operation of the Mullaperiyar dam over which Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been sparring for long. 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. They involve different types of recognition, such as Either Rajinikanth spoke without thinking it through. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. 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. Clever twists that marked propagation that he loved the depraved castes are meant for optics. It did not ever occur to Periyar that independence would open the sluice gates of education and other opportunities. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. We will see how and why EVR did what he did? More importantly, as a rationalist one can be argumentative thereby giving the impression of an intelligent person. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. The population of the presidency of Madras (a.k.a. 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. WebThe reason is simple. Whenever rat sized opinions and ideas existed, huge euphoria erupts and few months or years later, the bubble bursts. When India became independence, he boycotted the celebrations and called 15th of August, 1947, a day of mourning. This marriage caused outrage and was said to have caused a split in the organisation and They demand submission as they are insecure. 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. Hope you will be inspired by this narration. The incident he mentions, implicating Periyar of Hindu-hatred, is common knowledge, and not something he would have chanced upon recently. 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 Leaks and leaching are also concerning, as the methods and materials used during construction are considered outdated, compared to the current building standards, it said. Later while travelling abroad, he attended nude camps in Germany without any moral qualms and posed for pictures. 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. 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. Ideas that are inclusive of all of humanity are sustainable. Baker, 1976, p. 46). Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. Three shutters of the A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. In the event of a dam failure, it would result in unfathomable human tragedy and submitted a case for decommissioning the dam, in whose place a new dam could be built to cater to Tamil Nadu's water needs. If that is what Rajinikanth has done, then it IS a big deal. 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. The national intellectual landscape is verdant. 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. Periyar breaks Murthis of Ganesha (1953) That he was not against God but was against misuse of Gods name. He adds that in 1927, a Staff Selection Board had to select 467 persons. 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. 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. Even the most advanced digital propagandist tools can never harm ideas that are rounded and complete. Period. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Soon, roads were renamed, portraits unveiled, housing colonies were to be named after politicians in Tamilnadu. The African Union would accept an application to consider taking on the controversial life sciences award, but a clear plan has yet to emerge. Whatever came on the way to his promiscuous life was detested and he envied and admired the British in India living an ammoral life in India. Though he was personally liked by almost all political leaders, almost all of them considered him to be maverick, unrestrained and irresponsible. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists trying to remove diversities in culture in the name of protection. 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. In November that year, a tripartite meeting chaired by the then chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC), K.C. He is yet to take BJP's the hand that they have been extending since 2014. Keralas Irrigation Design and Research Board is in the final stages . Most of EVRs statue carry his message of No God. EVR admired the Christian evangelist G U Pope for conceiving the Aryan theory of invasion. Source: YouTube. But without understanding the mind of EVR, its impossible to understand the Dravidian parties hypocritical contempt for idols and love for statues. 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 What he believed in were self-respect, rationalism, gender equality and his own version of social justice. The pinnacle of this hypocrisy was when a statue of EVR was unveiled by his disciples in the presence of EVR himself in Chennai. 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. Massive landslides had devastated the hilly regions in central Kerala and weather prediction was ominous when the courts attention was drawn to a report prepared by the United Nations University-Institute for Water, Environment and Health, which cited significant structural flaws in the dam and said it may be at risk of failure. Certain parts of this website require Javascript to work. Or, he spoke knowing fully well that his comments on Periyar would blow up. This anticulture craze in Tamilnadu soon spread and tempted politicians across India, who also went over drive to erect statues for their leaders in different corners of India. Long story short, Rajinikanth mixed up the gods who got beaten with chappals and the gods who were paraded naked. 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. My HINDU civilisation alone is my focus. His so-called research on the Ramayana dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. So ignored. 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. NO ! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of WebSometime before, I have read this about Periyar's funeral: Government of India / Chief secretary was against giving Periyar a state Funeral because (At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. 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. Commissioned by the Kerala Government in the latter part of the 2000s, a study by IIT-Roorkee raised questions about the survival of the dam, located in seismic zone-3, in the event of an earthquake of a fairly high magnitude. When Brahmin Sathyamurthy led Congress entered the famous Madurai Meenakshi Temple with Dalits, EVR objected. They attributed exactly like Hitler did with the German Jews grand conspiracies and clever manipulations by Brahmins for the plight of the non-Brahmins. A clear example of sour grapes. Infuriated and disappointed that his dreams for power were vanishing, he pleaded with British not to give India independence and in case they had to, continue to govern India from London. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). 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. 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. Also, by the 1930s, the majority of students in both arts and professional colleges were not Brahmins. It is hilarious that many Dalit parties and Communists claim that EVR toiled for them. 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. 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. A temple has been built for atheist Karunanidhi near Gudiyatham by DMK cadre. He used cinema as a vehicle for propaganda and personal glorification so successfully that he won his final election while unconscious in the hospital. On the employment front, the total number of Brahmin gazetted officers were 620 in 1928. Let's begin with the obvious question. I had answered. 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. 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. HOME; INTERIORS; EXTERIORS; OFFICE & PORTRAITS; PUBLICITY/EVENTS; CONSTRUCTION; INFO Was the Brahmin the bogeyman, the Baba Yaga of the Tamil country? 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. Minor EVR was found on river banks with his friends having games of Kama. At the same time, Periyar was also paranoid that democracy would result in Brahmins completely taking over the reins of the government. Periyar was at the forefront of the protests against Hindi imposition. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Social media short term tiny influences last for a day in the name of trends. He did not think about others. (Periyar E.V.R. In a leaderless state that is currently seeing a drought in political news, this one statement has opened floodgates, and fanned fires. (, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class. dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. 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. Marwaris and Gujarathis were targeted too. The people of India are barbarians. And his statement has received more traction and attention than all of Kamal Haasan's tweets put together. Congress Party was and is a Colonial legacy and was not antithetical to it. It was expanded in 1947 by the then-ruling Congress party, and when Periyar was busy demanding a separate Dravida Nadu. Remember UNHRC has as its members China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Cuba, etc. 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. Thus, less than 1% of 1% of the population were graduating from these colleges. So is the new twist to Brahmanism as opposed to Brahmins. In 1931, EVR exposed his fangs against democracy too: EVR admired British colonialism and believed it to be an example of political supremacy. 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. The Hindu Explains Fewer than 1,000 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1890s. He spent his long life tirelessly working in support of what he believed in and against what he detested. 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. This is what the DMK and the AIADMK think. This hypocrisy is followed by his followers till today. Nevertheless, he has never spoken about, or against, Periyar thus far. The price is this: he asked for 10% reservation and they gave him 15%. The seeds were sown by the upper class elitist but anti brahmin Justice party which competed with Congress to solicit favours from the British. Brahmins had successfully resisted foreign rule for a thousand years and were considered custodians of Hindu culture. He accused Ambedkar for selling himself to the Brahmins: The Brahmins had paid him a price. 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. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. 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. 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 Tokenism was the key mantra. Some thoughts are kept alive by artificial resuscitation following propaganda theories and methods. Tamil Nadu today) in 1931 was around 46 million. This professionalism is the result of corporate leadership, teamwork, open communications, customer/supplier partnership, and state-of-the-art manufacturing. 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. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. Though it was Mahatma Gandhi talk to the Ranis that ensured entry for Ezhava community into Vaikom temple, chroniclers of EVR conveniently ignore this fact. The listing of verdicts, settlements, and other case results is not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other claims. A three foot statue with a foot long head became common. Unfortunately, Periyar and his disciples could not look at the problem from this perspective. Subsequently, the floods of 2018 and the erratic nature of annual monsoons ever since brought the focus back on the 126-year-old dam. The Jews are only interested in themselves, and nobody else. Breaking News: A statue has been unveiled for Karunanidhi in Chennai. Accordingly, the water level in the dam would be limited to 138 feet till October 31 and 139.5 feet till November 10. 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. The aftermath of hate based rebellions had left always conditions worse than it were. He interpreted arranged marriage as prostitution wherein the girl is carried away for sex by strangers. One might think that by Brahmin he meant Brahminism. Thank God none of them ever blessed the newly married couple that they should ever live life as they did. What is the reality? His later joining the Congress party was because of his belief that political connections will further his fun life. He felt he was deprived of his opportunities for stardom with Brahmin Sathyamurthy being proactive with integration of castes. 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. EVR excercised selective hatred based on his personal experiences and remained and died as one. Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. None follow the few good things EVR propagated. Later, he declared that his organisation, Dravida Kazhagam will ever never aspire for power. He despised Indian languages whether it was Tamil or Sanskrit. he was given the title 'Periyar'. He wanted people to give up their mother tongue and speak in English. 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. But despite aging, EVRs habits and philistine life continued. Some non descriptive foreigners who supported these unproven theories were hailed as great scholars in the World Tamil Conferences organised by the Dravidian parties. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & analysis Given all this, why is he being heralded as a great thinker by the Dravidian intellectuals? His words: India should never go anywhere near democratic principles. At times, Periyar issued blood-curdling threats to Brahmins, but in action he did not believe in violence. Periyar was a anti-national personality. He campaigned the Aryan invasion theory and stated that Dravidians(south indians) are the real Indian and Only with this theory an attempt at ravaging Hinduism could be tried for projecting Brahmins as aliens to India and Hinduism. Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. Maybe that's where I saw it. 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. He admired the British. 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. Another case in point followed in 1968, when, in Tanjore district, 44 Dalits were butchered by the goons of a landlord. He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. The national intellectual landscape is verdant. The most likely candidate for this would be army - many regiments have 100% reservations for specific castes, region or religion. * Army recruitmen It was from this elitist Justice Party evolved Dravida Kazhagam. WebUNESCO Awards Awards tend to be of national or local scope and attributed to a new generation of scientists worldwide. I am not able to find any thing proving it. His first child, a daughter was afflicted by polio and he thou. They cannot be abusive or personal. / The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert. Colleges swarmed with them. 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. They also urged the court to ask the CWC to fix the rule curve, instrumentation scheme and gate operation schedule of the dam. Attorney Advertising. Socrates, Confucius, the unknown authors of the Hindu Vedas, etc. They lost ability to discern under the rule of rationalists. 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. He objected to government favouring Muslims and it was only the Christians, he seems to have spared. Sathyamurthy led Congress to victory in the Provincial elections in 1937 & became Mayor of Madras in 1939. The only time Rajinikanth openly admitted to having political ambitions was in a Doordarshan interview in 1995. His pious wife objected. Periyars atheism was crude and obnoxious. But they weren't just garlanded with chappals, they were also beaten with them. But statistically they were not very significant. , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of South Unlike B.R. The dharma of India is the dharma of criminal tribes. construction of the Mullaperiyar dam across the Periyar in the present Idukki district. Another claim was that EVR stood for womens emancipation. The problem with Periyar was that he used his bludgeon only against the Brahmins while the oppressing classes belonged to a wider spectrum. (Naan Sonnal Unakku Yen Kopam Vara Vendum, vol. 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(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. The price is this: he asked for 10% reservation and they gave him 15%. His so-called research on the. 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'. 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. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. EVR soon realised that as long as he stayed in Congress he cannot divide the castes and religions. He once said that the white people who lived in the temperate regions were less brainy than the ones who lived in Tamil Nadu. EVR hated communists to the core. The reason is simple. Please enable Javascript and reload the page. WebAnswer (1 of 2): NO ! Little surprise, therefore, that this dialogue seems to have jumped out of the screen and taken to the streets. October 31, 2021 02:04 am | Updated 10:53 am IST. As a result Dravidian politics became Statues driven resulting in Statues crazy Sychophantic anticulture. However, he. 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. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. 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. 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. None will ever steal these worthless pieces of work. He is so religious that late CM Jayalalithaa is now a part of his pantheon of gods. UttarPradesh of Chief Minister Mayawati entered the fray and sure she did give competition. Gowthaman, vol. He either ignored the prejudices of others or simply admonished them to behave well in the future. The only flowers. Follow me on @sttalkindia The story so far: Coinciding with an episode of erratic, cataclysmic rain in Keralas high-ranges, the Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. French Revolution was a singular example. 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. The reaction from Dravidianists is perplexing as Periyar himself was renowned for his iconoclasm. I express convictions! The effigies of Rama and Seetha were fully clothed. water release from the Mullaperiyar dam did not alter the level in the much larger Idukki reservoir, at over 94% of its storage capacity, located 35 km downstream. The reason? The dam became a reality nine years later. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists 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. Remember that the Congress party was not founded to demand independence and neither was the Justice party. 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. The tweet was an apparent reference to 70-year-old Periyars marriage in 1949 to Maniammai. Is there any sources for this or is it a legend? Ramasamy writing in his magazine Kudiyarasu, and he is being unusually mild here. 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. 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. water rights. MGR's hatred for the DMK and its ideology is legendary. Story #1 KBR worked in TVS group of companies at Madurai. 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.
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