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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
|
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..."
more |
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