Periyar Speaks

Deepavali The festival widely celebrated as ‘Diwali’ in other states, is ‘Deepavali’ for the people in Tamil Nadu. Rows of...

(The following are the translated excerpts of the Editorial, published in ‘Viduthalai’, Tamil Rationalist daily dated 17th September 1972) A...

There is much hullabaloo everywhere these days over the temple-entry allowed to the Panchamas, the lowest in the caste hierarchy. ...

Thanthai Periyar announced the formation of a ‘PROTEST COMMITTEE’ to agitate against caste - based degradations.  He advised the cadres...

The following is the translated version of the Editorial (30th July 1939) published by Thanthai Periyar in Kudi Arasu, the...

The following was the editorial of Kudi Arasu 3rd April 1948, the Tamil weekly founded by Thanthai Periyar in 1925...

My dear protectors of castes and caste enthusiasts - through my editorial in the ‘Kudi Arasu’ issue of 16.10.1930, I...

The central idea of today’s (Kudi Arasu -21st February 1948) editorial write-up from my desk is the dream of brahmins...

On 18th January1953 Thanthai Periyar delivered a speech at a public meeting in Bangalore. The Central idea of his address...

In the July-7, 1929 issue of ‘Kudi Arasu’, Thanthai Periyar’s editorial described various problems faced by non-brahmin students in the...