Thread by @NamasteNiHao

We will convert u, ask u to eat beef, remove bindi, throw away mangalsutra, ur "pagan" Gods, give u cheap dip in nearest tank& claim u r re-born to new religion. After we throw away ur gods & ur tradition, we repackage ur earlier culture, tradition, music, ragas and gve it to 🙏

Oh & then ur own secular bretheren who claim they r "spiritual but nt religious" , "all religions are equal" will start hashtag campaign #carnaticmusicbelongstoall
And if U, the "bully, militant, communal, bigoted" Hindu try to save Carnatic music frm digestion, u knw the drill!

Wait some examples are in order

When i learnt my first Geetam, we started with a namaskaram to Ganesha via Sri Gananatha geetam.... but hey you can now get Yesugeetam, very easy just replace Ganesha with yesu
Amazingly easy!

Learning south Indian carnatic music so easy man! We just rewrite the lyrics in Christian way ....🙏

Want some Christian veenai ? Yeh lo

Want to feel more devotional? Need more bhakti? Sure, let's copy paste and voila we have Christu bhagawatam, yeshu sahasranamam, Yishu bhagawad gita ...no sweat!

Don't worry pa, we also have some yesu bharatanatyam for you

Some ppl whattabouterising: "how fragile is ur faith?
So let me counter whattabouterise:our faith, our carnatic tradition fears none.Its a labour of love& devotion towards devtas replete with shrungar,rasa,maths. U dont get to insult our gods and use the talas, ragas fr ur gods

You converted out of hinduism for whatever compulsion you had and by doing so you rejected the holistic hindu way of life, music, prayer, rituals. If you want to sing praises of your god,invent ur own kind of musical system, your own ragas, own keertanais.u dont get to copy ours

Just to get a perspective : how many people attend TM Krishna's concerts? Are core rasikas also part of the audience? How does he manage to grt his accompanying artists after the whole carnatic music community being aware of his antics ? Any idea on these Qs?

Another digestion, zero originality
Nandri @Rnb129 for the translation

https://twitter.com/Rnb129/status/1028522190918971392?s=19

Shri Dushyant Sridhar, a young scholar of our sanatana traditions and puranas and kathas weighs in on the topic of carnatic music and the controversy surrounding it.... do read it !