When I read the Jan 19th 2025 article below in THE HINDU (“Wide Angle” feature article) penned by the well known Hindu mythologist, Devadutt Patnaik (the author of 50 books on mythology, art and culture), it at once reminded me of the controversial speech the Tamil Cinema lyricist, Vairamuthu had made seven years ago inContinue reading “Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part-1 of 3”
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-48
The most daring effort at “salami slicing” the Sri Vaishnava identity was carried out by none other than the octogenarian patriarch of the DMK Party, the man the Dravidianists worshipped as “Kalaignar Karunanidhi”. In April 2015 he decided to move to appropriate the most venerated icon of the Sri Vaishnavas and assimilate it into theContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-48″