This book is an expansive outline of history which, at the same time, is also a very comprehensive history of the Sri Vaishnava community of Tamil Nadu, India. It spans a period of 1000 years - from the 11th century CE to the present day. It isThe historical narrative is woven around a "tale of two cities" i.e. Sri Rangam and Kanchipuram, the two towns in South India from where a titanic struggle for ownership, power, legitimacy and control over not only temples but also f...

This book The Epistles of a Prolific Pontiff, so carefully translated from the Tamil originals, covers a dazzling range of lofty topics, from Visishtadvaita Vedanta, spiritualism, philosophy, to social ethics, human psychology and personality development all of whichtruly define Sri Vaishnavism, one of the oldest and most revered living traditions of India, propounded by the great Sri Ramanujacharya in the 11th Century CE . Thanks to these 21 pric...

Rt. Hon'ble V.S. Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946): outstanding Sanskritist, orator par excellence in English who earned the sobriquet "silver-tongued Sastri"; a distinguished diplomat: Indian freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu. His influence on Gandhi's politics was very strong in several nuanced ways, especially during the 1920-30s.Sastri hailed from an orthodox Tamil Brahmin background and yet remained a steadfast Liberal in the truest and best Classical sense. Through fascinating monta...

Author M. K. Sudarshan was inspired by the life and works of Sri Ramanujacharya (1017-1137 AD), a great Vedantic philosopher, Sri Vaishnava theologist and social reformer of Tamil Nadu, India and his long successive lineage of followers and gurus from the 12th century A.D. to the present time.The Upanishads are the ageless spiritual scriptures of India. An ancient Sanskrit adage in them says: "ekam sadh viprah: bahudah vadanti," which roughly means, "The truth is one, but wise ones...