The Jews are only interested in themselves, and nobody else. The Chase Law Group, LLC | 1447 York Road, Suite 505 | Lutherville, MD 21093 | (410) 790-4003, Easements and Related Real Property Agreements. Welcome! He did not think about others. (Periyar E.V.R. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (, Political Career of E.V. Its height is 53.6m (176ft) and length 365.7m (1,200ft). British ignored him as a non entity. 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. None will ever steal these worthless pieces of work. But a conditioned home surrounding with a religious wife further irked EVR who loved being a play boy. But despite aging, EVRs habits and philistine life continued. He had married Nagammai, aged 13, earlier as a teenager. But they weren't just garlanded with chappals, they were also beaten with them. They expose the vacuum within our contemporary society like the books we buy for display. 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. Story #1 KBR worked in TVS group of companies at Madurai. It has such giant trees as Gandhi, Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jaiprakash Narayan and a score others. This politics has now amplified into construction of memorials across the state with tax payers money running into 100s of crores. Supreme Court last week considered a public interest litigation petition filed by a Kerala physician and two former local body representatives on the The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (The Politics of South India, C.J. 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. Other parties, independent of their loyalties, think the same. 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. One might think that by Brahmin he meant Brahminism. Having been limited by Congress stalwarts who were Brahmins he remembered the tricks of the Anti brahmin Justice Party and decided to adopt their modus operandi. A series of tremors felt in the area in 2011 caused alarm. Gowthaman). They involve different types of recognition, such as 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. Meanwhile, in the backdrop of bad weather forecast, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. construction of the Mullaperiyar dam across the Periyar in the present Idukki district. Scholars like Christian Devaneya Pavanar helped further this with all kinds of defences and interpretations. I am not able to find any thing proving it. He admired the British. A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. Though his love for science was childlike, he did not have the intellectual rigour to understand what the scientific enterprise was all about. No Tamil publication except the Thuglak published it. Some revolutionary, he was. This is compilation of a series of first hand reports. Menu. Their flowers were less fragrant than the flowers of Tamil Nadu. There is a scene in the movie Periyar depicting what you are saying. 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. The dharma of India is the dharma of criminal tribes. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. These are the next lines:Are they not comparable to the Brahmins who too have no responsibility but have the rulers in their pocket, have entered the ruling dispensation and been lording over (all of us)?, This is Periyar E.V. All rights reserved. Unfortunately, Periyar and his disciples could not look at the problem from this perspective. The Periyar that the non-Tamil intellectuals know is a sanitised version of his real personality, lovingly packaged and offered by his admirers. However, this seems confused in hindsight. If you had read them in isolation and if you were familiar with the history of the Nazis, it is likely that you would think they must have been fished out of some sordid pro-Nazi tabloid. Subsequently, the floods of 2018 and the erratic nature of annual monsoons ever since brought the focus back on the 126-year-old dam. For the first time ever, Rajinikanth spoke against EV Ramaswamy at a public function. This is driving me low-key mad, not remembering where I read it. Yet, he was a die-hard devotee of Periyar. Honestly can't remember. 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. 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. P.A. WebAnswer (1 of 2): NO ! All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. 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. Here are 10 facts which every Indian should know about EVR. Tamilnadu is limited by the filmi world and is not in a state to work out the mind beyond Kollywood factory. Breaking News: A statue has been unveiled for Karunanidhi in Chennai. His followers never questioned him and he wont brook any such nonsense. This hypocrisy is followed by his followers till today. C. Rajagopalachari was another tall brahmin leader whom EVR envied. Unfortunate for him the Congress he joined in 1919 had many morally upright stalwarts like Sathyamurthy, a brahmin which deepened his despair. 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. Nor has he dwelt on Dravidian ideology in any of his public speeches or films. Most of the hero entry songs in his films would mention how he follows the footsteps of 'Thanthai Periyar' (Father Periyar). 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. The listing of verdicts, settlements, and other case results is not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other claims. 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. So we have great minds that have stood the test of time. Their piousness and personal discipline irritated problem child EVR and he revolted. This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. That he was not against God but was against misuse of Gods name. The African Union would accept an application to consider taking on the controversial life sciences award, but a clear plan has yet to emerge. NO ! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. 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). But statistically they were not very significant. 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. The people of India are barbarians. A three foot statue with a foot long head became common. Thus, [my stand is] Brahminism grew out of the Brahmin and I am striving to annihilate the root. 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. 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. The reason is 90% of our population are fools and 97% of them are persons of low birth. 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. Soon, roads were renamed, portraits unveiled, housing colonies were to be named after politicians in Tamilnadu. Ramaswamy Naicker, Even then it was clear that the trend was changing. What made him what he was. 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. Remember, EVR did not rise against the British at any time during his long life. But equally astonishing is his work on eradication of caste, women's empowerment and social reform, which are globally acknowledged legacies. Government money was misused by DMK party to carry imaginary claims as movies came to be considered real in the stunted brains of Tamils. Periyar breaks Murthis of Ganesha (1953) They also urged the court to ask the CWC to fix the rule curve, instrumentation scheme and gate operation schedule of the dam. Marwaris and Gujarathis were targeted too. The only flowers. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. He wanted the British to continue to remain in power while simultaneously complaining that they were succumbing to the machinations of the Brahmins. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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. The story so far: Coinciding with an episode of erratic, cataclysmic rain in Keralas high-ranges, the Tamil Nadu Thomas, decided that the level had to be brought down from the full reservoir level of 152 feet to 136 feet to enable Tamil Nadu, which owns and maintains it, to carry out dam strengthening works. The incident he mentions, implicating Periyar of Hindu-hatred, is common knowledge, and not something he would have chanced upon recently. EVRs desire for instant stardom in Congress was not achieved because of Leaders like Sathyamurthy and some other Brahmins who ran the party. And in the end, it may not be his ideology, but his name on the ballot sheet that could swing votes. I predict that crazes will die naturally while excellence whether in art or culture will always prevail! Copyright 2023, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. or its affiliated companies. He batted for the DMK in 1996, and won them an election. 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. His later joining the Congress party was because of his belief that political connections will further his fun life. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. The Central Government set up an expert committee in 2000 to look into the dam's safety. 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 Double speak, double games, hypocrisy marked all of EVRs actions but he continue to bank on the time tested weapon of #hate. The tweet was an apparent reference to 70-year-old Periyars marriage in 1949 to Maniammai. In 1927, the Justice Party had been in the opposition. 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. 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). But without understanding the mind of EVR, its impossible to understand the Dravidian parties hypocritical contempt for idols and love for statues. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. 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. Web+44 (0)7540 787812 frances@constructionandbuildingphotography.com. If that is what Rajinikanth has done, then it IS a big deal. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. Tamilnadu challenged Keralas dam height law in Supreme court. 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 Colleges swarmed with them. Social media short term tiny influences last for a day in the name of trends. I have watched the movie. The national landscape is verdant. 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. Thus, less than 1% of 1% of the population were graduating from these colleges. 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. When Dalits fought for higher wages, he condemned those who organised them in these fights for rights. That was biggest bullshit by Dravida Sanghis of Tamilnadu! Thiru Brahmma [ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2988850788016481&id=10000674 However, he stated the opposite in an earlier meeting on August 31, 1959: Who do you hate? EVR worked meticulously to break the moral shackles around him. 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 Hindu Explains He is so religious that late CM Jayalalithaa is now a part of his pantheon of gods. Ramaswamy was a great social reformer. 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We aim to provide a wide range of injection molding services and products ranging from complete molding project management customized to your needs. 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. Tokenism was the key mantra. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). And vote bank. 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. The Justice Party came to power in 1920 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1967. Also, by the 1930s, the majority of students in both arts and professional colleges were not Brahmins. He then did NOT enter electoral politics. French Revolution was a singular example. And his statement has received more traction and attention than all of Kamal Haasan's tweets put together. A clear example of sour grapes. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter And Get News Delivered Straight To Your Inbox. He spent his long life tirelessly working in support of what he believed in and against what he detested. He supported the Jallikattu protests, but was against the Sterlite protests. WebAnswer (1 of 5): The reason is politics cannot happen without taking his name for everything and blaming Brahmins for everything. EVR called Idols as lifeless stones and called out those beliefs of honouring and worshipping them as crass and superstitious. Actor Rajinikanth said he refuses to apologise to those who are protesting his controversial remark on Periyar. Such spiteful caste politics filled with hate and revenge continues till today. He accused Ambedkar for selling himself to the Brahmins: The Brahmins had paid him a price. Does someone have any link proving it or stating that it is a folklore. However, he. Attorney Advertising. Compare it with the Vedas which stood for the whole humanity, whose authors unknown and survived the test of time through word of mouth. In 1938 at Tamil Nadu Women's Conference appreciatin the noble service rendered by E.V.R. He objected to government favouring Muslims and it was only the Christians, he seems to have spared. The seeds were sown by the upper class elitist but anti brahmin Justice party which competed with Congress to solicit favours from the British. The pinnacle of this hypocrisy was when a statue of EVR was unveiled by his disciples in the presence of EVR himself in Chennai. I had answered. 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. EVR admired the Christian evangelist G U Pope for conceiving the Aryan theory of invasion. 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. Follow me on @sttalkindia Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. The proof of the pudding lies in the high standards of arts. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. They demand submission as they are insecure. Is there any sources for this or is it a legend? Nobody dare question the catastrophe that fell on people. Most of EVRs statue carry his message of No God. B R Ambedkar mocked and called Aryan Invasion an invention. 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.". 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. Refused schooling after elementary level. In a leaderless state that is currently seeing a drought in political news, this one statement has opened floodgates, and fanned fires. Because the truth is worth it.). EVR desired a free, no holds barred, condition free exciting life. Earlier Chief Minister CN Annadurai had unveiled statue of Film artist NS Krishnan. His first child, a daughter was afflicted by polio and he thou. 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. Though he was personally liked by almost all political leaders, almost all of them considered him to be maverick, unrestrained and irresponsible. He wanted people to give up their mother tongue and speak in English. 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. 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. water rights. Either Rajinikanth spoke without thinking it through. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (Political Career of E.V. 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. 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. dwelled on such grave issues as whether Sita slept with Valmiki. What is the reality? When Brahmin Sathyamurthy led Congress entered the famous Madurai Meenakshi Temple with Dalits, EVR objected. What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. As a result Dravidian politics became Statues driven resulting in Statues crazy Sychophantic anticulture. He once said that the white people who lived in the temperate regions were less brainy than the ones who lived in Tamil Nadu. WebThe reason is simple. In 1921, during the anti-liquor campaign he cut down 1000 coconut trees in his own farm. It seems you have Javascript turned off in your browser. Socrates, Confucius, the unknown authors of the Hindu Vedas, etc. The movie was partly funded by the Tamil Nadu government according to Wikipedia. Tamil Nadu today) in 1931 was around 46 million. What he spoke and what he did in real life were often contrary. Distory Buster. He accepted the Constitution written by the Brahmins and signed on the dotted lines. 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. She later stopped her temple visits. This marriage caused outrage and was said to have caused a split in the organisation and You should consult with an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction before relying upon any of the information presented here. Design of a new dam by 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. MGR's hatred for the DMK and its ideology is legendary. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits].
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