1. Percentage Employwed in State Govt - 0.5% 2. Percentage of Brahmins among Doctors - 0.28% 3. Percentage of Brahmins among Big Landowners - 0.067% 4. Percentage of Brahmins among TN MPs - 2.5% 5. Percentage of Brhamins among TN MLAs - 1% 6. Percentage of Brahmins owning Hotels - 0.06%
RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by on Apr 30, 2007 10:33 PM Permalink
Percentage of Brahmins among people arrested in Goondas Act in TN (last 20 years) - 0.15%
RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by Humanist on Apr 30, 2007 10:31 PM Permalink
all TamBrams have moved away and only economically poor TamBrams are left in TN. I feel sorry for the poor TamBrams in TN
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by on Apr 30, 2007 10:35 PM Permalink
You are right... That is why let me say whether Periyar is right or wrong, what is the point talking about Anti Brahminism today?
RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by IndianReporter on Apr 30, 2007 10:38 PM Permalink
they are poor because other caste are getting reserved seats in education and those poor chaps cannot afford even basic education.. anyway they would be forced to leave the land some stage, leave their temple to be destroyed by the idiots of the state and the whole culture element would go away.. then tamil would be served well by goondas, rapist, politicians, corrupt businessman. they would be chanting of karuna nidhi, daya nidhi.. irony in their names. dravidians would embrace islam and christian, they would take away the offerings to foreign land fund jihadis, terrorism against islam..and again after sometime it would doomsday for indians and tamilians.. they would lament lack of wisdom....history would be repeated. lankans were ruled by tamilians, arakans, they lost their mental stability, they got defeated and destroyed..
RE:RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by on Apr 30, 2007 10:42 PM Permalink
Number of Brahmins Arrested in Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST in Last 15 years -
It was just 1 person - Subramanian Swamy, who was issued a warrant under this section by Jayalalitha, for having uttered the word "pariah" in the context of LTTE.
In contrast, no less than 150 OBCs were arrested in 1999 July , under this act during the anti dalit riots in south TN.
RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by on Apr 30, 2007 10:31 PM Permalink
1. Percentage of Brahmins among Medical College Students - 0.32% 2. Percentage of Brahmins among Anna University Students - 4.3%
RE:LATEST POSITION OF BRAHMINS IN TAMILNADU (2007)
by sridhar gorantla on May 01, 2007 12:27 AM Permalink
UNDERSTAND ORIGINAL CASTE SYSTEM CLEARLY AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND HOW IT WAS MISUSED IN INDIAN HISTORY. HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS BOOK "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI" by SWAMI PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA. HERE IS A FREE ONLINE VERSION OF THIS BOOK:
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---------------------------------------------------------------< BR>HERE IS THE CASTE SYSTEM EXPLANATION IN ITS UNADULTERATED FORM: --------------------------------------------------------------- The origin of the caste system, formulated by the great legislator Manu, was admirable. He saw clearly that men are distinguished by natural evolution into four great classes: those capable of offering service to society through their bodily labor ( Sudras); those who serve through mentality, skill, agriculture, trade, commerce, business life in general (Vaisyas); those whose talents are administrative, executive, and protective%u2014rulers and warriors ( Kshatriyas); those of contemplative nature, spiritually inspired and inspiring (Brahmins). "Neither birth nor sacraments nor study nor ancestry can decide whether a person is twice-born (i.e., a Brahmin);" the Mahabharata declares, "character and conduct only can decide."Manu instructed society to show respect to its members insofar as they possessed wisdom, virtue, age, kinship or, lastly, wealth. Riches in Vedic India were always despised if they were hoarded or unavailable for charitable purposes. Ungenerous men of great wealth were assigned a low rank in society.
"Inclusion in one of these four castes originally depended not on a man's birth but on his natural capacities as demonstrated by the goal in life he elected to achieve," an article in East-West for January, 1935, tells us. "This goal could be (1) kama, desire, activity of the life of the senses (Sudra stage), (2) artha, gain, fulfilling but controlling the desires (Vaisya stage), (3) dharma, self-discipline, the life of responsibility and right action (Kshatriya stage), (4) moksha, liberation, the life of spirituality and religious teaching (Brahmin stage). These four castes render service to humanity by (1) body, (2) mind, (3) will power, (4) Spirit. "These four stages have their correspondence in the eternal gunas or qualities of nature, tamas, rajas, and sattva: obstruction, activity, and expansion; or, mass, energy, and intelligence. The four natural castes are marked by the gunas as (1) tamas (ignorance), (2) tamas-rajas (mixture of ignorance and activity), (3) rajas-sattva (mixture of right activity and enlightenment), (4) sattva (enlightenment). Thus has nature marked every man with his caste, by the predominance in himself of one, or the mixture of two, of the gunas. Of course every human being has all three gunas in varying proportions. The guru will be able rightly to determine a man's caste or evolutionary status.
Serious evils arose when the caste system became hardened through the centuries into a hereditary halter. Social reformers like Gandhi and the members of very numerous societies in India today are making slow but sure progress in restoring the ancient values of caste, based solely on natural qualification and not on birth. Every nation on earth has its own distinctive misery-producing karma to deal with and remove; India, too, with her versatile and invulnerable spirit, shall prove herself equal to the task of caste-reformation.
"To a certain extent, all races and nations observe in practice, if not in theory, the features of caste. Where there is great license or so-called liberty, particularly in intermarriage between extremes in the natural castes, the race dwindles away and becomes extinct. The Purana Samhita compares the offspring of such unions to barren hybrids, like the mule which is incapable of propagation of its own species. Artificial species are eventually exterminated. History offers abundant proof of numerous great races which no longer have any living representatives. The caste system of India is credited by her most profound thinkers with being the check or preventive against license which has preserved the purity of the race and brought it safely through millenniums of vicissitudes, while other races have vanished in oblivion."
