Periyar Memorial, 82/5, EVK Sampath Salai, Vepery, Mahaveer Colony EVK Sampath, Salai Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600007
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Periyar Memorial - Featured Reviews (57)
I went on last visit Chennai , great place to remember thanthai periyar and near by Periyar padipagam is there
Periyar E.V.Ramasamy (aka. Periyar, EVK, Thanthai Periyar) was a businessman, politician, freedom fighter, social activist and the convener of Dravida Kazhagam party in Tamil Nadu. He was the founder of the self-respect movement in Tamil Nadu. He spread the ideals of rationalism, self-respect and women's rights. He opposed the caste system, religious rituals and exploitation of lower-castes. He opposed the imposition/compulsory learning of Hindi in South India.
Basically, he was a reformer. He decided not to join in vote-bank politics, but both the mainstream parties in TN (DMK and the AIADMK) were a spin-off from his party. You can guess how influential this person should have been, during his days. Ref: Wikipedia page on Periyar.
I went to the Periyar memorial (Behind Thina Thanthi office in Ponamallee High Road, Chennai) recently. I saw a Periyar Library and Periyar Museum also, in the premises. Since Periyar Museum was under renovation, I was not able to visit it on that day. I would like to share some pictures and a video taken at the Periyar Memorial. Before that, I would like to present some quotes engraved in stones inside the memorial.
This information in board is wrong and need to be removed.
Self respect wedding is done here only between Hindus and not between different religions which is a complete disappointment.
Special marriage act exists and it's legal, but only reason why they doesn't conduct here is due to political and religious reason.
To be precise they are afraid they will lose support with Christians and Muslims, if they in include their religion in self respect weddings, disgusting without backbone indeed.
Here people call themselves periyarist and speaks proud about caste and are inclined to conversion to Hinduism for weddings.
Most of these people are not self turned atheists but just relatives of famous periyarists, who just came for job here calling themselves periyarist.
Really felt dissappointed by what this institution is reduced to.
I don't want to call myself periyarist anymore, but only an atheist.
Temple of Social Justice.. The hardwork done by Periyar for decades to bring equality in Society is incomparable. Let's Take forward his thoughts.
It was nice to see the memorial things, related to the society and life. There are many things to learn and change our intuitions. Much more to share....
Historical place to visit. Periyar memorial, Periyar Museum, Book shop are there inside.
Periyar Memorial Located in Chennai of Chennai. The complete address is Periyar Memorial, 82/5, EVK Sampath Salai, Vepery, Mahaveer Colony EVK Sampath, Salai Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600007.
Great kids School I have seen so far !! The staff too friendly! Kudos to their innovative tasks which they give to kids Even though they had day care, yoga class etc...
In the evening this place is filled with lots of children for tution
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Such a wonderful preschool in the Ramapuram area.
Teachers are very friendly with the kids, and the kids are very happy while being in the school.
Special thing here is the caretakers, they are very kind enough to take care of the kids.
Since multipl
Good infrastructure, friendly teachers and staffs. advanced curriculum for kids ,theme based classrooms with lots of activities. They not only focus on child's learning part but also give equal importance to yoga , music and sports.This helps to enab