Everyone from Tamil Nadu loves him but majority of them won't be aware how he wickedly he was abused by the Dravidian groups and Periyar EV Ramasamy.
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By saying such casteist lines, he mocked the intelligence of Tamil people to make judgement about Bharathi's poetic skills. (3/n)
Periyar have extremely high number of statues in Tamil Nadu compared to Bharathi.
The man who abused Bharathi is worshipped and the greatest poets Bharathi is ignored in Tamil Nadu.
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