The guidance Chinmayananda had given then — “to be fearless and have respect for our country” — still informs the work of The New Indian Express Group (Madurai), Sonthalia said.

Its founder, Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), preached, commented, and translated the previously inaccessible source texts of Vedanta (Upanishads, etc.) in English as the “science of perfection“ for ...