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″
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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″
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?”