Review: Enugula Veeraswamy’s Kasiyatra Charitra
From sweet reminiscences of stories told by JanakiAmmal in childhood to finding delightful coincidences in E. Veeraswamy’s KasiyatraCharitra many decades later,
January 15, 2023 Sridharan DV
Foot Bridges As Keys To Some Village Futures
There were emotional scenes on the day the bridges opened. “I was at an extraordinary moment,” says Bharadwaj. “A middle aged housewife embarrassed me no end: she wordlessly fell at my feet, in thanks and looked up with her eyes full of tears.” He had not quite realised how much a bridge can mean.
October 22, 2022 Sridharan DV
A Windmill Is My Murti
Pilgrims get to hear of the dominance of Mahabhuta over the Universe. They develop awe and reverence for them
October 16, 2021 Sridharan DV
Publication Grant for “Gems of Sankara” by Prof V Krishnamurthy
Indica Renaissance Fund is pleased to announce a publication grant of Rs one lac to Tattvaloka for publishing “Gems of Sankara” by Prof V. Krishnamurthy.
May 8, 2021 Sridharan DV
Return of Raja Ram
A beautiful essay on the birthplace of Shri Rama, Return of Raja Ram
August 3, 2020 Sridharan DV
Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life Part III – Getting it in the end
Read part I and II. Even for 1982, arriving in Bombay with just Rs.5,000 in my pocket was a pretty daring thing to do. But I was on a high.…
May 7, 2020 Sridharan DV
The Stand Of the Last Pagan
I have long wanted to visit the grand temple at Chidambaram as much as I had longed to go on a tour with Dr Chitra Madhavan. If the temple is…
September 24, 2019 Sridharan DV
She’s awake, but not those in power.
Review of Swapan Dasgupta book, “Awakening Bharat Mata” Swapan Dasgupta emerged as a refreshing public face on TV about 15 years ago. His was the first English voice to make…
August 25, 2019 Sridharan DV
Time travel in Kerala
A born-again Hindu’s experience of Guru Purnima at the Chinmaya Vishwa-Vidyapeeth The lush green woods of Kerala are indeed there on either side of the road I am driving on,…
September 13, 2018 Sridharan DV
