At the outset let me make it clear im not a brahmin. All that he has done is to demolish a 10000 year old harmonious culture into bits and pieces. The same tamil literature even about 1000 years ago clearly shows caste was not a determining factor in the functions done by a individual. On the other hand while the britishers followed the divide and rule, people E.V.Ramaswamy knowingly or unknowingly played into their hands. A known playboy during his youth, he wanted the worldly pleasures throughout his life, what better way than to hypnotise the illiterate people. The easiest way was to attack the numerically weaker brahmins and gain political greatness. For 2 generation of people he might have been god, but im sure the next generation has it moves outside tamilnadu for their livelihood will notice the tomfoolery of the dravidian parties which was founded by E.V.Ramaswamy. Not the fact while he created a mass hysteria against the so called casteist practices of the brahmins, he never renounced the caste tag in his name. Someone here commented, tamil wouldnt have survived but for him, i only pity his ignorance, no language or culture can die on its own if it has a standing of its own, it could die if it is a parasite on some other root language. Anyway the tamil fanatism has not led all tamil youth to eternal prosperity, when they move out of tamil nadu for their jobs, one must see the pain in the faces of the young boys and girls when they feel incompetent to express themselves in english while their contemporaries who may be less talented walk away with glories just because of their better expressing capablities. Revolutions do happen in 2 ways. One is when a mass hypnotic leader mesmerises the populace, the other is when the populace gets frustrated and goes out to throw lock, stock and barrel the conditions responsible for their state. Tamil nadu has been seeing the first for the last 60 years, maybe the day is not far off for the second type of revolution to occur.
