TMK and coterie have been mischievously misinterpreting the lyrics to a tyāgarāja kṛti to disparage the rāma mandira. the kṛti in question is ‘naḍaci naḍaci’ in the rāga kharaharipriya. @krithikasivasw has put up the video along with other “interpretive translations”

https://twitter.com/krithikasivasw/status/1749721160307359888

the point of the kṛti is distorted altogether. tyāgarāja says that sitting in a meditative pose — in the garb of a yogi — just for appearances, and praising rāma without truly knowing him is pointless. translation by William J. Jackson, from Tyāgarāja: Life and Lyrics

Thread: Muslim chroniclers, in their attempt to identify a centre of Hindu idolatry elevated the importance of Somanātha, and in turn, equated Mahmud’s destruction of Somanātha with the conquest of India and the destruction of idolatry as a whole. The identification of Somanātha with the pre-Islamic idol of Mecca led to its portrayal as the last remaining idol in the world. Muḥammad was the exemplary destroyer of idols, and the pragmatic moment was the Prophet’s destruction of the idols of the Ka’ba in Mecca.

telugu being close to sanskrit is not about glory or elitism or delusion, it’s the nature of the language - its grammar and vocabulary crystallised away from accha/pure telugu and sanskritised as its literature developed in the medieval era, due to poets being fluent in sanskrit.

https://twitter.com/holatombola/status/1480817884087652353

In Text and Tradition in South India by Velcheru Narayan Rao, he talks about this synthesis and interplay between Sanskrit and Telugu