If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. EVR called Idols as lifeless stones and called out those beliefs of honouring and worshipping them as crass and superstitious. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (Political Career of E.V. The Curse of Congress & Why it is AntiIndian! Assuring Mr. Vijayan of all support, Mr. Stalin informed him that the level in the dam was being closely monitored and the current storage was well within the level permitted by the Supreme Court. And prickly though he was, he did have a few beautiful flowers. The idols are considered worth every milligram or in millimetres. 21 Engel Injection Molding Machines (28 to 300 Ton Capacity), 9 new Rotary Engel Presses (85 Ton Capacity), Rotary and Horizontal Molding, Precision Insert Molding, Full Part Automation, Electric Testing, Hipot Testing, Welding. Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter And Get News Delivered Straight To Your Inbox. None follow the few good things EVR propagated. However, he stated the opposite in an earlier meeting on August 31, 1959: Who do you hate? Some revolutionary, he was. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. How will their rule set right our country? (Periyars writings compiled by Pasu. Unlike B.R. As a result, most of coveted government jobs went to the Brahmins. The incident he mentions, implicating Periyar of Hindu-hatred, is common knowledge, and not something he would have chanced upon recently. 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.". Even the Westerners gloat at EVR hitting at Tamil civilisation that had survived centuries of foreign rule. 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. EVRs rationalism was limited by his experiences but refused to accept that marriage in a civilisation has been conceived not as some individual enterprise but as a social effort to ensure a lifelong commitment by couple. What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. He was forcibly married to a very pious girl with that fond typical South Indian belief that marriage cures all kinds of vagabounds and eccentric young men. French Revolution was a singular example. He accepted the Constitution written by the Brahmins and signed on the dotted lines. I see Adi Sankara as the last great mind India saw as he could influence with his Advaitha concept and limit Buddhism in India. In the intervening years, Madras had a Brahmin chief minister for only four years (including the uncertain years between 1952 and 1954). A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. So ignored. It is nobodys case that the Brahmins were angels. The people of India are barbarians. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. B R Ambedkar mocked and called Aryan Invasion an invention. Marwaris and Gujarathis were targeted too. 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. Fact remains that while all the hate theories of EVR were meticulously followed by his blind followers, none of his good ideals were followed even as chutney. Long story short, Rajinikanth mixed up the gods who got beaten with chappals and the gods who were paraded naked. Gowthaman, vol. dam were opened on October 30 to release water . So as namesake statues come up in every street corner of Tamilnadu and across India, apart from they being crude works of art its a fact that they have no value, culturally or politically. The only flowers. He did not think about others. (, Periyars atheism was crude and obnoxious. His later joining the Congress party was because of his belief that political connections will further his fun life. It is because one is a thief, one indulges in thievery. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. This is compilation of a series of first hand reports. But they weren't just garlanded with chappals, they were also beaten with them. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. Periyar was a selfless and incorruptible man of considerable personal charm. None will ever steal these worthless pieces of work. EVR admired the Christian evangelist G U Pope for conceiving the Aryan theory of invasion. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. 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. Tamilnadu challenged Keralas dam height law in Supreme court. So we have great minds that have stood the test of time. Naicker laid foundations to a confused self respect and rationalist(as he called himself..rationalising whatever he did) movement that emanated from his enormous personal frustrations. EVR soon realised that as long as he stayed in Congress he cannot divide the castes and religions. 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. In 1919, Sathyamurthy was selected by Congress Party as one of the representatives to the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the UK to protest against Rowlatt Act and Montagu Chelmsford reforms. The Chase Law Group, LLC | 1447 York Road, Suite 505 | Lutherville, MD 21093 | (410) 790-4003, Easements and Related Real Property Agreements. EVR excercised selective hatred based on his personal experiences and remained and died as one. They attributed exactly like Hitler did with the German Jews grand conspiracies and clever manipulations by Brahmins for the plight of the non-Brahmins. The Periyar that the non-Tamil intellectuals know is a sanitised version of his real personality, lovingly packaged and offered by his admirers. Play boys were called minors in Tamilnadu those days probably because they continue to stay adolescent despite growing in age. They involve different types of recognition, such as MGR's hatred for the DMK and its ideology is legendary. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. Politicising of tamil language began with the unveiling of statues on the Marina beach. Since then, many pocket size influences had come and goneby. When India became independence, he boycotted the celebrations and called 15th of August, 1947, a day of mourning. As he played gross games with his wife and succeeded, so he preserved with them in public life too. October 31, 2021 02:04 am | Updated 10:53 am IST. Periyar, : So long as democracy exists, the honest will have no other option except to fade away, giving the dishonest room to dance around. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. He wanted people to give up their mother tongue and speak in English. Our dharmic civilisation is important than any individual or any group. The Maharaja of Travancore signed a 999-year Periyar Lake lease agreement with the British government on October 29, 1886, for the construction of the Mullaperiyar That he was not against God but was against misuse of Gods name. However, without Tamil Nadu on board, this is not going to be a reality. Though EVR desired simple marriages which carried enormous good sense, what pompous Dravidian followers did in practice will make him hang his head in shame. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. In his love for English, he attacked Tamil culture including Tamil language, the Temples of Tamilnadu, the beliefs of Hindus, and attacked both Brahmins and Dalits on vulgar terms. Tamil film actor Rajinikanth has courted controversy with his remark that at a rally in Salem district in 1971, attended by Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) founder Periyar E.V. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. He accused Ambedkar for selling himself to the Brahmins: The Brahmins had paid him a price. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Which is why, for a celebrity to speak against Periyar is to denounce him, and all of his work in toto. EVRs desire for instant stardom in Congress was not achieved because of Leaders like Sathyamurthy and some other Brahmins who ran the party. Later while travelling abroad, he attended nude camps in Germany without any moral qualms and posed for pictures. On the employment front, the total number of Brahmin gazetted officers were 620 in 1928. All rights reserved. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. He believed that Hindi was an Aryan language and making it compulsory in education was an The committee recommended raising the level to 142 feet, which was endorsed by the Supreme Court in February 2006. The longer the period of impact, the more conceptual the idea conceived is deemed to be of the impacting mind. Government money was misused by DMK party to carry imaginary claims as movies came to be considered real in the stunted brains of Tamils. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. No political party in India was exception to this rule but dynastic, Sychophantic parties went top gear installing ugly, disproportionately formed insulting ugly specimens as life like statues which exposed the hypocrisy of their intentions and the poor skill of the sculptors. , Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). Many of his black-shirted followers were fine individuals personally. As a result, most of coveted government jobs went to the Brahmins. Even while criticising non-Brahmin national leaders like Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Periyar said that they were all victims of a Brahmin conspiracy. Web+44 (0)7540 787812 frances@constructionandbuildingphotography.com. Nor has he dwelt on Dravidian ideology in any of his public speeches or films. Remember that the Congress party was not founded to demand independence and neither was the Justice party. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. Tamilnadu is limited by the filmi world and is not in a state to work out the mind beyond Kollywood factory. EVR worked meticulously to break the moral shackles around him. There are both merits and demerits in this broad claim regarding women emancipation but we must understand EVRs mind from the back drop of his western way of living. EVR, Annadurai, MGR and Gandhi statues were not far behind. The reason is 90% of our population are fools and 97% of them are persons of low birth. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists trying to remove diversities in culture in the name of protection. I am not able to find any thing proving it. India has gone into the hands of scoundrels after the departure of the British., There is no doubt that Periyar genuinely wanted the Dalits to break out of the shackles of caste oppression but his approach was more paternalistic than what Gandhi was being accused of. The award to Hugo Chvez is an affront to the founding vision of UNESCO and the latest blow to the UN's rapidly declining reputation on human rights and democracy. EVR Naicker born very rich, ran a family temple of Lord Ganesha in Erode. EVR can go to any extent to tarnish the name and credibility of anyone who came on his way and his wife too became a victim to his machinations. He began to imagine that Brahmins posed threats to every facet of his progress in life despite being in forward community which he flaunted. They somehow contrive to have the rulers in their pocket, participate in governance and conspire to torture and suck the lives out of other citizens in order that they live (in comfort). These blatantly anti-semitic lines were penned on March 20, 1938, when Hitlers flag was flying high. Socrates, Confucius, the unknown authors of the Hindu Vedas, etc. 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. Its height is 53.6m (176ft) and length 365.7m (1,200ft). 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. A civilisation famous for love,openness and embrace of races was maimed openly under the name of revolution, by fast spinners of hate. Baker, 1976, p. 46). They cannot be abusive or personal. The Central Government set up an expert committee in 2000 to look into the dam's safety. It is hilarious that many Dalit parties and Communists claim that EVR toiled for them. Dark Mode. The then CM, Karunanidhi, apparently was ready to stake his government to provide the state Funeral and said that Gandhiji was also provided accorded Funeral despite holding no constitutional positions. There is also a National park which is known as the Periyar National Park in Thekkady located around the reservoir of dam. Though his love for science was childlike, he did not have the intellectual rigour to understand what the scientific enterprise was all about. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (, Political Career of E.V. His pious wife objected. Actor Rajinikanth said he refuses to apologise to those who are protesting his controversial remark on Periyar. The listing of verdicts, settlements, and other case results is not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other claims. Because of fundamental confusions in the logic of Dravidian politics, those anti Idol cries lead ironically to a huge spurt in grotesque statues across Tamilnadu which are seriously now believed to have lives, garlanded and worshipped proving existence of some recoil reverse effect to deliver what the opposite of rationalism that Dravidian politics claimed and propagated for decades. History of 126-year-old Mullaperiyar dam: The Mullaperiyar Dam is on the River Periyar and its tributary, the Mullayar in the state of Kerala, hence the amalgamation Mulla-Periyar.It is located 881 m (2,890 ft) above mean sea level, on the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats in Thekkady, Idukki district of Kerala, India. Credit to EVR that he succeeded largely in what he set out to achieve though he will be debated for a few more decades. (Naan Sonnal Unakku Yen Kopam Vara Vendum, vol. A clear example of sour grapes. construction of the Mullaperiyar dam across the Periyar in the present Idukki district. His propagation for widow remarriage was not adhered to by his second wife Maniammai nor by any of the widows of any Dravidian leader. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Joe Joseph, a doctor who was the candidate of the corporate-backed Twenty20 in the recent Kerala Assembly election from Kothamangalam, downstream of the Mullaperiyar and Idukki dams, moved the court, along with two others, last year contending that the Supervisory Committee had abdicated its responsibilities to a sub-committee constituted at the direction of the court for water management in the dam. 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. As was usual with Dravidian politics, this focus and obsession of statues ironically began as an anti idol movement to reason out faith and beliefs of Hinduism to pamper to Islamic and Christian fundamentalists and as admiration of anything western. For impactful stories you just cant miss, By subscribing you agree to our Privacy Policy. The aftermath of hate based rebellions had left always conditions worse than it were. The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Ramasamy writing in his magazine Kudiyarasu, and he is being unusually mild here. Story #1 KBR worked in TVS group of companies at Madurai. The dharma of India is the dharma of criminal tribes. He was a religious man and his songs often spoke of how he was chosen by god to lead the people to a better life. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). Note: This article was corrected on September 22, 2017, to state that reservations were first introduced in Tamil Nadu in 1927 with the support of the Swarajya Party, not the Justice Party as was stated earlier. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the State government to consider a representation sent by a petitioner to remove a portion of His so-called research on the Ramayana dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. Source: YouTube. Rajinikanth at the 50th anniversary function of Thuglak magazine. It was constructed If you find a snake and a brahmin kill the brahmin first Is quoted in verdict of india by Ms. Nicolas. Periyar quoted that Nicolas quoted like that. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. He objected to government favouring Muslims and it was only the Christians, he seems to have spared. (, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class. EVR went hammer and tongs on CNA for his decision as was usual with him. Nor the suppression by the Thevar community of scheduled communities objected to. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. Some non descriptive foreigners who supported these unproven theories were hailed as great scholars in the World Tamil Conferences organised by the Dravidian parties. Having experienced His miracles first hand, I went about on a search to know the other common lives that were blessed by our Sage but hitherto were never revealed in public. Newcomer to the Congress, EVR tried to impress the Congress party about his eligibility but he was not accepted as his knowledge of English was almost zero. It seems you have Javascript turned off in your browser. Case in point, superstar Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. * Ram is very good at studies but his dad is poor. Somehow he managed to get his son into an IIT coaching. Ram gets admission in the IIT Coaching. Does someone have any link proving it or stating that it is a folklore. Little surprise, therefore, that this dialogue seems to have jumped out of the screen and taken to the streets. Honestly can't remember. Nations that have no trace of human rights yet this hypocrisy called United Nations continues to exist as the biggest Tamasha on the planet. I have watched the movie. Period. So contemporary rationalism is more an after thought to defend actions that covered ones frustrations and hide personal ambitions. Ramasamy writing in his magazine. The seeds of antibrahmanism were finding roots in EVRs mind because of the challenges posed by Brahmins in his personal and physical life. Distory Buster. , C.J. Another case in point followed in 1968, when, in Tanjore district, 44 Dalits were butchered by the goons of a landlord. Twentieth century India had a handful of many short influences but most of them derived a narrow, sectional idea for political purposes catering and serving some sections of society. Ramaswamy Naicker, E. Sa. But statistically they were not very significant. The reaction from Dravidianists is perplexing as Periyar himself was renowned for his iconoclasm. In 2001, about a hundred years later, around 4.3% of them resided in villages the figure would be 5.6% if the non-Tamil Brahmins were also added. By the mid-1990s, Tamil Nadu started demanding restoration of the level. Of course, adept at manufacturing reasons for his objections to Sathyamurthy entering temple, Congressman EVR later staged a satyagraha on the streets leading to Vaikom temple in Kerala with his wife.
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