It would not be inaccurate to say that between roughly 1933 and his death in 1946, Rt. Hon’ble V. S. Srinivasa Sastri was in relative political wilderness compared to his earlier prominence. By the mid-1930s, Sastri had distanced himself from the more militant and mass-based nationalist politics led by the Indian National Congress under GandhiContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-9): ….The years in political wilderness ….”
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The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-8): When Srinivasa Sastri urged Mahatma Gandhi to cease being a dictator and step away from the Congress Party
Srinivasa Sastry greatly respected Mahatma Gandhi for his deeply spiritual aspirations. But Gandhi’s spiritual militancy, such as his agitational methods of Sathyagraha employed against the British, received only his grudging admiration. And even such admiration was often conveyed to the Mahatma only with a large dose of brotherly admonition. Sastri as a friend advised GandhiContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-8): When Srinivasa Sastri urged Mahatma Gandhi to cease being a dictator and step away from the Congress Party”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-6): When Sastri corrected Gandhi’s English sentence-syntax and advised him to give up his dicatorial ways!
Many of the scores of letters to Mahatma Gandhi that Srinivasa Sastri wrote were from his home in Mylapore, Madras (now Chennai). The house was named “Swaagatham” (“welcome“!). I have visited that house several times in the 1980s when Karthik (Sastri’s great grandson), my friend, used to invite me there late afternoons for an hourContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-6): When Sastri corrected Gandhi’s English sentence-syntax and advised him to give up his dicatorial ways!”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-5): When Sastri corrected Gandhi’s English sentence-syntax and advised him to give up his dicatorial ways!
Between his return to India from South Africa in 1939 until his death in 1946, how did Sastri occupy himself ? What were his major political accomplishments and contributions to the Freedom movement? And what were his other pursuits, literary and academic? Between 1939 and 1946, Sastri’s life was devoted to literary scholarship, educational leadership,Continue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-5): When Sastri corrected Gandhi’s English sentence-syntax and advised him to give up his dicatorial ways!”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?
The Sastri College in Durban, South Africa is a co-educational, multi-racial, multi-cultural state secondary school with learners from grade 8 to grade 12. The founding of Sastri College was the vision of the (Late) Rt. Hon’ble V.S Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946 CE). The official opening of the school took place on Monday, 14th October, 1929 whenContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?”
Savukku Sankar interview with T. R.Ramesh: “The BJP cares little for Hindu temples!”
The YouTube video below covers the legal battle that T.R. Ramesh , the NGO crusader for freeing Hindu Temples in Tamil Nadu from the clutches of the Tamil Nadu HR&CE Commission, has been taking to the Courts recently. The battle is about whether the surplus funds of the Temples can be expropriated by the HR&CEContinue reading “Savukku Sankar interview with T. R.Ramesh: “The BJP cares little for Hindu temples!””
புத்தக விமர்சனம்: “A Tale of Two Cities: The Decline and Fall of the “Ubaya-Vedantins”
புத்தக விமர்சனம்: “A Tale of Two Cities: The Decline and Fall of the “Ubaya-Vedantins” எம். கே. சுதர்ஷனின் “A Tale of Two Cities: The Decline and Fall of the ‘Ubaya-Vedantins’” (இரு நகரங்களின் கதை: ‘உபய-வேதாந்தின்கள்’ வீழ்ச்சி மற்றும் அவசானம்) என்பது, தமிழ்நாட்டில் உள்ள ஸ்ரீவைஷ்ணவ சமுதாயத்தின் ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகளைக் கொண்ட வரலாற்றை 11ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு முதல் இன்றுவரை விரிவாக விவரிக்கும் ஒரு முக்கியமான வரலாற்று நூலாகும்.Continue reading “புத்தக விமர்சனம்: “A Tale of Two Cities: The Decline and Fall of the “Ubaya-Vedantins””
Is the Upanishad “Brahmann” not “God Almighty” as per The Oxford English Dictionary ?
Watch the above video-clip. The controversy centers on the distribution of Oxford English-Telugu dictionaries to students in Andhra Pradesh under a government scheme led by former Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy. Allegations surfaced on social media and in political debates claiming that the dictionary’s definition of “God” was altered or presented in a way thatContinue reading “Is the Upanishad “Brahmann” not “God Almighty” as per The Oxford English Dictionary ?”
Tharoorian balderdash: ‘Why am I a Hindu?’: (Part 2 of 2-Concluded)
In the book Ten Heads of Ravana edited by Rajiv Malhotra, the well-known Hinduism scholar and historian, and his co-author, Divya Reddy, compiled ten excellent essays portraying ten prolific and very influential contemporary Hinduphobic writers in India and abroad. Shashi Tharoor finds a place of pride in the pantheon of those notorious ten who areContinue reading “Tharoorian balderdash: ‘Why am I a Hindu?’: (Part 2 of 2-Concluded)”
The “bounty-killers” of Keezhadi archaeology
There was this Rediff Op-Ed piece on the subject Dt. June 2nd 2025 which elicited a lot of discussion amongst a small group of email-friends of mine yesterday. https://www.rediff.com/news/column/n-sathiya-moorthy-why-stalin-is-pushing-keeladi-over-indus-valley/20250602.htm One of the friends … a retired senior bureaucrat, corporate executive, international consultant, government advisor , all rolled into one as a man of many distinguishedContinue reading “The “bounty-killers” of Keezhadi archaeology”