Please do not insult the great son of India"Periyar"-In Tamil it means the RESPECTED ONE" !He was true Indian in fact knew all south Indian Languages and tried to ensure entry of Dalits in to Temples !which was resisited by the Brahmins!Periyar was born as Erode Venkata Naicker Ramaswamy in Erode in Madras Presidency . He was from a prominent Telugu Balija Naicker caste, a community that descended from the Nayak chiefs of the Vijayanagar Empire. Ramaswami Naicker was born in 1879 into a family of Balija Naidus, a Telugu jati of traders and cultivators and he grew up in Erode, a fairly important mercantile town in the Coimbatore district of Madras" as per Paula Richman in "Many Ramayanas". "Periyar" means 'respected one' or an 'elder' in Tamil.Hence he is sometimes called E. V. Ramaswami Naicker. "Ramaswami" was his given name and "Periyar" means 'respected one' or an 'elder' in Tamil.He is referred as Periyar and a University was named after him by the Tamil Nadu Government]Periyar could speak three Dravidian languages: Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Though Kannada was his mother tongue, he mostly used Tamil EVR was an atheist, noted for his antitheistic statement, "He who created god was a fool, he who spreads his name is a scoundrel, and he who worships him is a barbarian."
