Madras: K. Veeramani, the leader of the powerful Dravida Kazhagam, has conducted a series of lectures on “Who is Sankaracharya?“. It attracted big crowds and amid cheers he challenged the historicity of the Sankaracharya and the establishment of the Maths at various places (4) in India.
He profusely quoted from the books written by the disciples of Sankara and also exposed the notoriety of this “Brahmin fanatic and communal propagator””. He said anybody could go to him and he was ready to argue the historicity and validity of Hinduism and also of Sankaracharya. His lectures will make the Dalits revolt against Hinduism. He claimed that the Tamilians were not Hindus and there was no Hinduism as such. The very names, Hindu, India, Hindustan were given by the foreigners. Ramalingam, a DK leader, also spoke on the religious history of Tamilians and said there was a time when Tamil was the language spoken all over india. He quoted the Sankaracharya rediculing Tamil as a ‘neecha‘ language. The Dalits needed a courageous leader with vast knowledge and intellectual calibre. Veeramani was one such. Let the Dalits, Ambedkarites, Marxists, Naxalites and even the minorities equip them selves with knowledge and knowledge is power which will lead them to revolt against the rotten Hindu structure dehumanising the humans. The D. K. is doing great work educating the masses, just as DV is.
