 Tamil is not just a language, it is a culture, it's a civilization. The root, the source and the core of this culture and civilization is devotion. And the sthanas are the centers of this devotion which churns this devotion. In this culture for thousands of years is the temple which is built to a certain science. This has become powerful means of transforming one's lives. When I was a child, I used to go to the temple every four days to wear that new dress and go to the temple. Then I would come to the temple to pray, to feed a child. When I was a child, I used to go to the temple to pray. If someone had died, I would go to the temple to pray. Everything happened in the relationship with God, in the relationship with the temple. And unfortunately today, these temples, these powerhouses, this very life center of Tamil culture is enslaved in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians who have no concern or care or involvement or devotion for these powerful centers which have been the heart of our Tamil culture. It is painful for me to see that the average and the greed of East India Company, which came to this land in 1700s, which decided to capture the temples in this nation. Not because they were interested in the sanctity of those places, the power and the benefit of those places, they were interested in the wealth, the gold, diamonds, money and the land which the temples held. That vulgar act of taking over Indian temples, unfortunately is continuing till today after seventy-four years of independence. This is very painful because a temple is not a place of prayer, it is the soul of this community. UNESCO, the UN agency, says the traditional temples of Tamil Nadu are in a bad state of decay. Even if we do, they say they will not give permission. There is no prayer, there is no light for two times. There are no children here, there is no one in the temple, there are drinks and such things are happening. There is nothing, there is no way to go, there is no way to go around. Even today, these temples are built by the Indian government. All the temples have been built, all the temples have been destroyed. After forty-five years, some of the temples have been stolen. Well, if they had demolished the temples, people would have built it back. But they have chosen to suffocate the temples, slowly make them into nothing. In the year 2020, in the Madras High Court, the HR and CE ministry has submitted that they are not able to maintain even one puja or ritual per day in eleven thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine temples, just one short of twelve thousand because there is no revenue. Thirty-four thousand temples have less than ten thousand rupees income, not per month, per annum. Thirty-seven thousand temples, they are not able to appoint more than one person to do whatever is needed in the temple. That means the same person does the puja, he is supposed to clean it, he is supposed to take care of the management and everything. It's time that the temples of Tamil Nadu come out of the clutches of the government and into the hands of responsible, competent and devout community. The people are ready to take care of the temple well. They have a good reputation in the Madha temple, they have a good government in the temple. There is no puja for a long time, there is no way out. Even if God wants us to do something, we will have to do it. Please leave it to the devotees. We will manage it if it's at the cost of our life, we will manage it. How to do it, the complexities of it, we will look at that later. First thing is the government should show the intent that the temple should be managed by the community, not by the government in my understanding of what is secular. Secular nation means a religion does not mess with the government and the government does not mess with the religion.