EVR admired the Christian evangelist G U Pope for conceiving the Aryan theory of invasion. What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. Later while travelling abroad, he attended nude camps in Germany without any moral qualms and posed for pictures. Follow me on @sttalkindia I have watched the movie. 1. Such spiteful caste politics filled with hate and revenge continues till today. Tamil Nadu EV Ramaswamy's hatred towards the Hindu religion and his open slander of gods in his magazines Kudiarasu and Dravidan are well-known. Become a Member. EVR called Idols as lifeless stones and called out those beliefs of honouring and worshipping them as crass and superstitious. Deputy CM O Panneerselvam can never be seen without the holy ash and vermilion on his forehead. A mass campaign has started in Tamil Nadu to remove all fake news and claims related to Periyar from text No, UNESCO did not confer any award on Hinduphobic Periyar aka EVR; Fake image of EVR being a social reformer built by Dravida Kazhagam stands demolished The problem with Periyar was that he used his bludgeon only against the Brahmins while the oppressing classes belonged to a wider spectrum. Gowthaman, vol. He wanted the British to continue to remain in power while simultaneously complaining that they were succumbing to the machinations of the Brahmins. One might think that by Brahmin he meant Brahminism. Design of a new dam by Some revolutionary, he was. We aim to provide a wide range of injection molding services and products ranging from complete molding project management customized to your needs. The longer the period of impact, the more conceptual the idea conceived is deemed to be of the impacting mind. EVR excercised selective hatred based on his personal experiences and remained and died as one. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. There is no doubt that in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Brahmins dominated the educational scene in the state. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. What he believed in were self-respect, rationalism, gender equality and his own version of social justice. Thus, [my stand is] Brahminism grew out of the Brahmin and I am striving to annihilate the root. Accordingly, the water level in the dam would be limited to 138 feet till October 31 and 139.5 feet till November 10. They cannot be abusive or personal. WebSometime before, I have read this about Periyar's funeral: Government of India / Chief secretary was against giving Periyar a state Funeral because He once said that the white people who lived in the temperate regions were less brainy than the ones who lived in Tamil Nadu. Minor EVR was found on river banks with his friends having games of Kama. A temple has been built for atheist Karunanidhi near Gudiyatham by DMK cadre. The reaction from Dravidianists is perplexing as Periyar himself was renowned for his iconoclasm. Their snakes dont have venom but the Tamil snakes do. Hate had powers to attract mass attention and history shows hate can over throw powers and establishments as people mislead to misread it as revolution of love. Remember, EVR did not rise against the British at any time during his long life. This is driving me low-key mad, not remembering where I read it. Is there any sources for this or is it a legend? All rights reserved. EVR, Annadurai, MGR and Gandhi statues were not far behind. Our dharmic civilisation is important than any individual or any group. There is also a National park which is known as the Periyar National Park in Thekkady located around the reservoir of dam. It is nobodys case that the Brahmins were angels. He had married Nagammai, aged 13, earlier as a teenager. The dam became a reality nine years later. Tamilnadu challenged Keralas dam height law in Supreme court. This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. It was expanded in 1947 by the then-ruling Congress party, and when Periyar was busy demanding a separate Dravida Nadu. Debating may be popular on prime time but Dravidian politicians and supporters hate it. In 1938 at Tamil Nadu Women's Conference appreciatin the noble service rendered by E.V.R. Attorney Advertising. At Furnel, Inc. our goal is to find new ways to support our customers with innovative design concepts thus reducing costs and increasing product quality and reliability. The Periyar that the non-Tamil intellectuals know is a sanitised version of his real personality, lovingly packaged and offered by his admirers. We will see how and why EVR did what he did? Gautham He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. Earlier Chief Minister CN Annadurai had unveiled statue of Film artist NS Krishnan. Though he was personally liked by almost all political leaders, almost all of them considered him to be maverick, unrestrained and irresponsible. Supreme Court last week considered a public interest litigation petition filed by a Kerala physician and two former local body representatives on the Tokenism was the key mantra. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. Furnel, Inc. has been successfully implementing this policy through honesty, integrity, and continuous improvement. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. The seeds of antibrahmanism were finding roots in EVRs mind because of the challenges posed by Brahmins in his personal and physical life. In a leaderless state that is currently seeing a drought in political news, this one statement has opened floodgates, and fanned fires. Later, he declared that his organisation, Dravida Kazhagam will ever never aspire for power. It did not ever occur to Periyar that independence would open the sluice gates of education and other opportunities. Let's begin with the obvious question. I am not able to find any thing proving it. Some thoughts are kept alive by artificial resuscitation following propaganda theories and methods. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. The publicly read out marriage agreement became a superficial drama and in the melee, neither of the couple ever meant what they read out as an oath. The pinnacle of this hypocrisy was when a statue of EVR was unveiled by his disciples in the presence of EVR himself in Chennai. The listing of verdicts, settlements, and other case results is not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other claims. Clever twists that marked propagation that he loved the depraved castes are meant for optics. One might think that by Brahmin he meant Brahminism. -, Press J to jump to the feed. As Rajinikanth refuses to apologise or change his stance, more protests are announced by Dravidian outfits, security outside his Poes garden home is tightened, and political analysts' antennae tingle. That he was not against God but was against misuse of Gods name. It says it is taking steps to complete the remaining works to strengthen the dam, including those meant for the baby dam, situated alongside the main dam, for which clearances from the Kerala and Central Governments are required. Unfortunate for him the Congress he joined in 1919 had many morally upright stalwarts like Sathyamurthy, a brahmin which deepened his despair. water rights. They lost ability to discern under the rule of rationalists. Viswanathan, 1983, p. 126). He felt he was deprived of his opportunities for stardom with Brahmin Sathyamurthy being proactive with integration of castes. Apart from occupying public spaces and wasting enormous money that bring in no returns, they are analogous to the posters and banners that get erected. The Hindu Explains BR Ambedkar was the worst abused. The Tamil Brahmins started migrating to cities both within the Tamil land and without whereas an overwhelming majority of them had been living in villages at the dawn of the 20th century. He did so because he considered all the upper caste non-brahmins, many of whom were landlords, money lenders, traders and merchants, to be victims when the reality was that they, too, were part of the machinery of oppression. The CM of the time K Karunanidhi first denied the incident, and then at a press conference held on 1 February the same year, said, "I am saddened to hear of the news that the procession at Salem in which idols were displayed obscenely have hurt the sentiments of the theists.". Long story short, Rajinikanth mixed up the gods who got beaten with chappals and the gods who were paraded naked. The story so far: Coinciding with an episode of erratic, cataclysmic rain in Keralas high-ranges, the CN Annadurai walked away from EVR to form a political outfit called Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Scholars like Christian Devaneya Pavanar helped further this with all kinds of defences and interpretations. However, Tamil Nadu, relying on the Supreme Courts two judgments, has been opposing any suggestion for lowering the level from 142 feet, apart from rejecting the idea of a new dam. Am aware that girl students in hostels run by the Dravidar Kazhagam trust in Tamilnadu provide nutritionless tastless food to girl students despite collecting huge fees. / As a result, most of coveted government jobs went to the Brahmins. The Tamil Brahmins started migrating to cities both within the Tamil land and without whereas an overwhelming majority of them had been living in villages at the dawn of the 20th century. Poet Bharathi demanded similar rights and conceived the concept of a brave woman who will look straight into the eyes of others and hold head high with clarity of thought, decades before EVR mouthed words like women emancipation but this poor poet who died in penury was cursed and born as a Brahmin. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Which is why, for a celebrity to speak against Periyar is to denounce him, and all of his work in toto. She later stopped her temple visits. It was forgotten in a minute. Breaking of idols of Lord Ganesha in Salem when Congress ruled Tamilnadu and India during early 1950s didnt elicit even murmurs of intolerance as Hindus were subdued for over a thousand years and Secular congress was a mere continuation of that colonial British rule that was indifferent and insensitive to majoritarian Hindu sentiments. This is what the DMK and the AIADMK think. EVR Periyar: A checkup on facts & propaganda January 20, 2019 destruction catalysed on a vibrant culture and so the Christian dominated UNESCO honoured EVR with an award in 1970 turning Nelsons eye to the fact that racism was banned by United Nations. His so-called research on the. EVR Naicker born very rich, ran a family temple of Lord Ganesha in Erode. WebThe fake propaganda states, In 1970, he was honored by UNESCO with an award, the citation of which said: Periyar, the Prophet of a New Age, Socrates of South Asia, Father It is because one is a thief, one indulges in thievery. What is the reality? This hypocrisy is followed by his followers till today. Distory Buster. Even if it had chosen every non-Brahmin applicant who possessed the barest qualification, it could not have met the stated quota.). The reason? Given all this, why is he being heralded as a great thinker by the Dravidian intellectuals? Congress were, Shri Chandrasekara Saraswathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam , the finest among sages of the last millennia, continues to touch and heal the lives of believers going beyond the limitations of caste, religion, linguistics and nations. You can also see statues marketed in open without fear of theft in Mamallapuram while State owned Poompuhar which trades in idols has high security. Nowhere did EVR or EVRs protges condemned the upper castes of Chettiars, Nayakars, Reddiars, Mudaliars, Gounders, etc and their domination in social sphere. This is a subreddit for the people of Tamilnadu, India. HOME; INTERIORS; EXTERIORS; OFFICE & PORTRAITS; PUBLICITY/EVENTS; CONSTRUCTION; INFO This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. And this is definitely what the BJP in Tamil Nadu wants. His weapon was hate and like Adolf Hitler didnt think twice that he could hurt innocent people. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. The World Tamil Conference in Chennai ran by Chief Minister CN Annadurai focused on statues for tamil savants but their choice was filled with prejudices and controversies. He is yet to take BJP's the hand that they have been extending since 2014. Menu. I was witness multiple times to Dravidian politicians who womanise, held multiple wives get on wedding dias to bless couple on PA system that the newly married should lead life like Lord Rama and Seetha. There are two ways to assess the impact of reservation in India on the general category people. 1: Immediate Effect When general category people ar He mocked blouse wearing Dalit women as responsible for increase in the cost of clothes. Social media short term tiny influences last for a day in the name of trends. He said, without so much as a pause, that Gandhi was killed by Brahmins because Gandhi was turning into a Periyar himself! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of South The people of India are barbarians. Kerala We offer full engineering support and work with the best and most updated software programs for design SolidWorks and Mastercam. He accused Ambedkar for selling himself to the Brahmins: The Brahmins had paid him a price. By the mid-1990s, Tamil Nadu started demanding restoration of the level. WebErode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 24 December 1973), revered as Periyar [a] or Thanthai [b] Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started Here are 10 facts which every Indian should know about EVR. It was constructed However, without Tamil Nadu on board, this is not going to be a reality. This professionalism is the result of corporate leadership, teamwork, open communications, customer/supplier partnership, and state-of-the-art manufacturing. The dravidian parties like DMK, DK, ADMK follow the idealogies of Periyar and that is why a lot of problems occur in TN for a long time. Rajinikanth's most famous filmy 'punch' dialogue, from the iconic movie Baasha, goes something like this: Politics and cinema in Tamil Nadu have historically blurry boundaries. All one can say is that the wind is blowing his way now. In the intervening years, Madras had a Brahmin chief minister for only four years (including the uncertain years between 1952 and 1954). Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle. They were arrogant, casteist and possessed a general contempt for the unwashed millions, and even the washed others. As long as the ones who follow Manu dharma exist, the nation will never have discipline, integrity, honesty and justice. At the same time, Periyar was also paranoid that democracy would result in Brahmins completely taking over the reins of the government. The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. There is an undeniable political ramification to anything the superstar says. Though his love for science was childlike, he did not have the intellectual rigour to understand what the scientific enterprise was all about. This then gives us two options. Baker, 1976, p. 46). My HINDU civilisation alone is my focus. But without understanding the mind of EVR, its impossible to understand the Dravidian parties hypocritical contempt for idols and love for statues. Colleges swarmed with them. (Baker points out in his book that there were 10,237 students in first grade colleges in 1931; the number of available government posts carrying a salary of Rs 35 per month were 29,081. Nevertheless, this raises another pertinent question. 4, 2017, p. 432), Another case in point followed in 1968, when, in Tanjore district, 44 Dalits were butchered by the goons of a landlord. Does someone have any link proving it or stating that it is a folklore. M. Karunanidhi (front row, third from left) and Periyar (fourth). But they weren't just garlanded with chappals, they were also beaten with them. In his last ever speech, on December 19, 1973, he spoke that he had been striving for long to annihilate god, religion, the Congress, Gandhi and the Brahmin. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. Also, by the 1930s, the majority of students in both arts and professional colleges were not Brahmins. He began to imagine that Brahmins posed threats to every facet of his progress in life despite being in forward community which he flaunted.