OM Shanti.
She was a truly great leader of her people and a Nationalist. She was among the few TN politicians who could speak Tamil, Hindi and English fluently.
Its wrong to assign the blame for some of the mess in TN to Amma. She did the best she could in the face of insurmountable issues.
TN deep deep caste divide is the legacy of the "dravidian" movement and Jayalalitha was an Iyengar Brahmin who won the hearts and mind of such a deeply divided casteist society.
Its the equivalent of someone with an image of Asaduddin Owaisi being elected the mass leader of the Hindus. That the masses accepted her as a leader despite massive misgivings about Iyengar Brahmins in TN speaks about her dedication to her cause and her people.
Also the populist schemes that she gets blamed for was again the legacy of DMK founder C N Annadurai . It was the naturally extensions of his freebies the same way the Mandal commission was the natural extensions of Ambedkars legacy.
She was truly someone who deserves their place in History.
She was a truly great leader of her people and a Nationalist. She was among the few TN politicians who could speak Tamil, Hindi and English fluently.
Its wrong to assign the blame for some of the mess in TN to Amma. She did the best she could in the face of insurmountable issues.
TN deep deep caste divide is the legacy of the "dravidian" movement and Jayalalitha was an Iyengar Brahmin who won the hearts and mind of such a deeply divided casteist society.
Its the equivalent of someone with an image of Asaduddin Owaisi being elected the mass leader of the Hindus. That the masses accepted her as a leader despite massive misgivings about Iyengar Brahmins in TN speaks about her dedication to her cause and her people.
Also the populist schemes that she gets blamed for was again the legacy of DMK founder C N Annadurai . It was the naturally extensions of his freebies the same way the Mandal commission was the natural extensions of Ambedkars legacy.
She was truly someone who deserves their place in History.