Interesting Balakrishna! Why do the proud and rationalistic Dravidians/Tamilians keep electing Jaya (a Kannada Iyengar with acting as her only qualification) every other time? Or MGR ,the only Keralite to drop out of grade school?Every religion has its faults.Why are you not exposing what Islam has done to women,Christianity to Jews and blacks,etc?Are those not crimes?The problem is not with rationalism itself -I am personally agnostic .The problem is the selective usage of that ideology to abuse Hinduism.Do you think the slave-of-Sonia Singh would dare claim there was no proof Muhammad existed -or laughed at Jesus's "virgin birth"?Every body has the right to his/her beliefs - except Hindus,I guess.If the DK/DMK is all about rationalism,ask "Kruel"nidhi to not wear that stupid yellow towel on his shoulder like a waiter at Sangeetha Bhavan -something a Brahmin astrologer told him to.Why did Periyar marry a teenage Brahmin girl at 84 - was it not what a Brahmin Josiar told him to do?