Hindutva is chocking cultures across India. It is aiming to end every real culture until the only thing remains in India is itself.
Tamil culture is under this attack. Tamil culture is so helpless that even hindutva-oriented student organizations can decide what books should be read by students in Tamilnadu.
For many years, Tamils trusted Dravidam, the political ideology that has been ruling Tamilnadu for decades now, believing it will stand up for the welfare of everyone in Tamilnadu. However that belief is being proven wrong and the evidence is overwhelming when we look more clodely.
Right wing student organization had registered a complaint with an university management in Tamilnadu and successfully removed Arundhati Roy's book from the MA - English Literature syllabus.
Dravidam did nothing. Some of their allied parties who are mere followers of Dravidian political parties have now responded but they haven't succeeded in getting a solution.
Dravidam claims so much and it has all the money and manpower. However, it did nothing to reverse what a small comparatively weaker right wing student organization could achieve. The right wing groups are having their way with Tamils and Dravidam is watching Tamil culture fade away.
It is about time Tamils realize their mistake. However, they need to know what happened and how Dravidam has evolved into a money-making machine which is willing to sell Tamils to anyone who offers a better price. Here, in this discussion, I present my argument:
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14 years ago, I stepped into a place called college and sat along with my fellow classmates. Out of approximately 58 in our class, 7 of us were from the Chennai region. Since we were from the urban landscape which has a mix of cultures and access to various value added services, we grew up in a situation where speaking languages other than our native language was a necessity to some extent. We grew up speaking and studying Hindi and English as a consequence.
My fellow classmates, baring those who from the city, came from villages and towns not as big as Chennai. They grew up in a situation where 99% of their lives depended on their native language, Tamil. Some of them even did their schooling in Tamil medium.
Over the semesters during college, I noticed that speaking English was considered a 'Respected Skill' and not being able to converse in English meant something inferior. We city-bred kids were not Shakespeare ourselves but we were comfortable dancing with our deficiencies. We were comfortable using the few words we knew to write and speak in English. My fellow classmates from rural Tamilnadu did not feel that way as they did not have the access to English as much as we city-bred kids did back then.
Often times, lecturers would insult my fellow classmates by forcing them to speak in English and made sure they felt bad for not being able to speak up in front of the class. I now know that 70% of the difficulty they faced was fear of public speaking which I share with them. However, the remaining 30% was their inability to construct simple sentences in English.
It wasn't fault and still they paid heavily for something that was thrust on them.
Over the years, I also noticed some of my relatives were curious about learning to speak English and they would ask me about it. I would tell them that I am not an expert and I myself make mistakes and that most people do so.
It took me years to figure out that my fellow Tamils from rural Tamilnadu did not have a difficulty in learning English.
All they have been battling is their difficulty in figuring out how they can teach themselves.
Here I am, more than a decade after I witnessed my fellow classmates being insulted for 'Bad English', with what I consider a starting point to this burning yet untouched issue.
I sincerely hope, this discussion with a specialist in public speaking, will help my fellow Tamils of rural Tamilnadu to evolve their own self-learning schemes so they can communicate effectively in English:
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Hindutva is growing stronger and this is endangering the lives of many Indians. Many lives have already been lost to the rise of the right-wing-extremism under the Hindutva banner.
It is now time to conciously act on this issue to ensure our future generations do not face the dangers we face today.
However, to know what to do, we need to know what is happening.
Knowing what is happening is not complete until we understand where it started.
Knowing where it started is not going to enable us unless we interpret the pattern of evolution of right-wing extremism in the name of Hindutva.
Following the RSS website and connecting the news items from multiple media outlets is one way of doing it.
If you care to better understand how Hindutva operates and more importantly, if you wish to learn how to individually keep track of Hidutva terrorism, here is a discussion just for you, presenting the insights with some circumstantial evidence:
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There is a source for pretty much every piece of data we might look for. Ever wondered if that is the case for domestic violence issues?
If someone files a police complaint, or takes the issue to court, the police records and court filings serve as data sources. However, not all domestic violence issues get to the police station or court.
We live in a society where many forms of violence happening in households remain undocumented. This violence can include acts of crime we are not capable of detecting or predicting.
What we can do is prevent such violence from happening.
Here is a domestic violence expert Dr. CarollAnn Peterson explaining how we can do that:
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Periyar knew that the Tamil population cannot survive while remaining attached to the religious propaganda built over caste identities. Here is his prediction from 1941 which stands true to this day!
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