The pontiff of Shiroor Mutt—one of the eight monasteries set up by Madhavacharya, the 13th century Hindu philosopher, in Udupi—died suspiciously suddenly last week, at the age of 56, allegedly …
On the one hand, you have a young boy of 15 being stabbed and killed within sniffing distance of “smart city” New Delhi, after being taunted about being a “beef-eater”. …
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from Bangalore: Here is Udupi Pejawar Mutt seer Sri Vishvesha Teertha swamiji‘s reasoning for his opposition to “sahapankti bhojana” (people of all castes eating together). “Among other …
The role that swamijis, religious gurus and mutt heads should play in society has been much discussed and debated in the tumultous times of god’s own party, the BJP. Should …
M.S. Prabhakara, longtime northeast and South Africa correspondent of The Hindu, on the ongoing Brahmin-Dalit interaction in Karnataka: “[The] demonstrative walkabouts by Brahmin leaders in areas one shunned as literally …
As the caste and communal cauldron gets nicely stirred up in Karnataka by the competitive padayatras of Hindu and Dalit seers, the noted Kannada writer, Devanoor Mahadeva, turns the mirror …
Mysore, it was, that was the first province in the country to introduce caste-based reservations three-quarters of a century ago. And Mysore, it is, that is at the vanguard of …
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