All branches of the original culture share a basic ethical idea: the purpose of human life is to assist the gods in upholding the Cosmos against the primordial Chaos, which is always and for all time attempting to collapse the fragile order and dissolve all form back into itself.

“Reverence is the noblest state in which a man can live in the world. Reverence is one of the signs of strength; irreverence, one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things.” John Ruskin

நெய்யமிர்தமிர்தம் நெய்யமிர்தமிர்தம் நெய்யமிர்தமிர்தம் தமிர் தமிர் தமிர் தம்… … கனிதும்பை பூத்திருக்கு – சித்திரை சரக்கொன்றை பூத்திருக்கு…!

शुभमस्तु || #newyear

A trip down Khader Nawaz Khan Road’s residential past - Fran Forsyth’s autobiographical account of life in our city - From Madras to Chennai: and some of life in between (2QT Publishing, 2025)- makes for interesting reading- The Hindu thehindu.com/news/cities/ch…

The #Kaveri delta is #TamilNadu’s rice bowl. But farmers here earn just ₹5,000 a month from an acre even in bumper year. As TN votes on April 23, I travel across the delta to understand why one of India’s most fertile lands remains poor. @theplateindia youtu.be/xm0L3zisBKM

From our own country, my late father, M.S. Viraraghavan, a rose hybridizer of some note, named his rose 'E.K. Janaki Ammal' for her. The rose below. Also featured on this book by my parents an illustration by renowned botanical artist Hemlata Pradhan.

🙏🏻Last of a generation with unfiltered patriotism and optimism for this country ! . From Rajaji and Perunthagai- what an arc for congress-வாழ்க சனநாயகம் !🙄

MGR was a party man. He was DMK’s treasurer before entering electoral politics floating AiADMK. KK was already giving thundu pracharam in Thiruvarur before cinema. Neither ideal is a diff story but def better than current lunacy.

Equating the Pallavas with the Indo-Parthian Pahlavas was an earlier academic speculation that has lost substantial traction. Pallavas were one of the Mahātalavaras of the Ikṣvākus, who later usurped power from the last king of the Vāsiṣṭhīputra Rudrapuruṣadatta, possibly

Anoop Pattat 2/3 whole point of creating the club was not to indulge wallowing in ecstasy but debating & discussing how to elevate Bengal & India spiritually, economically & socially. Our entire legal framework today came from some of those discussions as Raja Peary Mohan was not only ......

Narendra Modi visited my ancestral roots today - Hoogly / Hugli as the British called it. Was my family's estate once. For those who aren't familiar with why Hoogly is unique, it's the citadel of India's renaissance. Pic taken from my attached blog. kpax72.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-se…

Pioneers of Indian Historiography - Sir Jadunath Sarkar and G. S Sardesai 📢 Applications Open: G.S. Sardesai Fellowship for History of Indian Archives (2026-27) 👉 Apply Now : forms.gle/VDp7Smkfma24x8… 📅 Application Deadline: 10 May 2026 Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS

What. A. Response. "For my ancestors, the qualified entity you falsely imply to be science wasn’t the end, it was simply “a” means of manipulating material reality in search of the end, which was the divine" This. Is. It.

youtube.com/@literarytamil… Found this YouTube channel today posting excerpts of Classical Tamil texts being sung, along with translations.

Friend writer #PraveenaShivram had a writing workshop for children at Ranade Library, Luz. This weekend. History-ladden space of old world charm just right for words : spoken, written, imagined. My fav too.