Is there a better way?

By Vir Sanghvi
Sulekha Mumbai, November 28, 2004

Even though it has been many days since the Shankaracharya of Kanchi was arrested — he was taken into custody on the night of November 11 — I have resisted writing about the issue for the most basic of all reasons: I know virtually nothing about the Shankaracharya and do not understand all the facts of the case in which he has been implicated.

But now that the arrest has become a national issue — even former President R Venkataraman participated in the dharna organised by the BJP in Delhi — perhaps the time has come to look at some of the questions raised by the arrest.

Full story:

http://web.mid-day.com/columns/vir_sanghvi/2004/november/98143.htm

# posted by Richard J. Williams @ Monday, November 29, 2004