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. There is an undeniable political ramification to anything the superstar says. I have watched the movie. Devotees are struck in awe when incredible stories of His miracles are shared by Queens and Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers as well by celebrities of many hue and colour. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. While people living downstream were evacuated beforehand, Refused schooling after elementary level. EVR was like a heavy road roller that crushed anything that came between his deep desires but was smart and cunning enough to mask them as social issues. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. Maybe that's where I saw it. There is a scene in the movie Periyar depicting what you are saying. 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. BJP Posts Controversial Tweet on Periyar, Gets Slammed. I am not able to find any thing proving it. Even then it was clear that the trend was changing. The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (. The reason is simple. Was the Brahmin the bogeyman, the Baba Yaga of the Tamil country? The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Double speak, double games, hypocrisy marked all of EVRs actions but he continue to bank on the time tested weapon of #hate. He said, without so much as a pause, that Gandhi was killed by Brahmins because Gandhi was turning into a Periyar himself! But a conditioned home surrounding with a religious wife further irked EVR who loved being a play boy. So contemporary rationalism is more an after thought to defend actions that covered ones frustrations and hide personal ambitions. A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. No. Fraud fellows. They have nerve to do a forgery and include that in children text books. Height of hypocrisy. Irony is, they call themselves as A series of tremors felt in the area in 2011 caused alarm. Gradually, thanks to his off-screen mannerisms and accent, his hint at 'spiritual politics' and his pro-Centre anti-protests stance on the CAA, the media and public perception coloured him as being right-of-centre. He once sent sent his close friends to ogle and tease his wife while she was on a visit to a temple and succeeded in impressing her later that going to temples was unsafe for her as temples are filled with rogues and mischief makers. No, but he mixed up the details. 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. 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. October 31, 2021 02:04 am | Updated 10:53 am IST. 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. But there was a report in The Hindu, the next day (25 January, 1971), by the Salem correspondent who wrote on the 'Superstition Eradication Conference', in which, 'a 10-foot long image of Lord Rama was carried on a vehicle and dozens of people kept beating it with chappals'. He once said that the white people who lived in the temperate regions were less brainy than the ones who lived in Tamil Nadu. Only with this theory an attempt at ravaging Hinduism could be tried for projecting Brahmins as aliens to India and Hinduism. They also urged the court to ask the CWC to fix the rule curve, instrumentation scheme and gate operation schedule of the dam. The aftermath of hate based rebellions had left always conditions worse than it were. Water woes: The 2018 floods in Kerala and the erratic monsoons have put the 126-year-old dam in the spotlight. His propagation for widow remarriage was not adhered to by his second wife Maniammai nor by any of the widows of any Dravidian leader. 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. (Naan Sonnal Unakku Yen Kopam Vara Vendum, vol. They expose the vacuum within our contemporary society like the books we buy for display. I am not able to remember where I read or heard that. 1. Does someone have any link proving it or stating that it is a folklore. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. In November that year, a tripartite meeting chaired by the then chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC), K.C. Similarly, while it is true that Periyar did agitate in 1951 when the Madras high court struck down the orders on reservation and the Government of Madras subsequently lost its appeal with the Supreme Court it was on the recommendations of the Congress Government of Madras and on consideration of the need for removing man-made equalities (in Granville Austins words) that the Nehru dispensation brought in the First Amendment to the Indian Constitution. Social media short term tiny influences last for a day in the name of trends. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. The Mullaperiyar Dam is located 881m which means 2,890 ft above mean sea level on the Cardamom Hills of Western Ghats in Idukki District of Kerala. But despite aging, EVRs habits and philistine life continued. They call me a subterfuger and that is ironic because such hiding, twisting, manipulative skills were the key characters of most of Congress claims on India since her formation in 1885 as an elitist club and as a joint venture with Colonial British to seek jobs from the rulers. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. Which brings us to the real question. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). Gautham Dark Mode. Great post, thank you so much for sharing this here. The material and information contained on these pages and on any pages linked from these pages are intended to provide general information only and not legal advice. He mocked blouse wearing Dalit women as responsible for increase in the cost of clothes. Even in 1943, he called Communists a sugar coated poison as he thought Communists were threat to his bourgeois life. Design of a new dam by Or, he spoke knowing fully well that his comments on Periyar would blow up. It is almost axiomatic in Tamil Nadu, and constantly parroted by non-Tamils too, that it was thanks only to Periyar that reservations in jobs and education came into being in the state. Our dharmic civilisation is important than any individual or any group. 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. There is a good chance that it is true. But equally astonishing is his work on eradication of caste, women's empowerment and social reform, which are globally acknowledged legacies. Some thoughts are kept alive by artificial resuscitation following propaganda theories and methods. Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. Nations that have no trace of human rights yet this hypocrisy called United Nations continues to exist as the biggest Tamasha on the planet. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. They were arrogant, casteist and possessed a general contempt for the unwashed millions, and even the washed others. When India became independence, he boycotted the celebrations and called 15th of August, 1947, a day of mourning. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. Compare it with the Vedas which stood for the whole humanity, whose authors unknown and survived the test of time through word of mouth. Scholars like Christian Devaneya Pavanar helped further this with all kinds of defences and interpretations. The dam became a reality nine years later. Clever twists that marked propagation that he loved the depraved castes are meant for optics. Sometime before, I have read this about Periyar's funeral: Government of India / Chief secretary was against giving Periyar a state Funeral because he held no constitutional positions. And in the end, it may not be his ideology, but his name on the ballot sheet that could swing votes. He either ignored the prejudices of others or simply admonished them to behave well in the future. 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. Am aware that any effort to break the status quo about EVRs presumed greatness will be resisted byrationalists who admire him blindly as they are aware such questions on EVR will break the artificial halo built for political and monetary gains. What he spoke and what he did in real life were often contrary. As a result, most of coveted government jobs went to the Brahmins. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists The Hindu Explains You should consult with an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction before relying upon any of the information presented here. WebOn 9 July, 1949, a 70-year-old Periyar, E V Ramasamy, married the 32-year-old Maniammai. If that is what Rajinikanth has done, then it IS a big deal. Particularly when UNESCO is about to give out a prize in honor of an abusive, corrupt leader from West Africa whose record resembles that of Kim Jong-il. This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. This hypocrisy is followed by his followers till today. Many Brahmins too are taken to his ideas as it is easy and convenient to follow him instead of the rigours of discipline, practices and restraints which tradition demanded of them. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. EVR advocated Nazi-style anti-Brahminism. However, he stated the opposite in an earlier meeting on August 31, 1959: Who do you hate? P.A. She later stopped her temple visits. EVR Naicker born very rich, ran a family temple of Lord Ganesha in Erode. in an earlier meeting on August 31, 1959: There is no doubt that in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Brahmins dominated the educational scene in the state. 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. He called out EVR (aka Periyar) for organising a rally decades ago in Salem in which naked cutouts of Lord Rama and Sita were paraded with garlands made of sandals. He admired the British. The committee recommended raising the level to 142 feet, which was endorsed by the Supreme Court in February 2006. He wanted people to give up their mother tongue and speak in English. It was expanded in 1947 by the then-ruling Congress party, and when Periyar was busy demanding a separate Dravida Nadu. But no propaganda can ever overshadow the influence of great minds and their conceptual ideas. Some non descriptive foreigners who supported these unproven theories were hailed as great scholars in the World Tamil Conferences organised by the Dravidian parties. He then did NOT enter electoral politics. 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. Most of them were caused by feelings and thoughts of admiration for the white skin along with extreme desires of greed, Kama, jealousy, envy and ambition. The court will hear the case again on November 11. In fact, reservations werefirst introduced in Tamil Nadu in 1927, when P. Subbarayan was the chief minister and had the support of the Swarajya Party, and when Periyar was just leaving the Congress. The tweet was an apparent reference to 70-year-old Periyars marriage in 1949 to Maniammai. Their snakes dont have venom but the Tamil snakes do. But without understanding the mind of EVR, its impossible to understand the Dravidian parties hypocritical contempt for idols and love for statues. He adds that in 1927, a Staff Selection Board had to select 467 persons. In a leaderless state that is currently seeing a drought in political news, this one statement has opened floodgates, and fanned fires. We will see how and why EVR did what he did? Stalin, urging him to draw maximum quantum of water from the dam through the tunnel so that a large volume release would be avoided altogether. Such spiteful caste politics filled with hate and revenge continues till today. Chintanaikal, Anaimuthu, 1974, p. 1,860). Periyar commented on the murders thus: So long as democracy exists, the honest will have no other option except to fade away, giving the dishonest room to dance around. He regularly contributes to various journals and magazines. The water supplied from it through a tunnel to the water-scarce southern region of Tamil Nadu, especially the Vaigai basin, would be the lifeline for farmers of Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts. Case in point, superstar Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. I express convictions! 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. Because the truth is worth it.). At Furnel, Inc. we understand that your projects deserve significant time and dedication to meet our highest standard of quality and commitment. Was he the profound reformer who transformed society as claimed by his followers and propagandists? Why did Dr B. R. Ambedkar resign from the cabinet in 1951? Asked to answer by Quora User Thanks. My thambi (younger brother) Quora User ( I really When Dalits fought for higher wages, he condemned those who organised them in these fights for rights. Since then, many pocket size influences had come and goneby. This is compilation of a series of first hand reports. When someone says he hates thievery, it means he hates the thief, too, doesnt it? He felt he was deprived of his opportunities for stardom with Brahmin Sathyamurthy being proactive with integration of castes. Viswanathan, 1983, p. 126). 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. 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 of the Social Reform Movement, Arch Enemy of ignorance, superstitions, meaningless customs and base manners. This award Continue Reading T.M. His so-called research on the Ramayana dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. Yet, he was a die-hard devotee of Periyar. Their piousness and personal discipline irritated problem child EVR and he revolted. Either Rajinikanth spoke without thinking it through. When Darbar can rake in 200 crores in 11 days despite having no story to save its skin, the superstar's long-awaited entry to politics doesn't seem to be that much of a pipe dream.