சம்ஸ்கிருதம் – சில கேள்விகள் https://tamilhindu.com/2009/07/sanskrit-few-questions/ The above article written in Tamil contains many detailed historical, cultural, and political arguments supporting the philosophical, linguistic, and cultural integration of Sanskrit and Tamil, refuting claims of Sanskrit as an exclusively Brahmin language or a threat to Tamil. It highlights the coexistence and mutual enrichment of these languages inContinue reading “சம்ஸ்கிருதம் – சில கேள்விகள்: A Few Questions about the Sanskrit language”
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“Were there Brahmins in South India 2,000 years ago?”… Why Devdutt Pattnaik is dead wrong .
Here is a column that Devdutt Pattnaik wrote in The Deccan Herald : Were there Brahmins in South India 2,000 years ago?: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/were-there-brahmins-in-south-india-2000-years-ago-3726957?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialshare Here below are a few “nuggets” from the above article; QUOTE: We normally assume that Brahmins have been present in every corner of India for the last 5,000 years. But this isContinue reading ““Were there Brahmins in South India 2,000 years ago?”… Why Devdutt Pattnaik is dead wrong .”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 26
There is no doubt that the new theories of social anthropology that Western/Christian evangelists developed and propagated in the 19th-20th century CE created a profound revolution in the minds of Tamilians. Feelings and forces of social divisiveness became rife and almost palpable in the air. All of a sudden different groups of Tamil Nadu beganContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 26″