பரயர சநதனயல உரவன இயககக கறகள / Movements and Ideologies Emerged from the Thoughts of Periyar

Thoughts emerging from profound thinking and rationality can create deep experiences. When one deeply begins to think one will have a habit of analyzing it scientifically. The custom of scientific research can solve any problem. Periyar at the age of ten took business. He has a natural enthusiasm and has the habit of asking and questioning ‘why’ and ‘how’ to any matter. As a result of this character, he came into contact with many people through whom he had many experiences and truths. He boldly broke all barriers that constrain thinking and doings that were considered to be sin. It is a fact that from his experience he acquired and lived up to good lessons, goals and life-guiding principles. His bad experiences at a chattram in Kasi where he was not allowed to eat due to his non-brahminic caste changed his lifestyle. His experience in Kasi has radically transformed his life goals and radical thought. His personal experience sharpened his rational thinking. It gave him thought of eradicating enslaving others, unjust acts and superstitions. His remarkable experience inculcated the thought of creating a rational society. His experience has made a constructive ideology and formed him as a man of action. He was a man of live action and his actions were based on real facts. He became the pioneer of the salient features of the movement which is very challenging, radical and empowering. His thoughts and experience are rooted in a rational movement that builds a liberated society. Hence, the article studies the movements and ideologies that emerged from the thoughts of Periyar.