When this biography above of EV Ramaswamy (aka “Periyar”) grabs a lot more readership and eyeballs in Tamil Nadu and in far away Cambridge than my own recently published book on Rt. Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri does even in Mylapore, Chennai, India (see below), you might tend to say that it brings to mind at once a veryContinue reading ““Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”: William Shakespeare”
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If you had to drop “brahmin” from the title of your book “The Death of the Brahmin-Liberal”, what would you have replaced it with?” (Part 2 of 2- CONCLUDED)
Another friendly reader — from Bangalore this time — sent me a query via a Whatsapp message. It echoed in fact the very same feelings that Sri. T.S.Krishnamurthy and that gentleman in the audience had expressed too, as I described them above. This was the question and it was a very serious one: “Sudarshan, letContinue reading “If you had to drop “brahmin” from the title of your book “The Death of the Brahmin-Liberal”, what would you have replaced it with?” (Part 2 of 2- CONCLUDED)”
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”?”