To love – marry beyond caste, religion;
Need Democracy!
December 28: Holding Venmani martyrs close to the heart
Revolutionary Anti-caste marriage!
Marriage is not merely
a life necessity of two people;
It embodies
culture and civilization together.
Moreover, love marriages are
inherently democratic by their very nature.
Love portrayed as spontaneous
in movies;
We’ve heard love stories
in literature.
But, in our country today,
can a woman and a man
love or marry
persons of their choice?
Kannagi – Murugesan of
Virudhachalam, Cuddalore
rejected caste and married.
In 2003, they were killed
by pouring poison
into their ears and nose,
writhing in agony.
They were students
of Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
Their love and marriage
were destroyed by Vanniyar caste fanatics.
Can this dominant caste fanaticism
be termed as
our culture
Tamil Nadu, hailed as a state
where civilization of
treating humans as equals flourished and thrived.
But, over 30 caste honour killings
took place between
2021 and June 2024.
How many untold,
unregistered honour killings?
This year too,
Azhagesan, Kavin,
and successive caste honour killings
continue relentlessly.
The dominant-caste fanaticism and undemocratic nature
of this society,
along with the State machinery
that protects it,
play a major role in enabling
these massacres.
Father of Surjit,
who murdered Kavin,
is a police sub-inspector.
He allowed his son Surjit
to roam around with sickles and knives,
driven by caste fanaticism.
The police conceal
caste-based honour killings
by recording them as ordinary clashes
or regular murder cases.
In this way,
caste supremacy is established.
It is enforced through power that
living under the cover of
caste supremacy
is what constitutes culture.
Young lovers are not submitting
to this authority.
But should we — or should we not — stop them
becoming victims of caste-based honour killings?
Caste is a disease that grips us —
a sickness that clings to society.
What pride can there be
in carrying such a burden?
Can love that begins between
men and women in colleges
and workplaces be stopped?
If not, can society itself
be dragged backward —
forcing everyone to remain in villages,
never to step outside,
never to be educated,
destined to live again as
serfs or caste-based slaves?
Would today’s dominant caste fanatics,
so‑called Sudra castes,
accept the old slave culture
that forbade one from walking
with a Thundu (shoulder towel)
through Agraharam streets?
Can these shattered
and discarded traditions ever
truly be re‑established in their homes?
Why can’t these old traditions
be re‑established? Because
they are all against equality.
If that’s the case, why should caste alone —
a system built on inequality —
be allowed to survive?
Yet, the RSS, BJP,
and the Sangh Parivar on one side,
and their subservient allies —
the dominant caste supremacist outfits
and political parties—
keep nurturing the poison of caste pride,
desperate to preserve this
rotten system somehow.
When the dominant caste outfits
arrogantly say,
“Don’t you have women in your caste?
Love and marry from within,”;
the oppressed caste parties
enslaved by the RSS‑BJP echo them, saying,
“We have enough women in our caste;
let’s progress by sticking to that.”
Thus, RSS-BJP mob on one side, and,
dominant caste and oppressed casteist outfits on the other,
sharpen the weapon of caste pride.
No matter how much pride
one takes in labels like Devendrakula Vellalar,
the truth is,
the Pallars have never been spared
from the murderous hatred
of the dominant caste fanatics.
Castes boast of their pride;
caste itself is a cruel Brahminical ideology
that discriminates others
by considering them subservient.
This is why, the RSS and the dominant caste fanatics
were able to feed and sustain it,
leading to the daily rise
in caste‑based assaults and caste honour killings.
Against this degraded
caste‑dominated culture
stands the culture of equality
with the slogan,
“To love – marry beyond caste, religion
Need Democracy”.
All those who,
knowingly or unknowingly,
fought and were killed for upholding
a casteless, noble culture
are symbols of a new culture.
From their spilled blood
flowers bloom
that sow the seeds of a new culture
through revolutionary marriages.
People’s Power Party,
Tamil Nadu – Puducherry.
99623 66321.
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