Brahmin hate is very often noticed among Dravidianists in Tamil Nadu, they thrive on speaking about Brahmins day in and day out. But a video that was circulating on social media platform X took this to a whole new level.

An interview clipping of Dravidian ideologue Kantharaj, a doctor with a Dravidian ideology is introduced as a political commentator in Take 1’s YouTube video on the “politics” surrounding IPL and cricket presented great misinformation which the anchor herself was agreeing to, no questions asked. 

In the video clipping, Kantharaj talks about India’s 1983 World Cup win and desperate to insert the Brahmin connection makes an erroneous statement where he says Tendulkar is an Iyengar. The transcription/translation of the video is as follows: 

“We won the World Cup for the first time. The match took place in England. Kapil Dev was the captain. Kapil Dev played really well and took us to the finals. Tendulkar gave him so much trouble. Kapil Dev won the matches as a single man. Everyone tried to bring him down, we can see it clearly. Tendulkar tried his level best to make India lose. He is an Iyengar, Kapil Dev, a non-brahmin. He (Kapil) single-handedly scored runs and bowled superbly too. You must see his bowling, he gave his life for it. He said he would not stop without winning.”

சச்சின் டெண்டுல்கர் அறிமுகமானது 1989ல்.

கபில்தேவ் உலகக் கோப்பையை வென்றது 1983ல்.

பெருசு வாய்க்கு வந்தத அடிச்சு விடுது! pic.twitter.com/Ok2UyQxax1

— இடும்பாவனம் கார்த்திக் (@idumbaikarthi) March 19, 2024

He continues to say that following this Kapil Dev was not honoured by the Modi government. He claimed Modi met Tendulkar but not Kapil Dev. The anchor keeps adding in all kinds of narratives by saying only Brahmins were given recognition. 

Let’s do some fact-checking here.

For starters, Sachin was born in 1973 and was 10 years old when India won the World Cup in England. 

Sachin is a Maharashtrian and not a Tamilian or an Iyengar – he belongs to the Saraswat Brahmin community.

Sachin made his World Cup debut in 1992. 

Netizens ridiculed the general knowledge and the memory power of an aging Kantharaj. Here are some reactions.

D Stock Dr K Kantharaj claims that "Iyengar" Tendulkar did his best to prevent Kapil Dev from winning the 1983 World Cup at England.

The interviewer doesn't correct him, the YT channel also overlays his false claim with an image of Kapil with Tendulkar. This is the levels to… https://t.co/E3hUiiVvGF

— Tamil Labs 2.0 (@labstamil) March 19, 2024

Saar @realitycheckind post. Tendulkar is an Iyangar and he tried to prevent Kapil Dev from winning the World Cup in 1983 https://t.co/1gHSAJPefz

— 𑀓𑀺𑀭𑀼𑀱𑁆𑀡𑀷𑁆 (@tskrishnan) March 19, 2024

Gubeer… On serious note, Hate for one community is unreal.. https://t.co/fyw1UkuJS7

— Arun Ramesh (@arun10venkat) March 19, 2024

Wow wow wow .
Sample of hatred towards Brahmins in TN. According to this lowlife, Brahmin Tendulkar created obstacles in world Cup 1983 and non Brahmin Kapil Dev won the cup for us https://t.co/k3yXIrX2bP

— Shankar (@shankarr108) March 19, 2024

#DravidaModel is Brahmin hate…
Dai … Sachin was 10 years old when Kapil Dev won the 1983 World Cup for India …
The people who believed EVR was awarded by UNESCo, and called ‘Socrates of South East Asia’ award, will believe this also https://t.co/4WiJLFuflx

— S.Karunanidhi S/O Jayakada (@shivprasath) March 19, 2024

This is classic Dravidia propaganda in the hope that you say something as stupid and ridiculous as this for 20-30 years, people do eventually fall for this crap.

Not anymore losers. Not in the social media era. Thank god for visibility into such crap and hate speech. https://t.co/xBXuKMvHEp

— Arunachalam (@arunachalaaya) March 19, 2024

In the video, Kantharaj says none of the players in the team are from North Madras and they indulged in “rough” and “real” games like football. The anchor then claims that it is very difficult for a non-Brhamin to get into the cricket ecosystem but Natarajan managed to break into it. But also alleges that he was removed because of caste. 

Kantharaj talks about a Budhi Kunderan, a Scheduled caste player who created a record by hitting 192 runs on the first day of the test match against England in 1964. However, he was not selected for the subsequent tours. Wikipedia claims he was dropped because his wicket-keeping skills had fallen. Kantharaj creates an illusion that Kundheran never got a chance after this drop. But the truth is that:

• Budhi Kunderan left his job in the Railways in 1965 to focus on cricket, representing Mysore and the South Zone.
• Recalled against West Indies in 1966–67, he scored 79 runs in 92 minutes in the Bombay Test.
• Despite sporadic appearances, he played alongside Engineer in the England tour of 1967, primarily as a batsman.
• Noted for his aggressive batting, Kunderan’s career included memorable performances against strong opponents like the 1959–60 Australians.
• After retiring from international cricket, he played professionally in the Lancashire League and Scotland, where he eventually settled.
• Budhi Kunderan passed away from lung cancer at the age of 66 and was posthumously honoured with a Special Award by the BCCI in June 2018.

Kantharaj continues to say “Cricket is an “avaal” game and that is why it deteriorated over time.” Here avaal is a derogatory term used to denote Brahmins in TN. He also blames the same community for bringing match-fixing into the picture. He claims Tendulkar became a big star in Sharjah cricket matches and was fixed with Dawood Ibrahim. 

Next, the anchor lists down the names of cricketers from TN and points out that they are all from the same community. Kantharaj replies to her saying no one else played cricket, all are from Chennai and hence got selected. He also adds that the media which is controlled by Brahmins created this image for them. 

The anchor then states that despite films showing the cricket board in poor light, they have not made any changes to their behavior and attitude. To this, Kantharaj says they are a strong race and one cannot win over them easily. He adds, “They are not connected to this country, they are “vandheris” (latching on to the Aryan Invasion theory) and the country is in their hands. Even the upcoming elections are in their hands. They don’t have their own land or language but they impose their things on us. We need them for our weddings or funerals. We are unable to change.”

He concludes by saying across the country, across all cricketing boards, caste is an important factor and BCCI is no better than TNCA. 

In a 2022 interview, the same Kantharaj made genocidal comments on Tamil Brahmins. He had said “You better go to your own country. Go there. There only you (Tamil Brahmins) were thrashed by Chengiz Khan and Taimur. You came here whimpering.”

Not just anyone : Dr K Kantharaj is a medical doctor , teacher of medical students, from political family, and from an elite #Dravidian nonbrahmin caste.

Why do they do this? If ideology is irrelevant then it is sooper weird someone would do this pic.twitter.com/xKQj6PcPBk

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) February 3, 2022

He also derogated Hindu Gods like Lord Ram and Lord Krishna and made scandalous remarks on April 1 being marked as Tamil New Year.

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The coalition government in Maharashtra consisting of the Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress, which had received many accolades from Bollywood celebrities at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now up in arms against some of the biggest stars in the film industry. 

In a very menacing manner, Maharashtra Congress Chief Nana Patole threatened to stop the release of Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar’s films if they do not stand with the opposition on the recent fuel price hike in the country.

https://twitter.com/Shehzad_Ind/status/1362329800577191938

Patole was angry after many top Bollywood actors came to support India over the issue concerning the Greta Thunberg ‘toolkit’ and the tweets sent by pop star Rihanna and popular porn star Mia Khalifa. 
 
A while back, the Maharashtra government had instituted a probe against cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and iconic playback singer Lata Mangeshkar for a tweet. Both of them are the recipients of India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.

The two living icons had called for national unity through their official Twitter handles in the wake of the violence by protesting farmers in Delhi on January 26, and had also spoken on why foreign nations do not have the right to interfere in the internal matters of India.
 
Patole publicly berated Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar. Arguing that both the actors had taken a stand on fuel prices when the Congress-led UPA was in power, he said that they must now take a stand against the fuel price rise now. He said that the Congress will stop the shooting of films and added that there will be no screening of their films in the state.
 
Patole was the speaker of Maharashtra assembly and took over as the Congress chief in the state just a few days ago.
 
During the height of the Emergency, singer Kishore Kumar and his songs were banned from All India Radio because he did not support the unconstitutionally imposed Emergency by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Actor Dev Anand’s films were banned also from Doordarshan after he refused to praise Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi.
 
The lyricist Mazrooh Sultanpoori spent two years in jail for writing a poem criticising Jawaharlal Nehru.

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In what has been viewed as an unfathomable event, the Uddhav Thackeray led Maharashtra government has announced that it will be ‘probing’ two living legends of India, Latha Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar, both of whom are conferred with India’s highest civilian honour ‘Bharat Ratna’, for putting out pro-India tweets after singer Rihanna’s comments on the farm laws.

Social media was abuzz many celebs started sending out tweets against Rihanna who sided with the controversial ‘farmer’ protesters sitting at the Delhi Border. The (accidental) revealing of a toolkit by Greta Thunberg with prefabricated messages and objectives to undermine the Modi government has also made the matter very delicate for the opposition.  

Following this, many Ministers and personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Virat Kohli, Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, etc had put out tweets that were pro-India. 

Now the Maharashtra Government is going after those personalities who posted such tweets which includes Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar as well.

#IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda pic.twitter.com/JpUKyoB4vn

— Lata Mangeshkar (@mangeshkarlata) February 3, 2021

“It has been revealed that there were same posts by celebrities and at the same time. Hence it will be investigated why it has happened”, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has been quoted as saying.

As per reports, it is the Indian National Congress that has come out with a complaint and reportedly had demanded an investigation into whether the BJP had “pressurised the celebrities” to post their tweets.

On February 6, NCP supremo and former Agriculture Minister of the Central Government, Sharad Pawar had asked Tendulkar ‘Exercise caution’ when commenting on farmers’ protest.

In what could be seen as sheer arrogance and condescension, Pawar said, I would advise Sachin to exercise caution while speaking about any other field,” Mr Pawar was quoted by news agency ANI.

#WATCH: NCP chief Sharad Pawar says, "Many people have reacted sharply to the stand taken by them (Indian celebrities). I would advise Sachin (Tendulkar) to exercise caution while speaking about any other field." pic.twitter.com/adUmovzzDX

— ANI (@ANI) February 6, 2021

It must also be noted that the members of Indian Youth Congress poured black oil on a cut-out of Sachin Tendulkar in Kochi and the irony is that it is the Congress government that gave Bharat Ratna to Sachin Tendulkar.

However, some experts believe that the Congress party led by Sonia Gandhi is very upset with Sachin Tendulkar as it was the Congress government that bestowed the Bharat Ratna on him and nominating him to the Rajya Sabha.

India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants.
Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation.#IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) February 3, 2021

Also, in 2017 when Sachin Tendulkar was going to make his first speech as an MP in the Rajya Sabha, Congress members of parliament continued to shout slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi that led to the master blaster unable to make his speech.

BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra lashed out at the Uddhav Thackeray led government and called the move ‘disgusting’ and ‘deplorable’. He questioned if the Maha Vikas Agadi government lost its senses and called for ‘probing the mental state’ who ordered probes against Bharat Ratnas. 

Has this MVA Govt lost all it’s senses
MVA should feel ashamed while using the word ‘probe’ for BharatRatnas
Actually, now it seems necessary to probe the mental state & stability of the ones who made such demand & of people who ordered probe against our BharatRatnas

— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) February 8, 2021

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The “accomplished poet, writer and activist” Meena Kandasamy has once again courted controversy by making an undignified comment about cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar.

In December of 2020, Meena Kandasamy had gone on a hateful tirade against Brahmins on the social media platform Twitter, where she had called Brahmins ‘di*ks’. She had also invoked ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy Naicker, the anti-Brahmin Dravidian leader who had called for a genocide of all Brahmins, in her hateful rant and had gone on to  say that Naicker was ‘needed’.

Now, the “accomplished writer-activist” is doing more activism by targeting the beloved Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar over a photograph where he is wearing the sacred thread. In a tweet, the activist called the sacred thread a ‘rarefied undergarment’.

Image source: Twitter

In her tweet, Meena Kandasamy said, “Is this a real picture, isn’t the poonool (sacred thread) some sort of rarefied undergarment which you wear inside your clothes??” She was quote-tweeting another tweet where the Twitter user was derogatorily referring to the sacred thread as a ‘string bra’.

The picture had been posted by Sachin Tendulkar on his Instagram handle on August 22, 2020 to mark the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi .

Image source: Instagram

Earlier, it was revealed that the “poet and writer”, who has allowed herself to be portrayed as Dalit on several occasions is a non-Dalit allegedly masquerading as a Dalit. She had also allegedly tried to extort money from her ex-husband, in order to settle the pending legal cases she has lodged against him under sections 498A & 506(ii) of the IPC.

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