A letter to the Editor:
Sir,
On the morning of 14-9-2008 at 7.30 a.m. heard the sweetest news about the village, Chockampatti in Villupuram District through the Kalaignar T.V.
Chockampatti village is a stronghold of Periyar’s rationalist ideology. In that village there is no temple. Religious festivals like Vinayakachathurthi, Ayudha Pooja and Deepavali etc. are not celebrated in that village. Only Pongal festival (the farmers’ festival) is celebrated by the villagers.
In that village marriage is celebrated according to rationalist principles. Youths of that village on most occasions wear black shirts.
If each and every village of Tamil Nadu follows the example of Chockampatti village, Tamil Nadu will become a bastion of Rationalism. Waste of public money on religious festivals will be avoided. Educational and economic progress of the villages will be speeded up.
I humbly request our leader Veeramani to open a reading room-cum-library in that village containing rationalist books and journals with the help of Villupuram Dravidar Kazhagarm.
I, as the humble follower of Veeramani, want to donate Rs. 100 to the reading room.
Chaturvarna and Caste System must be wiped out
In the Bhagvadh Gita ‘Kannapiran’ (Lord Krishna) says that he created the four varnas namely the Brahmins, Chatriya, Vaisyas and Shudras. The Brahmins regard the ‘Bhagvadh Gita’ as the noble teachings of Kannapiran (Lord Krishna). Even Gandhi the supreme leader of the Congress party accepted the Chaturvarna (Four varnas) system as propounded in the Gita! On the other hand Pandit Nehru, ‘the political heir of Gandhi’ openly declared in his book ‘Discovery of India’ that the ‘Mahabharatha’ is not a real history. It is a fiction like ‘Panchathanthra and Arabian Nights’. We the followers of Periyar E.V.R. and the leader of Tamils Veeramani condemn the Mahabharatha as mere fiction.
The immortal poet of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvalluvar in his Thirukkural says that ‘all are equal by birth’. In Ramayana which is regarded as holy epic by Hindu fanatics Rama beheaded Sambuga, the Shudra for doing penance in the forest. As per Hindu Shastras a Shudra should not do penance.
Following is the list of disabilities to which the Shudra was subjected by the Hindu Shastras and the Brahmins, in olden days:
The shudras were denied initiation (wearing of the ‘sacred’ thread; the study of the vedas)
A Shudra was to take the last place in the social order.
A Shudra was impure and therefore no ‘sacred’ religious act should be done within his sight.
A Shudra is not to be respected in the same way as the other classes in the society.
The life of a Shudra has no value and anybody may kill him without having to pay compensation.
The Shudra must not acquire knowledge and it is a sin and a crime to give him education.
The Shudra must not acquire property. A Brahmin can take his property at his pleasure at any time.
A Shudra can not hold office under the State as he is unfit to hold office.
The duty and salvation of Shudra lies in his serving the higher classes especially the Brahmins.
The higher castes should not marry with the Shudras. They can however keep Shudra women as concubines. But if the Shudra touches the women of higher castes he will be liable to dire punishment.
The Shudra is born in servility and must be kept in servility for ever.
It is the duty of every self-respecting Tamilian to fight against the Brahmin domination in the spheres of education, employment and culture.
