nara, Y,
needless to say that i am more than thrilled at you guys' quest for justice re sankarraman (sr).
in real life, sr represented the most traditional wing of the orthodoxy, afaik, and his gripe against the seer, was the seer's penchance for opening up new institutions, dialogues with the muslims, and serving food for the dalits in the kanch peetam mess hall. all these opposed tooth and nail by the conservative wing of the mutt, who believed that the mutt head, remain in the mutt, and promote the brahministic orthodoxy, for which it is famous.
these conservatives would hark back to the previous seer, and his reactionary views (one that irked me among others, his insistence of my dad's recently widowed cousin with 5 young daughters, shave her head, and wear white, if she wanted a consolation darshan from him circa late 1950s ) for which i had no use. there is now a move to sanctify the previous mutt head, as a saint, as can be seen by many posts here and elsewhere.
so, in all probability, had sr lived, who knows where we would have stood re kanchi mutt affairs. or maybe not stood at all. the affairs of the reformer are being questioned by the orthodoxy, who now have a martyr. meanwhile, the public, gullible or otherwise, are left, with their hands wringing, at the smirch of what they consider a once impeccable reputation of the mutt.
right now, there are few witnesses to testify against the accused. i believe, chances are if mrs sr is given a few crorers, she might even claim that sr was not murdered at all, but an aseerari, came and plucked away her husband's life. money too has its powers, as we all know, to bend, stretch or turn upside down, what we know as truth.
justice. or absence of it, does indeed make bedfellows of us all, for a cause, that we would not touch with a stick, had sr been alive.
wait and watch for injustice to rule. i do not expect anything else to happen. the seer will be back in kanchi, entrenched, and probably turn rightwards in his views, to placate the 'tea party groups' of tambrams, of which, there are quite a few, equally as shrill and intolerant, as their american counterparts.
