Subramanian Swamy Vs Raghuram Rajan: One Tamil Brahmin took on another, notes a third Tamil Brahmin

Raghavan says Tamil Brahminsare no longer clannish and now enjoy targeting each other for their perceived inadequacies or snobbishness.

June 19, 2016, NewsCrunch

There is a Tamil Brahmin subplot in the Subramanian Swamy Vs Raghuram Rajan saga, notes a famous member of the community, R K Raghavan, former head of  CBI.

Writing in The Quint recently, he had noted that it was a case of one Tamil Brahmin (Subramanian Swamy) targeting another  (Raghuram Rajan).

Raghavan notes that he is extremely annoyed and intrigued that Raghuram Rajan’s chief tormentor was a Tamil Brahmin or TamBram, as they are popularly called.

The detractors of Tamil Brahmins see them as extremely clannish.

Raghavan says that is no longer the case as Tamil Brahmins now enjoy targeting each other for their perceived inadequacies or snobbishness.

He goes on to cite his own personal example and says his own detractors in the bureaucracy were all Tamil Brahmins.

They continue to haunt and despise him for their imaginary grievances, he adds.
Raghavan overlooks to mention that Subramanian Swamy's campaign against Raghuram Rajan received a boost when sangh parivaar ideologue S Gurumuthy came out in support. Unlike Subramanian Swamy, S Gurumuthy has been a longtime associate of the various saffron groups and is taken very seriously by the RSS.

It was his backing to Subramanian Swamy that signalled that the entire might of the sangh parivaar was against Raghuram Rajan. S Gurumuthy is another illustrious member of the Tamil Brahmin community.

For the record, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram who played a key role in bringing in Raghuram Rajan as RBI governor is also a Tamil Brahmin.