Venkatesh Parthasarathy
The Tirumala temple and its deity Lord Venkateshwara are no strangers to the use of superlatives. The temple is often described as the richest in India, if not the whole world; the deity as being the most beloved; so it is not surprising that a book devoted…
Reviewed by: TCA Anant
The genesis of this essay lies in two memorial lectures that I gave in 2019 in Delhi. The first was the Nemichand Memorial lecture on ‘The Presence of the other: Religion and Society in Early India’, given on 16 August 2019. The second was the V M Tarkunde Memorial lecture on ‘Renunciation, Dissent and Satyagraha’, given on 6 December 2019..
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