Periyar E.V.Ramasamy Life Revolution and Measure

LIFE MEASURE

Life Year : 94 Years 3 Months and 7 Days Months : 1,131 Weeks : 4,919 Days : 34,433 Hours : 8,26,375 Minutes 4,95,82,540 Seconds : 297,49,52,400

Travel Days : 8200 In foreign countries : 302 Distance : 8,20,000 miles Comparision : 33 times around the world 3 times of the distance between the earth & the moon

Programme & Speech Programme : 10,700 Period of speech In hours : 21,400 In days : 891 In minutes : 12,84,000 Seconds : 77,04,000 Note: Had all the speeches been documented in a tape recorder it would be running for 2 years, 5 months and 11 days continuously. ‘SUN OF RATIONALISM’ THANTHAI PERIYAR IN HIS LAST YEAR 1973 Even at his age of 95 years THANTHAI PERIYAR E.V. RAMASAMY was actively under taking whirlwind tours for 35 days out of 98 days in the last year of his life. 16-9-1973 & 17-9-1973 Periyar participated happily on his 95th Birth Day celebrations in Chennai 30-9-1973 He delivered address at the ‘Conference of Blackshirts’ held in Madhurai City. 4-11-1973 Participation of Periyar at the Conference of ‘Thinkers Forum’ at Tiruchirappalli. 18-11-1973 to 28-11-1973 Tours of Periyar throughout Tamil Nadu. 8-12-1973 Social Reformation Conference was 9-12-1973 Convened by Dravidar Kazhagam at Periyar Thidal, Vepery, Chennai - 600 007. The above Two days ‘Conference became not only the battle - field’ for the Eradication of casteism and Racial Degratation imposed on Dravidians by Bramins but also the very last Conference held at the fagend of long life of Periyar whose eloquent oration inspired the Dravidians to awake and agitate. 19-12-1973 The revolutionary address delivered at the huge meeting held by Thinkers’ Forum at Thiyagarayanagar, Chennai, became the immortal speech as Periyar’s ‘Death Declaration’. That rationalist oration happened to be his last public address. 20-12-1973 Periyar was admitted at the Government General Hospital in Chennai at 3.00 P.M. 21-12-1973 He was taken to the C.M.C. Hospital at Vellore in the after-noon. 23-12-1973 In the evening, his physical condition deteriorated critically and he reached coma stage after 11.00 P.M. in the midnight. 24-12-1973 The Greatest Origional Thinker and the Resolute Rationalist of the World - PERIYAR E.V. RAMASAMY breathed his last at 7-40 A.M. plunging billions of rationalists, Tamilians of Dravidian Race and admirers all over the globe in deep distress. Thus his very lengthy life journey of 95 years came to a glorious end. The bravest warrior of social reformation without no rest at all, took his last eternal rest. His body was brought from Vellore to Chennai. 24-12-1973, 4.00 P.M. to 25-12-1973, 3.00 P.M. For paying last respects by the public, the body of Periyar was placed at Rajaji Hall in Chennai.On seeing the figure of the departed venerable leader, lakhs and lakhs of people wept with cries and their wailing words ‘Ayya’, ‘Ayya’ went to the air. Official Mourning was declared and recorded in the Government Gazette under the direction of the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Hon. M. Karunanidhi. 25-12-1973, 3.10 P.M. A State funeral with police honours was arranged in Madras. The last procession of Periyar’s life journey started in the evening passing through Anna Saalai. It reached the Periyar Thidal, Vepery, Chennai - 600 007 where under the guiding arrangements of Mrs. E.V.R. MANIAMMAIYAR and the then General Secretary of DRAVIDAR KAZHAHAM, Mr. K. Veeramani, the body of the greatest Rationalist leader PERIYAR was laid to rest at 5.05 P.M.