Below is a transcript of a WhatsApp conversation this morning that a very dear friend of mine and I had on the ongoing raging national debate on Hijab which has grabbed the headlines of every newspaper we read and every TV news channel we watch. THE FRIEND: Good morning! Any views on the nonsensical butContinue reading “TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA”
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January 10, 2022: Omicron Lockdown back in Chennai city … My diary noting: “guru”, “kulam” and “vaasam”
I woke this morning, drew back the curtains of my living room and peered through the window to catch a glimpse of the first rays of sunlight on a new day after dawn …. And instead of bright sunshine, I was saddened to behold a sight that seemed to me grim, darkening clouds signalling graveContinue reading “January 10, 2022: Omicron Lockdown back in Chennai city … My diary noting: “guru”, “kulam” and “vaasam””
“BUY THIS BOOK TODAY! You will surely end up celebrating it! “THE UNUSUAL ESSAYS OF AN UNKNOWN SRI VAISHNAVA” – 3rd Edition Dec’2021
JUST OUT on AMAZON & BARNES & NOBLE THE BRAND NEW 3rd EDITION (December 2021) OF THE “Unusual Essays of an Unknown Sri Vaishnava”!! Buy a copy to read … buy another to gift to any dear ones to you in the New Year 2022! About the Book This book is less aboutContinue reading ““BUY THIS BOOK TODAY! You will surely end up celebrating it! “THE UNUSUAL ESSAYS OF AN UNKNOWN SRI VAISHNAVA” – 3rd Edition Dec’2021”
Words of Wisdom from Srimadh Azhagiyasingar, the 44th Pontiff of Sri Ahobila Mutt
On “Forbearance and Patience” (Translated into English from His Tamizh discourses -“arul mozhigal”) by Sudarshan Madabushi (An edited version of this blogpost was published in the July 2021 issue of “VAINAVAN KURAL” (Voice of Vaishnavas), a monthly magazine published from Chennai, INDIA) “kshamaa shasthram karey yasya durjana: kim karishyathi I athruNE patito vanhi: svayamevopashaamyathi II”Continue reading “Words of Wisdom from Srimadh Azhagiyasingar, the 44th Pontiff of Sri Ahobila Mutt”
It’s now official : “PERIYAR” is the ideological heir of Sri RAMANUJACHARYA!
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai/tamil-nadu-temples-open-up-by-shutting-door-on-caste-bias/articleshow/85419121.cms Times of India 18 Aug 2021 In the above news-article, two great Hindu religious icons of the past have been appropriated by the “Periyarist” Government of Tamil Nadu to endorse and and celebrate the employment, under the State enacted Archaka Act, of all Castes as Hindu temple priests viz. Sri Ramanujacharya, the 11th CenturyContinue reading “It’s now official : “PERIYAR” is the ideological heir of Sri RAMANUJACHARYA!”
The “agni-pravesam” of Sita, Rama’s “atrocious behavior” and “trial by media”
For the last year and half, I have been part of an online, email-based cyber-forum in Chennai of seventy-seven member-students of Kamba Ramayana, moderated by an extraordinary and elderly Tamizh scholar, Sri Srinivasa Parthasarathy based in Pondicherry. Every week on Friday, in the last several years, he has been, without fail, posting via email-instalments versesContinue reading “The “agni-pravesam” of Sita, Rama’s “atrocious behavior” and “trial by media””
Time to restore pride back to our ancient Hindu temples that Hollywood and Bollywood turned into caricatures
magnificent-bharat-1-2.pdf In the attached PDF file, all the pictures show the truly magnificent temple-architectural wonders to be clear testimony to our country’s glorious heritage . But why in all these years after Indian independence hadn’t they caught — forget the world’s — but even the attention and imagination of our own millions of citizens inContinue reading “Time to restore pride back to our ancient Hindu temples that Hollywood and Bollywood turned into caricatures”
THE EXPERIENCE MY PARENTS TOLD ME THEY HAD WITH THE SAGE OF KANCHI (Kanchi Acharya)
🙏🙏. .. Dear Sir, Please permit me here to recollect and relate and share with you an almost similar incident that happened at least 50 years ago which my father Sri M Krishnaswami (MK) and my mother Smt Mani Krishnaswami experienced with Maha Periava . My parents were once travelling from Madras to Kanchipuram inContinue reading “THE EXPERIENCE MY PARENTS TOLD ME THEY HAD WITH THE SAGE OF KANCHI (Kanchi Acharya)”
Rukmini Devi : a mini-documentary
Very well made mini-documentary by daughter Harini Aaron ! The Content is excellent and her voice-over presentation is very apt , engaging and flawlessly rendered ! Bravo ! I’m so proud of my daughter! 👍 👏👏👌🙏 Sudarshan Madabushi 😇
Happiness lies in the eyes of the beholder
And this Turkish artist who apprenticed with the likes of Picasso and Chagall proved it with this his famous painting : it shows a dirt poor family sleeping huddled and crowded together on a creaky bed in a dinghy bedroom roof, probably leaking too … with a worn-out floor-board looking as though it might collapseContinue reading “Happiness lies in the eyes of the beholder”