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Tamilnadu is a funny place to live, thought Nandu. That land which has given devotion a new meaning (Bakthi), having said, 'don't live in a place where there is no temple' and holding the largest temple complexes in the world has a Government which does not believe in God. In God we trust is the authorized statement of the United States of America. But it is the other way round in Tamilnadu. What Nandu saw on the walls of the temple, right in front of his home vouched for it. It was written "God is a lie. Don't believe in God. The one who believes in God is a fool". This statement, on the wall of Siva temple. Temple authorities can't do anything!
Dravida Kazhagam, run by E.V.Ramasamy alias Periyar become a social force to reckon with in early parts of 1960s. They preached atheism. They deconstructed religious myths as discriminatory, nonsensical and absurd. A land with so much of caste discrimination, these statements were very attractive, seeding a social revolution. People who followed Periyar's teaching conducted anti-Ram parades on the streets of Tamilnadu where Rama statue was garlanded with shoes, the worst insult one could receive. The state was paralysed. The gangs of periyar went ramping around disregarding any religious symbol even if that was adorned on a person. The followers of Siva carry three white strikes on their foreheads, the followers of Vishnu will carry three marks vertically on their foreheads. Atheistic euphorbia made anti Hindu rioters to lick physically to erase those marks from the foreheads of pious people. They dared not accuse or attack Christian or Muslim religious sect, an irony. The truth is Hinduism allowed self criticism and...
Dravida Kazhagam, run by E.V.Ramasamy alias Periyar become a social force to reckon with in early parts of 1960s. They preached atheism. They deconstructed religious myths as discriminatory, nonsensical and absurd. A land with so much of caste discrimination, these statements were very attractive, seeding a social revolution. People who followed Periyar's teaching conducted anti-Ram parades on the streets of Tamilnadu where Rama statue was garlanded with shoes, the worst insult one could receive. The state was paralysed. The gangs of periyar went ramping around disregarding any religious symbol even if that was adorned on a person. The followers of Siva carry three white strikes on their foreheads, the followers of Vishnu will carry three marks vertically on their foreheads. Atheistic euphorbia made anti Hindu rioters to lick physically to erase those marks from the foreheads of pious people. They dared not accuse or attack Christian or Muslim religious sect, an irony. The truth is Hinduism allowed self criticism and...
