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27 June 2005
Tamil Culture - Festivals & Ceremonies
to include Bharathidasan on
புரட்சித் திருமணத் திட்டம்
"...திராவிடர் புரட்சித் திருமணம் இந்நாளில் முன்னாளிற் போலின்றிப்
பெருமக்களால் மிகுதியும் மெற்கொள்ளப் பட்டுவருகிறது..."more
 27 June 2005
Caste & the Tamil Nation -
Brahmins, Non Brahmins & Dalits to include
Mari Marcel Thekaekara on the Stink of Untouchability in the
New Internationalist "
Narayanamma and 800,000 other toilet cleaners are on the lowest rung
of the caste system in India. They are despised by everyone. They
experience absolute exclusion from the cradle to the grave. They are
the other face of India; the one that nobody likes to see. It is
in sharp contrast to the progressive, technological,
we-have-the-bomb-and-are-no longer-the-Third-World face.
Chennai railway, station says it all. It has a hot spot for
laptops to download mail, mobile phone chargers, international food
counters offering burgers, chocolate mousse and chow mein next to
hot dosas and chicken tikka. Yet, a few metres away, sweeper women
clean shit in the most primitive manner possible, lifting it out of
the railway track with a stick, broom and pieces of tin. Why does
this unacceptable, utterly obscene dichotomy exist. Because hardly
anyone wants it to change..."
more 27 June 2005
The
Tamil Heritage - History & Geography to include
| Dr.N.Muthu Mohan, Kamraj
University on
Sikhs and Tamils -
The Indus Connection "..The Sikhs and the Tamils have created two great non-Brahmanic cultures at the
two ends of India. The Cashmeres, the Marathas, the Assamese or the Bengalis may
contest this claim and would like to join in the list. But it is true that the
Tamils and the Sikhs are the only people
who have openly fought, declaring their
non-Brahmin ideology in the recent history of India. The two peoples have a
political and cultural tradition of non-Brahmanism. I do not think that the
non-Brahmin legacy of the Sikhs and the Tamil is of recent origin. It is as old
as Indian history..." |
26 June 2005
Reflections to include
| "...many peace agreements are fragile and
the
'peace' that they create is usually the extension of war by more
civilised means... A peace agreement is often an imperfect compromise
based on the state of play when the parties have reached a 'hurting
stalemate' or when the international community
can no longer stomach
a continuation of the crisis. A peace process, on the other hand, is
not so much what happens before an agreement is reached, rather what
happens after it... the post conflict phase crucially defines the
relationship between former antagonists..." - Walter Kemp, Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe, reviewing
'After
the Peace: resistance and reconciliation' by Robert L.Rothstein,
1999
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25 June 2005
Conflict Resolution: Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka to include
25 June 2005 Tamil National Forum
to include
Sanmugam Sabesan from
Australia on
புத்தரும், சிங்களப்
பௌத்தர்களும்
"...நல்ல விடயங்கள் நடந்தேற வேண்டும் என்பதற்காக எத்தனையோ உண்ணாவிரதப்
போராட்டங்கள் நடைபெற்றுள்ளதை நாம் அறிவோம். ஆனால் ‘தமிழினம்
பட்டினியால் சாக வேண்டும்’ என்பதற்காக சிங்களப் பிக்குகள் பட்டினி
கிடந்து உயிர் துறக்க முன் வந்துள்ளமை, ஒரு வித்தியாசமான
விடயமாகும்..."
more
24 June 2005 Tamil National Forum
to include V.Thangavelu from Canada -
21 June 2005 Struggle for Tamil
Eelam to include
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'Voice of Tamil Nation' Rally
at
Kailasapathy Hall, Jaffna, Tamil Eelam - தமிழ்த் தேசியத்தின் குரல்
"...Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism is staging a
dangerous dance in south Sri Lanka...(It) is showing its cruel face by refusing
even the limited joint structure to channel tsunami relief...
We vow to defeat this cruel Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism and
reclaim our land from the occupying forces and determine our
own future using our own strength in our own land.."
more |
20 June 2005
International Relations in the Age of Empire to include
The Coming World Realignment -
Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, Yevgeny Bendersky - "Since the U.S.
intervention in Iraq revealed the limits of Washington's ability to
implement its security strategy of becoming the unquestioned
political and military arbiter of the globalizing world economy, the
underlying tendencies towards a multipolar configuration of world
politics have crystallized into hard and obvious fact..."
more
19 June 2005
Tamil Language & Literature to
include
| Albert
B Franklin on
The Tamil
Language in the Modern World
- An Essay on Contemporary Tamil Fiction,
Its Younger Writers and Their Relationship with Their Society
- "It has
become increasingly apparent over the last century, that Tamil is
indeed one of the world's great languages and that in it is
expressed one of the world's great and ancient literatures...Such
mystic outpourings as the poems of
Thirumular, such
philosophical penetration as that of Sankara and Ramanuja, such
scientific brains as that of the other
Ramanuja, the
mathematician, or that of the late Nobel Prize winner
C. V. Raman do not arise
in barren soil. Nor do the exquisite arts of
Carnatic music and
Bharata Natyam.
Imagination of this category springs from a richly intricate and
articulate linguistic symbolism..." |
15 June 2005
United States & the Tamil Struggle
to include
14 June 2005 Conflict Resolution:
Sri Lanka - Tamil Eelam to include
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
- Something is rotten in the state of Sri Lanka
13 June 2005
Tamil National Forum
Sara
Ananthan from Australia Response to "A Friendly Comment" by
Erajh S Gunaratne 12 June 2005
Reflections to include
| "...Pride teaches us that we are in
charge. Humility teaches us to understand and live by
principles, because they ultimately govern the consequences
of our actions. If humility is the mother, courage is the
father of wisdom. Because to truly live by these principles
when they are contrary to social mores, norms and values
takes enormous courage.."
more |
12 June 2005
Caste & the Tamil Nation -
Brahmins, Non Brahmins & Dalits to include
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V.Geetha, and S.V. Rajadurai.
- Towards a Non Brahmin Millenium - From Iyothee Thass to Periyar
"...This book grew out of our desire to understand the
complexities of the Non-Brahmin-Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu
which, in varying degrees, has come to inform and sustain political
commonsense in the Tamil country... In a context when Brahmins claimed that birth was
no more a badge of status and then went ahead to act and speak as if
it was, non-Brahmins, comprising a range of castes and
communities...
claimed the contrary. They called attention to practices of
discrimination, humiliation and negation suffered on account of
their always already lowly birth, and came to articulate a
philosophy and practice of rights which would help them combat
inequality and humiliation..."
more |
12 June 2005
Sinhala Buddhist Fundamentalism
to include
Buddhist Monks and Ethnic Politics: A War Zone in an Island Paradise
- Prof.H.L.Seneviratne with a Front Note by Sachi Sri Kantha.
12 June 2005
Tamil
National Forum to include
8 June 2005
Tamil Language & Literature -
Jeyakantan on Tamil & Sanskrit
(contributed by V.Thangavelu)
5 June 2005
Indictment against
Sri Lanka to include
| Asian Human
Rights Commission reports on
Sri Lanka: Miscarriage of Justice
-
Mass Acquittal in the Bindunuwewa Massacre Case "The Bindunuwewa massacre was reminiscent of the
massacre of 52 Tamil
prisoners held at the maximum-security prison of Welikeda in the
capital Colombo in July 1983....The impunity accorded by the
Sri Lankan government to the perpetrators of racial violence
has increased the alienation of the ethnic minority
Tamils...The judgement of 27 May
2005 which
established the fact that not a single person could be held guilty
for the mass murder of 28
Tamils in the protective custody of the State at Bindunuwewa will
further increase the
distrust of even the moderate Tamil minorities..." |
5 June 2005 Tamil National Forum to
include
3 June 2005 Tamil National Forum
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Sanmugam Sabesan
writes from Australia
-
பொதுக்கட்டமைப்பு எதற்காக?
"எம்முடைய கவலையெல்லாம் ‘பொதுக்கட்டமைப்பு உருவாகுமா இல்லையா என்பது
அல்ல.’
அப்படி ஒரு பொதுக்கட்டமைப்பு உருவாகினால் அக்கட்டமைப்பு உரிய
முறையில் தக்க வகையில் செயற்படுத்தப் படுமா? என்பதுதான் எம்முடைய
கேள்வி.
ஒரு மேசையைக் கூட வாங்க
வலுவில்லாத வரதராஜப் பெருமாளின் மாகாண சபையின் செயற்திறமையோடு
இந்தப் பொதுக் கட்டமைப்பு அமையக் கூடுமோ? ......
'போராட்டத்தின் வடிவங்கள் மாறலாம்.
ஆனால் போராட்ட இலட்சியம் மாறாது’"
more
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1 June 2005
Reflections to include
"இறைவன் மனிதனுக்குச் சொன்னது
கீதை,
மனிதன் இறைவனுக்குச் சொன்னது
திருவாசகம், மனிதன் மனிதனுக்குச் சொன்னது
திருக்குறள்"
1 June 2005
Sinhala Buddhist
Fundamentalism to include
| A.Thangavelu
from Canada on
Buddha’s Statues - Symbol of Sinhalese Hegemony
"...On Sunday night May 15, 2005 a 12 ft tall Buddha’s statue was installed on land
belonging to the Trincomalee Urban Council ... This provocative act should not be seen as
an isolated incident. There is much more than what meets one's eyes...
It was no secret that the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP), the North East Sinhala
Association (NESA) and some saffron-robed Buddhist monks were behind the
installation of the Buddha statue.. It is obvious to anyone
with a modicum of intelligence that a Buddha’s statue near a
fish-market is not meant for worship or veneration by
Buddhists..."
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