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Life
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| Year |
:
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94
Years 3 Months and 7 Days |
| Months |
:
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1,131 |
| Weeks |
:
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4,919 |
| Days |
:
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34,433 |
| Hours |
:
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8,26,375 |
| Minutes |
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4,95,82,540 |
| Seconds |
:
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297,49,52,400
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Travel
|
| Days |
:
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8200 |
| In
foreign countries |
:
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302 |
| Distance |
:
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8,20,000
miles |
| Comparision |
:
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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
|
:
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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. |
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‘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. |
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