T M Krishna wins Magsaysay award 2016

[Rsachi]

I just got an idea: in fact a scenario.

TMK wins Magsaysay for his effort to expose and eliminate wife-beating among Carnatic musicians. In a big demonstration of his angst against this barbaric act, he wrote a few articles in The Hindu, and went and sang for women in a special home for abandoned wives.

A lot of people start exposing the hollowness of the award, and that TMK is an attention seeker and an interloper.

What would be the situation then?

[kvchellappa]

All I know is that Krishna would have handled it with finesse!

[kvchellappa]

From Krishna to Christianity is a big diversion.
It is all not written from Manila, but from Madras. The inputs for it must have been from Madras. I suspect Jeyamohan may be right about The Hindu having played a crucial role in it. The Hindu and TMK have a common platform. I do not believe that the common platform is caste, but some form of strident leftist radicalism that is struggling to find real roots in India.
The speculation ugly though it may be arises from the audacity of the award for something not done.

[ramamatya]

After reading all the comments, it looks to me like The Hindu vs Music Academy...

[girish_a]

There are no issues, no valid conspiracy theories, not even paranoia that could possible make TMK significant outside a tiny group of people.

A certain Arvind Kejriwal also answered to this description when he got the award.

[MaheshS]

it looks to me like The Hindu vs Music Academy...

Nope. TMK has a lot of inroads into the Academy via The Hindu [N Ram etc all], he's just posturing, and they are allowing him to. Good old fashioned communalism, though they pretend to abhor anything that has to do with any "community"

In the end The Hindu [N Ram] will say their influence is nothing in the MA, while continuing to publish his rubbish, and when the right time comes all will be friendly [with the old sangeetham.com traitor Sriram V who is another The Hindu boy *and* in the MA panel]. Yay, yet *another* young Sangitha Kalanidhi because you know he's famous for his "causes" and even got the Magsaysay award at such a young age. And, lets not forget that TMK is TTK's [you know the big building was named after him] grandson. You heard it here first folks.

As I remember saying in Tamil, Ellam ore kuttaile oorina mattai, what a load of BS.

[sureshvv]

Kuttai la

[MaheshS]

Kuttai la

Thanks, fixed

[arasi]

I am typing the saying in the way we do with lyrics and other stuff: ellAm orE kuTTiyilE URina maTTai (all are the same sort of palm fronds which are soaking in the same little pond).

[kvchellappa]

TTK may be his grand uncle, not grandfather.

[MaheshS]

TTK may be his grand uncle, not grandfather.

I stand corrected!

[balavenu]

@sureshvv, Don't know if you'll believe any of this or not, but I'll say it anyway. I think JK suffered a kundalini awakening experience, stumbling upon it accidentally. What he really calls the process is what Gopi Krishna or Yogananda would describe as a complete remodelling of his system. His statement of "truth being a pathless land" is actually the same as that of Ramana Maharshi and I'm quite certain he actually got plenty of glimpses of samadhi.

But in the end I think he just couldn't put down his experiences very clearly. It's likely that the process was far from complete when he died too, so he kind of got stuck halfway, having had several glimpses and then having to return back to earth. It's no wonder why his writings are all about questioning every structure that has been created. The experiences of many NDEs talk about such fantastic stuff, and as far as I can accept them, I find them to be a much more direct description of the experience behind what is otherwise abstract philosophy. Philosophy without the experience behind it can be ripe for much speculation and misinterpretation, usually interpreted to suit an agenda far removed from the original experience.

Am pretty sure this is not the right topic (or even the forum) to explore the matter, but will refer nonetheless to this interesting critique written over a couple of decades ago by a "friend". The reference here is to SrinathK's attempt at making sense of JK's actions and his inward journey. The booklet "Asamvedopanishad -- Being begins where Bhava ends" may be found at http://uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads ... 4_10pt.pdf.