A friend of mine sent me yesterday on WhatsApp a “many times forwarded’ copy of Shashi Tharoor’s excerpted speech reportedly now going viral on the internet. It is titled “WHY AM I A HINDU?” which I read with great interest but great disappointment. For Tharoor as elocutionist, politician, author and astute diplomat, I have greatContinue reading “Tharoorian balderdash: ‘Why am I a Hindu?’: (Part 1 of 2)”
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“Tiruvoimozhi”, Stephen Hawking, Indira Parthasarathy, “Purusha Sooktham” and I !
The eminent Tamizh scholar, novelist and litterateur, Sri Indira Parthasarathy and I exchange WhatsApp messages almost on a daily basis. The nonagenarian intellectual even in spite of his physical frailty still finds such bubbly energy to correspond with me on a daily messaging App on such a variety of subjects ranging from Poetry, Philosophy, Religion,Continue reading ““Tiruvoimozhi”, Stephen Hawking, Indira Parthasarathy, “Purusha Sooktham” and I !”
“Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book
The only way to de-politicise History is to aestheticise it . Why this obsession with “text-book history”? Why this rancour amongst historians ? Why politicise history ? Why the belief amongst historians, academicians, politicians and students of history that there can be only one version of India’s History that can be true, “authentic”, “faithful toContinue reading ““Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49
C. The deliberate assault on the most sacred institution of Hindu personal law: the wedding ritual solemnized by Brahmin priest If the father and Party patriarch, M.Karunanidhi, towards the fag end of his lifetime attempted “salami-slicing” the Sri Vaishnava cultural identity by subtly glorifying Ramanujacharya with the chief aim of appropriating the great 11th centuryContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-49″