Throughout the 16th-17th century CE, there always persisted an undercurrent of tension and conflict in Kanchipuram amongst the “ubaya-vedaantins“. It kept simmering beneath the surface and rarely erupted in any serious external clashes or skirmishes of the ugly sort being witnessed today between Tenkalai and Vadakalai not only inside the precincts of the Kanchi SriContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 15″
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 2
The 2022 fracas between the Tenkalai and Vadakalai groups of Sri Vaishnavas at Kanchipuram is only the latest of dozens more of the past which are far bitterer — and equally petty-minded — than similar sectarian spats that occurred and grabbed news headlines over the last 200 years in Tamil Nadu. India is a vastContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 2″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 1
The 2022 Annual “Brahmothsavam Festival” of the famous Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple at Kanchipuram has been been celebrated this fortnight with tumultuous popular fanfare, piety, ardor and religious exuberance. It climaxed in the great “Garuda Seva” procession of the Deity through the streets of the town where hundreds of thousands of devotees from all allContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 1″
“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”
Sri Rangam and Tirumala: Temples or Political Battlegrounds?
Two separate bits of news on Pages 11 and 6 above respectively in THE HINDU today dt.12 Dec caught my attention while reading the newspaper this morning, since both these great temples in the state of Tamil Nadu occupy a very preeminent position in the hearts and minds of all Vaishnavite devotees and pilgrims allContinue reading “Sri Rangam and Tirumala: Temples or Political Battlegrounds?”