Vedas and Thirumurai
When I was trying to title this write up, I was thinking to myself, if it should be Sanskrit vs Tamil, Vedas vs Thirumurai, etc. Nevertheless, best is to take the less controversial stand. In today's Tamil world, being heavily influenced by the Dravidian movement, there are arguments against scripts in Sanskrit and the usage of them in rituals, etc. There are some folds of people who have started adopting Tamil language as their medium of rituals, Yagyas, prayers, Archanai, everything is being done using the Tamil language. Even Yantras have been 'translated', Sanskrit Acharas are being replaced with Tamil alphabets. These are some of the extremes that we see happening these days. I ask myself, is this for convenience or merely due to the fact that some (if not many) are Sanskrit illiterates? Then comes the argument if Sanskrit is the oldest language or Tamil is older than Sanskrit? Well, I'm not dwelling into this argument as it's totally ridiculous! On the con