Devdutt Pattanaik’s recent framing of “Brahmins as secret Muslims” and his analogy between Brahminical and Islamic ways of life rests on several contestable historical, textual, and sociological assumptions that can be systematically challenged. The “secret Muslims” thesis collapses very different histories and concepts into a single polemical frame. A counter‑narrative can be built by takingContinue reading ““Brahmins as secret Muslims”: Devdutt Pattnaik’s hodge-podge he tries selling as exotic delicacy”
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Here is another “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”… a Latin American one!
Here is to be found another “Unknown Sri Vaishnava” ! A man and wife — from Argentina and Spain, respectively — who both regard Sri Rangam in India to be their true spiritual home and Sriman Narayana as their soul’s sole destination! The details of his fascinating narration given below in Tamizh language (please scrollContinue reading “Here is another “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”… a Latin American one!”