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Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai Stops Harvard’s Selling of Tamil Professorship
Co-Founder of “Harvard Tamil Chair” Agrees to Pull Plug on $6 Million and Concurs with Dr. Ayyadurai That It Was Mistake to Fund Harvard

U.S. Senate Candidate Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai has stopped Harvard University’s attempt to pilfer trillions of dollars worth of indigenous artifacts through the sale of a “Harvard Tamil Chair” professorship. Harvard sought to collect $6 Million from the Tamil diaspora worldwide, who had no idea of Harvard’s business model of selling professorships to fund its $35 Billion hedge fund investments. Tamil is the oldest surviving language with the richest body of poetry, art, and literature known to humankind, along with hundreds of thousands of sacred artifacts codified in palm leaf manuscripts embodying the scientific, technological and medical knowledge spanning at least 5,000 years of the Tamilians, the indigenous people of the Indian subcontinent, who today primarily reside in Tamil Nadu.

According to Dr. Ayyadurai, “The fundraising effort in the name of setting up a Tamil Chair is a ruse that exemplifies Harvard’s habitual exploitation of indigenous people. This is an egregious example akin to a burglar asking you to pay money to buy a rickety ladder to rob your own home. Harvard is asking Tamilians to pay $6 million for a professorship that will be used to rob their own historic artifacts worth trillions of dollars representing the ‘Holy Grail’ of the world’s most highly-prized indigenous knowledge.” Harvard will then proceed to use access to those artifacts to rewrite and hegemonize Tamil history, an unfortunate and recurrent process that Harvard has done for far too long to many indigenous cultures.

A Hedge Fund Masquerading as a University
Harvard’s financial statements reveal that the university is fundamentally a tax-exempt Wall Street hedge fund with cash and investments of nearly $35 Billion. In 2016 alone, Harvard’s capital marketing campaign raised $7 Billion, with its hedge fund in 2017 yielding $2 billion in gross profits. The operating budget further reveals that professors and administrators effectively serve as business development staff to attract wealthy donors to fund Chairs and professorships that finance their lucrative hedge fund. In 2017, as the Boston Globe reported, Harvard’s seven top hedge fund managers earned a total of nearly $58 million in compensation.

Dr. Ayyadurai said, “As these numbers indicate, Harvard is a hedge fund masquerading as a University, which perpetuates this facade by reinvesting large portions of its hedge fund proceeds to unleash propaganda that it is a ‘world-renowned’ institution of higher learning and scholarliness dedicated to advancing humankind. This branding attracts financing from well-meaning folks, compelled to ‘join the club’ so their children get preferential treatment when applying to Harvard and access to Harvard’s insider network. This dynamic is rarely discussed in the mainstream media.” Nearly one-third of the students admitted to Harvard are beneficiaries of a well-documented legacy and preferential admission system that is not merit-based but on “who you know” or who donated money.

Dr. Ayyadurai’s leadership in opposing the “Harvard Tamil Chair” has led to significant discussions on social media. Questions are being raised about why Harvard exists. Does Harvard exist as a center of research and learning? Or, does Harvard exist to enrich itself through its hedge fund activities? Given the historic value of Tamil, why didn’t Harvard fund Tamil studies with its own $6 million, particularly given that the amount would be a paltry sum (which would be less than one-tenth of one-percent of the $7 billion Harvard raised from its recent 2016 capital campaign)?

Harvard’s Victimization of Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Vijay Janakiraman, the co-founder of the Harvard Tamil Chair effort to raise the $6 million, claimed he was unaware of Harvard’s business practices until his recent phone conversation with Dr. Ayyadurai, who shared with him that Harvard is not only a hedge fund but also an institution that thrives on racism, corruption and exploitation of indigenous people. Dr. Janakiraman admitted he had naively believed that by donating money to Harvard, he was helping in the preservation and dissemination of the Tamil language.

Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas Victimization of Indigenous People

Harvard has a track record of destroying indigenous people’s heritage and culture by seizing control of their property, intellectual and otherwise. In 2011, an exposé revealed that Harvard used its hedge fund cash to take over land in Africa leading to forcible displacement of indigenous farmers. The Harvard Tamil Chair would have offered a gateway for Harvard to exercise control over the rare and ancient palm leaf manuscripts — the intellectual property of the indigenous people of Tamil Nadu. Harvard’s abusive treatment of Dr. Subramanian Swamy further exemplifies how they treat an indigenous Tamil scholar, who was dismissed for challenging Harvard’s party line. In contrast, Harvard uses its hedge fund profits to hire and retain Elizabeth Warren, who has never challenged Harvard’s exploitative practices. In fact, it paid her an exorbitant sum of $350,000 per year for teaching just one course.

The Harvard Office of the President was complicit with Warren, who shoplifted Native American identity in order to not just advance her career but also to benefit Harvard from Federal grants by misleading the government that they had a Native American on their staff. Warren went on to increase her net worth to over $10 million while the average net worth of African-Americans, segregated in Warren’s and Harvard’s own backyard in Cambridge and Boston, spiraled downward, as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to a meager and unbelievable $8 (“Eight Dollars”).

Dr. Ayyadurai’s timely involvement, fortunately, has been a relief to Tamilians worldwide, who are pleased that Dr. Janakiraman, after listening to Dr. Ayyadurai, decided to stop funding Harvard. Dr. Janakiraman told Dr. Ayyadurai, “You are the expert. Tell me what to do and provide me guidance.”

The Emperor Has No Clothes
Dr. Ayyadurai’s plan involves galvanizing the Tamil population globally to build the first online Tamil University at TamilNadu.com, a media property Dr. Ayyadurai has owned since 1993 and will donate to the cause. The finest Tamil software engineers worldwide are volunteering to build a 21st century digital platform that will deliver the Tamil language to all who seek to learn it, across various skill levels. This approach will be far different than “Harvard Tamil Chair” that would have provided, at best, a rudimentary pre-kindergarten knowledge in Tamil language. The online video of Jonathan Ripley of Harvard University purportedly teaching Tamil language is evidence of this. The vocabulary in his lessons is limited to a few words — yes, no, this, that, what, hand, leg, tooth, stone, bag, and milk — which is nothing more than baby-talk. The TamilNadu.Com platform will further provide universal access to the ancient manuscripts to advance all humanity, in contrast to enabling Harvard’s predatory practices.

There is also growing evidence that people behind the Harvard effort appear to be Hebrew language chauvinists in academia and their allies who seek to deliberately cover up the preeminence of the Tamil language by ensuring that they control the historical narrative of Tamil and reduce it to some “goo goo ga ga” language. A comparison of the Hebrew script with the Tamil Brahmi script will confirm that Hebrew script is based on the older Brahmi script, an uncomfortable fact for the Hebrew chauvinists who suppress this fact.

Dr. Ayyadurai stated, “Harvard is a predatory institution that leeches of taxpayers and needs to be busted up and returned to the public to serve as a community college, as it was originally intended. Their teaching model is medieval and dead, relying on egomaniacal professors who think they know better than the rest of us. The Department of Justice must investigate the racial and religious composition of Harvard’s faculty to determine if any single group is overrepresented due to its chauvinist hiring practices.”

  1. Premalatha Anand says:

    Dr. Ayyadurai , Thank you so much Sir.. Good souls like you will enrich and fortress the heritage and culture of Tamil .

  2. Nagarajan Ramamurthi says:

    Thank you Dr. Ayyadurai for your effort to stop the scam and come up with productive way to develop the Tamil language.

  3. suganthi says:

    Thank you so much Dr Shiva. I feel see another Lord muruga come to safe TAMIL.

  4. RAJARAJAN.A says:

    I think world Tamil people should stand up together stragthen Dr.Siva’s hand n save Tamil language n its reach resources. Thanks Dr.Siva

  5. Prof .Dr.Nasirddin Jamaluddin says:

    The cat has come out through Mr Iyyadurai.We are unable know what is happening in Harvard University.As Chairman for MBA ,BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY TRICHIRAPALLI, I have read many articles Business Management journals by subscribing Heavy fees.One of the highly priced product in the Business Management Syllabus.Now The ModusOperandi is to ROB.The same method will be followed for TAMIL CHAIR ALSO.MR Iyyadurai Sir what will happen to the Donations collected so far .?
    You are great to caution at least now .

  6. GOKUL KUNNATH says:

    I salute Dr. Ayyadurai for exposing Harvard and its history of bias and deception. Congratulations for pioneering innovative methods to protect and preserve the culture and heritage of Tamil Nadu.

  7. Such boldness can only come from an ardent truth-seeker. Shiva is living by his name. Blessed be his mother who brought him forth into this world to liberate the oppressed.

  8. Dr Ayyadurai Hats off to you for your intervention at the right time enlightened many on the Scam and the hard earned money donated by individuals and firms are saved. Let this money benefit RealTamil Language Development. Tamil Universities may create a visiting department at Few Countries and patronize Real Intended Chair like activities.
    Rathinam Chandramohan

  9. Vijaianand Thirnageswaram says:

    Hello, that really shame of Harvard but we know how the western companies work and no doubt Harvard is typical business entity. BTW, I expressed similar concerns and other avenues for us to build a great Tamil University for our future generations in my youtube opposing Tamil Chair few months ago.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJTDLaibPY

  10. Sathiya murthi s says:

    Truth has come out finally through Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai. Like many posted earlier, I was also wondering why would such university demands for money. The cited business model appears to be true, though we need to hear the Harward side story, to interpret our own conclusion. But, thanks and salute for Dr Shiva bringing this hidden side to public. We should protect unbelievable wealth of our literature, culture by ourself. Tamilinadu.com is way to go. Great.

  11. க. தினகரன் says:

    Great Dr.Siva Ayyadurai. I have put myself in your shoes and seen/felt how hard and difficult it was for you to prove you are the founder of email. Every tamilian should be proud of this.
    Now, it is Harvard’s issue to be dealt with. I really appreciate your great effort and best wishes for Tamilnadu.com.
    Great soul like yourself are very much needed in India/TN .

  12. Sam Venkat Raman says:

    SAVE…the TAMIL chair from HARVARD..!!
    I salute Dr. Siva Ayyadurai for exposing shadow Tamilians hang over of Harvard which is a business corporation wearing an academic hat. If anyone donates $$$ they or their ward can enter the almamater. NAME..sells. Who are these movie actor torch bearers of TAMIL literature like Kamal Hasan and Madhavan. They may be skilled in acting and may be good humans but they came here for their brand name tie up with Harvard for their own PR. TAMIL..is the oldest language of our planet and spread all the way to Far East and even to Afghanistan (Kandahar) beside Malaysia, Sri-Lanka. Thanks to the valiant Tamil Kings, Tamil poets and ancient Tamil writers of eminence. Those who cannot recite one KURAL (out of 1330) or explain its meaning are hung up about the Chair for Tamil in Harvard. Those who read the history of anglo-saxen and Christian mission invasion of North and South America will know how Native Indian culture, Mayan culture, Peruvian and other civilization were wiped out and their generation knew only the Western /American culture. Sangam (Madurai) grown TAMIL does not need a Harvard hat to survive or for social status. If these Pseudo American Tamils (who converse in English during Tamil events) want an American Academy recognition for Tamil. Let the TAMILS (poor, illiterate, struggling) of our mother land be lifted from their misery and find a future as TAMILS. The DMK should not waste ! Crore (Rupees) throwing it to the drains of Harvard and use it instead giving scholarships to Tamils and build toilets in Villages of Tamilnadu. I had studied in Tamil Medium up to 12th std in Salem Dt. (mostly in poorly equipped Govt. School) and love my mother tongue TAMIL. During late thirties /early forties Adolf Hitler had sent a team of Scientists and engineers to India notably Tamilnadu (Chennapatinam) and the big Temple lost hundreds of palm leaves that contained valuable information on science, technology and health care. We do not need a Western certificate for our ancient Tamil. Instead HARVARD can set up a wing in Tamilnadu and fund research on TAMIL engaging our Tamil Scholars and promote the language.

  13. First of all, thanks for raising the important questions.
    Everyone must be asking questions.
    Why?
    What?
    How?
    Who?
    When?
    It is important to know before any agreement is done.
    We Tamil’s must take all necessary steps to make sure no information of our Tamil artifacts are being controlled, manipulated by any one other than Tamil scholars, who are committed to Tamil and and it’s honour.

    Tamil chair Inc needs to explain everything to the donors before signing any MOU with the university.

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