Yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has entertained Hindu-baiting rabid Dravidian Stockist Kannabiran Ravishankar, a man accused of forging his doctorate degree.
Periyar International (PI) along with the Center for Inquiry Canada (CFIC), Humanist Canada (HC) and the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT) organized a two-day conference titled “International Humanism Conference on Social Justice” on September 24-25, 2022.
Self-proclaimed author Kannabiran Ravishankar (KRS) who has been accused of faking his doctorate degree was one of the key speakers as well as an organizer of the conference.
High on accents, KRS introduced Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin before the latter’s video address on 24 September 2022.
During the address, CM Stalin spoke about his much-hyped “Dravida Model” of governance while hailing E.V. Ramasamy Naicker (known as Periyar by his followers).
Towards the end of his speech, CM Stalin congratulated KRS and others for undertaking the task of “Globalizing Periyar”, a vision Dravida Kazhagam President Veeramani who is known for his rabid anti-Hindu speeches and writings.
“I congratulate the following people who are undertaking this great task: Dr. Soma Ilangovan, ‘Dr.’ Kannabiran Ravishankar, Dr. Lakshman Tamil, Arulselvi Veeramani, V. Kumaresan, V. Anburaj,”, CM Stalin noted.
In his statement, Stalin addressed Kannabiran Ravishankar as a doctorate, which has been found to be bogus.
Who is Kannabiran Ravishankar?
KRS is a rabid anti-Hindu Brahmin-baiting ‘Dravidian Stockist’ promoted for long by the top brass of the DMK. He has been accused of faking his educational qualifications claiming to have a doctoral degree from University of California, Berkeley.
It has been confirmed by UC Berkeley that KRS did not attend or receive any degree from any department of UC Berkeley.
Kannabiran who goes by the handle @kryes on Twitter, is the Editor-in-Chief of Dravida Pozhil, which according to its website is “a quarterly, bi-lingual, academic research journal with focus on Dravidian studies”. He is a high decibel foul-mouthed Dravidian Stockist promoted and platformed by the DK-DMK ecosystem.
He claims himself to be an ‘Investment Banker’ full time and an ‘Adjunct Professor’ in Comparative Literature (Tamil) part-time. He had presented himself as a Ph.D holder from UC Berkeley in many of his tweets, books and and forums. He had claimed that received a doctorate in ‘Comparative Literature’ from University of California, Berkeley. In a tweet, Kannabiran claimed that his department was School of South and South East Asian studies at UC Berkeley. However, it was found that KRS’s name is neither listed in the Ph.D Alumni Directory nor in the ongoing Graduate Students list of UC Berkeley.
This is not the first time MK Stalin has shared stage with the rabid anti-Hindu Dravidian Stockist.
In October 2021, KRS called on CM Stalin and gifted a book on the late DMK patriarch Karunanidhi. In the picutre shared he is identified as a professor of Paris University, another claim which also has been disputed.
Read more about KRS here.
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