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. EVR went hammer and tongs on CNA for his decision as was usual with him. Web+44 (0)7540 787812 frances@constructionandbuildingphotography.com. So contemporary rationalism is more an after thought to defend actions that covered ones frustrations and hide personal ambitions. 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. 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. More importantly, as a rationalist one can be argumentative thereby giving the impression of an intelligent person. 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. He has, with a single quote, isolated himself from the ruling party and all of the Opposition, and united them. Brahmins had successfully resisted foreign rule for a thousand years and were considered custodians of Hindu culture. 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. 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. In 1931, EVR exposed his fangs against democracy too: EVR admired British colonialism and believed it to be an example of political supremacy. 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. EVR soon realised that as long as he stayed in Congress he cannot divide the castes and religions. All rights reserved. And prickly though he was, he did have a few beautiful flowers. Refused schooling after elementary level. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. I am not able to remember where I read or heard that. Remember UNHRC has as its members China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Cuba, etc. So is the new twist to Brahmanism as opposed to Brahmins. Tamil Nadu today) in 1931 was around 46 million. He despised Indian languages whether it was Tamil or Sanskrit. Distory Buster. As I had defined and amplified in an earlier article, a great mind is one that influences a period of time. As a result Dravidian politics became Statues driven resulting in Statues crazy Sychophantic anticulture. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. What a profound way to build our daughters? 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 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. I am not able to find any thing proving it. Certain parts of this website require Javascript to work. He mocked blouse wearing Dalit women as responsible for increase in the cost of clothes. What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. Gowthaman). Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. / This then gives us two options. His words: India should never go anywhere near democratic principles. The pinnacle of this hypocrisy was when a statue of EVR was unveiled by his disciples in the presence of EVR himself in Chennai. However, without Tamil Nadu on board, this is not going to be a reality. 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 Periyars atheism was crude and obnoxious. No Tamil publication except the Thuglak published it. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. Little surprise, therefore, that this dialogue seems to have jumped out of the screen and taken to the streets. Recently new interpretations are given to defend EVRs thoughts. Tamilnadu challenged Keralas dam height law in Supreme court. Rajinikanth at the 50th anniversary function of Thuglak magazine. Though his love for science was childlike, he did not have the intellectual rigour to understand what the scientific enterprise was all about. He then did NOT enter electoral politics. Overall, there were about 15,000 Brahmins out of about 80,000 government employees (Political Career of E.V. There is an undeniable political ramification to anything the superstar says. The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. 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. For impactful stories you just cant miss, By subscribing you agree to our Privacy Policy. And his statement has received more traction and attention than all of Kamal Haasan's tweets put together. He had married Nagammai, aged 13, earlier as a teenager. I see Adi Sankara as the last great mind India saw as he could influence with his Advaitha concept and limit Buddhism in India. Scholars like Christian Devaneya Pavanar helped further this with all kinds of defences and interpretations. Unfortunate for him the Congress he joined in 1919 had many morally upright stalwarts like Sathyamurthy, a brahmin which deepened his despair. P.A. Was the Brahmin the bogeyman, the Baba Yaga of the Tamil country? 1. 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. Soon, roads were renamed, portraits unveiled, housing colonies were to be named after politicians in Tamilnadu. In 2017 he called supporting DMK (in 1996) a political accident. In all his agitations and he had many the lowest common denominator was the Brahmin. 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. He did not think about others. (Periyar E.V.R. Compare it with the Vedas which stood for the whole humanity, whose authors unknown and survived the test of time through word of mouth. When Brahmin Sathyamurthy led Congress entered the famous Madurai Meenakshi Temple with Dalits, EVR objected. A clear example of sour grapes. The reason is simple. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. The Jews are only interested in themselves, and nobody else. The acts of sending email to this website or viewing information from this website do not create an attorney-client relationship. There is a good chance that it is true. 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. The longer the period of impact, the more conceptual the idea conceived is deemed to be of the impacting mind. Only with this theory an attempt at ravaging Hinduism could be tried for projecting Brahmins as aliens to India and Hinduism. C. Rajagopalachari was another tall brahmin leader whom EVR envied. The movie was partly funded by the Tamil Nadu government according to Wikipedia. Happens when UN agencies are filled with evangelists and fundamentalists trying to remove diversities in culture in the name of protection. Colleges swarmed with them. A civilisation famous for love,openness and embrace of races was maimed openly under the name of revolution, by fast spinners of hate. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. Chintanaikal, Anaimuthu, 1974, p. 1,860). It was from this elitist Justice Party evolved Dravida Kazhagam. The reason is simple. My HINDU civilisation alone is my focus. His so-called research on the. 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. (Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle Class, Fuller and Narasimhan, 2014, appendix). His parents were pious, morally upright and hereditarily wealthy. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. 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. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. He adds that in 1927, a Staff Selection Board had to select 467 persons. (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. Honestly can't remember. And vote bank. He quoted a report that appeared on Outlook in 2017, which had done the same thing. / This number increased to around 14,000 in 1936. So we have great minds that have stood the test of time. 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. The reason? And this is definitely what the BJP in Tamil Nadu wants. Breaking News: A statue has been unveiled for Karunanidhi in Chennai. Claims that he was friendly with Brahmins including Rajaji were eye wash. Case in point, superstar Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. EVR, Annadurai, MGR and Gandhi statues were not far behind. 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. 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. Krishnan is an author in both English and Tamil. The price is this: he asked for 10% reservation and they gave him 15%. EVR advocated Nazi-style anti-Brahminism. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. Fewer than 1,000 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1890s. However, this seems confused in hindsight. 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. He did not think about others. (, Periyars atheism was crude and obnoxious. The incident he mentions, implicating Periyar of Hindu-hatred, is common knowledge, and not something he would have chanced upon recently. 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. A culture of a civilisation is judged by its contributions to sustaining a society. British ignored him as a non entity. He is so religious that late CM Jayalalithaa is now a part of his pantheon of gods. He spent his long life tirelessly working in support of what he believed in and against what he detested. Other parties, independent of their loyalties, think the same. As long as the ones who follow Manu dharma exist, the nation will never have discipline, integrity, honesty and justice. 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. 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. EVR hated communists to the core. The committee recommended raising the level to 142 feet, which was endorsed by the Supreme Court in February 2006. He was miffed that the Constitution did not provide reservations for non-Brahmins. 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. Subsequently, the floods of 2018 and the erratic nature of annual monsoons ever since brought the focus back on the 126-year-old dam. None follow the few good things EVR propagated. Hope you will be inspired by this narration. Yet, he was a die-hard devotee of Periyar. BR Ambedkar was the worst abused. Some revolutionary, he was. 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. Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. 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. 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. Its height is 53.6m (176ft) and length 365.7m (1,200ft). The tweet was an apparent reference to 70-year-old Periyars marriage in 1949 to Maniammai. HOME; INTERIORS; EXTERIORS; OFFICE & PORTRAITS; PUBLICITY/EVENTS; CONSTRUCTION; INFO His followers never questioned him and he wont brook any such nonsense. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. 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. On the employment front, the total number of Brahmin gazetted officers were 620 in 1928. At Furnel, Inc. we understand that your projects deserve significant time and dedication to meet our highest standard of quality and commitment. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. It did not ever occur to Periyar that independence would open the sluice gates of education and other opportunities. Tokenism was the key mantra. The seeds of antibrahmanism were finding roots in EVRs mind because of the challenges posed by Brahmins in his personal and physical life. 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. Remember, EVR did not rise against the British at any time during his long life. This would mean that around 4,500 students would have had to be passing out every year in the 1930s. Bear in mind that Periyar in the 1950s did not have the larger than life image that he has now. The court will hear the case again on November 11. Social media short term tiny influences last for a day in the name of trends. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle. They involve different types of recognition, such as That was biggest bullshit by Dravida Sanghis of Tamilnadu! Thiru Brahmma [ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2988850788016481&id=10000674 I express convictions! EV Ramaswamy's hatred towards the Hindu religion and his open slander of gods in his magazines Kudiarasu and Dravidan are well-known. Tamil Nadu today) in 1931 was, of the population were graduating from these colleges. A temple has been built for atheist Karunanidhi near Gudiyatham by DMK cadre. The total number of students in both the arts and professional colleges was around 3,000 in 1890 (. It also asked the Central Government to set up a three-member Supervisory Committee to monitor dam safety. Or, he spoke knowing fully well that his comments on Periyar would blow up. 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 only time Rajinikanth openly admitted to having political ambitions was in a Doordarshan interview in 1995. The Hindu Explains NO ! , UNESCO ie) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization did not credit EV Ramasamy with any award titled The Socrates of The aftermath of hate based rebellions had left always conditions worse than it were. 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. 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.". 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. Which brings us to the real question. His weapon was hate and like Adolf Hitler didnt think twice that he could hurt innocent people.

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