I am confused! why we need to enumerate the brahmins in TN? after all, such timeconsuming process may not take us anywhere? Already, the Census Records do classify the population on the basis of 'Caste'; Even if you do a fresh enumeration and conclude that we account for 7% of total
Tamilnadu population ( as is claimed by some here in Tambrahms), what are we going to do with that number (7%)? even if that number be 8% or 9%, what is its significance? Perhaps, the figure would get rejected by the agencies (to whom we are going to put our demands, based on this percentage) on the ground that the data is unreliable and bogus! Instead, we should be discussing on improving the economic and cultural status of our people, particularly, the lower and lower-middle income groups belonging to the tamil brahmins living in Tamilnadu. I am sorry, the professor, dr_vb's message is so ambiguous and inadequate ( surprisingly from a professor, please, no offence) howsoever good the intention may be. My suggestion could be that we should have a genuinely subsidised educational institutions built and managed by our own people benefitting our own children, belonging to the categories mentioned above. Perhaps, some of the primary, middle and high-schools run by our people in different part of Tamilnadu, certainly not the elite ones of Padma-seshadri type, but whose which are running for decades by our people but have remained in the same condition! We should start from the grass root level. We can also run self-financing technical institutions at a subsided costs to our wards who are otherwise paying a heavy sum in many such institutions today. The modalities can be worked out later. But the purpose of collecting such massive data be made cystal clear to all of us. I would request the members to read my letter from the point of view of those of us/our children who still look up to help from others!
