Who commissioned a giant building project, but who ensured that each one who contributed to the upkeep of the temple was not left /2
What would you say of his son, Rajendran, who ruled the Eastern Seaboard and ran naval expeditions across the Bay of Bengal, but who lived out his last days in a humble hamlet /4
It is a nobility that speaks to us across the centuries of the greatness of Sanatana Dharma.
And what of the noble King Serfoji, who write to the British to give up his pension in exchange for letting his annachatrams /5
What of the Baniyas and Chettiars who continue annachatrams from their personal funds to this day?
These are not allegorical stories from the Puranas but of lives lived right here, among us, /6