Global Journal of Human-Social Science, A: Arts and Humanities, Volume 22 Issue 5

A Study on Bharat Ratna Dr.M.G.Ramachandran’s Philosophical Film Songs that Contain the Ideas of Socialistic and Communistic Ideas Which can be Compared More Specifically with the Communist Manifesto as Propounded by Karl Marx and Engels – An Academic Comparative Study, using a Novel Methodology Self-Sustaining Schemes  Provided drinking water facilities  Created water resources  Provided Link Roads  Constructed small bridges  Medical shops in Rural areas  Burial Grounds for the Adi-Dravidas. Schemes for the elderly  Monthly financial assistance  Every day Mid-day meals  Free dresses twice a year Accolades of Amartya Sen It is an accepted fact that the explosion made by the Dravida Iyakkam had resulted in social changes that had benefitted the common man that made noble laurate Amartya Sen to record his accolades in the 2013 book, An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze devote a number of pages to Tamil Nadu’s progress over the past 30 to 40 years in terms of social development. The authors place much emphasis on how Tamil Nadu, along with Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, had achieved some of the best public services among most of India’s states as a result of constructive state policies (50) . While Sen and Dreze do not specifically name or credit any politician or leader for this, Bharat Ratna Dr.Maruthur Gopala Menon Ramachandran and Puratchi Thalaivi Dr. Jayaraman Jayalalithaa – as 12 th ,13 th , 14 th and 18 th , 20 th , 22 nd , 24 th and 26 th Chief Ministers of the state respectively (51) The following excerpts from the book on Tamil Nadu’s development trajectory are reproduced (verbatim) here under as the subject matter is relevant: Tamil Nadu is another interesting case of a state achieving rapid progress over a relatively short period, though it started from appalling levels of poverty, deprivation and inequality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s official poverty estimates for Tamil Nadu were higher than the corresponding all- India figures, for both rural and urban areas (about half of the population was below the Planning Commission’s measly poverty line). Much as in Kerala earlier, social relations were also extremely oppressive, with Dalits (scheduled castes) parked in separate hamlets (known as ‘colonies’), generally deprived of social amenities, and often prevented from asserting themselves even in simple ways like wearing a shirt or riding a bicycle. It is during that period that Tamil Nadu, much to the consternation of many economists, initiated bold social programmes such as universal midday meals in primary schools and started putting in place an extensive social infrastructure – schools, health centres, roads, public transport, water supply, electricity connections, and much more. These experiences of rapid social progress are not just a reflection of constructive state policies but also of people’s active involvement in democratic politics. The social movements that fought traditional inequalities (particularly caste inequalities) are part of this larger pattern. These social advances, the spread of education, and the operation of democratic institutions (with all their imperfections) enabled people – men and women – to have a say in public policy and socialarrangements, in a way that has yet to happen in many other states. Sen and et al wonders there isno evidence that the cultivation of human capability has been at the cost of conventional economic success, such as fast economic growth. On the contrary, these states have all achieved fast rates of expansion, as indeed one would expect, both on grounds of causal economic relations and on the basis of international experience (including the ‘east Asian’ success story). While many of their big social initiatives and achievements go back to earlier times, when these states were not particularly well-off, today Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and (to a lesser extent) Tamil Nadu have some of the highest per capita incomes and lowest poverty rates among all Indian states. Economic growth, in turn, has enabled these states to sustain and consolidate active social policies. Indeed Sen and etal had commended upon the PDS system and health care © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue V Version I 73 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 A