Dravidian movement
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Dravidian Progressivism is a Scam
Nachiketa answers X.T.M on Chennai, arguing that the city’s welfare and cleanliness cannot simply be credited to Dravidian progressivism, pointing to Tamil Nadu’s 97 percent caste endogamy rate and describing…
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Chennai Is Not an Accident
X.T.M observes that Chennai retains a non-transactional social reflex, with strangers helping unasked, and attributes it to Tamil language, Dravidian suspicion of centralisation, unstaged religious pluralism and weak chain retail,…
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A Conversation on Politics in Tamil Nadu
Maneesh Taneja and Omar Ali talk to K Jayaraman about Tamil Nadu politics, from the origin of the Dravidian movement and its rise as a political force to the decline…
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The Dravidaryan Invasion Theory
The Emissary examines what he calls the Dravidaryan invasion theory, arguing that the Aryan-versus-Dravidian story is a half-truth shaped by politics, from Periyar’s movement to Hindutva’s claims of indigeneity, and…
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Why the Aryan debate matters and why it should NOT
Nachiketa revisits the Aryan debate as a question of identity and politics rather than history, arguing it is largely irrelevant to the issues it is tied to, such as colonial…
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Dravida asmita (pride), Brahman pita (father)
Using Surya Narayana Sastri’s change to the Tamil name Parithimar Kalaignar, the poster argues that revolutionary movements, Dravidian, Maoist or jihadi, are often led by sons of privilege, as with…
