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The first self-respect marriage that was totally devoid of any Hindu ceremony was the marriage of the prominent self-respect movement writer Kuthoosi Gurusamy with another prominent leader, Kunjidham, under the presiding of Periyaar on 8 December 1929. [30] [31] The self-respect movement encouraged widow remarriage as well. Due to the prevalent ...
Links in the Chain (Hindi: Srinkhala ki Kadiyan) is a collection of essays by Indian writer Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987) on women's inequality in India.The essays were written between 1931 and 1937 for the literary journal Chand, and were later published together as a volume in 1942.
In ancient Tamil literature, poets have stressed the value of education for women. In a famous verse, a poet by the name of Naladiar stated that, "What gives beauty to a woman is not the hair style or the patter of her dress or the saffron on her face but only education". [ 32 ]
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
V. Geetha is an Indian feminist activist who writes on issues related to caste, gender, education and civil rights. [1] [2] She operates from Madras (now known as Chennai) and has carried out research on the nature and proliferation of NGOs operating in Tamil Nadu.
The Self-Respect Movement is a movement with the purported aim of achieving a society where backward castes have equal human rights, [122] and encouraging backward castes to have self-respect in the context of a caste based society that considered them to be a lower end of the hierarchy. [123]
Poongundranar was extremely influential in the revivalist Self-respect movement. [6] The sentence "Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir" has been adopted as the motto of the World Thamizh Confederation to represent Tamil people. [citation needed] The quote "Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir" is at present depicted in the United Nations Organisation. [7] G. G.
Front page of Kudi Arasu (3 September 1939). The headline reads "Veezhga Indhi" (Down with Hindi) during Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937-40. Kudi Arasu (also pronounced as Kudiyarasu; English: Republic) was a Tamil weekly magazine published by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy in Madras Presidency (present-day Tamil Nadu) in India.