First published on Times of India on 8th July 2011 http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tiger-trail/entry/india-s-temple-wealth-in-unsafe-hands
The first fleeting thought that came to me when the colossal donations to the Ananta Padmanabhaswamy temple were recovered in Thiruvananathapuram was, “ Why oh why were they ever found?” The wealth of the temple had survived all these years that have encompassed unscrupulous foreign invasions but it is only now that the real worry begins, the internal invasion. Will the wealth that belongs to the presiding deity of Thiruvananthapuram, which literally translates into the sacred abode of Lord Anantha Padmanabha, be unassailable? As a popular tweet read “ It took centuries for the Temple to accumulate in excess of 1 lakh crore of wealth and a couple of years by the UPA Government to loot the exchequer of the same value”. True. Read more »
