fag end of his lifetime attempted “salami-slicing” the Sri Vaishnava cultural identity by subtly glorifying Ramanujacharya with the chief aim of appropriating the great 11th centuryContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-48
The most daring effort at “salami slicing” the Sri Vaishnava identity was carried out by none other than the octogenarian patriarch of the DMK Party, the man the Dravidianists worshipped as “Kalaignar Karunanidhi”. In April 2015 he decided to move to appropriate the most venerated icon of the Sri Vaishnavas and assimilate it into theContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-48″
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″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part-45
Hereditary and/or traditional rights of control over temple wealth and administration (continued) In the decades after Independence, in the democratic, socialistic and secular republic of India, successive elected governments of the State of Tamil Nadu realized the enormous potential for extracting great and steady revenue-streams and wealth — not to mention enormous leverage in electoralContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part-45″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-42
“Brahminical dominance“: Education, Employment, Governance and Arts and Culture Throughout the post-Independence decades, until the very end of the 20th century CE, the Dravidian Movement launched in the State of Tamil Nadu by Periyaar and later crusaded by leaders such as C.N.Annadurai and M.Karunanidhi, became a social revolution of the non-Brahmins, by the non-Brahmins andContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-42″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part 37
Three significant historical movements both catalyzed and exacerbated a great social churning and upheaval in Tamil Nadu — gradually at first but later increasingly during the course of decades following end-19th and beginning of the 20th century CE. Each of them left a deep and acute sense of impoverishment and disenfranchisement within the community ofContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part 37″
The Tamil Nadu HR&CE Authority’s job is primarily one not of Asset Management alone … for God’s Sake!
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai/its-a-golden-era-under-the-hrce-tn-minister-sekar-babu/amp_articleshow/87174727.cms Times of India 21 Oct 2021 This press interview below with the TN State Minister in charge of Hindu temple administration gives one the impression that the Minister takes his job very seriously. But then his job-description seems to be overly focused on trying to professionalise (quasi-corporatise?) temple asset-management functions — and this is,Continue reading “The Tamil Nadu HR&CE Authority’s job is primarily one not of Asset Management alone … for God’s Sake!”