Dr TAMIL

Tamils love prefixes and suffixes to their names.
A Political leader calls himself  Revolutionary leader, another a Great Scholar and the third a Great Artiste. The Tamil Film Industry has similiar habits too. Grand words are used to describe  film personalities.
Tamils since Indian Independence have loved using their academic qualifications as a suffix as it shows them as learnt persons.They are yet to display their School qualifications though. The demand for Honorary University Doctorates are  on the rise and those with some power,money and political, can manage a Honorary Doctorate, so that they can display it and pretend to something they know they arent. Honorary Doctorates are not displayed as a practise world wide but Tamils today are always an exception. American Presidents or Indian Prime Ministers who received such Doctorates had never ever displayed them. Ever heard of Dr Indira Gandhi or Dr Jawaharlal Nehru?
Tamils adore suffixing their academic degrees whenever possible for effect.Infact many  in TamilNadu go for multi academic qualifications so that they can display these to the world as an  achievement. I have personally seen many with Masters degree in five, six, seven subjects just for displaying them on their business card. Is that accumulation of knowledge or accumulation of academic degrees? I know of a bureaucrat who finished his MBBS, 25 years ago, but hardly remembers anything of his study.But he has this prefix DR.
Another development is people belonging to engineer profession  using prefix ER to show off their profession, just as Physicians do. Physicians use the prefix of DR so that they can be easily identified when they are needed in an emergency. Engineers probably felt disturbed by the identity provided to Physicians and felt the need to compete with them. Some day, every one will have a prefix in TamilNadu as they may feel awed by the growing development and feel the need to be in tune with the times.
Members of the Indian Civil Service do not use display the service to which they belong at the the Babudom of New Delhi. In TamilNadu, just to create awe and pretend superiority ,it is common for officers to use IAS, IPS as a suffix to their names. Atleast it will help them get their personal work done whenever influence matters and as it matters everywhere.
Tamils today are not of substance and hence the need for them to prove to the world.
This inadequacy, craving for recognition and arrogance and contempt for fellow human beings including Tamils makes them create superficial values for  display. It also shows a degraded soceity looking for recognition in the shortest route possible without working the hard straight way for it. It is also a method to put down fellow Tamils who do not have suffixes and prefixes. It is also contempt for other Tamils that makes users of these prefixes and suffixes wallow in self importance. If ever there was any meaning of social justice, this is the exact opposite of that term.
I know of a man who wrote about 30 pot boilers buy claimed he is greater than Thiruvalluvar because of the quantity of his productions. How to make his mind relate to the difference is a challenge.
Posterity will be confused as even dead men are being dug up and given prefixes. Thiruvalluvar will be known as Ayyan and future archeologists will conclude that Thiruvalluvar was born in Thiruvallur and his real name was Ayyan and he belonged to the Ayyar Community as his name rhymes with the name of the Brahmin community. Prefixes and Suffixes are bound to confuse but they are meant to be so.
Grand words which just mean grand Nothings!

Annadurai's quote

C.N Annadurai was the Chief Minister of TamilNadu for a short period in Late 60s.
He was called ARIGNAR meaning a great scholar.
One of his his popular quotes is:

"Go to the People,
Live with them,
Learn from them,
Love them,
Start with what they know,
Build on what they have."
Incidentaly, the Famous Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu ought to have read Annadurai thousands of years ago as he wrote the same words in his book "Tao Te Ching" during the period of his living in 600 BC to 531 BC.