ANNADANA PRABHU OF VAIKOM

UNIQUENESS

"Vaikom! Vaikom! Vaikom! Vaikom for Harijans!! Parameswar darsan for Panchamas!!!! The citadel of Brahmanism shattered!!!!!" Slogans of similar brand reverberating the audience halls and office chambers of every town and city rent the air in 1925 AD. It was the day for a great change. Radicals and atheists, rationalists and Iconoclasts jumping into fray made such hullabaloo with fanatic frenzy that threatened the very existence of the orthodox Brahmins - the custodians of the ancient culture of that holy temple.

As the movement gathered momentum with the tacit approval of Jatipita, centuries old traditions and age-long customs received such a jolt that they found their mornings cut as under and left in mid-sea fur water burial. The zealots of the new-tangled radicals with lethal weapons in their hands and rising voice to the highest pitch entered into the precincts of the Vaikathappan koil at Vaikom to take hundreds of panchamas into the innermost part of the sanctum to lift the black, thick impenetrable, curtain deliberately hung before the eyes of Lord Parameswar by the Brahmins with the detestably selfish, shamefully sectarian objectives of establishing superiority over their luckless, benighted brothern, who by accident were born with misfortunes of infinite variety that segregated them from their own fellowmen.

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