9/16/2023 0 Comments Suki sivam audioSo the Tamil separatist movement, which too has the backing of the evangelical industry, reduces all Tamil Hindu worship to ‘ancestral’ or ‘primitive’ forms of worship. All gods and goddesses were to be eliminated. The Dravidian movement constructed a Tamil identity in which all past was considered ‘irrational’ and ‘superstitious’. Though in a way, this is a recycling of old Dravidian racial theory, with respect to the Dravidian movement itself, there is a crucial difference. In Tamil Nadu, after the Church-sponsored Dravidianist movement failed to destroy Hinduism, the new strategy being adopted is to claim that Tamil deities are different from ‘Tamil methods of worship’. For the last few years, however, he has been catering to the Dravidianist and Tamil separatist constituency in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. There are many who take his words as axiomatic. Suki Sivam is a well known orator in the spiritual circles of Tamil Nadu.
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