Watch: Periyar: Icon and Iconoclast: A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Kavitha Muralidharan

Periyar did not have faith in a gentle way of prodding people to come out of their superstitious ideas like Vallalar. His style was to shock, says historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy in a conversation with journalist Kavitha Muralidharan at the Hindu Lit for Life 2026.