The periyar way of reform is self-defeating. By focussing only on the sorry aspects of Hinduism all it does is help the Missionary-Marxist-Mullah cabal. The problem with people like Periyar is that they do not compare Hinduism with other religions in a temporally even scale. The Christians and Muslims advocated slavery for a long time, civil rights for coloured people were not equal in the USA until the late 1960s. Hinduism has much better scope for reform, most of the reform came from Hindus themselves. This fact is visible even now. The Gandhian way of reform is much more prudent. Although still not ideal it will be less self-defeating than the Periyar way. With the periyar way, in the name of reform, a lot of smart people have been denied equal opportunity. This is not reform, it is reverse-discrimination!!
