India, March 16 -- Nothing is shocking in the statement made by A Raja MP, that India was not a nation but a sub-continent. "India was neither a nation in the past nor will it remain as a nation in future," declared Raja while addressing a meeting held by his party, the DMK.

Neither the DMK nor the Dravida Kazhakam, its precursor, accepted the concept of India. The founding fathers of these Kazhakams (Tamil for Forum) have an inherent hatred towards anything that is Indian. The Dravidians firmly believe Robert Caldwell, a British evangelist who came to India during the colonial era, claims that there is no link between the Dravidians and Aryans (north Indians) and Tamil is the mother of all languages. The Dravidians have no answer to the...