Haunted by Fire by Mythily Sivaraman5/25/2023 Though the Marxists memorialize Keezhvenmani massacre as martyrdom against class inequalities, observers say the fact that all the dead were Dalits couldn’t be overlooked. “From the ‘scientific socialism’ of 1962, the DMK had come a long way in 1971 to ‘socialism without tears’ to socialism with private property intact," wrote Sivaraman in Haunted by Fire: Essays on Caste, Class, Exploitation and Emancipation. Mythily Sivaraman of the All India Democratic Women’s Association- the women’s wing of the CPI (M), who later recorded the Keezhvenmani incident through her articles-wrote that the DMK broke no new ground and made no major radical departure from the policy of the previous government Congress. When the DMK came to power defeating the Congress in 1967, most of the landlords joined the DMK." Ramasamy), both the DMK and the AIADMK completely ignored the issue of untouchability. Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) state secretary, told Mint that “After Periyar (E. According to a recent ministry of social justice and empowerment report, a total of 5,131 cases have been registered under Prevention of Atrocities Act (1989) against SCs and STs between 20 in Tamil Nadu as compared to the BJP-ruled Rajasthan which tops the list with 23,861 cases. The condition hasn’t changed much over the years.
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