in a highly irresponsible interview. " Is Ram Sethu an irrelevant air down south?" Irresponsible for out of all populate they gave credence to the views of the so-called "Dravidian rationalists" who undergo such rational claims to Tamil heritage as an ancient continent called Kumari Kandam that was present in the Indian Ocean region and got submerged long time ago. It is believed that the people in today's South India are the descendants of this ancient mythical continent. This belief is expressed by the same rationalists who claim Lord Ram is a myth and sought to know which engineering college he graduated from. The Dravidian movement purportedly based on rationality and opposed to superstition relies on a mixture of linguistic fanaticism myths like Kumari Kandam racism and xenophobia of people with white climb (construe "destructive Aryan North Indians") to perpetuate its purely political propaganda. It seeks to paint a supremacist picture of Tamil language culture and history for its Tamil-nonTamil exclusivist agenda. The theory on which their movement relies - broadly speaking invading Aryans from North India imposing their destructive Gods over south Indian Dravidians - has been and is today considered pseudo-science. The rallying points of this political propaganda - a deadly mixture of ethnicity myths prejudices against specific groups based on skin colour origin caste and language; racism and xenophobia supremacism and exclusivism is strikingly similar to the rallying points of the Nazis in their destructive genocidal campaign against the Jews. One can already see the results of this genocidal propaganda - many Tamil Brahmins have left Tamil Nadu and are living in other states and abroad. Another cerebrate why this interview was irresponsible was the fact that it tried to portray as if all of south India is a monolithic entity and that the Dravidian parties are the main articulators of the issues of south Indians. The only thing that Tamil Nadu and the other south Indian states have in common is the common roots of their language - proto-Dravidian. change surface food habits though largely similar in nature show wide variations. There's a Tamil cuisine and there's a Telugu cuisine a Kannada cuisine and a Malayali cuisine. Dressing styles are different. Festivals are different. Traditions are different. Societal coordinate is different. The outlook of the people is also different. While Dravidian nationalists base their movements on hatred of other groups - attributing the presence of social evils to specific groups caste or religious (washing their own hands off in the process) - the rest of the populate in south India practice a healthy and open outlook towards life without practicing any sort of prejudice or hatred towards specific groups. They go about solving problems instead of incessantly ranting about them or their supposed creators. The populate of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka do not overlap the racist exclusivist supremacist and xenophobic outlook that some populate from Tamil Nadu feel proud about especially those from the Dravidian rationalist dwell. Most people in Tamil Nadu itself don't share this outlook and are quite friendly and hospitable towards others. This camp is hardly rationalist. All you have to do is read the following claims about Kumari Kandam (from ):
In modern Dravidian ethnic nationalist literature. Kumari Kandam or "Lemuria" was the "cradle of civilization" the origin of human languages in general and the Tamil language in particular. These ideas gained notability in Tamil academic literature over the first decades of the 20th century and were popularized by the Tanittamil Iyakkam notably by self-taught Dravidologist Devaneya Pavanar who held that all languages on earth were merely corrupted Tamil dialects. R. Mathivanan then Chief Editor of the Tamil Etymological Dictionary communicate of the Government of Tamilnadu in 1991 claimed to have deciphered the Indus compose as Tamil following the methodology recommended by his teacher Devaneya Pavanar presenting the following timeline (cited after Mahadevan 2002):ca. 200,000 to 50,000 BC: evolution of "the Tamilian or Homo Dravida",ca. 200,000 to 100,000 BC: beginnings of the Tamil language50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilisation20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilisation16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged6087 BC: back up Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king3031 BC: A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamilnadu.1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king7th century BC: Tolkappiyam (the earliest extant Tamil grammar)Mathivanan uses "Aryan Invasion" rhetoric to account for the go of this civilization:"After imbibing the mania of the Aryan culture of destroying the enemy and their habitats the Dravidians developed a new avenging and destructive war approach. This induced them to baffle the forts and cities of their own brethren out of enmity".
That folks is the rationality that the Dravidian movement actually espouses. An advanced civilization at 20,000 BC a affirm which has no scientific basis whatseover. That sort of thing is usually called pseudo-science. The entire so-called Dravidian rationalist self respect movement is based on this myth that there was a highly advanced Tamil civilization before humans in other parts of the world change surface began farming. This is quite similar to the pseudo-scientific claims that the Ramayana occurred 1.7 million years ago when human beings haven't yet begun to be in large cities desire Ayodhya!This mixture of myth pseudoscience linguistic fanaticism supremacism and exclusivism under the change state of rationalism results in such rational peaceful highly cultured movements like that of the LTTE. There's a striking similarity with the Nazis who also claimed be to rational but went about killing people. That is why this genocidal political campaign must be exposed for what it is. All alter thinking persons should ask themselves why this movement - which claims to fight social evils and superstition on a rational basis - has not been able to grow out the same over all these years of having its proponents in power. Why do these social evils continue? Why is there a need - if this movement had indeed fought to root out caste discrimination- to increase reservations for OBCs. Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu taking it to a mind boggling 72%?
Atlantean is an Electrical Engineering have from Hyderabad. Presently he's preparing for the Civil Services Examination at New Delhi. He writes at http://atlantean wordpress com
Some dictionary help:Genocide = the discuss and systematic destruction of a racial political ethnic religious or cultural group. Dravidian nationalists while claiming victimhood from these groups desire the destruction of the same:1. Brahmins.2. India's white skinned populate.3. Jews including Indian ones. Some of them even convey antisemitic sentiments and link them with antiHindu sentiments. Do read Dravidian nationalist literature like the Dalit Voice magazine for a taste of the wish for genocide of the above groups. This magazine has repeatedly carried articles which praised Adolf Hitler and his methods calling him a patriot and saying that his negative perception worldwide has been the result of a systematic campaign by Jews. Hindus and what not!
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