The Dravidian movement detests the liberal, feminist, egalitarian poet Bharathi, not just due to his Tamil Brahmin caste, but also because Bharathi was razor sharp in identifying and getting to the root of this movement. A thread on Bharathi exposing the “Dravidian/NonBrahmin movement”
Right from Kuthoosi Gurusami to EV Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as ‘periyar’ by his followers) to Maniyammai, all of them have written critical articles on Bharathi.
EVR said Bharathi’s writings were blabberings that lacked rationality and practicality. Kuthoosi Gurusami said his poems are akin to “Unsold Omapodi, foul Smelling Boondi”
Why do they hate him so much – ideally their values of egalitarianism, feminism should be aligned right? Nope. Bharathi called out their hypocrisy. In 1917, Bharathi wrote: “This Non Brahmin revolution will dampen on its own with time cuz it is not based on truth”
He continues: “Most are in this movement not for removing comm differences, but for getting posts in Govt, Zilla or Taluka Board, Municipalities and the Assembly. There is no such group called Non Brahmins. If being divided as one group is a fault, it is not the fault of Brahmins alone”
Bharathi dismisses how newer meanings were being mischievously added to the words Arya and Dravida, to create this artificial divide between Brahmins and the newly concocted group called Non Brahmins. He identified the falsehood and the real motivations of the movement pretty quickly.
Also… Also in his 1920 article, he got to the root of the issue: how the Nb movements had their roots in missi0naries.
“Since Brahmins are the guardians of H!nduism, these missi0naries who want to uproot Hinduism & spread Christianity wants the Non Brahmins to antagonize & hate the Brahmins” Spot on analysis!
Not only was he a fierce patriot, he was also a true Sanatani who wanted to re-establish the OG discrimination free H-ism, not fall into hands of missionaries for personal profiteering. He selflessly fought for the nation & his Dharma’s protection. Choose your heroes wisely.
(This article based on the X thread by Tamil Labs 2.0 – all images are from the same thread)
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