The DMK’s parent organisation, the Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), launched “Periyar Vision”. It is an OTT platform “dedicated to promoting social justice and rationalism” in Chennai on 21 July 2023. DMK MP Kanimozhi inaugurated the platform in the presence of DK president K. Veeramani, actor Sathyaraj, and several other Dravidian ideologues.
Speaking to reporters after the event, Kanimozhi said, “It’s the need of the hour. Everybody uses the technology to talk about important things. Some use that to spread hate. We have launched this OTT platform to spread love, that is what Periyar’s life was. It was about loving people. He was the greatest humanist. This platform is to reach out to people. It is to bring people together.”
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— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 21, 2024
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin praised the initiative in a video message, emphasizing that Periyar Vision OTT, with the tagline “Everything for everyone,” is the world’s first-of-its-kind platform dedicated to an ideology. The platform aims to stream content, including current affairs programs, political commentaries, interviews, and films, all centered around the ideals of social justice and rationalism propagated by Periyar E.V. Ramasamy.
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— Sun News (@sunnewstamil) July 21, 2024
Here is where there is a problem. Upon scanning the app available on PlayStore, we found different categories of video material available on the platform. Among them were anti-Hindu and especially anti-Brahmin propaganda material. Here are some screenshots of the anti-Brahmin content.
Anti-Hindu Content
It is a well-known fact that Dravidianists give their own twist to our itihasas and Puranas. This OTT becomes a platform to mainstream those lies further. Here are some examples of the titles that are available on the platform that are anti-Hindu.
The titles are translated as:
On Atheism, the titles available are as below:
- The media that fosters superstition is an incomprehensible puzzle
- Why did the seers not object to Agnihotram Tathachariar?
- Is Rama who cut off the nose and chest a good person?
- Pillaiyar who kept allowing stealing
- Pandavas who betrayed Duryodhana
Titles available on Ramayana include:
- Is Ravana Vidyadharan?
- Ramayana parts that are missing if Periyar criticizes
- Ramayana is a clash of two cultures
- Kambaramayanam is the dependent text
- Sita who was safe with Ravana
- Dasarathan who gave up truth
- Valmiki’s Raman, Sita is different! Kamban’s Raman, Sita is different!!
- Let’s Eat American Gomata
- Lie told by Hanuman
- Raman is enthusiastic about eating food – Valmiki
- Kosala is mesmerized by the news of Raman going to the forest
- Carnivorous flavors tasted by Valmiki
- My father is worse than the uneducated – Raman’s Lament
While one might think the content on women will be on the lines of women empowerment, it blatantly follows the anti-Hindu line. Here are the titles:
- Dharma is sexual brutalizing woman
- God is also chaste for women
- Is menstruation worse than stools? – Periyar
- Women who dress sexy aren’t sexually harassed?
- Love + Pettiness = Marriage, By Periyar
- What is the difference between prostitution and dowry?
Anti-Brahmin Content
As expected, the platform peddles the anti-Brahmin propaganda to the hilt. Some of the content that could not have been disseminated in the public domain so well seems to have a new lease of life. Check out the categories and the kinds of titles available.
Under the category titled Brahminism, this is the kind of content available on “Periyar Vision”:
- Why did the seers not object to Agnihotram Tathachari?
Valluvar’s enemies are barbarians? (while the topic is about Valluvar, the image here is that of Mahaperiyava Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal of the Kanchi Math) - Nagaswamy who made Tiruvalluvar, a slave of Brahmins
- The Brahmins who studied with our tax money are now settled in the US
- Brahmins do not have the right to say they are the masters of Sanskrit
- Those who embrace Brahmins are Tamilians, those who exclude them are Dravidians
- Is it pure if Brahminism is killed
- The freedom struggle was a viewpoint of Brahmins
- The reason why Kshatriyas held Brahmins in high esteem
- Let the Brahmins try to spread the word about not eating non-veg
The other titles in “Periyar Vision” include:
- Manu Dharma which belittles/denigrates the Brahmin women – Ambedkar
- Alcohol is not the only culprit in caste matters
- 10 Brahmins are equivalent to poison – Who does Periyar refer to?
- Aryanism–>Brahminism–>Hindi–>Sanskrit – Periyar
- What is the Aryan’s blood group?
- The RSS is blaspheming Lord Rama by taking the gun
- Aiyar is a family child Thiruvalluvar?
Under the category titled “Shudra“, the titles include:
- The reason why Shudra held Brahmins in high esteem
- Shudras should not build houses with bricks
- Who is lower caste?
- Vedas for Brahmins, Puranas for Shudras
Under the category of caste, the titles are as below:
- Why does a Kshatriya become a Shudra?
- A parliament filled with upper castes
- Only upper castes are Hindus
While the category states “Vedas and Religion“, the material inside is purely anti-Brahmin content with just one or two titles on Christianity and Islam – notably the content on Islam is very pro-Islamic in nature. Here is a look at the titles:
- 295A Great weapon of the religious fanatics
- Is it pure if Brahminism is killed?
- Leelas of Jayendrar exposed by Anuradha Ramanan
- Beef – anti-vedic symbol
- Brahmins trade beef using the name of Muslims
- Brahmins who recited prayers and worked at the mosque
- Muslims can eat in peace only in Tamil Nadu
- Adultery endorsed by Silappadikaram
- Is India the land of Vedas?
- Today’s Modi is yesterday’s Rama and Krishna
There are sections specifically on the topics of Godse, Hindutva, ManuDharma, Modi, RSS, Savarkar, education, caste, reservation, politics, atheism, Dravidianism, apart from Gandhi, Anna, Karunanidhi, etc.
The use of unconnected images by the Dravidianists to peddle an imagery and propaganda against Hinduism and Brahmins in particular has been documented by The Commune. It is a technique used by the Nazis against the Jews called Picture Superiority Effect – a phenomenon in which imagery/pictures are remembered more than text or words.
Whether or not this platform spreads love, it surely peddles hate among the general public. With pop culture being used as a medium to peddle falsehoods and induce hate among the Tamilians against Brahmins and ultimately, make Tamil Hindus ashamed of their own culture and tradition, the Dravidianist ideology has once again proved that its main agenda is to eradicate Sanatana Dharma and destroy Brahmins.
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