“ Confirm Flop: Dhanush Teams Up With Leftist-Dravidianist Maoist Glorifier Vetri Maaran Whose ‘Bad Girl’ Film Was Called ‘Child Porno’ By Courts To Make ‘Tamizh Murugan’, A ‘Secular’ Dravidian Model Counter To NTR Jr Film”, The Commune, July 11, 2026
“For ages, Lord Murugan has transcended geography, language and political boundaries. Worshipped as Kartikeya in North India, Subrahmanya in Karnataka, Kumara Swamy in Andhra Pradesh, Skanda in Sanskrit literature and Murugan in Tamil Nadu, he is one of Hinduism’s oldest and most revered deities. His temples stand from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and far beyond India’s shores with temples as far as Himachal Pradesh in the north to Tiruchendur down south.
Yet, a new ideological project seeks to redraw that civilisational map.
As Telugu cinema prepares to present Jr NTR in a grand epic centered on Lord Muruga celebrating him as the divine commander of the celestial armies, another narrative is emerging from a very different ideological camp. This narrative denies his divinity, his universal presence……”
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