on a rare serious note thyagaraja lived in the most turbulent time. Marathas in tanjore had already declined. Hyder invaded tanjore and took 12,000 hindu boys captive. as @kansaratva repeatedly points Schwartz was fishing in troubled waters. (1/n)

https://twitter.com/tskrishnan/status/1775837839277891610

Thyagaraja never mentions a word of these. he does not do any innovation like the nottu swarams of dikshitar.

in fact only twice he refers to current events - once he uses the word *lantharu* for lantern and another time he says it is futile like singing bhajan (2/n)

what is dynastic politics? Just read the screen shot and read through my observations on the 2nd tweet. If you disagree please be harshly frank. (1/n) (2/n) A man enters politics in 2004 and is immediately given a MP seat to fight. This seat has been curated for the family. The immediate predecessor who vacated the seat for him is his mother.

I see lot of tweets on how people missed a rank by a mark and how Reservation affected them and all.

My personal exp especially with my younger son - hard working but prone to make silly mistakes. Got a decent rank in JEE Advanced - could have done better had he avoided (1/9) few mistakes. He had a choice of taking a lower course in IIT Madras or take a mid level course in one of the new IITs.

He was not greatly enthused by the IIT brand name. He chose IIIT Bangalore. They have just 2 courses - CS and Electronics. He chose Electronics as (2/9)

unceremonious depredations of the iconoclastic E V R.

@kannan_kanal jailed for asking to remove his statue.

Think Periyar would be proud to see his followers do *திவசம்* for his iconoclasm. From this article