It is very unfortunate that most of us have unwittingly fallen prey to the clever ploy of "Brahmin" and "Non-Brahmin" division created by a few individuals to further their political prosperity.

Even the "Varnasrama" says that there were 4 varunas namely : Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vysyas and Shudras. If that were the classification, why not Kshatriyas and non-Kshatriyas or Vysyas and non-vysyas or for that matter, Shudras and non-shudras? That is where the clever political ploy of "Justice Party" and other similar political outfits comes into picture.

Just like the Britishers, these desi neo-britishers decided that divide-and-rule is the best policy for personal survival and gains. Then they thought of so many options. Most of the options, in their calculation, would have resulted in antagonising majority of the people - Not only that - The strategists were mostly from upper castes excluding brahmins. Hence they did not dare to create a divide like upper castes and non-upper castes; nor did they create a divide like shudras and non-shudras; All would have resulted in antagonising majority of the society. But they needed a whipping boy- In politics, one has to alwaysproject some country or some group as the greatest enemy of the majority and declare that the particular party or leader is the only saviour against that evil! This practice is there for quite a long time in political history:

India always needs Pakistan to keep its people united
Congress & communists need communal parties , to prove their inevitability!
BJP needs Muslims!
Bush needs Iraq, Iran and Cuba!

But at the same time no party or leader would like to antagonise the majority of the people lest they should lose their vote banks!

All these calculations were going on! Bang came the fascist idea of dividing people based on "Brahmins" and others - Declare that Brahmins are only responsible for all evils of the society! Project them as the greatest enemy! Their percentage of population is less and hence there is no loss of vote bank! - Black out all the good deeds of the great leaders who happened to be Brahmins! Undermine the contributions of great tamil scholars like U.Ve.Sa and Poet Subramania Bharati - Instead project Periyar, Anna and other small poets! - Dont ever talk about great scientists like C V Raman, Chandrasekhar and mathematicians like Ramanujam - In stead say N S Krishnan was the man with great scientific thinking- Adopt the fascist philosophy of "we" and "Them" - In the recent history we can recall George Bush declaring " You are either with us or not" slogan before Iraq war.
In the "we-and-them" philosophy, if the "them" are not majority in numbers, one can always his way in a democratic set-up! That is what has been adopted and full used by Justice Party, D K , DMK and many off-springs of these outfits!

Now Let us think whether it is right for us to have fallen into this well-laid-out trap! Let us realize that there is no single cohesive entity called "non-Brahmins" - Let us not stereo-type the total society as non-brahmins!
We all know that there are various castes and sub-castes; customs and cultures; even different languages spoken by these people! Why to identify them enblock with the name "non-Brahmins" and antagonise everyone in the society? There are some Mudaliars, Pillais etc who are pure-vegetarians - There are Vaniya chettiars and acharys , porkollars etc - who wear the sacred thread ;
There are Telugu speaking naidus and reddiars who wear dhoti like panjakacham! - There are Vaishnava Vellalars ( Veera Vaishnavas and Veera Saivas)- who are more orthodox than any Brahmin! - Why we think that all of them are against us?

Even take the case of Vanniyars and Thevars- many of them treat the Dalits worse than a Brahmin is said to have treated them earlier! Brahmins are today a reformed lot! But not many of these people! I will narrate one incident of my college days (late seventies) in a town in Southern Tamil Nadu!

In our College hostel, only veg food used to be served - That too on plantain leaves! - The college belongs to a chettiar group! - I happened to be the student-in-charge for some period to run the mess in the hostel! I wanted to take some measures to reduce the food bill! After some study and analysis, I found the plantain leaves were working out very expensive! Hence I suggested we will invest some money for buying plates and these plates can be kept in the mess for serving food- I thought everyone will agree- But a big opposition came from the students belonging to Nadar and Naicker communities - They were in Big numbers- They threatened me with dire consequences if I inroduced plates- The reason? " Do you think we will use the same plates that would have been used by these dalit students some time or the other in rotation?"- They also added: "Only you people- Brahmins- have spoilt all the atmosphere by treating the dalits as your equals- Dont do all these things here" - I was shell-shocked and had to finally abandon the idea!

Hence let us stop using the division "Brahmins" and "Non-Brahmins" - There are very good people in all communities! There are right-thinking people, intellectuals, sympathisers of our plight across all the communities! Only a group who follow the self-interested MK and the like , do not want to see reason!

Hence let us stop using the divison "Non-Brahmins" - That refers to everyone other than brahmins- In stead we should use the term "Brahmin-haters" or if you can suggest some better term we can use it!