I see Adi Sankara as the last great mind India saw as he could influence with his Advaitha concept and limit Buddhism in India. 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. Now it is known plainly as Poondi reservoir. Which brings us to the real question. The Chase Law Group, LLC | 1447 York Road, Suite 505 | Lutherville, MD 21093 | (410) 790-4003, Easements and Related Real Property Agreements. Periyar 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. 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. Fact remains that EVR married a teenager who was fifty years younger than him and threw to the dustbin his disdain for child marriages. Other parties, independent of their loyalties, think the same. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert. And vote bank. However, without Tamil Nadu on board, this is not going to be a reality. Though his love for science was childlike, he did not have the intellectual rigour to understand what the scientific enterprise was all about. The dam became a reality nine years later. His propagation for widow remarriage was not adhered to by his second wife Maniammai nor by any of the widows of any Dravidian leader. Gowthaman). Thank God none of them ever blessed the newly married couple that they should ever live life as they did. , C.J. 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. 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. In 2017 he called supporting DMK (in 1996) a political accident. 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. Tamil Nadu Congress were Voluntary slaves of the British who crowned themselves as Saviours of India. 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. Ramasamy writing in his magazine. It is nobodys case that the Brahmins were angels. (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. Their land holdings dwindled to almost nothing as they had to sell them off to get higher quality education. Actor Rajinikanth said he refuses to apologise to those who are protesting his controversial remark on Periyar. 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. 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. 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. He regularly contributes to various journals and magazines. Period. There are both merits and demerits in this broad claim regarding women emancipation but we must understand EVRs mind from the back drop of his western way of living. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. EVR Naicker born very rich, ran a family temple of Lord Ganesha in Erode. 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. Welcome! They demand submission as they are insecure. 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. There is a good chance that it is true. Hope you will be inspired by this narration. In February 2010, the court constituted an empowered committee to study the whole gamut of issues concerning the dam. 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. He is so religious that late CM Jayalalithaa is now a part of his pantheon of gods. They knew that even if they gave him 25%, not even three or four percent of qualified people would be available [among the Dalits]. We are told that he was not against Brahmins but against Brahmanism. He began to imagine that Brahmins posed threats to every facet of his progress in life despite being in forward community which he flaunted. His rationalism was hollow and lacked any useful content. The Maharaja of Travancore signed a 999-year Periyar Lake lease agreement with the British government on October 29, 1886, for the construction of the Mullaperiyar Based on the committees finding that the dam was structurally and hydrologically safe, the court, in May 2014, struck down Keralas Act and allowed Tamil Nadu to maintain the level at 142 feet. Thus, less than 1% of 1% of the population were graduating from these colleges. For impactful stories you just cant miss, By subscribing you agree to our Privacy Policy. construction of the Mullaperiyar dam across the Periyar in the present Idukki district. And this is definitely what the BJP in Tamil Nadu wants. The incident he mentions, implicating Periyar of Hindu-hatred, is common knowledge, and not something he would have chanced upon recently. He did not think about others. (Periyar E.V.R. he was given the title 'Periyar'. 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. 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. They attributed exactly like Hitler did with the German Jews grand conspiracies and clever manipulations by Brahmins for the plight of the non-Brahmins. October 31, 2021 02:04 am | Updated 10:53 am IST. 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. A series of tremors felt in the area in 2011 caused alarm. Rajinikanth at the 50th anniversary function of Thuglak magazine. The British had no love lost for them because most of the intellectual leaders of the Brahmin community were with the Congress. I predict that crazes will die naturally while excellence whether in art or culture will always prevail! In this report, we shall briefly look at Periyars history with deliberate insults towards the Hindu faith and the legacy he has left behind. Even if it had chosen every non-Brahmin applicant who possessed the barest qualification, it could not have met the stated quota.). At Furnel, Inc. our goal is to find new ways to support our customers with innovative design concepts thus reducing costs and increasing product quality and reliability. And in the end, it may not be his ideology, but his name on the ballot sheet that could swing votes. He wanted people to give up their mother tongue and speak in English. The Dravidian landscape, on the other hand, is an arid desert, and Periyar was the only cactus plant to have bloomed in it. EVR hated communists to the core. 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 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. Here are 10 facts which every Indian should know about EVR. With a totally upper class bourgeois arrogance EVR had no compassion for the Dalits. Distory Buster. Madurai: The The Madras high court on Wednesday directed the state government to consider a representation which sought to remove the false information in What he detested were caste discrimination, Gandhi, god, religion, Brahmins and the then-prevailing idea of India. Colleges swarmed with them. Tamilnadu is limited by the filmi world and is not in a state to work out the mind beyond Kollywood factory. The Kerala Government, a respondent, argued for lowering the full reservoir level to 139 feet as the ageing dam was in a deteriorating condition. Design of a new dam by Remember that the Congress party was not founded to demand independence and neither was the Justice party. EV Ramaswamy's hatred towards the Hindu religion and his open slander of gods in his magazines Kudiarasu and Dravidan are well-known. MGR's hatred for the DMK and its ideology is legendary. Whenever rat sized opinions and ideas existed, huge euphoria erupts and few months or years later, the bubble bursts. 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. 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. They hold a long list of achievements, beginning with the independence movement. Dark Mode. This is a subreddit for the people of Tamilnadu, India. And his statement has received more traction and attention than all of Kamal Haasan's tweets put together. The reaction from Dravidianists is perplexing as Periyar himself was renowned for his iconoclasm. He despised Indian languages whether it was Tamil or Sanskrit.