Read Part 1: The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Acquaintance with Sri Sheshanna Shrauti My acquaintance with Sri Sheshanna Shrauti deepened after I began working earnestly on the Sandhyadarshana book. I was a frequent visitor to his home and eventually got to know his family and
An obituary on the passing away of Girish Raghunath Karnad
Note: This essay is excerpted from the seminal work on the Indian tradition of food sharing titled “Annam Bahukurvita” authored by Dr. J K Bajaj and Dr. M D Srinivas. The original title of the essay in the book is “Straying from the Discipline: The Memory Abides.” Not so long
It will be an interesting topic in a study of literary history to trace the first book—fiction or non-fiction—for which a preface was written. It is a good practice that has thankfully sustained the roughs of time and taste without falling off the crag. In the hands
And just as I had predicted, the Ideological Iyengar has exploded in his naked, phoney fury and revealed himself in full technicolour craziness. Don’t take my word for it. Check his own tweet. Thodur Madabusi Krishna’s metamorphosis from merely being an Ideological Iyengar to a cultural hoodlum is