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″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 39
The small religious community of Sri Vaishnavas for several centuries, have always been apolitical. As priests, religious scholars, spiritual seekers, temple up-keepers, poets, litterateurs, philosophers and theologians, “ubaya-vedaantins” kept themselves away from most of the affairs of kings, kingdoms, the state and the government. Their indifference to matters of politics was the norm. Exceptions wereContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 39″
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″
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!”