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The Reality Behind DMK’s “World Record”: Yet Another ‘EVR UNESCO Award’ Moment?

January 24, 2024
The Commune

The DMK Youth Wing Conference was mired with controversy right from the get-go. Be it the vulgar dance performances or the derogatory speeches made by the participants and performers or be it the scramble for water bottles in hordes by the cadre. The controversies surrounding this event refuse to die down.

In a video posted by YouTuber Maridhas, he called out the “world record” that the Conference claimed to have achieved.

News channels were filled with news about the conference. The record was said to be achieved for the largest conference (in terms of area – 9.50 lakh square feet) where the largest number of people congregated at the same time. Now who or what is the organisation that claimed this was a world record? Upon examining the certificate, the name Unique World Records is seen. This organisation has about 460 followers on the social media platform X. When the organisation was contacted, it came to light that the entire team consisted of only 3 people – a lady and two men. Maridhas posing as someone looking for an “award” for a world record enquired about the procedure. He was asked to fill up an application and was informed that their judges would decide on it. According to Maridhas, the jury had to be paid ₹80,000 and this too was negotiable. Their office address is also questionable.

The news around this “record” was also planted by the DMK mouthpieces themselves.

This reminds us of the so-called UNESCO award to Dravidian ideologue EVR known as Periyar among followers. For long, it has been said, written, and ingrained in the minds of people that EVR was conferred with the title of “Socrates of South-East Asia” by UNESCO. This had found its place even in school textbooks of Tamil Nadu and was even asked as a question in annual examinations and Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission exams. However, this award has turned out to be a sham. An email response from the UNESCO office in Delhi has confirmed that no such award/title was given to E.V. Ramasamy Naicker.

Even in the award, there exists a conspicuous error. The title of the award says “Socrates of South-East Asia”. India does not fall under the South-East Asia grouping. The Southeast nations include Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. India comes under South Asia and not South-East Asia.

For more than 40 years, this lie has been peddled with several articles and research papers on EVR written based on this lie. None in the media or those belonging to the ‘intellectual’ circle who speak of facts has ever opened their mouths about this blatant lie peddled.

Then who gave the award to EVR? It was none other than late former DMK leader M. Karunanidhi in the presence of Dravida Kazhagam President K. Veeramani.

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