At an event held in the TAG CENTRE Auditorium at 6.30 PM on September 3, 2023, the first copy of the book authored by M.K.Sudarshan, “A Tale of Two Cities: the decline and fall of the “ubhaya vedantins”- A history of the Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil Nadu that was never written” was released by Dr.Continue reading “Full Text of Speech of M.K.Sudarshan delivered at the event held on September 3, 2023 to release his newly published book “A Tale of Two Cities, the Decline and Fall of the “Ubhaya Vedantins” at the TAG CENTRE Auditorium, Alwarpet, Chennai.”
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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″
Excerpts from the ORDER OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 07.06.2021: A devastating indictment of the Tamil Nadu HR&CE Commission and its working of the past several decades!
The Court’s Order is 224 pages long . It is almost a comprehensive White Paper on the present condition of the 42,000 Hindu temples in the state . As far as Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu are concerned everything (to use a Shakespearean expression from Hamlet) “is rotten in the state of Denmark!”… I readContinue reading “Excerpts from the ORDER OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 07.06.2021: A devastating indictment of the Tamil Nadu HR&CE Commission and its working of the past several decades!”