TN politics seems to have been centered around and obsessed with brahmins. Credit goes to Dravidian parties. Starting from Justice party, self respect movement till the recent dravidian ideology had been having in its core principle, the policy of brahmin hatred. Anything related to brahmins will be turned to be against Tamils by the dravidian politics. Sanskrit is one among the several things projected to be against Tamil language and people.
A nudging question on top of mind of all brahmins obsessed Dravidianists is: Do Tamil Brahmins consider Sanskrit and Tamil to be equal or do they see Tamil as inferior? Dravidianists seem to want to know what Tamil Brahmins feel about anything and everything under the sun. Do they think Tamil is inferior? Do they think they belong to TN? Why do they speak a different form of Tamil? Do they have superiority complex? Why are there less brahmins in army? Why is no brahmin cleaning toilets? are some of them.
The dravidian ideology has alienated brahmins from their own fellow Tamilians. Dravidian politics has made every social issue into a brahmin vs non brahmin issue. Dravidian ideology leaders don't seem to have a problem with this binary. In fact, this alienation and binary creation, is their daily bread and butter. Some of the stereotypes they created were Brahmins support BJP, non-brahmins don't. Brahmins support Sanskrit, non brahmins don't. Brahmins support Hindi, non-brahmins don't. Brahmins wear yagnyopaveetham (poo nool), non-brahmins don't. The traditional varna system which the dravidian ideology is supposed to fight tooth and nail, didn't operate on this binary [As always, we hold the view that oppression is bad]. The cascading effect of this alienation has led to brahmins getting a 'We are indeed different' and 'we are being persecuted' mentality which is furthering the brahmin vs non-brahmin divide and not doing any good to bring down the difference.
As to the politics around Sanskrit, dravidianists have always held the view that Sanskrit is the language of brahmins; it's oppressive; Sanskrit education was denied for common people. Given this, I'm tempted to think, what would these dravidianists have said if Sanskrit was taught in the Cholan empire. Pa. Ranjith would have said Raja Raja Cholan imposed the oppressive brahminical Sanskrit on his community in addition to grabbing lands. Munnadi pona muttudhu, pinnadi pona udhaikudhu (Donkey, when you go in front of it, hits, when you go behind, kicks). Of course, denial of education was wrong, whoever did it. We, as a society have to unite to oppose the inaccessibility. Now, Hindi is now being denied to economically weaker sections of population by the very same dravidianist parties that thumps its chests for fighting for equality & social justice and which accuse brahmins for denying education to low caste people.
So, what do brahmins prefer between Sanskrit vs Tamil? They seem to consider both to be their two eyes. They can't let one eye decay. Linguists all over the world opine that no language deserves to die. It's therefore the responsibility of every genuine language lover, irrespective of caste, to protect our languages. It's typical of dravidianists to create binaries like Sanskrit vs Tamil, brahmins vs non brahmins, Aryan vs Dravidian, etc. Let us stand above and unaffected by the binaries thrust on us by the divisive dravidianist parties. Let us all say aloud that Sanskrit is not in war with Tamil.
A nudging question on top of mind of all brahmins obsessed Dravidianists is: Do Tamil Brahmins consider Sanskrit and Tamil to be equal or do they see Tamil as inferior? Dravidianists seem to want to know what Tamil Brahmins feel about anything and everything under the sun. Do they think Tamil is inferior? Do they think they belong to TN? Why do they speak a different form of Tamil? Do they have superiority complex? Why are there less brahmins in army? Why is no brahmin cleaning toilets? are some of them.
The dravidian ideology has alienated brahmins from their own fellow Tamilians. Dravidian politics has made every social issue into a brahmin vs non brahmin issue. Dravidian ideology leaders don't seem to have a problem with this binary. In fact, this alienation and binary creation, is their daily bread and butter. Some of the stereotypes they created were Brahmins support BJP, non-brahmins don't. Brahmins support Sanskrit, non brahmins don't. Brahmins support Hindi, non-brahmins don't. Brahmins wear yagnyopaveetham (poo nool), non-brahmins don't. The traditional varna system which the dravidian ideology is supposed to fight tooth and nail, didn't operate on this binary [As always, we hold the view that oppression is bad]. The cascading effect of this alienation has led to brahmins getting a 'We are indeed different' and 'we are being persecuted' mentality which is furthering the brahmin vs non-brahmin divide and not doing any good to bring down the difference.
As to the politics around Sanskrit, dravidianists have always held the view that Sanskrit is the language of brahmins; it's oppressive; Sanskrit education was denied for common people. Given this, I'm tempted to think, what would these dravidianists have said if Sanskrit was taught in the Cholan empire. Pa. Ranjith would have said Raja Raja Cholan imposed the oppressive brahminical Sanskrit on his community in addition to grabbing lands. Munnadi pona muttudhu, pinnadi pona udhaikudhu (Donkey, when you go in front of it, hits, when you go behind, kicks). Of course, denial of education was wrong, whoever did it. We, as a society have to unite to oppose the inaccessibility. Now, Hindi is now being denied to economically weaker sections of population by the very same dravidianist parties that thumps its chests for fighting for equality & social justice and which accuse brahmins for denying education to low caste people.
So, what do brahmins prefer between Sanskrit vs Tamil? They seem to consider both to be their two eyes. They can't let one eye decay. Linguists all over the world opine that no language deserves to die. It's therefore the responsibility of every genuine language lover, irrespective of caste, to protect our languages. It's typical of dravidianists to create binaries like Sanskrit vs Tamil, brahmins vs non brahmins, Aryan vs Dravidian, etc. Let us stand above and unaffected by the binaries thrust on us by the divisive dravidianist parties. Let us all say aloud that Sanskrit is not in war with Tamil.
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