Dravidian Maya- Lies Deception and Collaboration (Volume 1)

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As long as the Tamil cultural revivalism continues to grip the State and as long as the anti-Hindu, anti-North, anti-Aryan issues dominate the minds of the people, a real backward classes movement espousing the cause of the really backward class will not emerge. The same factors continue to provide a cohesion between the various non- Brahmin castes. The DMK leaders particularly are not interested in anything which will weaken the ethos of the Tamil movement.

Subbu is a Chennai based journalist who has done extensive research of the Dravidian Movement. "Dravidian Maya" is an attempt to faithfully and factually record the Dravidian movement and its effect.

The earlier work "Dravida Mayai- Oru Parvai" in Tamizh was authored by Subbu. This translation "Dravidian Maya" is suitably modified and updated to suit the english reader. It throws fresh light on the political events on the southern part of India between 1917 and 1944 with special reference to how a movement purportedly started to erase the social inequities, elbowed itself into the seat of political power.

A Telugu speaking doctor migrating from Chennai, set up his practice in East Ham, London (1980). The ethnic Londoners' around him were poor migrants from Asian countries predominantly from South India, especially Tamizh Nadu.

The doctor, a pious man, soon became popular and got elected as the president of an adjacent Murugan temple in its budding stage He saw an empty truck garage and struggled to get permission from authorities to convert it into a Murugan temple.

The atheists from Tamizh Nadu, mostly the followers of E.V.Ramasamy have grouped themselves in London. They caused all sorts of troubles to the doctor in his attempts to found a temple, claiming the area to be 'their territory. Undeterred, the doctor pursued his goal with purchasing an adjacent area.

The DK activists resorted to bullying the owner from selling it to the doctor but failed. The crusading doctor finally managed to secure the land, built a temple and fixed a date to perform the Mahakumbhabhishekam.

Threatening phone calls came to the doctor questioning his rights as a Telugu to pray in Tamizh. They put up a black banner with invective writings before the temple on the day of inauguration. Police came on request, rounded up and locked all of them till the function was over.

Even after that, the DK activists continued with their teasing and taunts. "A Telugu fellow should not come to power. Better go back to Andhra Pradesh and pray to Narayana!" Taking those seemingly evil acts as destiny's call, the doctor vowed at that very moment that he would build a temple for Narayana in London.

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