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Kalaignar international convention centre to come up on 25-acre land in Chennai

Speaking on the occasion, Stalin said the world-class convention centre will be suitable for conducting global industrial exhibitions, trade conferences, technical meetings, international film festival

CHENNAI: As part of the 100th birth anniversary of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday announced the state government would build a Kalaignar International Convention Centre on a 25-acre land in Chennai. The centre will have a seminar hall with a capacity to accommodate 5,000 people, exhibition halls, parks, star hotels, restaurants and multi-storey parking lot. On the occasion, Stalin also released the logo for the centenary celebrations of Karunanidhi.

Speaking on the occasion, Stalin said the world-class convention centre will be suitable for conducting global industrial exhibitions, trade conferences, technical meetings, international film festivals etc. Such utilities would take the glory of Kalaignar across the globe. “This idea struck my mind during my recent visit to Singapore and Japan,” he added.

Referring to the presence of the former Governor of West Bengal Gopalakrishna Gandhi at the event, the Chief Minister said, “The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi is here to pay encomiums to Karunanidhi who is the ‘ideological heir’ of Periyar EV Ramasamy.” Stalin said both Periyar and CN Annadurai had great respect for Mahatma Gandhi.

He said the state government has planned to celebrate the centenary of Karunanidhi for a year and recalled the contributions of the late leader for the welfare of the people of Tamil Nadu over several decades. Speaking on the occasion, Gopalakrishna Gandhi recalled when he joined the civil service, Karunanidhi was the chief minister and Stalin was just 15 years old.

“In public life, Kalaignar symbolised maturity. In administration and in governance, Karunanidhi symbolised balance. He knew what the word Alavu in Tamil means - Measure - When to do and what to do. Also, when not to and what should not be done. He was a skilful politician and a tremendous administrator. I would like to say this particularly to the young ministers present here and to his grandson on the stage today,” he said.

“In the politician Karunanidhi, there was a statesman par excellence. In that statesman, there was an artiste. Kalaiganar was supremely an artiste in the administration. When the late MGR, who was the heartthrob of millions was critically ill, Kalaiganar, the artiste expressed his wish that MGR should return to political life.

“The mandate to govern is the duty to discharge not a power to flaunt. Public properties should be protected as the assets of a trust. Every moment in the office is holy,” he added. On the occasion, the chief minister also released a short film on the contributions of Karunanidhi to the state, and inaugurated a photo exhibition covering the important events in the life of the late leader.

Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan recalled the contributions of Karunanidhi to the people of Tamil Nadu, the Tamil language and its literature. Chief Secretary V Irai Anbu, ministers and senior officials were among those present on the occasion.

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Tamil Nadu ou Thamizhagam ? Un affrontement politique entre le gouverneur du Tamil Nadu, RN Ravi, et le gouvernement MK Staline de l'État a ravivé un débat sur le nom "Tamil Nadu" et sa signification dans la politique dravidienne. Le gouverneur Ravi a agité le débat avec ses remarques le 4 janvier lors d'un événement à Chennai. "Ici au Tamil Nadu, un autre type de récit a été créé. Tout ce qui s'applique à l'ensemble du pays, le Tamil Nadu dira non. C'est devenu une habitude. Tant de thèses ont été écrites - toutes fausses et pauvres fictions. La vérité doit prévaloir. Thamizhagam serait un mot plus approprié pour l'appeler », a déclaré M. Ravi. Le DMK au pouvoir accuse le gouverneur de faire des déclarations dangereuses uniquement pour faire avancer l'agenda de l'opposition étatique BJP et de son mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). D'autre part, M. Ravi affirme que le parti au pouvoir et ses alliés symbolisent le chauvinisme tamoul en politique. M. Ravi est considéré comme étant en contradiction avec l'idéologie dravidienne. EXPLIQUÉ Le mot « Nadu » au Tamil Nadu pourrait signifier « nation ». Ainsi, Tamil Nadu signifie "une nation de Tamouls" tandis que Thamizhagam signifie la "maison du peuple tamoul". Le gouverneur Ravi aurait suggéré Thamizhagam comme un nom "plus approprié" pour le Tamil Nadu. Selon lui, des efforts ont été faits au fil des ans pour pousser le récit selon lequel le Tamil Nadu ne fait pas partie intégrante de l'Inde. Son argument est qu'en raison de la signification de «Nadu», le mot pourrait être considéré comme décrivant une région autonome faisant partie de l'Inde. Le DMK n'est pas d'accord. "Le nom Tamil Nadu indique notre langue, nos traditions, notre politique et notre vie elle-même. Cette terre restera Tamil Nadu pour toujours", a déclaré le député DMK Kanimozhi. Le porte-parole du DMK, « Murasoli », était cinglant envers le gouverneur : « Il dit que le nom du Tamil Nadu indique une nation souveraine. Le nom du Rajasthan ressemble-t-il pour vous à Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ouzbékistan ou Turkménistan ? nom indique la terre de Marathas ? Le slogan touristique du Kerala, « le pays de Dieu », peut également être une demande pour un statut d'État-nation. N'est-il pas problématique pour vous de trouver un « Desam (terre) » dans le parti Telugu Desam ? " Le nom "Thamizhagam" a été utilisé pour la première fois par Periyar EV Ramasamy en 1938. Mais il a également favorisé le Tamil Nadu comme option pour renommer Madras. Bien qu'initialement, le DMK ait exigé une nation distincte, il a renoncé à la demande après que l'État de Madras de l'époque ait été renommé Tamil Nadu. "Après qu'il a été renommé Tamil Nadu, nous avons dit que nous étions avec vous et que nous voulions plus de pouvoirs. Maintenant, c'est fermé", a déclaré le porte-parole du DMK et ancien député TKS Elangovan.

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Periyar Statue Found Desecrated With Saffron Paint in Coimbatore, Protesters Demand Arrest of Culprits

Periyar Statue Found Desecrated With Saffron Paint in Coimbatore, Protesters Demand Arrest of Culprits

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A witness noticed saffron paint poured all over the statue.

Police say investigation is on and they are trying to collect all CCTV footage from near the area. They also assured that the culprits will be arrested.

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Tension prevailed in Coimbatore’s Sundarapuram area after the statue of late social activist…

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If a larger country oppresses a smaller country, I'll stand with the smaller country. If the smaller country has a majoritarian religion which oppresses minority religions, I'll stand with the minority religion. If the minority religion has caste and one caste oppresses another caste, I'll stand with the caste being oppressed. In the oppressed caste if an employer oppresses his employee, I'll stand with the employee. If the employee goes home and oppresses his wife, I'll stand with that woman. Overall, oppression is my enemy.

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Periyar EV Ramasamy row: Madras HC dismisses plea against actor Rajinikanth

The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed against actor Rajinikanth over his remarks on rationalist leader E V Ramasamy "Periyar" as the petitioners withdrew the plea.

Justice P Rajamanickam was hearing the petition by Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam, a fringe outfit.

State Public Prosecutor A Natarajan submitted the petitioners had approached the court without seeking the alternative remedy available to them.

Justice Rajamanickam asked the counsel for the petitioners if they would withdraw the petition.

After the counsels admitted they would do so, the judge recorded the same and dismissed the plea.

Rajinikanth made the controversial remarks against Periyar recently at an event organised here by Tamil magazine 'Thuglak'. Read More

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Won’t Apologise For Comments On Periyar Amid Protest Rajinikanth rejected demands from the Dravidar Viduthulai Kazhagam (DVK) for his apology. Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth today said he would not apologise for his comments on social reformer EV Ramasamy "Periyar", over which a police complaint has been filed by a political group.

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रजनीकांत ने पेरियार पर दिए बयान पर माफी मांगने से इनकार किया, कहा- मैं अपनी बात साबित कर सकता हूं

रजनीकांत ने पेरियार पर दिए बयान पर माफी मांगने से इनकार किया, कहा- मैं अपनी बात साबित कर सकता हूं

चेन्नै. तमिल सुपरस्टार रजनीकांत ने मंगलवार को पेरियार पर दिए अपत्तिजनक बयान पर माफी मांगने से इनकार कर दिया। उन्होंने ने कहा था कि पेरियार भगवान के कट्‌टर आलोचक थे। उन्होंने 1971 की एक रैली में भगवान राम-सीता की आपत्तिजनक तस्वीर दिखाई थी। लेकिन, किसी ने उनकी आलोचना नहीं की। इसके बाद द्रविड़ संगठन ने रजनीकांत से बिना शर्त माफी की मांग की है।

पत्रिकाओं और अखबारों की कटिंग दिखाते हुए अभिनेता ने…

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Rahul Gandhi’s vengayam raita in Tamil Nadu village captures hearts

Rahul Gandhi’s vengayam raita in Tamil Nadu village captures hearts

Chennai: In Tamil Nadu, Dravidar Kazhagam founder ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy’s political lexicon would often include ‘vengayam’ (onion). He would use the vengayam analogy often to denote you would have nothing left as you peel it layer by layer. But when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shouted out vengayam as he joined a group of village cooks turned YouTubers to prepare raita as accompaniment for spicy…

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New challenges to Dravidian politics in TN : The Tribune India

Radhika Ramaseshan

Senior Journalist

For 53 years, Tamil Nadu politics moved in a circle across the twin offspring of the Dravidian ideology and worldview, birthed by Periyar EV Ramasamy and fine-tuned by CN Annadurai to suit into the exigencies of statecraft, an important factor of which entailed straightening out the state’s troubled relations with a Congress-ruled Centre. The 2 poles are the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Squeezed between the ends of a warring spectrum had been offshoots of one of many Kazhagams or caste-based entities that aligned with the DMK or the AIADMK to discover a place underneath the solar.

The Meeting elections in April-Might 2021 will see the play of recent parts and personas. The polls can be fought with out the larger-than-life presence of M Karunanidhi (DMK) and J Jayalalithaa (AIADMK), who had the voters in thrall for many years. Their events are bereft of leaders who can remotely match their charisma, oratory and mass enchantment. The DMK, which began as a cadre-driven get together, is lowered to a dynastic entity dominated by a household whose principal members are at loggerheads. MK Stalin is the anointed inheritor to Karunanidhi’s legacy, however his older brother, MK Alagiri, is estranged from him. Alagiri cultivated a base in southern Tamil Nadu that can not be scoffed at. Their half-sister and Thoothukuddi MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi nurses her personal ambitions, though her remit lies in Delhi.

Nonetheless, Stalin, who earned his spurs by sweeping the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, managed to maintain intact the ‘secular’ alliance he stitched within the run-up. The DMK-spearheaded coalition consists of the Congress, the Left events, the Indian Union Muslim League and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), previously often called the Dalit Panthers’ Get together. The VCK got here into being to hunt a distinct segment for the under-empowered Dalits in a polity dominated by the ‘muscular’ backward castes.

Pitted towards this rainbow formation is the AIADMK that floundered for path and stability after Jayalalithaa handed away. Nearer to the elections, there are indicators that underneath Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam, the AIADMK may regular itself, however at a political value. In November-end, after Amit Shah, Union Residence Minister, visited Chennai ostensibly to survey the pre-poll scene, the AIADMK declared it’ll have an alliance with the BJP.

The BJP, that secured simply 2.8 per cent votes within the 2016 elections and scored a duck, turned seen and even wanted, following Shah’s journey. The AIADMK blew scorching in direction of the BJP earlier when the BJP introduced its plan to launch Vetrivel Yatra in Tamil Nadu with non secular overtones. Its quest for regional symbols and icons took the BJP in direction of the calendar picture of Lord Murugan, a subaltern deity who’s honored as an antipodal to the non secular icons worshipped within the north. The BJP proposed to boost the battle cry ‘Vetrivel Veeravel’ (victorious vel, the spear Murugan carries) within the yatra. It was stopped by the AIADMK authorities for being probably ‘inflammatory’. What then compelled the AIADMK, which regarded the BJP as a communal and electoral baggage, to hunt out its hand?

The Dravidian events started because the forebears of federalism, utilizing symbols such because the Hindi imposition and Brahmin dominance to bolster their resistance to the Centre’s sway over Tamil Nadu. A long time later, the AIADMK leaders imagine that aligning with the BJP is the one strategy to hold their get together from fragmenting. That’s not the one motive. VK Sasikala, Jayalalithaa’s confidante who’s in jail, is anticipated to be launched in January 2021. The AIADMK is afraid that if a celebration she might kind along with her nephew TTV Dinakaran turns into a actuality, it may very well be in bother as a result of it could make a play for a similar votes. Due to this fact, it believed it ought to lean on the BJP and use its political guile to maintain the Sasikala-Dinakaran duo at bay. The prospects of the BJP teaming with the but non-aligned events such because the DMDK, PMK and the Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) was one thing the AIADMK didn’t relish. If a partnership with the BJP meant extracting big-ticket initiatives from the Centre, nothing prefer it for the AIADMK that should buck anti-incumbency.

This pastiche of acronyms and gamers was enlivened by the entry of a phenomenon: actor Rajinikanth or ‘Thalaivar’ (supremo). Enigmatic at the perfect of occasions, Rajinikanth strung alongside his followers and cheerleaders for years over his political plans. He lastly proclaimed he’ll launch a celebration whose identify and image can be unveiled in the course of the auspicious Pongal competition in January. Given Rajinikanth’s temper swings, he may change his thoughts once more, however the BJP will guarantee he is not going to.

The BJP, adept as a expertise scout, has not recognized a frontrunner of its personal in Tamil Nadu. It had a scattering of MPs and MLAs up to now in alliance with the AIADMK however has little to point out for itself independently. Rajinikanth appears to be the talisman the BJP waited for. S Gurumurthy, the Chennai-based chartered accountant who was an adviser to the RSS’s Swadeshi Jagran Manch, labored from behind the scenes and shortly positioned Arjuna Murthy, who helmed the Tamil Nadu BJP’s mental cell, because the actor’s ‘chief coordinator’.

Rajinikanth spoke a language that the BJP thought might ring a bell with voters fed up with the ‘corrupt’ and ‘family-centred’ Dravidian events. The phrases he selected had been ‘religious politics’, ‘honesty’ and ‘freedom from corruption’. Would a ‘religious’ stream click on in a state that rejected theism in politics up to now and most well-liked to pursue faith in personal and temple areas, away from electioneering?

Likely, Tamil Nadu politics was anchored in filmdom because the epic successes of MG Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa proved. Currently, nonetheless, stars like Captain Vijayakanth, Vijay and Kamal Haasan scarcely made an affect. Maybe cinema could now not guarantee a protected passage to politics. Rajinikanth may very well be the last word check.

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Remembering Periyar on His 142nd Birth Anniversary

Remembering Periyar on His 142nd Birth Anniversary

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Rain clouds are seen behind a statue on the banks of the Periyar river in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, Sept.6, 2020. India’s monsoon season runs from June to September. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

EV Ramasamy’s ideologies have been a great pillar of Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu. He fought for social parity and is an esteemed leader across party lines.

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‘Why Should I Apologise?’ Rajinikanth Defends Remark Against Periyar, Says He Only Read Out News Reports

‘Why Should I Apologise?’ Rajinikanth Defends Remark Against Periyar, Says He Only Read Out News Reports

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Actor-politician Rajinikanth held copies of the news clippings related to his scathing attack on Periyar EV Ramasamy and said he will not apologise for his remarks on the social reformer.

File photo of Rajinikanth. Chennai:Actor-politician Rajinikanth on Tuesday made it clear that he will not apologise for his statement on social reformer Periyar EV Ramasamy. He also…

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Religion goes hand in hand with superstition and fear. Religion prevents progress and suppresses man. Religion exploits the suppressed classes.

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Periyar’s 140th Birth Anniversary: Shoes Thrown at EV Ramasamy Statues in Chennai, Tirupur

Periyar’s 140th Birth Anniversary: Shoes Thrown at EV Ramasamy Statues in Chennai, Tirupur

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The miscreants had chiselled off a portion from the statue’s head and placed a pair of slippers atop it.

Perriyar’s statue in Chennai. Chennai: Miscreants in Chennai and Tirupar threw shoes at two statues of the anti-untouchability activist EV Ramasamy on Monday, on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary.

The first incident was reported from Chennai where an…

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Statue Of EV Ramasamy Periyar Vandalised In Tamil Nadu

Statue Of EV Ramasamy Periyar Vandalised In Tamil Nadu

DMK president MK Stalin and PMK founder S Ramadoss lashed out at the vandalism incident (File)

Chennai:

A statue of rationalist leader EV Ramasamy Periyar was found vandalised in neighbouring Chengalpet district on Friday morning, police said.

The statue at Salavakkam in the district was found damaged this morning causing a flutter in the locality.

Political leaders condemned the vandalism.

The…

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Were Ram & Sita Insulted at Periyar Rally? As Rajinikanth Kicks Up Row, Here's What Facts Say About 1971 Event

Were Ram & Sita Insulted at Periyar Rally? As Rajinikanth Kicks Up Row, Here’s What Facts Say About 1971 Event

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Chennai: When actor Rajinikanth paved way for intense debate across the country over the controversial 1971 rally by social reformer Periyar EV Ramasamy in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district, many accounts of the incident began to surface.

During the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Thuglak magazine held on January 14, Rajini mentioned that the Hindu deities, Ram and Sita, were insulted at…