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Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), revered by his followers as Periyar [a] or Thanthai [b] Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.
Sep 17, 2024 · Rationalist social reformer Periyar EV Ramasamy was remembered on the occasion of his 146th birth anniversary in Chennai on Tuesday (September 17). DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin offered floral tributes to Periyar’s portrait in Chennai.
Periyar may not be the philosopher-king but deserves to be known as the Socrates of modern India who dared to question our premises of our democracy without elements of justice.
The most illustrious social revolutionary of the millennium, his tireless, fearless and unparalleled efforts to end caste system and to transform society, with no trace of birth-based discrimination, on enlightened egalitarian basis was unique in the annals of history.
Nov 28, 2019 · E.V. Ramasamy, popularly addressed as Periyar or ‘the Great One’, laid the ideological foundations of modern Tamil politics and social life. More than a century after he championed equal rights for low-caste communities and women, we take stock of his popular, but complex, legacy.
Sep 4, 2013 · Visionary, rationalist, atheist, activist, social reformer, writer, doyen of Tamil politics, Father of the Dravidian Movement—E.V. Ramasamy, a.k.a. Periyar, was a man...
Mar 7, 2018 · E V Ramasamy ‘Periyar’. Born in 1879, Periyar is remembered for the Self Respect Movement to redeem the identity and self-respect of Tamils. He envisaged a Dravida homeland of Dravida Nadu, and launched a political party, Dravidar Kazhagam (DK).
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy [1] (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was a Dravidian social reformer and politician from India, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.
Dec 24, 2023 · Periyar’s ‘Penn Yaen Adimai Aanaal?’ translated as ‘Why Women were Enslaved’ is regarded as iconic for women's liberation; in it he urges women to give up pregnancy, fight masculinity, struggle for property rights, opt remarriage, and denounce chastity.
Periyar remains hugely influential and relevant to the politics in Tamil Nadu because of his stance on caste, social justice and rationalist worldview of religion.
