Opening the Pandora’s Box: How a Leftist Appetite for Sacrilege Unleashed the Greatest Religious Movement of the Century
by a Correspondent Convinced That Civilisations Perish Not by the Sword but by the Footnote Part One: The Desecration and Its Architects I. Sabarimala - The Epitome of a Denominational Institution There are religious institutions, and then there is Sabarimala. To speak of the
When Renovation Becomes Desecration: The Case of Sri Devarajaswamy Temple
When I first walked the Prakharas of the thousand-year-old Sri Devarajaswamy Temple in Kanchipuram, I was struck by one overwhelming feeling: awe. At the ingenuity of our ancestors, the precision of inscriptions on stone and walls, intricate carvings of rearing
An Order of the Past: Drift from Civility to Disorder
The post-1945 international order standing on multilateralism, sovereignty, and rules-based engagement has been now broken by the very nations that stood guard to it. Three concurrent failures accelerated this collapse: the United States' oscillation between coercive unilateralism; permanent conflict in
A Reassessment of Pandya Sovereignty Status in the Early Twelfth Century
The general view among the historians is that post the defeat of Chozhan thalai konda Vira Pandyan by Chozha prince Aditya Karikala, Pandyas ceased to exist as an independent power till Maravarman Sundarapandya defeated the Chozha empire in early 13th
The Temple Paradox: A Republic That Governs the Gods
There are moments in the life of a civilization when it must stop congratulating itself and begin questioning its conscience. Moments when progress, loudly proclaimed, must be weighed against what it has quietly destroyed. India stands at such a moment
Grand Petition against illegal presence of EOs in TN temples
Shri T.R. Ramesh has filed a petition before the Madras HC, challenging the illegal presence of Executive Officers and other government appointed officers in Tamil Nadu temples in violation of the law and the various Supreme Court judgments. The petition
Illegal allocation of temple land by TNHRCE
The president of Indic Collective Trust, Shri T.R. Ramesh has filed a petition in the High Court of Madras challenging the illegal allocation of lands belonging to Sri Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple in Palani, Sri Kanitmati Sameta and Sri Nellaiappar Temples
Challenging illegal appointment of EOs in Non-hereditary temples of TN
Indic Collective Trust and its president Shri T.R. Ramesh in person petitioned the Madras HC to issue a mandamus directing the Tamil Nadu Government to recall all Executive Officers who are functioning in temples without valid appointment orders, without valid
Sacred Groves – the Indic sanctuaries
Sacred groves are small patches of primeval forest or stands of trees that are reserved exclusively for a deity, a critical indigenous ecological tradition in the realm of environmentalism. They hold special religious and spiritual significance to the people and
Open Letter to Shri B.L. Santhosh
Adarneeya Shri. B.L. Santhosh avaru, Namaskara. We, the Indic Collective Trust, are a group of ordinary Hindus who are committed to the protection and advancement of Indic civil liberties and civilizational interests through a research-based approach. As an organisation working towards