First of all, we wish to express our regret to our dear readers for the delay in the release of this issue. Owing to official commitments and time constraints of the contributors to this issue, this delay had seeped in. In spite of that, the busy bees of Dravida Pozhil Readership over the past few weeks, have flooded us with anxious queries about the release date of journal. It’s exactly this kind of compassion-induced-interest that keeps us going.

Compassion begets Interest: and that Interest begets the Priceless excellence called friendship.

Thus spake Thiruvalluvar two thousand years ago, on this human psychology of interest induced by compassion.

This year is the Centenary of the Self-Respect Movement. On this march of the historical year, revolutionary thoughts triggered by the self-respect movement have expanded in sphere and grown into many research areas of social sciences. We take pride in such an advancement of social justice on a scientific basis. In fact, Social Justice is the most researched theme in our journal.

Our Papers have been widely circulated and discussed and re-researched at various levels of the Academia. In this continuous Journey of Education, new contributors from different Universities have joined us. To you Readers - who have been travelling with us all along, we owe our foremost appreciation.

This issue of Dravida Pozhil features 5 Papers.

In this continuous journey of embellishing Dravidian Education, we seek your solid support. Please read these research papers and share them with your academic peers widely.