Case involves alleged financial irregularities at Chennai’s Sri Prasanna Venkata Narasimma Perumal Temple, which receives public donations, & whether Tamil Nadu govt can inquire into them.
If administrators and political actors continue to rely on ritual rhetoric, temporary fixes, and reactive policing, the shrine’s vulnerabilities will deepen.
Just as India’s educated elite have benefited from missionary-run schools, temple donations could be channelled for the economic and educational upliftment of Hindus.
At Tirumala, Naidu says preserving the temple's sanctity is his priority and that Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) will spend SRIVANI Trust funds to build the temples.
The considerable weight of claims about Aurangzeb’s religious tolerance rest heavily on one obscure scholar's writings. We know him merely as 'Jnan Chandra, Bombay.'
For someone who once wanted nothing to do with his hoary lineage, architect V Ganapati Sthapati brought about a veritable renaissance in temple architecture before his death in 2011.
The sisters, main suspect Swarna Latha and Pavani, consulted a ‘baba’ due to a string of deaths in their family and were advised to install and worship idols.
Freelance Hindu groups are on a mission to ‘find’ temples in Varanasi. Mosques, Muslim homes, or often tense Hindu-Muslim neighbourhoods are their hunting grounds.
Before handing over temples to the Hindu society, VHP functionary Milind Parande calls for removal of 'all non-Hindus employed in temples and endowment departments'.
Mathura district judge is set to submit report in SC today on temples under receivership model, wherein lawyers, teachers & journalists step in to run temples in cases of dispute.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Salutations to the power of west to befool the ignorant. For those who blame the print for timing of article https://youtu.be/mEcfMs0HZd0?si=7jqZ1qHX87T3J3o1
Didn’t appreciate the title given by editorial
The article by Pandurangi and Srinidhi is very timely and appropriate. Hindu Dharma being dynamic, it can not be defined or explained by mere bookish interpretations. The meaning of the word “Devala” as explained by the authors is correct. Indologists are prone to study Sanskrit texts only from westernized historical angle, assuming that Hinduism is ‘book based’, like Abrahamic religions.
The Print’s editor of Olivelle’s article, Prashant, has done harmful, lazy and dumb work. Pandurangi and others who are responding are fighting with Olivelle without even realising that the article is not written by Olivelle but based on his longish article, making a fool of themselves. Basically, lazy work all around.
Whatever the detail of controversy…
One thing is clear … this pran pratishta of RamMandir is not excercise of devotion to Ram’s immanent idol..rather it is excercise of devotion to “I”-DOLL… as Pratap Bhanu Mehta said
Second , mention of Devdutt Pattanaik is extremely bad faith.. His writting is not fictions in any sense.. his writting is happy blend of descriptive & normative appraisal of our tradition… Author of this article probably did not like his normative stance , so oblique character assassination…
They should rather mention Amish Tripathi .. who writings do not even qualify as being fiction as fiction itself is an imaginative enterprise….
But as Amish Tripathi dabble in no critical stance to dominant morality , so his writting may be projected as “serious engagement”…
Pretty good work, ThePrint.
People should be open to ideas, replies and counter-replies. I believe this is the way to go. Professor Olivelle is free to present his view point and people can reply to him and he can give his final response.
Salutations to the power of west to befool the ignorant. For those who blame the print for timing of article
https://youtu.be/mEcfMs0HZd0?si=7jqZ1qHX87T3J3o1
Didn’t appreciate the title given by editorial
The article by Pandurangi and Srinidhi is very timely and appropriate. Hindu Dharma being dynamic, it can not be defined or explained by mere bookish interpretations. The meaning of the word “Devala” as explained by the authors is correct. Indologists are prone to study Sanskrit texts only from westernized historical angle, assuming that Hinduism is ‘book based’, like Abrahamic religions.
The Print’s editor of Olivelle’s article, Prashant, has done harmful, lazy and dumb work. Pandurangi and others who are responding are fighting with Olivelle without even realising that the article is not written by Olivelle but based on his longish article, making a fool of themselves. Basically, lazy work all around.
Whatever the detail of controversy…
One thing is clear … this pran pratishta of RamMandir is not excercise of devotion to Ram’s immanent idol..rather it is excercise of devotion to “I”-DOLL… as Pratap Bhanu Mehta said
Second , mention of Devdutt Pattanaik is extremely bad faith.. His writting is not fictions in any sense.. his writting is happy blend of descriptive & normative appraisal of our tradition… Author of this article probably did not like his normative stance , so oblique character assassination…
They should rather mention Amish Tripathi .. who writings do not even qualify as being fiction as fiction itself is an imaginative enterprise….
But as Amish Tripathi dabble in no critical stance to dominant morality , so his writting may be projected as “serious engagement”…
Pretty good work, ThePrint.
People should be open to ideas, replies and counter-replies. I believe this is the way to go. Professor Olivelle is free to present his view point and people can reply to him and he can give his final response.
Thanks for the interesting discussion!