Sanctity lost or regained?
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VK RAMAN
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Re: Sanctity lost or regained?
"31 Thirumanjana Veedhi" - There are so many old relics which are still being refurbished and maintained throughout the world and I would have preferred that to "31 Thirumanjana Veedhi".
instead of demolishing.
instead of demolishing.
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mahakavi
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Re: Sanctity lost or regained?
I was forutunate to have visited Thyagaraja's "shrine" (I mean the house not the samadhi on the banks of Cauvery althouth I visited the samadhi too) a few years ago before it was torn down. You really got an eerie feeling when you went into that house which had a room with a window onto the "thiNNai' adjoining the street, an inner corridor (kUDam) leading to the kitchen, and a small courtyard. The courtyard must have been double the size and another parallel set of living quarters on the other side of the joint house before T's older brotherJapyesan decided to erect a partition due to his displeasure with the bard's "un-cooperative" attitude which ran in conflict with his (Japyesan's) material aspirations.
In one sense one can mourn the loss of the old structure which reverberated every movement of the bard but a new edifice at the same location can still give the same impact in a tidy structure. All one needs to have is a little bit of imagination to capture the past.
In one sense one can mourn the loss of the old structure which reverberated every movement of the bard but a new edifice at the same location can still give the same impact in a tidy structure. All one needs to have is a little bit of imagination to capture the past.