sirs- viju you are right. not only people of t.nadu, even people of india are unaware of their basic rights. public memory is short. that is why the karunanidhi, who opposed a woman candidate for indian presidentship and supported a bjp candidate in 2002, not takes a u turn , supports a woman candidate and opposes the BJP candidate! and he claims credit for both! he says he was instrumental in making kalam president in 2002, and prathiba in 2007! he also proclaims himself as a champion of women's rights, though he was foremost in opposing the women candidate called lakshmi sehgal in 2002!
No democracy in the world will have so much support for communists as in india. a party which opposed india's freedom movement, a party which supported partitioning of india on religious basis (and this party says it does not believe in god, though it supported formation of pakistan!), a party which supported chinese aggression on india in 1962, is today the darling of english channels, newspapers & 'secularists'. these 'progressives' have even distorted the vedas in history text books. for these intellects, moghul rule was the golden period of india! auragezeb was the most tolerant monarch in the whole universe! and vedas sanctioned killing of animals! vedas never santioned killing of live animals, only the flesh of dead animals is said to have been consumed, that too only by non bramins during a part of vedic period. kshatriyas & vaishyas were allowed to eat meat & beef, though animal killing was banned. the word 'aryan' also denotes kshatriyas & vaishyas since they were also part of 'dwija' i.e. twice born castes, which means castes which were allowed to sport sacred thread.
though these progressives misquote vedas and say that even bramins ate meat during vedic period, they do not highlight how vedas proclaim the greatness of hindu gods. so vedas should be believed if someone says they sanctioned meat eating, but otherwise vedas are obscurantist! but bible & quran are highly progressive! still these intellects will not convert to other religions, but remain in hinduism, though they call it a backward religion!
there is a caste called Bania in north india,a business community. gandhiji was a bania himself. in t.nadu there is a caste called vanniar. now since Bania & Vanniar look similar in pronouncement, these progressive could one day 'discover' that Banias were descendants of Vanniars who went to north india for business!