I beg to differ with you Sir.. This news would not have been important if the so called Dravidan ideology of Karunanithi is like any other tamiliyan brethren.. Nearly for 40 years he has criticised , ridiculed every hindu customs..and he has gone to the extent of even changing the TamilNew year's day by an act.. [which is now reversed]...For him the Hinduism & its time tested customs are nothing but crude jokes.. But he do not have the guts to talk about either Muslim/ christian because of his vote-bank politics.. Now time has come for the public to know about this cheap politician who all along spit venum ..
If you read the caption in Dinamalar...there is nothing to critcise the lady but an attack over Karunanidhi only.. and Dinamar trying to expose this Karunanidhi & Veeramani in every possible opportunity...
TVK
hi tvk,
i agree with you 100% MK. the target of his jibes are not the religious folks within his party, which is just about everyone except the top coterie. even periyar did not raise a word against murugan, who is perceived as tamil kadavul, whereas rama was fair game, the perception being he is north india originated. barring the brahmins, none of the other castes appear to have considered their religion violated or insulted. so much for the unity of hindus !!
moving on to family references..
still, i think, even at the height of the anti brahmin period in early MK reign, dont know if rajaji's family was ever commented on by either dk or dmk. that is all i am trying to say. it has been my experience, that the hysterical level of intolerance is usually a monopoly of the right wing of all religious flavours, and i have uncomfortable seeing such. it is in that context, i felt that dinamalar was wrong. hope atleast it explains my pov.
moving further on..
overwhelmingly, tamil society voted dmk (the political arm of dk ideology) because they figured that they would have a better future in the hands of periyarist philosophy than with congress. the grudging (as far as we tambrams are concerned) truth is that take any NB, especially from the lower middle and poorer classes, those in the slums and those in indentured labour in agriculture, and he would say, thanks to government generosity, either he or his children have a chance to live in a maadi veedu (as opposed to the kudisai veedu of the prev generation).
they (NB) are now maybe 98 or 99% of the population. democracy is all about vote banks, and the elected act on behalf of the electorate..supposedly for all electorate, but in most cases, for those who voted for them (in addition to themselves in india
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i lived in mandaveli, and used to attend regularly dmk and congress meetings. the former had a dynamism, and the crowd went away filled with hope for the future, whereas for the congress, it was all about freedom and how congress had won it for india, and now it was payback time. after a while this was not enough to warm the audience, and ultimately the congress lost TN, never to regain it.
MK: re your comment, 'Now time has come for the public to know about this cheap politician who all along spit venum'.. most of the people have known that all along. he only moved up where he was, because what MK said in words and writing, sounded melody to the ears of a vast tamil populace. nowadays, even though much has changed, and you can really see him being spit upon with words so harsh, that even i cringe once in a while. politics of arms muzzling is violent and ruthless, and the winner takes all.
but did you know that even among DMK cadres JJ invokes fear. MK apparently is forgiving, but not the madam. you cross her and you are done for immediately. her memory is long, which is probably one reason, she will never exchange even birthday pleasantaries with MK. same goes the kanchi mutt head who probably was in for a harsh time in the jails, had it not been for the benign neglect of MK and active support through senior tambram bureaucracy in new delhi. this from an insider who claims he knows it all, and throws out morcels of choice gossip once in a while
nowadays, i keenly follow the NB politics of TN, and am fascinated by the hatred towards dalits by the ruling castes. it is based on fear, i think. the overwhelming one, appears to be the weakness of their girls for dalit boys, believe it or not. the numbers may not amount to much in reality, but the very fact this happens, is a breach of long held hierarchy.
the good news, is that the dalits, supported by the constitution are hitting back and hitting hard. in one meeting in kovai, the dalit speaker was exhorting the labourers, whom he called the real farmers, to quit working on the land, and move to the cities. chennai and bangalore will provide them with jobs and dignity. the indignities faced by dalits apparently still in practice over much of TN.
what is funny though, is that while the dalits invoke periyar, and term the ruling castes as hindutva, the gounders/vanniars/reddiars/thevars themselves consider themselves true inheritors of periyar too. so there goes the periyarist philosphies of anti brahminism out for grabs among his children.
something more to fear is the resurgent tamil nationalism which is anti periyar. because it is not dravidian but tamil and ancient tamil at that. in their philosophy there is acknowledgement and room for brahmins, for andhanars are a fact in the sangham age. whereas naidus naickers reddiars are NOT. interesting isn't it, the turn of history and politics.
we have not heard the last of tamil nationalism. tamilaruvi manian when confronted with tamil nationalism, reasserted his gandhian belief (of unified india). an independent tamil nadu, he said, will in months break up further - vanniar nadu in the north, kongu nadu in the middle and nadar nadu in the south...where does that leave the rest of us? i wonder
but one thing for sure - the dalits would be driven once more to the status of serfs.
sorry for the ramble. this is what happens when you trigger off some trains of thought with your nice reply. thank you and haveaniceday
