Thread by @Indumakalktchi

Understanding Dravidian (Un)Tamil culture. 

For the Nation to understand what Hindus in TN are fighting against.

A Tamil identity and Tamil culture is entirely different from and even diametrically opposite from Indian culture and Indian Identity.

There is a movement in TN, that emphasis that Tamils have a seperate type of Spirituality, Seperate type of world view, A different way of life, which is totally different from Hindu way of life, in fact these groups argue that there is no such thing as Hindu way of life,

as The term Hindu in it self is a colonial baggage, 

This particular movement is getting traction with some significant number of youths, but majority do not subscribe to this view. 

This has to be exposed for what they are, UTTER COMPLETE FALSEHOODS,

To understand this we have to get into the history of Tamil culture, and what we're the things Tamils considered as sacred. 

If you observe the particular narrative being peddled, not only by the Tamil Nationalists, Tamil Separatists, but also by a significant number of leftist.

It is that the ancient Tamil culture was somehow a very materialistic culture, A culture in which Matter was considered as primal, Material tangible physical things were considered as important,

They never had any conceptual of supernatural entities, never had any conceptual of God's and Goddesses, What ever they had were only ancestral worship.

Then came the Brahminical religion, Totaly Idiolistic with sophisticated rituals, with Brahmin class, Sanskrit language, and they somehow served Tamils who were worshiping nature, Corrupted/converted into non terrestrial, celestial God's and Goddesses,

and this shift is the reason for the fall of Tamils. 

Interestingly this is a highly racist view also, cause Tamils as a race they say is poised towards materialism, they never worshipped God's, and some how inclined towards atheism.

The other side, believed God, superstitious, patriarchal structure And imposed it on Tamils. 

What evidence we have for this claim, for this we have to go to Tamil spiritual history namely the sangam literature.

Which was revived by a Brahmin U Ve Swaminathan Iyer a Brahmin, who walked the length and breadth of TN to collect all the palm leaves and gave us the Tamil Sangam Literature.

Keezhadi, Dravida Kazhagam, Atheists, Church, Muslims all propagate this theory to belittle Sanatana roots of Tamil Culture.