S Ve Shekher stresses Brahmins unity

Former Mylapore MLA, veteran stage and movie actor S Ve Shekher addressed

Mylaporeans on the subject “Future of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu” at MFAC

Auditorium last week.

In his address he traced the history of Brahmins and their contribution to various

fields and nation development and being born as a Brahmin is not our choice.

There are over 45 lakhs Brahmins in Tamil Nadu and if united they could decide

the politics of Tamil Nadu.

There were hardly any MLAs or MPs from Brahmin community.” As Mylapore

MLA I fought for the dignity of crematorium workers and made them as

government employees. Brahmins are above caste, creed or community,” he said.

As an actor who had staged over 7,000 plays all over the world for the past 30

years and propagated blood donation and eye donation some 50 years ago when

they were not in vogue, he said he had donated blood over 50 times and

performed mass burial of unclaimed bodies. “We do not discriminate people.”

Stressing the speedy implementation of 10 percent reservation to Economically

Weaker sections he said there was a wrong notion that it only benefits

Brahmins.”Not all Brahmins are highly educated or well off. There is a class of

Brahmins called Savundi Brahmins who live on penury leading hand to mouth

existence and they need support. Brahmins in certain professions such as

archakas, priests, cooks, purohit helpers earn less and suffer economically. We

had been denied all our rights for the past 75 years and discriminated.”

Arguing for forming a separate political party for Brahmins, he said it’s not

something strange in Tamil Nadu where every caste has a political outfit.

Brahmins should come out and vote in large numbers to decide their future than

remaining indoors and watch TV on polling day, he said.