DRAVIDA PERAVAI, the offshoot of DRAVIDA
MUNNETRAKAZHAGAM is born out of historical necessity to mould the policies in
tune with the changing needs of times and to catch the imagination of the Tamil
people in the dawn of the next millennium.
The founder of Dravidian movement
according to us is Tamil grammarian Tholkappier.
Tamils had scaled greater heights in
ancient times, and their mathematical skills wherein one out of eight lakh
fractions was the least small quantity up to which they could calculate without
a calculator or computer. The theorem of Pythagoras could be spelt out in poetic
form in Tamil much before his times. Erambam, Kanakathigaram by Kakkai
Padiniyar, Kilaralabham, Athisaram, Kalambaham, Tiribuvana Thilagam, Kanitha
rathinam, Sirukanakku were the books which I referred says Kaari Nayanar who
wrote Kanakathigaram, but all these books Tamils have lost.
.
“Underworld: The Mysterious origins of
Civilizations” Nandhivarman urged Tamil scholars to read English books on
civilizations to know more and substantiate about the facts relating to the
Kumari Kandam, lost in Indian Ocean. Mr.Graham Hancock, the author of this book
relying heavily on the inundation maps by Dr.Gelen Milne of Durham University
had said 5 percent of the Earth’s surface or 25 million square kilometers were
submerged. Three super floods in between 15000 to 14000 thousand years, 12000
to 11000 thousand years, and 8000 to 7000 thousand years have swallowed earth’s
surface, more particularly the Kumari Kandam. Researches into the lost
civilizations so far had been on earth surface and land-centric and in the vast
oceans marine
archaeology had barely begun to
investigate.
So until scientific researches in marine
archeology are undertaken it would be difficult to supplement literary
evidences about hoary past. All earth’s continents and land mass had been once
upon a time one, and called Pangaea, which in Latin means All Earth. Similarly
all languages emanated from one language and a school for Nostratic languages
subscribes to this theory. There is book on all writing systems. All these lead
to the conclusion that mankind is one, and we had our origins in Africa and
spread every where. But our link is lost in the seas. It will take long time to
reconstruct Tamil’s past but with available evidences, we will have to start.
Ancient Tamils were highly knowledgeable
and had high living standards in ancient times but at same Tamils proved that
from mathematics to medicine everything could be condensed within Tamil poetry
and grammatical rules. But today though Tamils earn more they remain arivu
coolies to the multi nationals and they had forgotten Tamil. Hence ancient
times were golden times.
Tamils had slept in midway thereby lost
chances to win the race and prove they are the top in human civilization. This
loss aggravates further when Tamil rulers with all there power in Center could
not secure Tamil its due place.
UNESCO from 1999 onwards is celebrating
World Mother Tongues Day every year on February 21. It is in remembrance of the
Basha Andolan Dibosh, which means Language Struggle of 1950-52 in East Pakistan
currently known as Bangladesh. Then Pakistan Government imposed Urdu as sole
official language of Pakistan. East Pakistan had Bengali speakers. So in
protest against this order Dhaka University Students and Medical College
students staged a protest demonstration. In Police firing 5
people lost their lives on 21 st Feb 1952.
The struggle won Bengali equal status with Urdu. To honour the memory of those
martyrs UNESCO had chosen Feb 21 as World Mother Languages Day.
We all know the Anti-Hindi Agitation and
the numerous lives we lost including self immolation. All that history was not
placed before UNESCO with documentary evidences to prove that Tamil struggle is
of greater magnitude. This failure of those who ruled Tamilnadu and Tamil
Ministers in Union Cabinet had deprived a chance where world history could have
spoken about our struggle by celebrating as World Mother Languages Day. Amidst
such failures, selfishness of present Tamils not to think about Tamil language
we have to bank upon our past to regain the lost spirit of being pioneers in
world civilizations.
Nowhere in human society people were
compartmentalized into castes in the name of religion by the invaders and kept
under captivity for centuries together. The archaeological excavations at Mohenjo-Daro
and Harappa by SirJohn Marshall brought to the fore the rich civilization of
Dravidians. Dr.Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages
highlighted that Tamil is the Mother of Dravidian language school and a primary
classical language of the world. At the same time the oppressed sections of
society revolted against caste tyranny. In such a compelling historical moment Advocate
JOHN RATHINAM, a leader of dalits founded Dravida Kazhagam in 1892. With an
interval of some years after that first abortive attempt, the South Indian
Welfare and Rights Movement otherwise known as Justice Party emerged in the
scene in 1916. As moderates in Justice Party were applying brakes for the
onward march of the social revolution initiated by PERIYAR E.V.RAMASAMY, a new
transformation was carried forward by DRAVIDA KAZHAGAM.
The realization that social revolution
sans power will not deliver goods led to the birth of DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM
in September 17/1949. ARINGNAR ANNA led the party to citadels of power in 1967
but his demise orphaned the movement. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam led by Aringnar
Anna's successor Dr. KALAIGNAR M. KARUNANITHI became a victim of the evil
designs of Indian National Congress, the power crazy fascist party, which
engineered splits in opposition parties to enable it to remain in the saddle at
the Central Government of India. A matinee idol became a convenient tool to
reverse the march of the rationalist movement and the historical resurgence of
the Dravidian Peoples. ANNA DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM came into existence in
October 1972. Once again DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM split and MARUMALARCHI
DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHGAM was formed due to personality clashes. Aghast at the
division after division that buried all the achievement of century old
Dravidian movement an outfit DRAVIDA ILAIGNAR PERVAI aimed at unifying the
youth divided between the three Dravidian parties emerged on 25th January 1994
in front of the statue of Student leader Rajendran of Annamalai University who
lost his life to the bullets of police during Anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. N.
Nandhivarman who led this organization felt the need to fill the vacuum for a
Greens party in Tamilnadu and registered DRAVIDA PERAVAI as a party with the
ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA with effect from 30.10.96
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