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Periyar Dasan
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “eminent speaker and activist from tamil nadu”. Today it says “indian scholar”.
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Abdullah (born Seshachalam ; 21 August 1949 – 19 August 2013) was an Indian scholar, professor, eminent speaker, and activist from Tamil Nadu . He propagated atheism and rationalist ideologies for most part of his life and later converted to Islam . He has also appeared in around 15 Tamil-language films.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “eminent speaker and activist from tamil nadu”. Today it says “indian scholar”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
eminent speaker and activist from tamil nadu
Now
indian scholar
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