Members of Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam hold a portrait of Dravidar Kazhagam founder Periyar E.V. Ramasamy during a rally on his 140th birth anniversary, in Coimbatore
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Police personnel guard the statue of rationalist leader E V Ramasamy, popularly known as 'Periyar', in Chennai. Security has been beefed up across the state of Tamil Nadu for the s...
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The damaged statue of rationalist leader E V Ramasamy popularly known as 'Periyar' after it was vandalised by two persons, who were later arrested for the incident, in Vellore.
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Buddha Road
Ambedkar with Periyar in Rangoon, 1954
Periyar
‘Unhidden persuader’
The Quartet
C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, MGR and Periyar in the late 1960s
While speaking to Outlook, writer-activist Meena Kandasamy talks about politics, literature, feminism, reservation, Periyarism and poses a few questions to the Indian judiciary.
On the eve of 125 years of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, K. Veeramani, president, Dravidar Kazhagam discusses caste politics, and explains why the DK does not believe in having dalits as puppets in its apex decision-making body.
The Dravidian movement is a century old—envisioned as an anti-Brahmin formation, though its political outfits did have elite leaders. Even today, the AIADMK and DMK face no threat to electoral dominance.