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Brahmins didn’t always wear the sacred thread. They adopted it at the start of the Common Era

There is a saying that goes: In life, familiarity breeds contempt. But in scholarship, familiarity breeds acceptance. This is an adage to which I wholeheartedly subscribe. Unfortunately, such ...
The Hindu

Forcible removal of sacred thread alleged

Tiruvarur Taluk Police are looking into a complaint of forcible removal of sacred thread from a septuagenarian at Semangalam near Tiruvarur. According police, the complainant, B. Ramakrishnan, 72, of ...