Arivumathi and Dravidianism

Abstract

Superstitions, rituals, religion, and godly principles that arose from the emergence of the Dravidian movement and the rise of the Dravidian race are enslaving the people. It was through this that those human beings created ups and downs among themselves and locked up the slave animals for themselves. Untouchability was an act of demeaning a man. This atrocity of untouchability was seen in restaurants, art halls, buses, and even schools, with separate cups, separate seats, and separate sections. In addition to demeaning women, there were many oppressive policies in Tamil Nadu, such as that a woman is a slave to a man, home, and society. The Dravidian movement was a movement that emerged to rescue the people from many more such forms of oppression. Even Tamil, the oldest language of the Dravidian languages, began to lose its uniqueness at some point. In order to bring the Tamil language out of this decline, the speakers of the Dravidian movement like Thanthai Periyar, Anna, and Kalaignar promoted Tamil through their self-conscious speeches. Similarly, many poets of the Dravidian movement, like Bharathidasan, Suradha, Vanithasan, etc., through their writings, worked hard to make the Tamil language flourish on our soil again. Arivumathi is one of those who have been attracted by such principles and who is now a poet of the Dravidian movement. The Dravidian thoughts found in his poems can be seen in poems such as his unique Tamil principles, his attachment to race, the restoration of slavery, and his concept of untouchability.