Arunachala or Annamalai?
There is an interesting post over at Arunachala Grace. It seems that Wikipedia has replaced the accepted name of Arunachala with the Tamil version Annamalai hill, at the top of the Arunachala entry. When you type in a Wikipedia search for "Arunachala" you will now be re-directed to "Annamalai Hill". However the url seems to remain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachala
Why this was necessary, I have no idea.
The article, at Wikipedia, remains very brief. Surely the powers that be can do better.
ramanamaharshi, 
acalayoga, 
atma vicharaLabels: acalayoga, annamalai, arunachala, Sanskrit, tamil
posted at 2:19 PM
1 Comments:
hi.
the reason may be tamil nationalism which is currently very strong (ruling the state of tamil nadu) and is especially anti-brahmin (since most tamil brahmins came from the north of the subcontinent) and also anti-sanskrit (purging the tamil language of sanskrit words).
it's all the result of creating identities, indian, hindu, buddhist, tamil etc etc... when awareness can look at mind's conditioning purely, without the past, then we will not fight for such trivialities, but now even in india there is more and more fighting to "protect" small identities, so there is indian and hindu nationalism, dalit nationalism, tamil and kannada (karnataka) nationalisms etc etc
did i mention islam? :))
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