Dark Mode. Whenever rat sized opinions and ideas existed, huge euphoria erupts and few months or years later, the bubble bursts. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. EVR hated communists to the core. 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.". And his statement has received more traction and attention than all of Kamal Haasan's tweets put together. , C.J. 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. Whether he's ready to enter politics or not, whether or not he's even truly a politician, all that he says in public, is political. He batted for the DMK in 1996, and won them an election. (At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. Remember UNHRC has as its members China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Cuba, etc. I must mention here that our family which was a great devotee of EVR has been following his self respect marriages (though as a rebel, I opted for a total Vedic wedding). Also, by the 1930s, the majority of students in both arts and professional colleges were not Brahmins. The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (. 1. Nor the suppression by the Thevar community of scheduled communities objected to. Unlike B.R. Nevertheless, he has never spoken about, or against, Periyar thus far. Baker, 1976, p. 46). The only flowers. dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. His so-called research on the Ramayana dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. The most likely candidate for this would be army - many regiments have 100% reservations for specific castes, region or religion. * Army recruitmen His parents were pious, morally upright and hereditarily wealthy. Later while travelling abroad, he attended nude camps in Germany without any moral qualms and posed for pictures. But a conditioned home surrounding with a religious wife further irked EVR who loved being a play boy. Keralas Irrigation Design and Research Board is in the final stages . We have migrated to a new commenting platform. They lost ability to discern under the rule of rationalists. As a result Dravidian politics became Statues driven resulting in Statues crazy Sychophantic anticulture. Case in point, superstar Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Because the truth is worth it.). The reaction from Dravidianists is perplexing as Periyar himself was renowned for his iconoclasm. Unfortunately, Periyar and his disciples could not look at the problem from this perspective. To those foreign to Indian political system, lets clarify that Congress in India is a political party and not some representative or democratic parliament as it was elsewhere. In 1931, EVR exposed his fangs against democracy too: EVR admired British colonialism and believed it to be an example of political supremacy. 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. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. And that an image of Lord Rama cutout in wood was set afire at the end of the parade. When Brahmin Sathyamurthy led Congress entered the famous Madurai Meenakshi Temple with Dalits, EVR objected. 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. 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. The acts of sending email to this website or viewing information from this website do not create an attorney-client relationship. Most of the hero entry songs in his films would mention how he follows the footsteps of 'Thanthai Periyar' (Father Periyar). The story so far: Coinciding with an episode of erratic, cataclysmic rain in Keralas high-ranges, the His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. Concerns over the safety of the gravity dam built using lime-surkhi (burnt brick powder) mortar came to the fore in 1979. dam were opened on October 30 to release water . A clear example of sour grapes. The people of India are barbarians. Some revolutionary, he was. Periyar was clear that he was against Brahmins, not Brahminism. 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. The African Union would accept an application to consider taking on the controversial life sciences award, but a clear plan has yet to emerge. It also asked the Central Government to set up a three-member Supervisory Committee to monitor dam safety. Actor Rajinikanth said he refuses to apologise to those who are protesting his controversial remark on Periyar. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. 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. The Hindu Explains They expose the vacuum within our contemporary society like the books we buy for display. The court will hear the case again on November 11. The reason is simple. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. Though he was personally liked by almost all political leaders, almost all of them considered him to be maverick, unrestrained and irresponsible. Since then, many pocket size influences had come and goneby. BJP Posts Controversial Tweet on Periyar, Gets Slammed. While people living downstream were evacuated beforehand, They demand submission as they are insecure. When Dalits fought for higher wages, he condemned those who organised them in these fights for rights. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. 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. Rajinikanth at the 50th anniversary function of Thuglak magazine. Ramaswamy Naicker, E. Sa. 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. Another case in point followed in 1968, when, in Tanjore district, 44 Dalits were butchered by the goons of a landlord. Subsequently, the floods of 2018 and the erratic nature of annual monsoons ever since brought the focus back on the 126-year-old dam. Double speak, double games, hypocrisy marked all of EVRs actions but he continue to bank on the time tested weapon of #hate. Breaking News: A statue has been unveiled for Karunanidhi in Chennai. But no propaganda can ever overshadow the influence of great minds and their conceptual ideas. With the threat of floods looming large and the reservoirs filling up, the court asked both States to abide by the rule curve for the period set by the Supervisory Committee constituted at its instance. 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. Gowthaman, vol. As a result, most of coveted government jobs went to the Brahmins. Irony is that the superstitious idols of ancient temples of backward superstitious Hindus continue to be stolen and traded across the world for millions and possibly billions of dollars. Hope you will be inspired by this narration. What he said in cooler moments rare though they were are also available. Only with this theory an attempt at ravaging Hinduism could be tried for projecting Brahmins as aliens to India and Hinduism. Even the Westerners gloat at EVR hitting at Tamil civilisation that had survived centuries of foreign rule. Meanwhile, in the backdrop of bad weather forecast, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. He felt he was deprived of his opportunities for stardom with Brahmin Sathyamurthy being proactive with integration of castes. WebThe reason is simple. 4, p. 532, compiled by Pasu. NO ! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of We are told that he was not against Brahmins but against Brahmanism. 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. Even then it was clear that the trend was changing. 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. Fewer than 1,000 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1890s. Tamilnadu is limited by the filmi world and is not in a state to work out the mind beyond Kollywood factory. For impactful stories you just cant miss, By subscribing you agree to our Privacy Policy. He hated the concept of chaste women, thought children inessential for a married couple and assumed an agreement between couple was far better and brought in the idea of self respect marriage as rational. Supreme Court last week considered a public interest litigation petition filed by a Kerala physician and two former local body representatives on the 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. 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. However, this seems confused in hindsight. And prickly though he was, he did have a few beautiful flowers. As he played gross games with his wife and succeeded, so he preserved with them in public life too. 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. The national landscape is verdant. 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. I see Adi Sankara as the last great mind India saw as he could influence with his Advaitha concept and limit Buddhism in India. WebSometime before, I have read this about Periyar's funeral: Government of India / Chief secretary was against giving Periyar a state Funeral because If that is what Rajinikanth has done, then it IS a big deal. 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 He adds that in 1927, a Staff Selection Board had to select 467 persons. Ramasamy writing in his magazine. What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. , Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). It did not ever occur to Periyar that independence would open the sluice gates of education and other opportunities. / Debating may be popular on prime time but Dravidian politicians and supporters hate it. Then again, they were not alone. There is an undeniable political ramification to anything the superstar says. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. His words: India should never go anywhere near democratic principles. He admired the British. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. EVR was against higher education as he felt cheap labour would become unavailable then. I had answered. The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. Despite EVR losing to Sathyamurthy within the Congress, EVRs followers many decades later had their last hateful laugh when surreptiously they removed his name from Sathyamurthy reservoir in Poondi which was conceived by Satyamurthy to supply water to Chennai city. Distory Buster. But as Granville Austin writes in his seminal book, (1999), After the Congress eclipsed the Justice party in the 1937 elections and later, it made compulsory discrimination very much its own policy even while led by Tamil Brahmins like [Chakravarti] Rajagopalachari., Periyar was clear that he was against Brahmins, not Brahminism. No, but he mixed up the details. Tamil Nadu A meeting between the Chief Ministers to discuss the issue is being planned in December. The decision to marry a girl fifty years younger to him exposed the hypocrisy of Dravida Kazhagam and his supporters realised that a storm of fury was blowing within. EVR, Annadurai, MGR and Gandhi statues were not far behind. 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. Periyar breaks Murthis of Ganesha (1953) EVR called Idols as lifeless stones and called out those beliefs of honouring and worshipping them as crass and superstitious. 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. 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 movie was partly funded by the Tamil Nadu government according to Wikipedia. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. He believed that Hindi was an Aryan language and making it compulsory in education was an This then gives us two options. Also, by the 1930s, the majority of students in both arts and professional colleges were not Brahmins. Recently it has come to light that UNESCORTED did not give him any award but it was given by UNESCO MANRAM which was formed by ANBAZAGAN DMK brother .Please remove the relevant para. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. It was forgotten in a minute. / 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. If you were ever revolted by the plethora of roadside statues in India, then credit for this ever rising craze should go to that one man tsunami that brought about that infamous Statue Culture to EV Ramasamy Naicker known as Periyar to his followers. Unfortunate for him the Congress he joined in 1919 had many morally upright stalwarts like Sathyamurthy, a brahmin which deepened his despair. Play boys were called minors in Tamilnadu those days probably because they continue to stay adolescent despite growing in age. Had contempt for love marriages which he looked down as a mere attraction of sexes. In short, while Tamil Brahmins used the opportunities that the British Government provided, it was not that they arm-twisted anybody to get where they did. Mickey Mouse size influences frequent and are limited by time. 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 is yet to take BJP's the hand that they have been extending since 2014. A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. The proof of the pudding lies in the high standards of arts. 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. This is Rajinikanth's first overtly political move, in over twenty years. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. What the whites aspired for was being done from within, 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. 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. Accordingly, the water level in the dam would be limited to 138 feet till October 31 and 139.5 feet till November 10. 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 Kerala sought to restrict the level to 136 feet by way of an amendment to the Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, prompting the Tamil Nadu Government to move the Supreme Court. In the course of his life he divided races as Aryan and Dravidian, Tamils and non Tamils, Brahmins and non Brahmins, South Indians and North Indians, the elitist rich and the condemned labour, superstitious Hindus and Other religions. P.A. 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. Ambedkar, who was a prodigious scholar, Periyar was a street-fighter, and the things he said in anger are largely unprintable (though it is available in print in Tamil). he was given the title 'Periyar'. The dharma of India is the dharma of criminal tribes. WebOn 9 July, 1949, a 70-year-old Periyar, E V Ramasamy, married the 32-year-old Maniammai. This hypocrisy is followed by his followers till today. Their piousness and personal discipline irritated problem child EVR and he revolted. Even the most advanced digital propagandist tools can never harm ideas that are rounded and complete.
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