A collection of extempore speeches rarely, if ever, takes the form of a book with a persisting theme. Without additions and deletions to the content, speeches made from purely local platforms for specific occasions cannot in the normal course provide the substance that could create a book and ensure its long-life in the book-shelves. However, this book, which is a compilation of speeches made by a Member of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal (Liberation Panthers), Thol. Thirumaavalavan, seeks to be an exception.
Author(s): Thirumaavalavan (Translated from the Tamil by Meena Kandasamy)
Edition: First
Publisher: Samya
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: Kolkata
Foreword - ix
Acknowledgements - xvii
Preface
Uproot Hindutva Right from lts Grassroots! - xviii
Translator’s Note - xxii
l. Rebel! - 1
2. BJP Does Not Rule India, But RSS Does! - 21
3. Does It Take Guts to Cut the
Throats of Sleeping Men? - 34
4. Dalits-Muslims-Leftists:
An Alternative to the Dravidian Parties - 64
5. Eelam Means Tigers!
Tigers Mean Eelam! - 73
6. If We Must Not Enter the Temple,
Then You Must Not Enter the Cheri! - 87
7. Jayalalithaa is a Hindu Fundamentalist! - 96
8. We Will Worship Tamil!
We Will Worship Through Tamil! - 117
9. Tamilian Advancement:
Is Casteism an Obstacle? - 128
10. Only Caste -Annihilating Tamil Nationalism
Shall Uproot Hindutva - 142
11. How Many Periyarists' Homes Have
Ambedkar's Photograph? - 162
12. Bhakti Literature; Did It Unite the Tamilians?
Or the Hindus? - 177
13. Caution Is Required in the Cultural Field - 187
14. Does the Police Treat
Any Woman with Respect? - 205
15. He Who Cannot Search History,
Cannot Retrieve It - 218
16. Encountering Casteism
and Communalism - 231
Index - 241
