The renowned, now nonagenarian author, novelist , playwright (winner of Sahitya Akademi and Sangeeth Nataka Awards and Padmashree), and a doyen of classical Tamil literature, Sri. Indira Parthasarathy ( pen name “Eepa”) lives in quiet retirement in his comfortable retreat and Athulya Home for Seniors (they call it “Assisted Living Residence” these days) in aContinue reading “Shashi Tharoor, “Eepa”“Iddly” and “Iddly Kadai”…”
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The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-14): “Anti-Sanatanist Liberal” or “Orthodox Performative Brahmin”? …
Srinivasa Sastri viewed Dharma as both personal ethical conduct and societal duty. He linked it closely to moral responsibility, justice, compassion, and wise governance. If there was only one overriding theme that overshadowed all others in his famous thirty “Lectures on the Ramayana“ 1944, it was this commandment and this alone: “Rulers must abide by Dharma—a combination ofContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-14): “Anti-Sanatanist Liberal” or “Orthodox Performative Brahmin”? …”
Tharoorian balderdash: ‘Why am I a Hindu?’: (Part 2 of 2-Concluded)
In the book Ten Heads of Ravana edited by Rajiv Malhotra, the well-known Hinduism scholar and historian, and his co-author, Divya Reddy, compiled ten excellent essays portraying ten prolific and very influential contemporary Hinduphobic writers in India and abroad. Shashi Tharoor finds a place of pride in the pantheon of those notorious ten who areContinue reading “Tharoorian balderdash: ‘Why am I a Hindu?’: (Part 2 of 2-Concluded)”
A Rumbling Unforgettable Word
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14vfED7hKq/?mibextid=UalRPS Watch the above video-clip ! She must probably be Shashi Tharoor’s niece ! 👏🙏… I’m no Tharoor at all …. But let me humbly add one more to the list the lady in the video has made and stated with us: borborygmi… If you want to know what it means , look it up inContinue reading “A Rumbling Unforgettable Word”
Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?
The Opposition’s strategy to oppose the NDA is made very clear in the Tharoor editorial : It’s going to be all about Federalism over the next 5 years… if the coalition of Narendra Modi lasts the journey. Tharoor in laying out the broad contours of the Opposition’s grand strategy, seems to be arrogating to himselfContinue reading “Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?”
The benedictions bestowed by Tharoor and those by the Vedas
BREAKING NEWS ! Shashi Tharoor with customary grandiloquence calls for PM Modi (aged 69 at the time the article was written and presently pushing 72) to continue serving the country until age 80 and even beyond … because “the best years of life ahead” according to Tharoor are still ahead of the latter. Tharoor’s benedictionsContinue reading “The benedictions bestowed by Tharoor and those by the Vedas”