Jesus and Bharatanatyam

If Jesus was just another great mystic who taught the path of love and that the kingdom of god is within you, then there would be nothing wrong in making him the theme of Bharatanatyam.  But when you make Jesus the centre of a hegemonic religion, founder of an MNC that is going to cannibalize [...]

THIRAI ISAI ALAIGAL – PART V   ‘P. B. RANGACHARI MUDHAL SPB VARAI’   RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY VAMANAN – PUBLISHED BY MANIVACHAGAR PATHIPPAGAM – 044 – 2536 1039 – PAGES 552, PRICE 250 RUPEES….   –   This is the fifth volume of the work ‘Thirai Isai Alaigal’. Like each of the volumes in [...]

India’s Independence day and Sri Aurobindo’s birthday

On my country’s Independence day which is also Sri Aurobindo’s birthday, I want to write something but don’t know what. If I love India, it is not only because it is my country. I think it is special. It is special because its great men and women thought not for themselves but for all mankind. [...]

Kanimozhi’s arrest..

In Subramanya Bharati’s verion of Panchali Sabatham, Duryodhana is made to say the following lines: ‘’A separate justice for rulers And another for the common folk So legislated the great master Brihaspathi…’’ (Mannarkku Needhi Oru Murai – Mattra Maandharkku Needhi Oru Murai…Endru Sonna Vizhaazha Munivaani….).. It is uttered by Duryodhana when he lambasts his father [...]

Kushboo, Vadivelu and the DMK : the next tamasha

After the great debacle of the DMK, the chief spokesperson of the party in English channels is Madame Kushboo. The empty windbag has been shooting her fast mouth left and right answering charges against the DMK. When the charge of large-scale money distribution was brought up, she even managed to pay tribute to the wisdom [...]

Tidal change in Tamil Nadu: DMK sent packing

The sickening stench of money and political power has subsided. Crores of 2G money distributed surreptitiously through ambulances and jeeps by the ruling DMK regime have come to nought. The people of Tamil Nadu have in one huge swipe swept aside the merchants of power and given Jayalalalitha’s alliance a victory. Even J. Jayalalitha hadn’t [...]

Marxist threat to Mamata

Mamata Banerjee has single handedly dissolved 34 years of communist rule in the Hoogly. More power to her hands…God save the people of Bengal from the godless communists and give the scions of Rammohan Roy, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda a great future. May empty tradeunionism be thrown off and Bengalis get to work to create a [...]

Question to Pak: Has the US stopped beating you?

Pakistan is facing the unenviable prospect of answering the political equivalent of the proverbial question, Have you stopped beating your wife? Only this time the question is to the wife, and is, Has your husband stopped beating you? Reworded, it would go, ‘Did the United States take your permission before bumping off Osama on Pakistani [...]

‘Pakistan may be conferred acting Oscar’

About not knowing Osama was in garrison town Abbottabad, Pakistani higher ups are saying, ‘We would have acted if we had known’. That’s the crux of the matter. If the Pakistanis had known that the Americans were getting to Osama, they (the Pakistanis I mean) would have acted and informed Osama ‘forthwith’ and Osama would [...]

What India should learn from Obamaland

Oh with what eloquence US President Obama announces the killing of Al -Qaeda leader Bin Laden! Oh the determination and resoluteness the US intelligence agencies have shown in their pursuit of their aim — capture of the 9/11 perpetrator. Oh the pusillnanimity of the Indian government in dealing with the Pakistani murderers who unleashed Bombay [...]