Bad Girl, an upcoming Tamil film produced by Anurag Kashyap and Dravidianist director Vetrimaaran is the latest film to join the list of anti-Brahmin propaganda films to come out from Kollywood, targeting Tamil Brahmin women. From the looks of the trailer, the film attempts to portrays the story of a Tamil Brahmin girl who wants to be rebellious, break the shackles of “Brahminical patriarchy“, chooses to live the “high” life and defies her parents and family.

The author of this piece is not at all surprised that the director and the lead of the latest Brahmin-bashing film belongs to the Tamil Brahmin community which is portrayed as regressive in the movie. It’s equally unsurprising that these two talented women appear to have fallen into the trap carefully laid by the Dravidian ecosystem.

“Use the same fingers of the Paapan (casteist slur for Tamil Brahmins) to prick his eyes” – so goes a popular saying among the Dravidian elite. They had done it multiple times over the last 100 years. And this movie is part of the same playbook. Millions of gallons of sewage have flown through though Cooum over the last 100 years but the playbook remains the same. The likes of Krishnas and Sekhars hobnobbing with the Dravidianazis, to gain acceptance among the Dravidian elite for their own opportunities, even as they willingly let their own community become the perpetual punching bag for the Dravidianazis exemplifies the larger issues within the urban Tamil Brahmin community. These young ladies are doing the same – either they’ve fallen into the Dravidianist trap or they’re just doing it to gain acceptance in the Dravidian filmdom.

While these woke Dravidian ladies regurgitate the stale Dravidian vomit targeting Brahmins, the author considers it his duty to state some facts that will allow the young ladies to introspect deeply.

Tamil Brahmin Women are emancipated and have moved up in all spheres of life over the last 100 years. If Tamil Brahmins were regressive, Usha Sundaram would not have become India’s first Women Pilot, Indira Nooyi would not have become CEO of Pepsico, Janaki and Jayalalithaa Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Rukmini Arundale and Padma Subrahmanyam doyens of Bharatnatyam, Bhavani Devi a champion in Fencing, Mallika Srinivasan a successful corporate honcho and not to mention, thousands and thousands of Tamil Brahmin women who have excelled across spheres right from corporate to arts to sports. MS Subbulakshmi, a woman who was born into the Devadasi community and married Sadasivam was supported and encouraged throughout by her Brahmin husband. This was 90 years back.

And the very fact that these two young ladies from Brahmin families have entered film industry itself stands testimony to the progressive nature of the Brahmin community. These two young ladies can touch their conscience and check if ladies from other communities swearing allegiance to EV Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as Periyar by his followers) have let their women folk choose the career of their choice especially in the fields like cinema, arts or modelling.

EVRites are still stuck in 1925. They think Brahmin women still tonsure their heads after their husband’s death and cover their heads. Gone are those days. Brahmin households became progressive a long time back when it comes to educating their women and help them choose the career of their choice. Brahmin husbands aid their women folk in these aspects as well and support their wives – whether they’re having their periods or not. Millions of Brahmin women have been fully supported and backed by their families to realise their dreams.

As an entrepreneur in financial services catering to diverse demographics, I can confidently assert that Tamil Brahmin women are among the most financially independent. The influence they wield over their family’s financial decisions is unparalleled, showcasing a level of empowerment that stands out compared to women from other landed castes.

These young ladies, if they had a tinge of self-respect or cared about emancipation of women could have focused on such examples and themes. Instead, they chose to turn woke and fall right into the Dravidian playbook. True progressiveness lies in advancements in education, careers, and financial independence—not in promiscuity or becoming trophy wives to individuals who ironically seek the eradication of the very community these women originate from.

It is, however, a concerning reality that an increasing number of young women from the Tamil Brahmin community are embracing “woke” ideologies. Blaming the girls alone is pointless—it is ultimately the responsibility of parents to raise their daughters with the awareness and values needed to resist such influences. In this regard, some parents have clearly fallen short.

Hopefully, young women from the Tamil Brahmin community understand the tactics of the Dravidian playbook, steer clear of malicious propaganda in films like ‘Bad Girl’ and not become yet another toy in the hands of these evil divisive forces. We are in 2025 now. Brahmin women are AI coders, entrepreneurs, doctors and engineers making this world a better place so that the woke feminazis get to virtue-signal about the own community they’re born into.

And when will these Dravidian Stocks realise that they are stuck in 1920s and take steps to emancipate women in their own kitchens?

Nanmozhian is an entrepreneur based out of Chennai.

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Subhakeerthana, Deputy News Editor at Press Trust of India, one of India’s largest news agencies, recently made broad and generalized statements that could be considered a case of hate speech against the Brahmin community.

Amidst the ongoing controversy about concealing Major Mukund Varadarajan’s identity in the recently released biopic Amaran, the alleged journalist commented that most of the Brahmins she has interacted with are petty, unbearable, and regressive.

She made the comment while responding to another person who had asked whether the Tamil Brahmin community would be okay with Major Mukund Varadarajan’s Iyengar identity being shown, adding that they would fight over whether he was Vadakalai or Thengalai.

Subhakeerthana had posted, “Yes, Major Mukund Varadarajan was a Tam-Brahm. To be specific, Iyengar from Tambaram. So what? Now, move on. To all those “proud Hindus” out there, he’s far beyond any caste label. No need to state the obvious just to flex your caste pride; he’s a hero, plain and simple.”

Yes, Major Mukund Varadarajan was a Tam-Brahm. To be specific, Iyengar from Tambaram. So what? Now, move on. To all those “proud Hindus” out there, he’s far beyond any caste label. No need to state the obvious just to flex your caste pride; he’s a hero, plain and simple. #Amaran

— Subhakeerthana (@bhakisundar) November 2, 2024

In response to a person suggesting that if Mukund Varadarajan’s Brahmin identity were highlighted, Tamil Brahmins would debate whether he was Vadakalai or Thengalai Iyengar, Subhakeerthana said “Most Brahmins (I know) are petty and, honestly, a bit unbearable. Sure, this isn’t everyone—disclaimer!—but about 90% of them seem to be all show and no substance. Pesinaale, gaand aavum. Most of them (I know), again, are regressive and far from what they appear to be.”

She even went on to justify her sweeping generalizations and hate speech saying that her position comes from “lived experiences” and that she had mentioned “I know” twice in her post.

Absolutely. Everyone’s got their take. What I say comes from lived experiences, not random words tossed around. I stand by it. And yes, I heard you loud and clear. Good night, sir.

— Subhakeerthana (@bhakisundar) November 2, 2024

Who Is Subhakeerthana?

Before joining PTI, Subhakeerthana was the Entertainment Editor at South First, a news portal that is a “wannabe” The News Minute. She had also worked with The News Minute for a while. Previously, she served as Assistant Editor at The Federal (2023–2024) and Senior Content Producer at HT Media Ltd in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, she was Show Producer – Group Manager at Mirchi, and between 2018 and 2020, she worked as Copy Editor (Entertainment) at The New Indian Express.

This is not the first time that leftist journalists have attacked Brahmins.

Previous Instances Of Brahmin Hate By Alleged “Journalists”

A journalist from The News Minute (TNM) named Balakrishna Ganeshan spewed casteist venom against Tamil Brahmins. Alleged ‘neutral’ political commentator Dr. Sumanth Raman had said that while millions of genuinely disadvantaged need the benefits of reservation, the current reservation system was exploited by those who are socio-economically well off! He had put a series of tweets to one Soumitra Pathare supporting Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota.

Reacting to one tweet of Sumanth Raman, The News Minute journalist Balakrishna Ganeshan put out a pun intended tweet saying “This thread (andha thread ah thaan sonna)” referring to the poonool/janeu (sacred thread) worn by Brahmins.

Another journalist of The News Minute Bharathy Singaravel is known for peddling hate against Brahmins. She once used the word “Paarpaan” – a derogatory and genocidal term used against Tamil Brahmins – to call out the Brahmin identity of a defence policy analyst.

In another tweet, she wrote that Tamil freedom fighter Vanchinathan, who is a Brahmin and killed British Collector Robert Ashe, disgusts her.

Karikalan, a Dravidian Stockist journalist known for anti-Brahmin verbal abuse, has said that Brahmins should not enter the media industry, alleging that they are disproportionately represented in journalism.

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Prologue

The British, experts in the art of divide and rule, have successfully portrayed the entire Brahmin species as a cunning, conceited, clever, covetous, contemptible close-knit clan and pitted the rest of the entire society against them. 

When a falsehood is relentlessly repeated ad nauseam, it starts gaining credibility and over time, it gets vociferous advocates who will spread it further, as a result of which, the factual truth is completely obliterated. The list of such false accusations and the refutation thereof is quite long and deserves altogether a different dissertation. 

Things have gone too long, too far, too much. And the time has come to call it quits. Brahmins have been, for several decades, defamed and denigrated, condemned and castigated, treated as apartheid and outlaws in their own native land to such an extent that, a sizeable section of the Brahmin folk themselves have developed ‘Stockholm Syndrome’, justifying the inhuman treatment being meted out to them. In this loathsome exercise, the anti-national Communist historians, cleverly and cunningly compiled a compendium of false narrations with ignoble intention and indecent haste, as true history and thrust them on the credulous readers as authentic versions to bolster their larger obnoxious agenda of wiping out the eternal ethereal values of our glorious nation.

A Word About The Social Structure Before The British

The modern concepts of division of labour, adoption of congenital core skills for natural advantage in executing various tasks, keeping in mind the welfare of all, and also ensuring maximum benefit for every section of the society were all voluntarily practised in our nation before the advent of the British [The system, christened as ‘Varnashrama Dharma’ and now being groundlessly criticised, chastised and castigated as though it is an elemental and eternal evil for all the ills pervading the society]. It was ‘Each for all and all for each’, without any iota of selfishness. Each section respected the other. No one treated his avocation as merely a job for wages or as a privilege of birth, but as a bounden duty, he owes to the society. Everyone lived a peaceful, happy, contented life. If, by exceptional skills or through extraneous circumstances someone or some group grows rich, the largesse was invariably returned to the society for the welfare of all. The innumerable choultries that were in existence in those days were testimonies to their intrinsic altruism.  

Tiruvalluvar emphasises charity as the cardinal criterion for the householder.

ஈதல் இசைபட வாழ்தல் அதுவல்லது

ஊதியம் இல்லை உயிர்க்கு.

The same tenet is articulated in the following proverb in Sanskrit:

दानं भोगो नाशः तिस्रो गतयो भवन्ति वित्तस्य।

यो न ददाति न भुङ्क्ते तस्य तृतीया गतिः भवति॥

Meaning:

Wealth gets utilised in three ways:

Donation, consumption, and destruction. Wealth of the one who neither gives his wealth for charity nor uses it for appropriate self-consumption has a third destination, destruction!

(It will be of no use to either the individual or to the society).

It is significant to note that here also the priority is provided to philanthropy and not personal pleasure. In the olden days, pilgrims travelled quite comfortably without any inhibition about food or shelter. There used to be choultries everywhere and travellers were accommodated invitingly. 

It is very difficult if not impossible to comprehend the picture of the ideal society that existed in those days. Here is an interesting story.

The Story Of Subbier

It was the later part of the British period. 

Angarai, a small agraharam village near Tiruchi, where around two hundred Brahmin families were living and Subbier was one rich mirasdar among them. He was enjoying around 2000 acres of fertile land. He was a good samaritan to the core. ‘Annadhanam’ to all at any cost was his motto. His house was large and everyone in his household was ever ready to serve strangers with delicious food. 

Pilgrims and pedestrians would unhesitatingly go to his house in large numbers for food and shelter and their complete satisfaction was his cardinal criterion. 

As long as he was rich, he could comfortably engage in charitable exercises. But. Darker days came. His income dwindled and became zero. Still, penury did not deter him. 

 ஆற்றுப் பெருக்கற்று அடிசுடும் அந்நாளும் அவ்வாறு

ஊற்றுப் பெருக்கால் உலகூட்டும் – ஏற்றவர்க்கு

நல்ல குடிப்பிறந்தார் நல்கூர்ந்தார் ஆனாலும்

இல்லையென மாட்டார் இசைந்து. [ஔவையின் நல்வழி

Meaning: 

A river, even when after becoming dry will continue to provide water through its springs. Similarly, a nobleman, even when he becomes poor will not stop his charity.

He sold the jewels of the womenfolk in his house and continued his services. He could not pay his annual taxes to the British government. His dues grew up in arrears. Unfortunately, somebody in the village who was jealous of his fame complained to the collector that he was just pretending to be poor and avoiding payment of dues. The collector assured him that he would take action.

One night, Subbier, while walking outside his house, heard a feeble voice begging for food. For serving such unexpected visitors there would always be sumptuous food in his house. He went inside, filled a flat-bottomed vessel neatly with rice and all side dishes, gave it to that fellow, and told him, ‘Satiate your hunger; now it is pitch dark; return the empty vessel tomorrow morning. Even if you cannot return it, keep it yourself.’

The next day, the collector visited the village to demand the dues from Subbier. After thorough interrogation, here is how the conversation flowed:

Collector: When was the last time you fed a needy?

Subbier: Last night one stranger came and I gave him food.

Subbier went on to narrate the incident in detail.

Collector: Do you have any evidence?

Subbier: No

Collector: Where is that vessel now? Can you show me?

Subbier: No, I told him to either return or keep it himself. 

The collector removed a curtain beneath his table and asked, ‘Is this that vessel?’

Everyone was shocked. Subbier could not believe that it was the collector himself who had come incognito as a beggar to test him. Collector, having understood the greatness of Subbier told him, “I bow down to your charitable character. As long as I am here none from my office will come and disturb you. Go ahead with your service. I wish you all the best.”

This incident was recorded in great detail in a book, ‘Nalluaraikkovai’ by Dr. U V Swaminatha Iyer. The descendants of that lineage are identified with the sobriquet, ‘Annadhanam’ in their names. 

Epilogue

This is just one small incident in one family and like this, there are hundreds of examples where Brahmins served society in different ways but unfortunately, such occurrences did not receive their due recognition and in many cases, were completely forgotten. 

Here are a few names of Brahmins from public life:

Neelakanta Brahmachari. V V S Iyer, Vaidyanatha Iyer, Vanchinathan, Arya Bhashyam, Bhashyam Iyengar, Satyamurthy, Ambujammal, S Srinivasa Aiyengar, Subramania Bharati, N Goplaswamy Iyengar.

With some intense search, we may know a few of them. But, consider these names:

Sankarakrishna Iyer, a young farmer; Jagannatha Ayyangar, a young cook; Harihara Iyer, a young merchant; V. Desikachari, a merchant; Vembu Iyer, a cook; ‘Vande Matharam’ Subramania Iyer, a schoolmaster; Pichumani Iyer, a cook.

These were a few patriotic Brahmins among those arrested along with Neelakanta Brahmachari in the conspiracy of Ashe’s murder by Vanchinathan. Most of them were in their twenties when got arrested. We can easily infer that all of them are from lower middle-class or poor families. They have literally sacrificed their lives for our nation. Do we know anything about them? Don’t we owe them anything for their sacrifice? 

An important disclaimer before we conclude. This article does not, we repeat it does not advocate any acrimony among any group of castes. Far from it. If, by chance, any of the statements are misconstrued and consequently misinterpreted as endorsing ill will, we offer our apologies forthwith. Our message, rather, our plea is that let us not vilify Brahmins as a single entity and throw mud on them. There are good and bad people in each group, in each section of the society. It is unfair to generalise promoting some secretive, sinister agenda. In Merchant of Venice, there is a topic, ‘Shylock is more sinned against than sinning-Discuss’. we can extrapolate that statement, ‘Unfortunate Brahmins are extremely, excessively sinned against over a long period than sinning. A corrective step is called for.  

(with inputs from Project Madurai)

Parasuram Sharma is a retired bank officer and an octogenarian whose interests include Sanathana Dharmam, Samskritam, history and politics.

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As an entrepreneur hailing from the much-maligned Tamil Brahmin community, it is painful to see the community sharply divided and indulging in petty fight in social media over an award given to a Musician by a Music Academy. When the community is indulging in such fights, political parties are announcing the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls in 2024. A cursory glance into the candidate list will reveal that not a single ticket been distributed to the Brahmin community so far by all the three major alliances in Tamil Nadu – INDIA, NDA and ADMK.

Communities which are smaller and numerically insignificant than Brahmins have got multiple representation across the spectrum in ticket distribution but Brahmins are left behind. Tamil Brahmins are in a position to influence the outcome big time in about six odd constituencies in the state. They constitute about 30% of the electorate of the South Chennai constituency and about 20% of the Sriperumbudur constituency. They are present in sizeable numbers in Coimbatore, Trichy, Mayiladuthurai and Central Chennai constituencies as well.

Unfortunately, no party or alliance is ready to accommodate them. The community needs to take cognizance of this fact, stay united and consolidate itself rather than to fight in social media and expose themselves badly.

In states like Karnataka, a sense of unity exists among Brahmins resulting in as many as 15 Mlas and 3 MPs for the community folks across the spectrum. Even Telangana state has Brahmin representation in both the assembly as well as the cabinet. When it comes to Tamil Nadu, the current assembly has zero Brahmin MLAs. The lone Brahmin MP, PR Natarajan has been denied ticket by CPM this time and none of the three major fronts are going to field a Brahmin candidate in TN this time going by the grapevine.

The community needs to take into account these facts, put up a united face and protect themselves from political oblivion. Bharatanatayam was alien to Brahmin culture till 1920s though Brahmin composers paid a big role in shaping up Carnatic music since time immemorial. Both the art forms were in the domain of the Devadasis who with great zeal and enthusiasm protected the same for millenniums. With abolition of the Devadasi systems, the elite of 1920s largely from the Brahmin community took up both the art forms, reformed and commercialised the art forms and gave a new lease of life to them. The art forms remain niche and is flourishing in certain families which are rich enough to let their kid pursue the form irrespective of whether they are able to earn enough or not. For majority of the Brahmins, neither Carnatic nor Sadhir matters. What we want is a peaceful atmosphere sans hatred to prevail in our home land Tamil Nadu, not Sabha Awards.

An overwhelming majority of the community largely depends on formal education to uplift itself from poverty. Thanks to liberalisation and the shraddha ingrained by the parents, the Youth of the community have gone places be it sports or corporate. And the community has moved up despite all odds braving genocidal threats largely due to hard work. The community has a greater responsibility now. With increasing hatred and calumny against the community by vested interests amplified in this era of social media, staying politically relevant and protecting the community’s interest should be etched in the minds of every community member.

A Sabha Award or a Trustee seat can at the maximum benefit a few elites but a seat at the assembly or parliament will protect the community from vested interests and help counter malicious propaganda. Hence, I request the community members not to mud sling against each other in the public domain, unite for a larger cause of achieving political representation which is of paramount importance in preventing hate crimes against the community in the coming decades. Burying the ego and protecting the community’s interest politically and electorally is the need of the hour not a sabha award or trusteeship. Staying politically relevant to protect Dharma is needed now not squabble over an Award which in no way can uplift the community or protect it during a crisis. As simple as that!

Subash is a finance professional and a portfolio manager based out of Chennai.

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Special thanks to Reality Check India

While researching this vast topic, I came across this short video where Aravind Neelakantan says

“Remember the Dravidian movement ideologically is a clone of the Nazi movement. The Nazis have their Jews, the Dravidianists have their Brahmins. The Nazis guide their Master Aryan theory the Dravidianists have their Master Dravidian theory. The Nazis saw Jews as the reason for all the problems in Germany, the Dravidianists see Brahmins as the cause of all the problems in Tamil Nadu. In fact, their ideologue, CN Annadurai, said this after the Nazi horror was exposed, sometime in the 1950s. CN Annadurai said, if we could follow the strategy of Adolf Hitler and eliminate Brahmins and if that would solve our problems, we could do that. But the real social reality is stopping us because the Aryan concepts are already there in all communities.”

Let us have a look at how Brahmins are depicted across Dravidian literature and “pop culture”. A Twitter handle @realitycheckind has been tracking this peddling of hate through Nazi-style propaganda for quite some time and we have been able to collate most of such depictions from their handle.

Basically, the caricatures of Tamil Brahmins are based on 3 points:

• They are fat, unshapely, and ugly
• They are scary
• They are “powerful” yet harmless but evil in nature

So, pushing the point that if there is a Brahmin around you, look at them with fear in your eyes because they are going to devour you. If we compare this with the Nazi propaganda, Jews were also described as ugly, evil, money-minded, powerful, and scary, not to forget their flowing beards – they stereotyped Brahmins as those with Shikha (tuft). This ultimately goes on to underscore what TN BJP President, K Annamalai had said in the ANI Podcast with Smitha Prakash – that Tamil Brahmins are comparable to Jews.

It takes guts to be in Tamil Nadu politics and say this openly, after the decades of systematic Brahmin hatred encouraged by the likes of Ramaswami Naickar. How I want this man to be the CM of Tamil Nadu some day! @annamalai_k https://t.co/yIfaJofqcY

— Shefali Vaidya. (@ShefVaidya) May 30, 2023

Nazi-Style Propaganda

The Dravidianists have made use of what is known as the Picture Superiority Effect – a phenomenon in which imagery/pictures are remembered more than text or words.

Most of the Dravidian literature about Brahmins has a few things in common, especially on their cover images.

• The brahmin has a near-tonsured head with a tuft of hair at the back.
• He is fat, has a paunch, wears the dhoti, and of course, the janeu/sacred thread.
• In some cases, depending on the title and the type of content, the Brahmin is shown just next to Satan in terms of being evil.

Some other methodologies used include zoomorphism – depicting brahmins as animals. In this case, the brahmin is depicted as the 8-legged octopus. The inspiration seems to have come from (no prizes for guessing) the Nazi propaganda – as seen in the adjoining image.

https://twitter.com/realitycheckind/status/1633686952611577857

In a more recent instance, a Dravidian outfit named Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam shared this poster with the words:

Breaking: New Anti-Tamil-Brahmin toon by Dravidian-Tamil outfit spotted and recorded. pic.twitter.com/rOwn73rndO

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) March 8, 2023

“Do not take away the priestly right of all Hindus!

Don’t claim that the temple and God belong to the Brahmins!

Tamil Nadu government must intervene immediately!”

In this the Brahmin is seen climbing and standing atop a temple, with the key at his hip, indicating that Brahmins control temple wealth, yet another stereotype shown here is the Brahmin is holding Darbai grass in his hand. The Brahmin is shown to be fat and ugly, with a hateful expression on the face – Typical Nazi stereotyping model.

In this cartoon image shared by the handle which is said to be of someone named Kabilan,

https://twitter.com/realitycheckind/status/1633040329812377603

the same stereotypes and depicting of physical features come through – the brahmin is shown as “blobs with zero musculature”. As per Reality Check India, this ‘picture superiority effect’ drills the fact into the heads of Tamilians that Brahmins are parasites that do not work, they just eat, and pile on the kilos.

https://twitter.com/realitycheckind/status/1633044875427065858

And this is not seen in just one cartoon, but plenty of them and for a very long time thereby conditioning unaware Tamilians that Brahmins are indeed ugly and fat and keep consuming others’ resources.

Here are another set of tweets, do you notice how  the Brahmin’s tuft is shown to be like a chameleon? (Zoomorphism)

https://twitter.com/realitycheckind/status/1633041959723089921

The Dravidian-Tamil propaganda toons are extraordinarily detailed, observes Reality Check India. Most TamBrahms have no choice but to be repelled and aghast.

In this set of images shared by Suren, you can notice that in the left image, the brahmin’s tuft is morphed into a snake that will “kill” the poor non-brahmin.

Anti-Brahmin propaganda poster
Nazie era anti-Semite propaganda pic.twitter.com/QBgqoAbroF

— Suren (@zeneraalstuff) September 20, 2017

Again, you can notice the big fat stomach, ugly Brahmin who supposedly holds control over the Vedas, Manu Smriti, etc. On the right is a Nazi-era anti semitic propaganda poster which also shows the Jews as money-minded, and controlling (see the whip in hand).

Coming to the next creative, in this tweet we can see the clear similarities between how Nazis and Dravidianists would like to treat Jews and Brahmins.

https://twitter.com/zeneraalstuff/status/910798649013051392

On the left, Jews are punched whereas on the right Brahmins are kicked, the sentiments are the same.

Moving on to books i,e Propaganda Literature,

"Aariya maayai" (Aryan mAyA/illusions) by the very 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu: C. N. Annadurai…Cover image: brAhmaNa with evil smile pic.twitter.com/i7AaN1W5at

— āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha (@GhorAngirasa) September 21, 2017

This book “Aariya maayai” (Aryan mAyA/Aryan illusions) was written by the very 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, C. N. Annadurai. The cover image shows a Brahmin with an evil smile, reiterating the stereotyping and staying true to the Nazi propaganda by depicting TamBrahms as evil.

In this thread by GhorAngirasa, also covered by OpIndia, book covers of many Dravidian literature have been covered and they all have one thing in common – vilify Tamil Brahmins.

In the spirit of quite a few threads today, a curated thread on Dravidianist obsession with brAhmaNa-s
1. Book title: Money grabbing pArppanar-s (pArppanan was a noble word for brAhmaNas from saNGam texts; now used as a pejorative) pic.twitter.com/ijX6k7QuKW

— āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha (@GhorAngirasa) August 8, 2018

The book titles in the thread read as follows:

• The Brahmins who snatched money
• Bitter truths/religious Scandals of Brahmins – depicting Vamana on the cover as the Brahmin
• Aryan Rule – where a Brahmin is depicted with a big tummy, the conspicuous sacred thread (janeu), holding the trident (trishul)which is a Hindu symbol, and the head of the Brahmin is shown as a snake.
• Brahmin’s Theism that destroyed Tamil Nadu – the cover image shows a Brahmin with a big fat tummy, and his tuft of hair (Shikha/kudumi) wrapped around the TN state like a snake
• Are Brahmins Tamils? – Cover image shows a few Vaishnavite men and a woman wearing traditional clothes
• Why did Brahmins oppose the British – this depicts Brahmins in the same oft-repeated fashion – pot belly, long Shikha, skinny hands, and another one with a turban and pot belly.
• Brahmin Nuisance – Depicts a weird-looking Brahmin – pointy Shikha, scary face, pot belly, skinny hands as if he is in control of the High Court
• A resounding answer/retaliation to the Brahmin fraud – a blobby-looking Brahmin with the usual marks is shown running away – ugly facial features, lack of musculature
• Brahmins didn’t change, will not change, shudras and ashudras have changed – the brahmin in this cover pic is shown to have a huge belly, a serpentine janeu strangling the non-brahmin, holding the trishul and has a Satan-type face.
• Brahmins’ plots and the downfall of Kings – The cover image shows a Brahmin with an evil smile and shows a king-like figure in his palm indicating that Brahmins controlled the kings and kingdoms
• Why I am not a Hindu by Kancha Iliah (Tamil version) shows a pot-bellied Brahmin with an evil smile, an ugly face, and the sacred thread (janeu)shown to strangle the non-brahmin.
• A cartoon from an online essay titled Shankara Matham – Den for terrorism – the cover pic insults the then Math head, Shri Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal depicting him with weapons.
• Brahmin gang entering the battlefield as a group. We will reclaim Thillai, we will dismantle Brahmin hegemony – the image shows prominent personalities from VHP – Ashok Singhal, Hindu Munnani head, Rama Gopalan, and other political personalities such as Cho, Jayalalithaa, Subramaniam Swamy, and the brahmin is shown as Lucifer and wears a janeu, has a key indicating temple control.
• Purohitas’ reign – Shows a Brahmin (3%) standing on a non-brahmin (97%) and using the whip on him and indicates that even when Brahmins are at 3%, they can subjugate the rest of the population.

Some book titles without demeaning images include:

• If Englishmen are strangers, who or what are brahmins (parpans)?
• Was Raja Raja Chozhan a slave of the Brahmins?
• Brahmins who raised a commotion against social revolution
• Aryan-Brahmin plot to usurp temple administration

Going over a few other tweets on this propaganda which relies on imagery to drive the so-called “evilness” of Brahmins into other Tamilians’ heads, we see this:

pArppAn's tuft (shikhA) is the NEET exam policy through which he destroys the lives, dreams, hopes & aspirations of non-pArppAns. pic.twitter.com/iqaOsEhC8J

— āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha (@GhorAngirasa) August 9, 2018

A Brahmin priest’s (purohit) tuft of hair/Shikha, the tuft morphs into the words NEET and ends with a stethoscope indicating that Brahmins are the ones for whom NEET was made and ensures they get their degrees.

you can see creative re-use of Brahmin stereotypical caricatures by Tamilian (Drav) high frequency propaganda accounts.

this meme

Repeat : #D is a police matter. https://t.co/xpC13qwC0S pic.twitter.com/5SPowQRpq6

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) March 2, 2023

You can see creative re-use of Brahmin stereotypical caricatures by Tamilian (Dravidian) high-frequency propaganda accounts.

this is a vile canard campaign spread by DMK IT Wing in comic format.

as good as Amar Chitra Katha (Tamilian-D version)

(notice expressions) pic.twitter.com/ZcW0rqEyRS

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) February 22, 2023

Look at how well produced DMK(Dravidian) hate propaganda is. Here is an example of a scratchy toon made by NonTamils (Hindi I think) but a Tamil put the caption separately.

Notice :

Hastily done
Amateurish
Leaves very little impact in brain
Free (no funding..) pic.twitter.com/bcVxu01sOK

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) February 20, 2023

Compare these Dravidian propaganda toons with this image above. Look at how well-produced DMK(Dravidian) hate propaganda is. This cartoon is hastily done, feels amateurish, and leaves very little impact on the brain, it is available freely (has no form of funding).

When we say this kind of peddling of hate is institutionalised and well-funded, we mean it. Here is a verified DMK IT Wing official handle shares a cartoon similar to Amar Chitra Katha

Verified official DMK IT Wing creates and shares a vicious propaganda comic demonizing Tamizh Brahmins.

As I said this is state sponsored. Ultimately a police matter.

(( will share panel by panel translation )) @dhume @ShashiTharoor https://t.co/tcfus1bhb6 pic.twitter.com/339BPef46k

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) February 15, 2023

Vicious propaganda demonising the Tamizh Brahmins.

for a constitutional "rights" lawyers with an interest in linkages to power #Drav cases are a goldmine.But you arent "plugged in" to Tamil.The person next to you is the same person here.. you are knowingly or unknowingly allying with anti-semitic hatred couched as social justice pic.twitter.com/q915EsYtEa

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 10, 2022

The next one shows VCK chief Thirumavalavan pulling the Shikha of a Brahmin – that he is superior to the Brahmin.

Some more hate propaganda material you ask, here you go!

Two new anti-Brahmin propaganda cartoons produced by Drav-Tamils in wake of the #EWS case

1: Sambuka dripping blood on to a judge looking executioner

2: fat B – copied directly from Nazi stereotypes. why not give EWS to that OBC skinny man? pic.twitter.com/oY3f6Wi4pu

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 10, 2022

Brahmins are shown as discriminatory and they rise to the top by stamping and climbing on non-brahmins.

In this tweet, we see Nattu aka Natarajan the cricketer is seen to be “dismantling Brahminism” in the cricket world.

This is straight out of Dravidian playbook. They did this with Nattu.. as well. both are Tamilians. pic.twitter.com/EZ68JN7Pty

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) September 5, 2022

The stumps are marked “The parochial Sanatana Dharma social structure” and an ugly obese Brahmin in the image who has been “dismantled”.

an outpouring by Dravidians - lots of new toonz for me.

Just observe how well produced they are. Exactly like the nazi toons – ths isnt amateurs scribbling. This comes from top. https://t.co/uVfZyVwX0t pic.twitter.com/xJFpfJJYN5

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 9, 2022

Here’s how they show that Brahmins are cunning and the Dravidians propagate the fact that EWS quota was created so Brahmins will have a chance at beating reservation.

Good morning Tamils (Dravidians)

This criminal passion is the best justification for EWS. https://t.co/vB6DLeQWOV pic.twitter.com/20DU7xbS7A

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 9, 2022

Want something more on the Supreme Court being occupied by Brahmins, here you go!

In this image, they use the Brahmin’s head to morph the Supreme Court claiming

இத தானே நீ மக்களுக்கு புரியாத மேரி சொல்லுற?

(you really want to say this right? just be direct ) pic.twitter.com/1kZCsuoXBD

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) March 2, 2023

that it is the Brahmins who are occupying the highest posts and are influencing judgements. If only that were to happen!

new arrival pic.twitter.com/tWeZ3iRonW

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 7, 2022

This image claims that the Supreme Court judges are all Brahmins. Says there are 26 judges in India’s top court of which 23 are Brahmins and 2 OBCs and only 1 from the SC/ST category. Here again, there is a use of Zoomorphism – the brahmin is morphed into a horse with an ugly face.

Some more Supreme Court based propaganda material for you:

New Delhi (India) bjp unable to prevent these existential moments. Dravidian can never lose the EWS case because even if the verdict goes against, they get to go to town with 'uchikudumi mandram' (tuft court) – D fuels CON. see? pic.twitter.com/TCUJzQ262W

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 6, 2022

This image depicts the Supreme Court in the form of the Shikha of a Brahmin with Vaishnavite symbols. The text written reads, it is not the Supreme Court, it is Tuft/Shikha (Uchikudumi Mandram) court indicating Brahmins are controlling the courts and interfering with justice.

Check out this collection of tweets indicating how the Supreme Court is run by Brahmins.

you have no idea of the potency of D propaganda.

Supreme Court wading into this 'freebie' issue against a force without narrow framing, precise definitions and red lines. only a #core court can take these things on. @TweetinderKaul @gautambhatia88 @vikramhegde79 pic.twitter.com/g2EzmfUh80

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) August 23, 2022

The same typical imagery all across the pictures.

Zoomorphism, you ask, here you go!

First of all lets make two assumptions

1) that there is a criminal provision IPC 153 that is widely used
2) we also accept this is not applicable to anti Brahmin hate speech perpetrated by Tamil-Dravidians.

* abhorrent but not objectionable* pic.twitter.com/yY1cr7iiR2

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 2, 2022

Dravidian-Tamil organisation says in this anti-brahmin caricature poster which again uses zoomorphism, “Brahmins Octopus encroached govt depts we condemn. Nov 7 Siege of Shastri Bhavan octopus tentacles features SBI, Indian Army, UPSC, SC.”

Some more…

well I bring good news my Drav-brother I am in the polar opposite state of a meltdown

we are going to show the world how similar your patho obsession with one group is to anti-semitism.

this time you ran into an OG Tamil fox.. pic.twitter.com/eazd28lheX

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) October 10, 2022

Depicts Brahmins as worms (Zoomorphism)– showcasing Brahmins as animals/insects is one popular way of propagating hate and a favourite of the Nazi propagandists. The image on the left titled, “What can be done of this germ”, depicts Sadagopan Jeeyar as a worm/centipede and he says, “Chant Om Namo Narayana 108 times, Corona will disappear” On the right, you can see the Nazi propaganda against Jews depicting them as worms in a similar fashion.

EVR in Dravidian hate propaganda

What do you test ?

– persistent and repeated messaging
– creative high quality propaganda material
– caricatures and stereotypes
– nonbrahmin tamil elites refusal to distance themselves
– involvement of the very top leadership pic.twitter.com/dn7dUPoBzB

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 2, 2022

One such imagery shows EVR holding Brahmin by the ear – a Dravidian wet dream.

Next up, Pondicherry State President of Dravidar Kazhagam (ideological parent of DMK) explaining Dravidianism in actual form. In this tweet, we see a brahmin (on the left) shown to be a “pest” while EVR is shown as the “pesticide”. That is how deep-seated the hatred is among Dravidianists.

Pondicherry State President of Dravidar Kazhagam (ideological parent of DMK) explaining #D in actual form.

How does it read when translated out of Tamil? pic.twitter.com/vh46FYlc73

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) October 24, 2022

And some more…

speaking of orgs that must be banned and would be banned in any civilized country is one which produces hate propaganda like this in 21st century.

that is my take on #PFI ban – a second order issue for me. cc @ADL pic.twitter.com/8TwiGCKE7s

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) September 28, 2022

This one shows a Brahmin whose legs are tied to a walking stick indicative of EVR and the Shikha/tuft is also in the control of EVR signalling that Brahmins can no longer do what they wish and Dravidian ideology has curbed their freedom, the image wants to communicate the point “EVR’s walking stick keeps the Brahmin under control”.

How can we forget Manu Smriti!

such absurd fiery debates in Dravidian usually degrade into anti tamizhbrahmin propaganda material like this.

creation of this material is the goal.

"you are called prostitute son by A.Raja do you hear it or not" pic.twitter.com/qmDykHZgXc

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) September 22, 2022

A repeat of the tuft strangling the non-brahmins is used here. The cartoon mentions A Raja’s speech where he says Manu Smriti says Shudras are children of prostitutes. The Brahmin here is shown to repeat that to the non-brahmin and is tightening his grip on him with the tuft. This is very similar to the saturation canards of blood libel – a canard that Jews used the blood of Christian children for Passover rituals, a canard that could not be shaken off for centuries similar to Tamil Brahmins poured lead into ears of Dravidians’ ears if they asked for ‘education’.

In this tweet, we can see 2 similar images, the Dravidians just borrowed the content and replaced the Capitalist oppressor with a Tamil Brahmin; this cartoon is used in the context of EWS pretty recently.

the Dravs just replaced the Capitalist oppressor with TamizhBrahmin -

this toon is used in #EWS context .. the DTamils are in Supreme Court whipping the clueless BJP mitrons on the const amendment. This is so beautiful,natural law at work. pic.twitter.com/DhbDmvQY3r

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) September 18, 2022

Inspiration from Fips

Jews were shown to be obese, money-minded, stomping on others, and dangerous by Fips (Ruprecht cartoonist for Der Sturmer), they were never shown with musculature, the same propaganda style is used for Tamil Brahmins too – very chubby, harmless yet capable of violence.

Fips (Ruprecht cartoonist for Der Sturmer) never showed Jw musculature. but you can see how #D is one step better. Use extreme stereotypes for TamizhBrahmins (both very chubby and very muscled, harmless yet capable of violence)

Drav-Tamils

A criminal passion in 2022 pic.twitter.com/fZdQ7IXfLM

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 14, 2022

In this tweet, the vivid characterisation, and clear images like in Amar Chitra Katha comics is to ensure it gets ingrained in the readers’ brains about the vile character of Brahmins. The language used is the typical Brahmin slang that is spoken in TN by Tamil Brahmins. And the characters are saying “Our kids were beaten by the SC(Panchama) kids”, and the other says, “Yes, that’s how it was posted in our newspaper”.

propaganda caricatures have to be **vivid** sensational shocking. Arouse inner disgust and physically do something.

No one in 21st century does it like Tamils(Drav) after Fips (cartoonist of Der Sturmer)

Would you agree gentlemen? @mkumaramangalam @kartipc pic.twitter.com/Kww4EyxeNW

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) February 22, 2023

The handle says that propaganda caricatures have to be **vivid** sensational and shocking, they need to arouse inner disgust and physically do something – this is something 21st century Dravidians (Tamils) have become adept at after Fips (cartoonist of Der Sturmer).

Left is by Philipp Ruprecht (Fips) prolific cartoonist of Der Sturmer. Right by #D.

You can see the pattern. fat TB man escorting nubile Dravidian woman while a D male makes way. This 'sons of concubines' trending today in Tamil twitter is a similar canard. pic.twitter.com/TFnuddunFU

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) September 13, 2022

The image on the left is by Philipp Ruprecht (Fips) , prolific cartoonist of Der Sturmer and the one on the right is by a Dravidian. The pattern is similar – a fat man escorting a nubile woman, in the second image. Such is the imagery that has been created not now, but for a very long time and it makes it easy for Dravidian loyalists to badmouth and abuse Tamil Brahmins.

This one is a later work – probably less than 20 yrs old. A straight lift from Nzi anti-semitic propaganda. Use of under light to enhance sinister effect Notice Tuft flying in background. pic.twitter.com/TH9sfqkvBr

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) October 22, 2022

This artwork is a straight lift from Nazi anti-semitic propaganda.

Next we will see how they like to sexualize our Gods and Goddesses in such ways in an attempt to pull Brahmins down.

I think many are afraid of the Dravidian technique because it tests you

what you mean to say is : Nothing is protected or holy. All are game for any type of attack.I agree

'why did you make your gods look like humans' is an odd line to rest a secular free speech principle upon pic.twitter.com/mKhI8xHF6h

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) July 22, 2022

Moving on, check out how Dravidian pop culture depicts Brahmins and Baniyas from UP in their content. Here we see a Brahmin/Baniya taking the lion’s share of govt job opportunities (the pipe) while the oppressed get only what trickles down.

Scary Brahmin
Scary Jew (from 1940's The Eternal jew) pic.twitter.com/N0ZamzEkhX

— Suren (@zeneraalstuff) September 21, 2017

And in this bottom tweet, compare the scary Brahmin and the scary Jew from 1940s The Eternal Jew.

Here comes Ambedkar!

4) Cartoon published in Shankar’s Weekly in December 1949.

Dr Ambedkar holding the hand of a little girl named Hindu code bill and leading her towards the Parliament and a Brahmin holding an axe in hand hiding behind a wall, while women from the terrace try to save the girl. pic.twitter.com/CBWgsosITP

— Advaid അദ്വൈത് (@Advaidism) April 9, 2018

Cartoon published in Shankar’s Weekly in December 1949. Dr. Ambedkar holds the hand of a little girl named Hindu code bill and leads her towards the Parliament and a Brahmin holding an axe in hand hiding behind a wall, while women from the terrace try to save the girl. You can notice that the Brahmin is once again unshapely, ugly, half-clothed, and violent or evil.

In this tweet, Reality Check India talks about the caricature artist, Shankar Pillai. In this image, the Brahmin is shown to be patriarchal, and you see the same stereotypes – blob (no muscles, fat, ugly). This cartoon also indicates how Sanatana Dharma, controlled by Brahmins, is dictating the terms for women especially.

Shankar PIllai was among the pioneers of grotesque caricatures of Brahmins via cartoons.

there was no need for this for example :

Notice early usage of "Sanatana" Today Radical Non/Anti-Brahmin Tamil politics openly states Destruction of Sanatana Dharma is its goal. https://t.co/6Jne6D9z2l pic.twitter.com/4BsK4IEDJF

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) March 2, 2023

Shankar Pillai is said to be among the “pioneers” of grotesque caricatures of Brahmins via cartoons.

Sengol, Aadeenams and Brahmins (How could anyone make a connection?)

In the wake of the Sengol installation in the new Parliament (and subsequent controversy with regard to Modi’s sashtanga namaskar to the Sengol and the Aadeenams, a tweet was shared by the followers of Dravidian ideology (which was removed after massive reporting)

Pay attention to the art. Tamil anti-B / anti-H polemics are very well thought out and appeal to primal.

Shows Atheenams standing at distance as a Brahmin is on stage with the Senkol pic.twitter.com/IqQyAVQUZ0

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) May 29, 2023

This image seems to have crossed all levels of decency in depicting Brahmins/Hindus.

Tamil society exhibits unique hate targeting “Tamizh Brahmins,” akin to anti-Semitism. Non-Brahmins distance themselves from this hate, while the state fails to protect against hate speech. The power of Dravidian ideology lies in unchecked hate propagated by a few venomous accounts and the crowd, amplified and encouraged by the state apparatus.

What more proof does one need to show that Tamil Brahmins were and are being subjected to the same type of treatment by the Dravidianists that Nazis accorded to the Jews? Does it require putting them in the gas chamber to prove that a genocide occurred? A sustained propaganda aided and funded to the hilt by the state machinery (political parties in TN) and propagated by their ilk has caused a continuous exodus of Tamil Brahmins from TN to other states and other countries for decades. This peddling of vicious propaganda against the Tamil Brahmins of all ages and sizes, right from school up until one joins college and much worse, at the workplace too, has resulted in the community having to live in a society that incessantly hounds them for being part of a particular lineage.

(Hridya is a freelance writer and blogger based out of Chennai.)

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He is privileged, therefore he is. However, let him not hold this umbrella of privilege over the larger community, for his privilege is just that – HIS.

The singer makes a case in his column in The Deccan Herald for caste-based social privilege being the root of all social evils in Tamil Nadu. But the nuances and layers of privilege are lost upon the obviously privileged self-acclaimed activist.

Caste confers terrible consequences on certain sections of society – the victims are mainly the so-called “untouchables” and the Shudra castes only slightly higher up the pecking order.

But does caste confer privileges? Yes and no. The so-called “upper” castes do find privilege in their birth – but in Tamil Nadu, that has only been for a very small section of the old moneyed and land-owning Brahmins. Krishna attempts to homogenise the Brahmins of Tamil Nadu and equate them to their North Indian counterparts. This trope is not only false, it is also absurd.

In simple terms – it’s all about the money, honey. Money begets power, connections and of course, more money. The ‘accident’ of genetics that Krishna refers to has nothing to do with privilege – economics has everything to do with that privilege.

Krishna’s Privilege

TM Krishna belongs to a family that boasts of a hoary and extremely wealthy past. His grand-uncle is TT Krishnamachari, son of a Madras High Court judge TT Rangachari during the British Raj.

Krishnamachari was a two-time Union Finance Minister of independent India in Nehru’s and Morarji Desai’s cabinet. So influential was Krishnamachari, that despite having to resign over corruption allegations, Nehru brought Krishnamachari back into his cabinet without a portfolio. Morarji Desai later made him Union Finance Minister in his cabinet.

TT Krishnamachari is also the founder of the vast and wealthy TTK Group which manufactured and sold everything from pressure cookers to cosmetics and condoms.

The TTK Group, set up in 1928, according to a 2017 article in the Financial Express, provided “distribution for products ranging from foods, personal care products, writing instruments, and brands such as Cadbury’s, Max Factor, Kiwi, Kraft, Sunlight, Lifebuoy, Lux, Ponds, Brylcreem, Kellogg’s, Ovaltine, Horlicks, Sheaffer’s, Waterman’s and many more.”

TT Krishnamachari’s son TT Vasu succeeded him in his business from the 1930s. The lineage of money and influence was bequeathed to Vasu as well. A significant incident in the 1950s is narrated by the late S Muthiah, a Chennai-based historian, in his book on TT Vasu – The Man Who Could Never Say No.

“TTKs applied for a license to manufacture Ponds products in Madras. C Rajagopalachari, (Rajaji) the chief minister of Madras turned down the application saying “Sita never used cosmetics. I do not understand why Indian women need such products now.” TTK who was then the industries minister in Delhi, refused to get involved. He sent the file to prime minister Nehru saying as he was an interested party, he did not want to take a decision. Nehru approved the project and is said to have told HVR Iyengar, the principal secretary of the industries minister, “Sita was a naturally beautiful woman and not many Indians are blessed like her, so they must have the help they feel they must need.”

This same TT Vasu, an uncle of TM Krishna, would play an important role in boosting the latter’s Carnatic music career at a young age. In an interview, Seetarama Sarma, Krishna’s music guru, recounts how TT Vasu helped Krishna.

“Krishna’s first concert was in 1988 at the Spirit of Youth series at the Music Academy. I was hesitant to let him perform, but agreed on the insistence of T.T. Vasu. This concert during Navaratri turned out to be his arangetram, where he impressed one and all with a very fine performance,” he narrated. Krishna was 12 years old at the time.

Sarma states that TM Krishna was then given a slot unfailingly every year thereafter. “From 1988 onwards he was given a slot at the Academy every year without a break. He was promoted to the 2 pm slot and then the 4 pm senior slot. In 1996, he applied to AIR on my advice. He directly got the B High grade,” said the guru.

It is also of interest to note that TT Vasu was President of the Music Academy – a revered sabha which his father helped set up – since 1983. He would be President for two decades hence, playing a great role in reviving the Carnatic music industry and the Academy itself.

The purpose of this piece is not to malign TM Krishna or his family. It is to show him a mirror.

Money Begets Money & Influence

Strikingly, this background of TM Krishna’s is similar to those of the founders of the Justice Party and later the Dravidar Kazhagam and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, with some exceptions.

Whether Dr C Natesa Mudaliar, TM Nair, Sir P Theagaraya Chetty, Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal, the Raja of Panagal and even EV Ramasamy Naicker or Periyar – the founders and the core supporters of the South Indian Liberation Federation as well as the subsequent Justice Party, were all wealthy, land-owning and influential people.

But none of these elite politicians were born into Brahmin families. Yet, unquestioned privilege was accorded to them.

Let us look at the other side of the story of caste – Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu was born into a small caste group – known as the Isai Vellalars. He came from a very humble background, without any money or land, by his own admission in his autobiography Nenjukku Needhi.

Compare Karunanidhi with K Kamaraj, born into a humble Nadar home, who had to drop out of school to support his family. He too became a chief minister of Tamil Nadu, but as part of the Congress party.

The argument that money begets money, power and influence, is stark in this case. Karunanidhi’s family has gone on to become a legacy political family – his son MK Stalin is now the chief minister of the state and his grandson Udhayanidhi Stalin is being prepped to be the next.

On the other hand, Kamaraj, well known to have been a clean and non-corrupt politician, died in poverty. His family too lives in grinding poverty today, without a single member being in politics.

“The benefits that accrue from the accident of my birth are emotional, psychological, social, and economic,” says Krishna in that blithe and open way that he assumes while writing the opinion piece. However, as we have seen above, the only accident of birth that connects the dots of the supporting ecosystem is economic, i.e., money.

Homogenising Brahmins Of Tamil Nadu

TM Krishna has been an icon of self-flagellation for a few years now, his music now playing literally second fiddle to this very peculiar banner of activism. So much so, that every profile that lists him online describes him as belonging to the “upper-caste” and an activist among other things, his primary vocation as a Carnatic vocalist seemingly in the backseat.

Not all Brahmins are told they are ‘special’, not everyone receives the same validation that he did while in childhood – that his caste-related knowledge gave him that special edge, that deemed him ‘sophisticated, spiritual, abstract and elevated’. The accident of birth is an accident for all others as well. But this accident has not been so lucky for everyone just because of their caste.

For every Krishna, there are 10 ordinary ‘parpans’ (Brahmins in Tamil), whose caste probably made them less equipped for the rough and tumble of making their way in a world that was flat, where people mocked their caste and religious practises, made fun of them as being effeminate and less macho.

Many Brahmins, especially those belonging to the priestly classes, astrologers or simply book-keepers in villages, did not wind up as judges or industrialists – they remained lowly clerks, firmly entrenched in the middle class, much like everyone else from any other caste.

Numerous others continue to lead poor or middle class lives to date. Their caste is no privilege for them without a wealthy and influential godfather. No one comes to their rescue when they go under, just by virtue of their caste.

“Which is why marks in examinations is an obsession,” to quote Krishna – the very reason that the middle and lower class Tamil Brahmins drum the message into the heads of their children – study well and go to the US so that you can escape the discrimination in Tamil Nadu.

The Tout Of Tropes

Krishna says in his piece: “The benefits that accrue from the accident of my birth are emotional, psychological, social, and economic. I have placed the economic last because this is a default fall-out of all the former.”

Brahmins are 2% of the population in Tamil Nadu. A miniscule minority by demographic standards However, this does not automatically determine that the majority of brahmins are wealthy, privileged and cushioned by what Krishna states: “Caste-privileged collectivity provides us with a wide and unsaid network that is always available.”

This instead, is the privilege of generations of wealth and the wealth-privileged connectivity, which is the lot of the lucky few, to which Krishna and his hoary family belong. This connectivity, seems to have turned Krishna’s family into fantastic generations of super-achievers by his own admission: “My home is abuzz with stories of grandfathers and great-grandmothers who achieved something or the other.”

In stating this, all we are trying to establish here, is that this huge swathe of generous generalisation that Krishna uses time again to beat up himself that itself comes from his position of privilege.

This is better known as the ivory tower syndrome, that has the members viewing the world from so far up that they cannot see the ground.Is this why Krishna makes his assumptions so breezily, from higher virtual viewpoint, unable to see caste and his ecosystem have no intersection really, and makes him blind to what is going on the ground?

The average Brahmin knows reality and does not aspire beyond it politically or economically – her only life, as with most others born into other castes, is education and finding a good job; ‘accidents’ do not happen so often and so easily in the manner that Krishna states. Accidents also do not pick class; other normal people call it ‘luck’.

“Evidently, none of this is about the economic aspect directly. It is socio-cultural, and even the economically backward among the caste privileged have access to it,” says Krishna in his piece. How did he jump to this conclusion? What is the basis for such a sweeping assumption? We see that today, in temples and in society, there are Brahmins who are the lowest in the economic pecking order. In fact, priests in temples are paid ridiculously low salaries, as if by sheer dint of their caste or the ‘privileges’ that it carries, food and living expenses automatically accrue to them instantly by some divine means.

“The suicide of a person with caste privilege receives abundant social attention.” How did Krishna come to that conclusion? Recent suicides which made the news are of various celebrities – actors Lokesh Rajendran, Pauline Jessica, aka Deepa, designer and writer Thoorigai Kabilan and even Anita, a Dalit girl who became the storm of a political controversy over NEET.

The “Brahminical” horse is long dead. To flog it again and again, speaks of a perverse need to self-position. Activism “speak” today must take head on the social challenges that are the product of the time and the age we live in today.

Those with privilege can drive this change. Not to introspect and step up speaks loudly about the impetus behind such positions.

(This article was originally published in Take The Lede and has been republished here with permission.)

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Once again Brahmins find themselves in the midst of not one but different debates. On one end of the country, the already miniscule minority of Kashmiri Pandits are being hunted down by terrorists.

On the other end, a spokesperson of the ruling DMK is worried that a genocide of the Tamil Brahmin community did not happen as advocated by ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker. 

Outside India, tech-giant Google, incidentally headed by Brahmin, is being accused of caste discrimination for cancelling the event of an alleged ‘activist’ whose intention seems questionable.

Despite being at the centre of the debate, this much-targeted community remains silent, keeping to themselves and just going about their work. It is precisely because of this that the community finds itself at the receiving end.

But not all will take it lying down. There will be occassional voices atleast to document these happenings so that generations to come will stumble upon a piece of evidence that will highlight the plight of the community today. 

Many members of the Tamil Brahmin community have migrated over the years. While warriors of ‘social justice’ argue that Tamil Brahmins migrated in the quest for greater and better opportunities, they brush aside the political circumstances that drove them. 

Before I go on elaborating my position, let me say that I am a Tamil Brahmin entrepreneur who is yet to migrate. I hope I may not migrate out of Tamil Nadu even for a short period.

The genesis of the political movement against Brahmins or the Non-Brahman Movement, as American historian Eugene F. Irschick would say, can be traced back to the developments in the mid-1910s wherein Non Brahmin Forward Castes (NBFC) played a pivotal role in mobilising the public opinion against Brahmins.  The NBFCs were all feudal castes, owning lands and dominating trade. They were pro-British as well. Brahmins, once subjugated to them, lived on the alms or the grants given by the NBFCs in line with Dharmic traditions for centuries. The great philanthropist, Pachaiyappa Mudaliar (1754-94), supported many Veda Patashalas and Manali Muthukrishna Mudali patronised  Muthusamy Dikshithar (1775-1835), the youngest member of the venerated composers, Trinity of Carnatic Music.  Brahmins, in turn, looked after the business of their benefactors, offered counsel and took care of their ritualistic requirements. 

A Brahmin-Vellala alliance lasted centuries. With the advent of Macaulay education in the late 19th century, the Brahmins, who were among the first to take to it despite being conservative otherwise, started finding employment with the British or private enterprises, apart from setting up their own institutions, right from law firms to banks. Empowered by English education, the Brahmins, in no time, became rivals to these castes in all spheres. 

And, after the Indian National Congress was established in 1885, the Brahmins were in the forefront of spearheading the party in the struggle against the British. 

Nearly for the next 50 years, they had provided leadership to the Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress. The Brahmins had also reaped the benefits of the first mover advantage. Right from film industry to hotel industry to bureaucracy to judiciary, they gained prominence. The Brahmin teachers, a rarity in government-run schools and colleges in Tamil Nadu these days, were the norm then. A leading Tamil writer, Jeyamohan, acknowledges the pivotal role played by Brahmin teachers in delivering quality education to the public.

It was in December 1916 that the NBFCs came out with a document, “Non Brahmin Manifesto.” Quoting the document, Prof. Irschick, in his seminal work of 1969,  ‘Politics and Social Conflict in South India, the Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916-1929’,  stated that the non-Brahman groups such as the Chettis, Komatis, Mudaliar (Vellalas) and Naidus (Balijas), which “have been making rapid progress [in the field of education],” had, however, been “groping hopelessly” in the background, “because of the subtle and manifold ways in which political power and official influence are often exercised by the Brahmin caste.”  This document signalled the formation of the Justice Party to take on professional rivals of the NBFCs. 

But, the Congress, after the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi as the central figure, became a party of the masses. Its leaders were able to build a much larger social coalition, uniting Other Backward Castes (OBCs), Schedled Castes (SCs) and minorities. In most of the electoral battles, either prior to Independence or post-Independence till 1967, the Justice Party and its offshoots suffered defeat when they took on the Congress. A party of elites, the Justice Party, romped home only once – in 1920. In the elections to the Legislative Council, which was how then the legislature was called, the party’s success became possible essentially due to the boycott of the Congress.  The Justice Party’s Council of Ministers was largely drawn from Telugu polygars and zamindars. On the contrary, in 1937, the Ministry formed by the Congress in the Madras Presidency had a balanced mix of SC, Backward Classes (BCs) and minorities, representing all the four major languages spoken in the Presidency.

The Congress, which came back to power in the 1946 elections, went on to hold power till 1967. K Kamraj was its tallest leader, respected and revered across the spectrum. The advent of Kamaraj as the guiding light of the Congress in Tamil Nadu in 1940, wittingly or unwittingly, paved the way for “de-Brahminisation” of the Congress.  The political arena becoming accessible to wider sections of society in the wake of the country gaining Independence in 1947 and the establishment of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1949 made the Congress party alienate Brahmins politically even though R. Venkataraman, who was the country’s eighth President (1987-92), is still remembered widely for his contribution to the industrialisation of the State in the formative stages of the country.  The side lining by the Congress of the Brahmins did not happen abruptly but gradually and quietly.

Satyamurti, the political mentor of Kamaraj and the contemporary of C. Rajagopalachari (CR) Rajaji, was the last president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) hailing from the Brahmin community, and this happened in 1935.  His two attempts to get re-elected as President in 1936 and 1939 met with failure, the reasons for which were not far to seek.

Then came 1967, one of the defining moments of Tamil Nadu’s contemporary political history. An offshoot of the Justice Party, the DMK, largely identified with Mudaliars till then, captured power with the help of CR’s Swatantra, Communists and Muslim parties and became a party accepted by a large section of the populace.

Slowly and steadily, the Brahmin community got marginalised from the political and social spectrum in the state. It began with teacher’s recruitment. Teachers are the opinion makers. You can’t institutionalise anti Brahminism if Brahmin teachers are around. It began there. The Dravidian ecosystem cleverly played the cards here.

M. G. Ramachandran, who was Chief Minister during 1977-87, had abolished the hereditary Village Administrative Officer (VAO) system, further crippling the community’s power.  After he failed in his bid to implement the concept of creamy layer in the reservation for the BCs, he shocked everyone with his decision of hiking the quantum of reservation for BCs from 31% to 50%, in addition to the quota for SC/STs. His protege, Jayalalithaa, a Brahmin by birth, had got a constitutional safeguard for the 69% reservation, disincentivising the community from even thinking about appearing in competitive examinations conducted by the government bodies including the Tamil Nadu Public Services Commission (TNPSC).

And politically too, the community, which once had a dozen MLAs in the ‘50s, had just one or two in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Today, it has nil representation in the House.  Communities which are numerically smaller than Brahmins have a dozen MLAs even now. The parties including the AIADMK and the Congress, which could have given the community at least 8-10 seats in proportion to their strength in the State’s population, refused to oblige fearing backlash from their adversaries and allies who gave none to the community members. In July 1979, MGR, a week after his government’s move on creamy layer, advocated the inclusion of economic criterion, and not caste, as the basis for determining backwardness for the provision of educational facilities. But he did a somersault after suffering a drubbing in the 1980 Lok Sabha polls. The defeat was for a different reason but pundits in the anti–Brahmin ecosystem attributed it cleverly to his “radical views” on the quota.

ADMK was a party with a difference. ADMK did not resort to anti-Brahmin rhetoric or discourse like its rival but the policy actions of the party to ensure the power trickles down to the last man had a big impact on the community. Such moves to trickle down power in a democracy are inevitable and happened throughout the country. But in a state like Tamil Nadu, such trickling down happened along with a propaganda of hatred and vilification of the Brahmin community attributable to the influence of the Dravidar Kazhagam on the political arena.

Political alienation of the community was complete in the early 1980s. The political story ends there. Social stature ended with abolition of hereditary VAOs. Meanwhile, recruitment by PSU banks, Railways and various Union enterprises helped the youth of the community find employment in big numbers for three decades – from the 1950s to 1970s.

With the youth finding jobs outside their villages and moving out, the community left agriculture, sold their lands and houses in villages lock, stock and barrel in the 1980s and the 1990s. The community migrated big to the capital city of Chennai, leaving behind desolate and dilapidated Agraharams. With the sale of agricultural lands, the community’s grip over land holdings went down dramatically.

The community moved on overcoming the challenges despite the hatred propagated by the fringe and systemic denial of opportunities. They took up education seriously. The Brahmin youngsters made use of the opportunities ushered by liberalisation of 1991 which was a God send to the community and went places.

They adapted to the forces of the market and migrated to every nook and corner of the country and the world. Yes, a sizeable number from the community migrated because of opportunities created by liberalisation. But what made them look out for such opportunities despite Tamil Nadu being the second largest economy in the country? One needs to look deep into that.

With the advent of Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), there was a perceptible rise in incidents of violence against Brahmins like cutting their tuft and sacred threads in the state. Admirers of the DK founder, E.V. Ramasamy Naicker or Periyar, boast of such incidents even today. Once someone undergoes such trauma, one will definitely feel the need to migrate out. Is it fair to think about not migrating when subjected to such trauma?

The fringe vilifies the community, ridicules and stereotypes them at every opportunity. The only advice Brahmin parents who underwent such ridicules and harassments gave their kids was “Better seek work in private companies where there are no such harassments or move abroad at the earliest to escape from such unpleasant episodes and endless ridicules”. 

Harassments have reached a stage now when fringe elements driven by hatred call for genocide of Brahmins in social media openly and discreetly. And not to forget, a Tamil news anchor in a live show went on to abuse a debater from the community by singling out his caste and stereotype him.

It is time that the usage of 'Mylapore', 'maama', 'maami' in certain contexts is called out for casteism. You will also see a lot of woke ambis resorting to it. They are just looking for cheap validation from the powers that be in TN.

— K Balakumar (@kbalakumar) August 14, 2021

It is next to impossible for a Brahmin to become a councillor or an MLA or an MP anymore. Data available in the public domain over the last 50 years support this as the community has never got anywhere close to a proportionate representation in policy making legislature and councils. A peep into the community-wise admission list for the last 10 years, available on the websites of TNPSC and the Directorate of Medical Education, will clearly reveal that Brahmins of the State are almost left out in the state public services and medical service. 

The hatred propagated by the fringe resulted in ‘de-Brahminisation’ across fields. If the hatred was missing like other states, many members of the community would not have felt a compelling need to migrate. People who say the community migrated purely seeking better opportunities fail to see this angle. 

Having said these, I do not want to stereotype and commit the mistake our detractors do. I really love my fellow Tamilians, cutting across all castes. They have not fallen prey to this campaign of the fringe and they shower us with all love and affection as our neighbours and friends. I am confident that the bonhomie and the bond, which date back to the stone age, will grow from strength to strength and the peaceful coexistence will continue for centuries. The fringe elements built a narrative vilifying us for all the ills plaguing the state, alienated us politically, ended our presence from the government colleges and services and, in various domains such as film industry and medicine, but failed to break the bond that we share with our fellow Tamils. And majority of the community still lives in the state peacefully thanks to such wonderful neighbours. 

The Brahmin community is the most inter-mingled community in the state now. It has the least number of Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) Act cases against it and there is no case of honour killing concerning it. Needless to say, it mingles with other communities through marriages. The community has reformed itself and come a long way. But the detractors are still stuck in the past.

It is time that those who say we migrated out of choice and opportunities put an end to this hatred and vilification campaign of Tamil Brahmins by the fringe in social media, institutions and in public discourse.

But for a poor Brahmin, U Ve Swaminatha Iyer, most of Tamil language’s priceless literary treasures would have got lost eternally. The detractors do not even have the broadmindedness to name a Tamil University after him. May Tamil Thai give them a broad mind to acknowledge his deeds. And, contributions of the community to Tamil literature right from Agasthiyar to Kabilar to Nakeerar to the various Azhwars and Nayanmars to Subramania Bharati do not get due recognition. And the state has not given its due to even Nobel Prize winners from the community like Sir CV Raman, Dr Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, and Venky Ramakrishnan. There is not a single university named after the great mathematical genius S Ramanujam in the state. And not to forget, literary genius like Ashokamithran, epigraphists like Iravatham Mahadevan and Mr Nagaswami too don’t get their due for obvious reasons. Such is the parochial nature of the anti-Brahmin ecosystem in the state.

On the front of industry and economy, the automobile hub, which the State takes pride in and calls itself as Detroit of South India, was incubated, nurtured and grown predominantly by the entrepreneurs hailing from this maligned community. This hub employs millions today. And, the top honchos and entrepreneurs from the community helped the city of Madras evolve as an IT services hub again providing jobs to millions of Tamils. The entrepreneurs from this community like Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu are taking development even to the remotest part like Tenkasi and help tier 2 cities like Madurai emerge as the next big IT hub.

The Tamil Nadu model of growth ushering in prosperity and growth is no doubt better than other famed models of growth like Gujarat statistically but it could have been all the more inclusive and greater by not “Othering’ the Brahmins despite the community’s stellar contribution to literature, culture, policy making and the economy of the state. Not to forget, the community was at the forefront rendering social justice in a big way right from the Temple Entry Act of Rajaji to providing constitutional protection of 69% reservation by Jayalalithaa and PV Narasimha Rao. The community is as Tamilian and Dravidian as any other group living in the state.

The community has given a lot to the State despite the relentless vilification. They will contribute even more in the coming decades as well because Tamil Nadu is their homeland.

உற்ற தேகத்தை உயிர் மறந்தாலும், எங்கள் தாய் மண்ணை நாங்கள் மறக்கமாட்டோம்!

May this vilification campaign end for the good soon.

But until then, will someone muster the courage to speak up for the community?

 Vazhga Tamil!  Vazhga Tamil Nadu!

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In yet another instance of the DMK peddling hatred against Tamil Brahmins, the party’s spokesperson Rajiv Gandhi posted on his Twitter advocating genocide against the community.

Alleged ‘neutral’ political commentator Sumanth Raman had shared a snippet of  E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (EVR)’s speech in which the anti-Hindu hate mongerer calls for killing Tamil Brahmins.

“They are celebrating festival it seems.. He (Tamil Brahmin) is celebrating Soora Samharam (a festival commemorating Lord Murugan’s victory over demon king Soora Padman). He (Soora Padman) was someone who said there is no God. They (Tamil Brahmins) killed him. So, now we can kill those buggers.”  EVR, who is hailed as ‘Periyar’ by his followers says in that speech.

EVR also goes on to say “That won’t be wrong. Maybe legally it will be wrong. That legal offence and all is humbug. We can’t be bothered that it is legally wrong. We have to come to this conclusion. Wherever we see a temple, we must go inside and break all the idols inside. Wherever we find a Paapaan (a derogatory way of calling Tamil Brahmins), we must kill and destroy him. He has done like this to us. He has come to this good position by doing these kinds of things only. We must also do such things to him (Tamil Brahmin). A few of us (non-Brahmins) would have to die for the cause. If one Tamilan (non-Brahmin) dies for one Tamil Brahmin, only 3 of us will die out of every hundred. Balance 84%, sorry.. 100-3 equals 97, 97-3 equals 94. 94% of us will still remain but he (Tamil Brahmin) will be completely eliminated. We will definitely go this level. We can only go step by step.”

This brazen call for genocide was given by ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker in 1973 at Karikudi, Tamil Nadu.

Sharing this speech snippet on his Twitter, Sumanth Raman drew the attention of the people living in the rest of India to understand the hate peddled against Tamil Brahmins in Tamil Nadu.

He also added that the genocide did not happen thanks to Indira Gandhi, and AIADMK supremos M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa.

Responding to this tweet, DMK spokesperson Rajiv Gandhi wrote “Had only the Shudras carried out Periyar’s instructions, they wouldn’t have to fight with people like you today to get justice, employment, rights, education, employment and equality. At 3% you are still encroaching a lot of the space.”

This is not the first time that a call for genocide of Tamil Brahmin community has been made by ‘Periyar’ists.

Earlier in December 2021, Savukku Shankar, a DMK sympathizer and a ‘Periyar’ist, who is known for being a motor mouth posted on his social media promoting genocide against Tamil Brahmins.

Taking to both Twitter and Facebook, he had written, “If it is justified to trouble Muslims today, because of how Muslim kings had troubled us in the past, then why haven’t we started troubling Brahmins for the troubles they have given us in the past?” The post was deleted from Facebook after it was reported, as it went against the platform’s community guidelines. However, it is still available on Savukku Shankar’s twitter.

https://twitter.com/savukku/status/1475724380982288385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1475724380982288385%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecommunemag.com%2Ffoul-mouthed-periyarist-and-dmk-sympathizer-savukku-shankar-calls-for-genocide-of-tamil-brahmins%2F

In another instance, Dr. K Kantharaj, a Dravidian-demagogue doctor who appears in several YouTube channels spewed venom and made genocidal remarks against the Tamil Brahmin community.

Calling Brahmins derogatarily as “Paapara Paya”, he goes on to say “Who are you? You are an Aryan. An immigrant. What is the connection between you and this country? You were rearing cows for a living in Central Asia. How did you come here? You and your religion do not belong here. It is there in history. You came into this country riding cows. You are today claiming this to be your country?”.

“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.”, he says.

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

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