Other arch villains of the so-called “Self-Respect Movement” and later the Justice Party, included J.N. Ramanathan, son of Nallaswami Pillai (author of Sivajnana Bodham), and J.S. Kannappar who had publicly burned copies of the Manusmriti in Madurai. These vandals quickly understood the power of organized violence. In this, there is an echo of a famous proverb regarding the successes of Islam in India and elsewhere: while the Hindus and infidels were busy brushing up theological and philosophical arguments, the warriors of Islam were busy sharpening their swords. And so, we had the Dravidianists busy writing inflammatory pamphlets and delivering provocative speeches against Brahmins, Sanskrit, Hindu Deities, Puranasetc. One such vile pamphlet that appeared in 1929 was the Visittira tevarkkal korttu (The Wonderful Court of Hindu Deities). It used the literary device of a court of law in which revered Hindu Deities were put on trial and cross-examined for the various sexual and violent crimes they had committed against the non-Brahmins and harsh punishments were imposed on them. It concluded that the entire Hindu “religion” was a mass of superstition and dismissed. The literary genius of Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa fleshes out the innate evil in this literary tactic—later adopted by the galaxy of terrorists called the Indian Leftists—with extraordinary finesse in his landmark novel, Aavarana.