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