MANKIND’s MARCH

and
NATURE’s AGENDA

N.Nandhivarman
General Secretary Dravida Peravai
Orissa Speech
[Paper presented at the National Seminar on the Concept of Scientific Temper organized by True
Rationalistic Union of Samaj-seva Trainers (TRUST) led by Nihar Acharya at Jayadev Bhavan
Bhubaneswar on 18 th December 2005]

MANKINDS MARCH AND NATURES AGENDA

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

Mankind is marching towards human immortality. This is neither prophecy

nor astrological prediction. It is the aim of science to attain the goal of
immortality. How this goal could be achieved? You must know that in spite of
much talk about our era of information technology, in fact we have crossed
that era. Already we are in nano-technology era. Nano-technology era had
dawned. In another 30 years of research we can be near to inserting tiny
machines called intelligent nanobots into our bodies which will eradicate
ravages of illness and age and help us live indefinitely.

Where humanity is heading for?

Towards Immortality: Nanobots

Ray Kurzwell wrote a book “Fantastic Voyage: Live long enough to live
Forever.” In that book he wrote, “ Millions of blood cell sized robots which he
called nanobots will be swarming through our body repairing bones,
muscles, arteries and brain cells.” Yes like the anti virus programmes in our
computers we will be having nanobots, as tiny as one out of 1000 th size of
our hair which will eradicate disease at the time of the start itself.

Ray Kurzwell foresees human

intelligence not only conquering
its biological limits including
death but completely mastering
the natural world. He is a
recipient of $500000
Lemelson_MIT prize from that
Academy Award for Inventors. In
USA he had won 1999 National
Medal for Technology Award.
His publications had appeared
in Wired to Time magazines.
Christian Science Monitor had
called him” Modern Edison”. He
was inducted into the Inventors

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Hall of Fame in 2002. This is the man representing the march of science.

Downloading Brain

The Observer newspaper from London on May 22-2005 said Death could
become a thing of the past by middle of 21 st century as computer
technology becomes sophisticated enough for contents of the brain to be
downloaded onto a supercomputer according to Ian Pearson Head of the
Futurology unit at British telecommunications giant BT.

Making Life longer

Scottish Daily Scotsman in March 28-2005 says that a pill had been invented
by Aberdeen University Professor John Speakman if taken once a day will
keep a person healthier and able to work longer and would extend his
lifespan by 30 years.

Injecting life into nerve cells

The team at Boston’s Children hospital and Harvard University had identified
a molecule that is helping injured nerve cells regenerate and it might be used
to develop new treatments for spinal chord injuries, brain diseases and
stroke damage. The molecule called inosine acts as a master switch to turn
on a number of genes involved in the growth of nerve cells.

Designer gene Cure

The journal of American Heart association “Circulation” in a study states “ It

might be possible to design and construct genetically engineered designer
gene therapy for selectively delivering genes to any part of the body. We
can’t do it now because much of what is injected would be sequestered by
liver said AndrewH.Baker, Reader in Molecular Medicine at University of
Glasgow in Scotland.

New form of Matter

Deborah Jin a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and

Technology’s joint lab with the University of Colorado had announced that
they have found new form of matter called fermionic condensate and it is
sixth known form of matter after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and a Bio-
Einstein condensate created only in 1995. It is not a superconductor but it is
really something in between these two that may help us in science to link
these two interesting behaviors. Her team’s new form of matter uses
fermions the building blocks of matter that include protons, electrons and
neutrons. Fermions are your independent thinkers; they don’t copy your
neighbors.

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Nano-Drugs

Smart drugs that can travel through your body, diagnose the problem and
deliver nano-doses straight to the diseased cells is possible within 5 years in
India, if Governments act fast in helping research. Dr.B.M.Choudry Deputy
Director of the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry division of Indian Institute of
Technology Hyderabad on July 24-2004 had told that targeted drug delivery
would be more efficient in fighting diseases with fewer side effects. A patient
suffering from throat cancer could be given a nano drug that can kill cancer
cells. A single nano capsule injected into the subcutaneous tissue lungs or
stomach is enough to cure some of the ailments, which might normally take
dozens of pills in conventional treatment.

Pulsating Pants to Pump blood to Heart:

If you have heart problem go to the ready-made shop and buy a pulsating
pant. These vibrating trousers work like a pump to increase blood flow to the
heart. The vibrating leg wear meant to be worn for an hour a day over seven
weeks have in built inflatable cuffs around the calves, thighs and buttocks
which inflate and deflate with each heart beat, thus pushing the blood up the
leg towards the heart. The garments are part of new non-invasive heart
treatment technique called External Enhanced Counter pulsation. Unlike
procedures like by pass surgery, angioplasty; EECP involves no surgery,
drugs or needles.

Well all these may indicate the march of our science let us also take a look
back at wherefrom we came from? Where we came from?

Panspermia: Seeds Everywhere

Nasa and European and Italian Space Agency spacecraft Cassini is

beaming telemetry and images back from Titan the massive planet sized
moon of Saturn. The conditions in Titan resemble our earth millions of years
before life ultimately evolved. It has an environment rich in carbon based
molecules that are capable of spawning self replicating DNA.

Panspermia literally means seeds everywhere. It is a theory, which

maintains that life bearing proto spores, is prevalent throughout the
Universe. Life on Earth originated when some of them landed on its surface
and propagated. It also suggests that life could have existed in another
planet and moved to Earth.

Humanity is one: All languages came from one

Humanity is one, yet we notice divisive tendencies. Dr.Russel Grey an

evolutionary biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand

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published his results in Nature magazine co-authoring with his colleague
Quentin Atkinson. In his submission he expressed confidence that a family
tree of human languages could be constructed and its branching points
dated.

If this happens a wonderful new window will be opened into human past. As
biologists had drawn the family tree of genes and species, linguists too have
started to use same mathematical tools to build a tree, which traces to the
only one language spoken once upon a time which now had divided into
6000 and more languages. Dr.R.Madhivanan, a great Tamil scholar is
emphasizing the need for language archaeology to dig at the roots of the
first human language

Ultimate Universal Theories

Times of India in its editorial on 12 th October 2004 titled “Ends and Means”
explains how Universal theories are coming to the fore in the following
words. Quote:“ Einstein wanted to end it all, scientifically speaking. After his
special and general theories of relativity earlier in the last century had
revolutionized physics, he spent his last 30 years of life till his death in 1955
trying to find an even more generalized concept that would unite all the
forces of Nature. Called the unified theory it was an attempt to understand
every physical interaction and present it in as simple a form as e= mc2. He
was only partially successful. Since then, though researchers around the
world have striven hard in their efforts to lay their hands on what has come

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to be known as theory of everything-something that would comprehensively
explain the entire universe from the smallest subatomic particles to the most
massive galactic structures.

Discovery of New Species

Nature had been working overtime to create us humans in a variety of

species spanning millions of years. This process had not reached perfection
in homosapiens. A recent discovery unveils of a completely new species of
humans who lived from 90000 years ago as late as 12000 BC before
apparently becoming non-extinct. Identified by Australian and Indonesian
scientists from a cache of fragmented bones buried in the sediments of a
limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, it has been
officially named homo-floresiensis. They were not taller than a meter with
brain size of a grape fruit.

Now we should also know what is in store in Nature and wherefrom dangers
come to our earthly existence.What is happening in Nature?

Black Hole and Bleak Future

United States National

Science Foundation with
the help of Cosmology
Bolomeer Array Receiver
(Acbar) from the US
Amundsen-Scott South
Pole station found that “
Universe is accelerating
outwards and is
dominated by strange
form of matter nobody
knows anything about. 30
percent of all energy is
strange form of dark
matter that does not
interact with light and 65
percent is even a stranger
form of dark energy that appears to be causing the expansion of the
Universe to accelerate” The principal investigator William Holzapfel of the
University of California had said “ It is amazing how preciously our theories
can explain the behavior of the Universe when we know so little about dark
matter and dark energy that comprise 95 percent of it.

In this context in my blog on the eve of Diwali I wrote “Understand Darkness

before celebrating Light”. Black holes will lead us to a bleak future. “Two
super massive black holes each with the mass of at least a million suns have

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been encircling each other in a butter fly shaped galaxy. These two giant
black holes found by Chandra X-Ray Observatory are at the center of a
galaxy born from joining of two smaller galaxies and are drifting towards a
cataclysmic collision that will send ripples throughout the universe many
million years from now.

The observations showed that the big black holes were each about the size
of the inner solar system that includes Earth, in a distance stretching from
the Sun to Mars and were circling each other at a distance of 3000 light
years. The merging of two smaller size galaxies into NGC 6240 is also a
prelude to the future of the Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way composed of
hundreds of millions of stars including Sun. “ In about 4 billion years,
astronomers believe the Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda galaxy will
collide and merge fusing their black holes into one” says Dr.Steinn
Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania University.

Well in this speech I am only drawing your attention to enlighten masses

about dark energy and black holes. The effects that these black holes
including the recent one found that will unsettle our Earth is matter of
concern and deep study.

In an article on Secrets of Universe Priyamvada Natarajan, a Tamil Scientist

says “ Current observations of distant Supernovae suggests that the
universe is undergoing an accelerating phase having switched from a de-
accelerating phase about 5 million years ago. This is believed to have been
caused by dark energy. During the late 1990 observations by two
independent research teams of these type la supernovae suggested that the
expansion of the Universe is accelerating and it began doing so 5 billion
years ago”.

Tenth planet found

While we in our temples are coming around navagrahas, 10 th planet had

been found. This new planet, yet to be named but currently known as 2003
UB313 is now 9 billion miles away from the Sun or 97 times far away as
Earth and about 3 times Pluto’s current distance from the Sun. Its 560-year
elliptical orbit brings it as close as 3.3 billion miles. This discovery was made
in January 8 th at Palomar Observatory at California.

Our Earth and Future Earth

Continental Drift

At the same time we must know that our planet Earth was once one
continent called Pangaea, which drifted into and settled currently over 12
plates. Now the Indo Australian plate is breaking into two thereby creating
the 13 th plate. Throughout history scientists believe that continents are

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drifting, moving closer or breaking one another. The super continent
Pangaea broke 160 million years ago. Paul Hoffman Professor of Geology at
Harvard University states that while Pangaea broke up the Atlantic Ocean
opened splitting North America from Eurasia.

Then North America parted

from Eurasia, subsequently
South America from Africa
Australia Antarctica and India
separated from Africa creating
the Indian Ocean. Atlantic and
Indian Oceans continue to widen
while Pacific gets smaller.” It will
become evident that the ring of
fire, which means volcanic
activity beneath ocean floor, as
shown in a picture becomes the
extreme vulnerable zone for
earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.

Ring of Fire that causes grave problems for Pacific plate

The ring of fire triggers these and is going to make Pacific Ocean smaller. In
100 million years North America and Asia will probably drift into each other,
Paul Hoffman says and he had even named it as Amasia.

The picture of Pangaea

given will reveal how our
continents were in one
Super continent and now
had drifted into many
continents. The
boundaries of the plates
are also indicative of the
chain of events that is
breaking our continents.
Scientist has foreseen the
changes and are saying
that in 100 million years
ago the continents will be
like the picture given
separately.

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 Pangaea and its break

In another 250 million years almost all continents of the world except
Australia and Antarctica will come together. The Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea
and Indian Ocean will become a lake, a bigger lake than our Chilka Lake.
Like East Coast Road we can have a circular road that can make us travel
around this Chilka Ocean, we can even name it in advance.

But in immediate future let us have a look at the picture of hotspots of the
world. It becomes clear that our Himalayas and beyond are extremely
vulnerable regions. A day when it becomes sea will not be a dream. It must
be recalled that Nepalese call Himalayas as sagarmatha, which means
Mother of seas. Once it was sea and in future it will be sea again. May be
millions of years away, but it is bound to happen. India will be again Island
nation. Once it remained so hence in Tamil it was called Navalantheevu in
Pingala Nigandu, the Tamil thesaurus written hundreds of years ago.

Not all plate movements lead to collision. Three types of movement are
recognized at the boundaries between plates namely convergent, divergent
and transform. At the divergent boundaries new crust is formed when lava
flows out pushing the plates away from each other. Convergent boundaries
on the other hand lead to plate destruction as one plates sub ducts under
another. The typical convergent plate boundary is between Indo-Burma
plates where Indian plate moving at a rate of 5cm a year relative to the
Burma plate came together collided and Indian plate sub ducted under the

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Burma plate. As a result you will see Bay of Bengal shrinking now but in
future when whole of Burma becomes sea we will have wider sea.

In addition to the classification based on the nature of plate interaction at

the boundaries, plate tectonics is also built on the premise that there are two
types continental and oceanic plates.

And the plate interaction could thus be continental-continental convergence,

oceanic-continental convergence, and finally oceanic-oceanic convergence.
The subject is an ocean but here we have known few drops.

Well understanding our Earth and its inherent dangers too is need of
the hour while we march towards conquering Nature.

Conclusion
Nowadays we have science reaching all homes by television channels.
Years before weather forecasts by All India Radio stations would be mocked
at. But the visuals now presented in television screens reaches every mind
and now every one is alert to weather forecasts. Earthquakes some think are
not a regular phenomenon and they did not bother about it. It is not so. In
some part of our Earth quakes are occurring everyday but since they are in
lesser Richter scale it does not cause alarm. We must know that quakes
occur in the plate boundaries and it travels along geo-fracture or fault zones.
United States Geological Survey has a mailing facility. If you enroll your
email within seconds of earthquakes happening anywhere in the world you
get an alert. I would urge students, housewives and elders to bid adieu to
tele-serials and to spare time to watch National Geographic Channel,
Discovery Channel and History Channels. While science reaches our homes
we are not availing knowledge at our doorstep. It is high time in national
languages these channels are dubbed and knowledge is taken to the

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common man. Instead of using computer and Internet for satiating sex urges
let our youth use it to empower them with knowledge. A day is not far off
when the poorest farmer from Kalahandi or a Tribal from Malkangiri or a
Student from Balasore goes before a computer to connect internet to his
brains and download all education he or she needs. Instead of school and
colleges from our Internet café’s even illiterate can become literate. Let us
make our nation the vehicle for the progress of mankind and its knowledge
based society.

Speech delivered by N.Nandhivarman , a politician heading Dravida Peravai.

Dravida Peravai

Dravida Peravai (Dravidian Front), is a political

party in Pondicherry, India. The DP was
formed in 1996 by a break-away faction of the
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. The Party
claims to be a "Green" party. The present
Party General Secretary is N. Nandhivarman.
The DP strives to unite Tamils and impart a
scientific outlook for the enrichment of Tamil
culture. Despite claiming to be "Green" the
Party has fought for national projects like the
Indian Rivers Inter-link, the Sethusamudram
Shipping Canal Project and the Tenth Degree
Canal, an Indo-Thailand joint venture. The DP
is concerned about future continental and
coastal changes affecting Tamil Nadu and
Tamils.The Dravida Peravai supports what
they refer to as the "Tamil struggle" in Sri Lanka.

The ideology of the party: Socialism called as Annaism

Dravida Peravai is a socialist party, which it describes as Annaism. “A world

without beggar’s outstretched palm, the miser’s heartless stony stare, the
piteous wail of want, the pallid face of crime, the livid lips of lies, the cruel
eyes of scorn, a race without disease of flesh or brain, A land where life

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lengthens, fear dies, joy deepens, love intensifies and man regains his
dignity, is what Aringnar Anna dreamt of and Annaism stands for” says the
party manifesto. Aringnar Anna, the founder of Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam, parent party of Dravida Peravai, spoke about the ideals while
delivering the convocation address in Annamalai University. Those words
were chosen to describe Annaism, as a socialist ideology suitable to Indian
soil.

[Date of Formation: 15.02.1996. Registration with Election Commission of

India 25.10.1996.]

Objectives of the party

Dravida Peravai is for complete nuclear disarmament and moral re-

armament. It strives for pooling the knowledge of science and technology for
eradicating poverty, disease, illiteracy from the face of Earth. It aims towards
a quest all over galaxies for betterment of humanity and all living creatures
on Earth. For ending speculative economics it moots evolving of single
global currency for knitting the economies of the countries and continents
together. It promotes the idea of Common Asian Market to begin with, and

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for a Confederation of Asian Countries and Asian Economic Union to
become stepping stones for greater global cohesion. The party is for
enriching the Constitution of India in the light of its working since
independence and making it true federal in nature. The party is for overhaul
of our electoral system to ensure proportional representation and state
funding of elections. The party is for making Tamil as one of the official
languages of India in view of its heritage, richness, cultural evolution into
language of scientific temper and its universal outlook. The party is for due
respect to all regional languages in the territory of its usage. The party is for
correcting the mis-interpretations that has crept into the concept of social
justice propounded by the Dravidian movement, and redeeming the
oppressed, depressed, backwards and minorities from the clutches of
division and economic backwardness by constitutional means through a
silent revolution. The party is for creation of National Environment
Commission as an autonomous body sanctioned by Constitution of India, to
check the growth of pollution in all states of India. The party is for revamping
the public sector undertakings ensuring workers participation in
management, and the shares of such public sector undertakings should be
allocated to workers of such undertakings and to the people whose land is
lost because of such projects coming up in their soil, and to all displaced
persons in general. Prosperity should percolate down and people should
become partners in progress, the party feels. The party is for total ban on
food exports till poverty is eradicated internally and all people are fed or are
in a position to feed them.

Dravida Peravai is for solidarity with the working class and for their struggle
to relay the world economic order to ensure justice for all. The under
currents beneath the words and the social revolutions it recalls form the

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source of inspiration to Dravida Peravai. Hence the motto: Equality, Liberty,
Fraternity, Duty, Discipline, Decorum, Educate, Unify, Struggle and the
doctrine to each according to his need from each according to his/her ability
stands as guiding principles for the party. Dravida Peravai strives to
establish casteless, creedless and party-less democracy pursuing the path
of non-violence, upholding socialism, secularism and liberal democracy.

Dravida Peravai shall bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of
India as by law established and to the principles of socialism, secularism and
democracy, to uphold the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India.

Dravida Peravai is for ensuring gender justice equal-representation for

women in all electoral avenues. The party is for enforcing total prohibition in
the country. The party strives to end all kinds of gambling, flesh trade,
abuses of children and women, bonded labor practices, dowry system,
superstition, corruption and criminalization.

In short, Dravida Peravai is for creating a congenial climate for healthy

democracy to flourish within the parameters of Constitution of India and
inculcating a new political culture that fosters simple living and global vision
to be in harmony with Nature and unearthing new dimensions of higher
consciousness.

Code of conduct

The rules and regulations of Dravida Peravai registered with Election

Commission of India contains a code of conduct for party functionaries. a] A
party functionary must be proficient in Thirukural and must be secular in
outlook. b] A party functionary must consider " Every country is my country,
Everyone is my kinsmen" as Poet Kaniyan Poongundranaar says. In short
galaxial thinking pushing the borders of human consciousness is the single
most important duty of the party functionary. c] A party functionary must not
fall at the feet of the leaders, must not indulge in flattery, must not add
suffixes or prefixes to original names. d] A party functionary must identify him
with the common man and hence adopt simple living and should not even
publicize educational qualifications, honorary doctorates, or titles before or
after the name, as such high sounding titles degrees and suffixes distances
the common man for whose sake party is founded e] A party functionary
must disclose his assets and liabilities before public and take an oath that
any property in excess of the declared assets is established to be in his
possession after his term in the various forums of democracy expires such
assets will be transferred to the party trust, which will be floated
simultaneously on floating of this party. Such Trust known as Annaist Trust
will work for unifying Tamil brethren and educate rationalism and proletarian
internationalism to the common man. f] Anyone who is an eve-teaser,
womanizer or has more than one wife or anyone connected with the crime
against woman shall not be admitted into the party. If anyone after becoming

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a member raises enough suspicion in the minds of the governing committee
shall be dismissed from the party immediately. g] Anyone connected with
Cofeposa, Fera etc or has criminal records or is known to be a goonda and
rowdy in the locality he lives, will not be admitted into the party. Any party
functionary availing the services of anti-social elements during public
agitations or elections shall be suspended by the General Secretary pending
an inquiry by a committee constituted by the governing body. Once that
committee confirms the allegation, the suspension will automatically become
dismissal. h] To enforce strict adherence to moral, ethical and rational
standards a National Disciplinary Committee will be chosen by the General
Council. Such a committee of three will decide on all matters of inner party
discipline and external social behaviour of a party functionary. i] Any
functionary who tries to dilute the rational and scientific temper built by the
Dravidian Movement and its leaders like Periyar E.V.R, Aringnar Anna and
anyone who espouses religious fundamentalism or embraces castiest outfits
or platforms will not be eligible to get party tickets for any elections be it for
party posts or for Parliamentary/assembly/Municipalty/ Panchayats or
whatever posts party has to make a choice.

The Party has a website describing the former Minister of Defence George
Fernandes as the "International Torch-bearer of Socialism" in view of his
longstanding association with socialist movement.

Party also spearheads a movement for separate Union Territory for Karaikal
within Indian Union.

External links :

http://www.dravidaperavai.org.in

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravida_Peravai

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