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From: sundaram@skorpio.usask.ca (Meenakshi Sundaram)
Subject: Re: TN News: Court proceedings of Rajiv assasination censored
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:05:17 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.230216.4060@access.usask.ca>, srikant@skorpio.usask.ca (Srikant Subramaniam) writes:
|> This is the final straw. One could not have imagined the depths to which this
|> newgroup has plumbed to in the last couple of days. I am hitting the
|> UNSUBSCRIBE key right now ...
|> 
|> Adieu folks,
|> 
|> ----- 
|>  |\/\/\/|      Srikant Subramaniam.
|>  |      |      srikant@cs.usask.ca 
|>  |	|
|>  |      |      Disclaimer: This is not what really I look like. 	
|>  | (o)(o)      Disclaimer: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, 
|>  C      _)                  can't prove anything. 
|>   | ,___|             
|>   |   /     
|>   /---\    
           

        I would like to know very much about the Tamil culture in Srilanka,
Malaysia, Singapore and Fiji Islands.  But, not about politics. Stop posting
the terrorist activities of LTTE. 

-Meenakshi Sundaram.
From: jawahar@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jawahar-HP India)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 06:29:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Sujatha's style
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil

In soc.culture.tamil, aruna@cive.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:

>      In his writings, Sujatha introduced lots of innovative ideas which 
>    were followed by most of the writers including Rajesh Kumar, PKP.
>    I could remember some examples:

>     tholaipEsi ringiyathu.
>     kathavai tokkinAn.
                ------
Actually , I think this is 'toktok'inAn.

>     Could anybody add somemore?
In one novel, to cross the road, a character asks:
"Road-ey crossalaama ?"

>    Have fun,
>    Venkat 
I will keep posting as I remember.. 

jawahar\@india.hp.com

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: venkates@oak.egr.uh.edu (Ramchandar R. Venkatesan)
Subject: Re: Hockey score
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:09:22 GMT

In article <92209.130718TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu> TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> Does any one know the Germany vs India hockey score of the game
> played yesterday? I am not getting the soc.cul.Indian for the
> past two days
> Kesh

Why dont u try rec.sports.hockey....
From: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna)
Subject: Re: " A PARTIAL CORRECTION"
Reply-To: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:25:31 GMT

In article <19381@plains.NoDak.edu> ganapath@plains.NoDak.edu (Prabhukumar  
Ganapathy) writes:
> Ravi V. Shankar  Writes in <1992Jul26.140858.13133@newstand.syr.edu>
>   I could not recollect the movie name. May be someone who remembers
>   it could post
>   [stuff deleted to save bw]

  It's from the movie "Rishimoolam"

> -PK

 Venkat
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From: srikant@skorpio.usask.ca (Srikant Subramaniam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: TN News: Court proceedings of Rajiv assasination censored
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:02:16 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

This is the final straw. One could not have imagined the depths to which this
newgroup has plumbed to in the last couple of days. I am hitting the
UNSUBSCRIBE key right now ...

Adieu folks,

----- 
 |\/\/\/|      Srikant Subramaniam.
 |      |      srikant@cs.usask.ca 
 |	|
 |      |      Disclaimer: This is not what really I look like. 	
 | (o)(o)      Disclaimer: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, 
 C      _)                  can't prove anything. 
  | ,___|             
  |   /     
  /---\    
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From: rajeevc@ifi.uio.no (Rajeev Chugh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: A boy's head was shaved for speaking Malayalam in school
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:04:59 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: rajeevc@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no


This was shocking to hear but not very new.
I remember as a kid we were also reprimanded by our class teacher for use o
f 
hindi (my mother tongue), the school was a catholic school very well known
in Dehra Doon,but we usually got away with that nothing really mattered the
n. 
But coming to think of it now I get very upset about it.I know that not
sending your kids to an english medium school is not the best of the soluti
ons
English is still a very popular language in India,and very useful too and I
even like the language.So NO-ENGLISH slogan is not the very best of the
solutions.
But then what should we do to preserve our heritage and our right to speak 
our 
own language in our own country.I guess that it is the society which has to
take actions against such isolated and shameful incidents any suggestions?

stay alive
rajeev
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: nasokan@yoho.uwaterloo.ca (Asokan)
Subject: Re: STOP TE NEWS
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:25:04 GMT

In article <Bs7Lnx.EFG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering) writes:
[...]
>
>       This appears to be a "hot" topic with strong feelings running among
>       valaaignar's ! I am also against propaganda but I don't see why 
>       *events* and other *facts* related to Tamil-speaking Srilankns, or
>       Malasians, Singapoorians, should not be posted by a valagnar if he
>       felt it important enough to share with fellow-valagnars. I certainly

It would be hard to decide what is a fact and what is not.
If LTTE claims it shot down a fighter plane and the SL govt.
claimed that the accident was due to mechanical failure,
which is correct?

If PTI reports that some naxalites were killed in an "encounter"
and the opposition politicians claim that some innocent civilians
are killed in a bout of police excesses, which is correct?

A verifiable news-item is pretty much a contradiction in terms
these days.  If we want to keep SCT free of flames, let us decide
to discuss politics (which includes "philosophy" and "political ideas")
*AND* "reports of news events" where they belong, the junkyards
of SCI and SCSL and such.

>       would think it undesirable if some "philosophy" or "political ideas"
>       of some "terrorist" organizations is posted but even then the best
>       one can do is to ignore such stuff ( can not prevent I think !). 

Yes.  As of now, there is no mechanism of prevention without
wading into the murky waters of freedom of expression and
charter of rights.  UW administration discovered this two years
ago.  Stanford did a little earlier.  Scores of other universities
are waking up to the same reality.

[...]
>         epporuL eththanmaith thaayinum apporuL
>         meypporuL kaaNpathu arivu

Precisely.  I wonder if the shortcomings of one's ability
for independant analysis and "meypporuL kaaNal" is what
makes one bristle at perceived propaganda.

Regards,

- Asokan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering)
Subject: Re: tamil word for airconditioner
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:56:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.220435.13660@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, vaidhyan@ecn.purdue.edu (Ramesh Vaidhyanathan) writes:
> In article <1992Jul28.183550.1@draco.rutgers.edu>, viswanath@draco.rutgers.edu writes:
> |> 
> |> 
> |> Does anybody know the Tamil word for 
> |> 1) airconditioner
> 
> Kulir Sadanam?
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

      The word airconditioner is more general than "cooling". For refrigerator
      one can use "kuLivi, kuLirppEzhai, kuLirppetti, kuLukuLuppetti, etc,"
      Please see my other posting on this topic where I have suggested
      vaLippathani. One can also possibly use iirappathani ??

      Selva Selvakumar

> 
> |> 2) banisters (of a staircase)?
> |>
> 
> I've heard of "kaipidi chuvar" for the side wall(?) of a staircase.
> 
>  
> |> P.V. Viswanath
> 
> -Ramesh.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: srini@z.eecs.umich.edu (Srini Pichumani)
Subject: The Interior Landscape & other classics (Re: bokks on tamils)
Keywords: books, tamils
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:56:53 GMT

In article <chepan.711684032@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> chepan@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Parthasarathy Nambi) writes:
>
>  Hi folks here is a list of some book on/about tamils that I was
>  able to find:
>
>		<list deleted>

There are a few more Very Important books/translations that I should point 
out:

1. The Interior Landscape	A.K.Ramanujan		Indiana Univ Press, 1967

In this book, Prof.Ramanujan translates from the Kurundogai. His explanation
of many of the facets of Sangam poetry is fantastic. This book is the "de-facto"
standard for all later translations of Tamil poetry to English, appearing in
the West from time to time.

2. Hymns for the Drowning	A.K.Ramanujan

This contains translations of the AzhvAr hymns.

3. Poems of Ancient Tamil; their milieu and their counterparts in Sanskrit 
literature		George L. Hart

This is a very interesting book; Prof.Hart actually has a Ph.D in Sanskrit from
Yale or Harvard University. At the instance of his mentor, Prof.Ingalls of 
Harvard, another great Sanskritist, George Hart studied the Sangam poetry 
and traces common themes occuring in Tamil, Prakrit, and Sanskrit.

In this book, he also questions Kailasapathy's and Zvelebil's view of Sangam
poetry as "Heroic Poetry".

4. The Smile of Murugan		Kamil Zvelebil

Prof.Zvelebil takes a bird-eye view of different landmarks in Tamil literature.

5. Tamil Literature		Kamil Zvelebil

This is probably the most comprehensive book on Tamil literature written in
English. Prof.Zvelebil touches upon all of the "ilakkiyam" available in Tamil
leaving out the "technical" texts like those of "saiva siddhAnta" and 
grammar. 
The book is encyclopaedic in scope, and is written in classic European style
(1, 1.1, 1.1.2, ...etc). Prof.Zvelebil gives references to the earliest
Christian catechisms that appeared in Tamil in the late 1500s, either in 
Roman transliteration or in Tamil script. He points out that Tamil is the
first non-Western language in which movable type, a la Gutenberg, and
block printing was introduced.

There are some other acute observations in this book: like the change in
Tamil prosody, from the acai, cIr system to one based on mAtrAs. This
occurs in the medieval centuries.

--Srini.

ps: Many of these books are available in libraries around the country.
From: niranjan@eng.cam.ac.uk (Mahesan Niranjan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: dhamthoondu santhegam
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:18:33 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

In article <1323@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> somasun@server.uwindsor.ca (SUNDHAR SOMA             ) writes:
>Senthamizh machigalae,
>                 nammaku oru dhamathoondu santhaegam.
			      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

this measure (of disbelief) is new to me, haven't seen it before - or am i
missing something due to the script?

niranjan
From: mani@aix.Berkeley.EDU (Mani Varadarajan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: soc.culture.tamil
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:09:08
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mani@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: aix.berkeley.edu


Can someone please post a translation of the following song
in Jonpuri Ragam?

---------------------------

aruNAchalakavi rAmanATaka kIrthanai

avathAram sheyidiDuvirE nIngaL
arakkar bhayaththai viDuvirE

kavana vAliyum sugrIvanumAhi
kaNNAyiravanum kadirOnum pOhi

adigamAna rudran ange anuman shIlan
akkiniyE  shENaikkadivanai nIlan
chaturmukha brammavE jAmbavan yenum kAlan
thagum upEndiran vAli thanakku bAlanAha

shankamum chakkramum sheSHanum parivAha
thambiyarAy varaththAnE nAm bhUlOka
thUnganAna dasharaThan kuRai pOha
shurukkA varuvOm yevarum adan munnAhappOy

-------------------

Yours in Peace,
Mani
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
From: rama@i88.isc.com (Sudhakar Ramakrishna)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Tamil Magazines..
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:54:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Jul22.155438.18451
Distribution: usa
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL


Could someone inform me as to where I can procure Tamil magazines like
"kalki", "kumudam" etc.?. Please e-mail your responses to "rama@i88.isc.com".

Thanks
Sudhakar.
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From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: talk.politics.asia.south is in voting now.
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:20:54 GMT
Reply-To: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (K.Srinivasan)
Organization: IREQ, Hydro-Quebec, QC, Canada
Originator: srini@acr

This newsgroup covers politics of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Banga-desh, Nepal, Maladives etc. (SAARC countries).

See more details in news.announce.newgroups. and vote if you
want the group formed.
From: palaniap@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Murugan Palaniappan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: RE-"pallu pattu"
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:18:19 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

I am sorry. The song is from "Rishimoolam" and not from Justice Gopinath.

A slight confusion.


anbudan

murugan.
From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Tamil word for 'network' & 'newsgroup'(minilmanRam)
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:47:57 GMT
Reply-To: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (K.Srinivasan)
Organization: IREQ, Hydro-Quebec, QC, Canada
Originator: srini@acr

newsgroup:  min vazhi manRam (suggested by Sundara Pandian appears good)
Perhaps, 'minilmanRam' or 'minimanRam' would sound nicer and shorter.

network: There is probably already a word for this. As a 'network' of
roads, 'railway network' etc. Could some one recollect this.

internet: can not be translated. It is a proper noun.

K. Srinivasan srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
From: sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Kannathasan's song
Date: 21 Jul 1992 12:17:20 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 Muhunthan writes :
 ----------------
	>The best lines I heard from Kannathasan's songs have the following
>meaning, I do not remember the lines can someone post it ?

>	It says even when you point at someone ( to point a mistake )
>three fingers are pointing at you ( imagine showing one finger at hime by
>folding your hand ), only one at whoever you pointing at.

       The song in question was performed
 by K.J.Jesudoss for a CHO movie.  
       It is the hit song,

  "mElum keezhum kOdugaL pOdu
     adhu dhaan Oviyam
   nee chonnaal  kaaviyam.
   ................
   chuttum viralaal edhiriyaik kaattik
      kutRam kooRugaiyil
   matRoru moonRu viralkal undhan
      maarbinaik kaattudhadaa..  "

  I don't remember the complete song,
 however. I remembered these lines that
 Muhunthan has pointed out as they are
 similar to what I have studied in Bible
 in my school-days. ( Jesus Christ says
 something similar which you can easily
 find in the New Testament and Kannadasan
 later wrote a book on the life of Jesus
 Christ titled "YEsu kaaviyam" which
 indicates that our poet is probably
 inspired by the bible in the above lines.)

 > Muhunthan.
                             Tamil_nesan.
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From: jrambhas@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (J Rambhaskar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: "Pallu-p-paattu"
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:58:58 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

Hamiliton bridge in Madras (that's what it was called
ages back) is now transformed to hammaton bridge (barber bridge)
Ram
-- 
Rambhaskar J.
Asst. Sys. Administrator,
College of Engg. And Tech.,
Ohio University, Athens, OH
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From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Thamiz Eezam News (LTTE Propaganda)
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:51:22 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

mvishnu@bcr4.uwaterloo.ca (Meenashi Vishnu) writes:
: 
: Dear Netters:
:(some lines are deleted) 
: I will continue to post news items from Toronto newspapers.  If you
: want to take it as LTTE propaganda that is fine with me.  But I
: am not responsible for the junk postings from the ex-professor 
: Jayantha Herath (or any of his aliases).
: 
: Meenan Vishnu

Please keep posting the news, particularly about LTTE. I am one
among many who like and love to know current happenings w.r.t.
LTTE. I don't have any other source for these news.

Thanks.

---Sreehari
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: espdm@warwick.ac.uk (RANGANATHA RAO GURURAJ)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: " A PARTIAL CORRECTION"
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:34:09 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

I think it is RISHIMOOLAM and not THIRISOOLAM...

Keep trying

R GURURAJ
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: mots@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MotSeeni)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: varalaaRRil oru Edu
Date: 21 Jul 1992 10:03:34 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ravi@socrates.umd.edu (Ravi Sinnarajah) writes:

>mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu (m vishnu) writes:

> - Koraan (in Tamil): the first translation (contrary to the 
>   'fundamentalist belief' of keeping KORAN as it is...)
> - cheethak kaathip pulavar, umaRup pulavar: thamizh paakkaL including
>   the `famous' work - "musings of a spritual traveller..."
> - Others including nayinaair mukammathu [a speaker from  
>   naahoor (?!), of 4th tamil world conference, yaazhppaaNam fame], 

      I guess you are referring to Dr. Naynar Mohammad from Tiruchy.  He was 
   the Principal of Jamal Mohammad College, Tiruchy.  It seems when he was
   delivering the lecture at the YaazhppaNam conference, there was a police
   firing at the crowd resulting in a big stampade or something like that.
   Could someone clarify on this?

Thanks,

Srini Sundhararajan



>anpudan,
>/iravi.

>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

>        "epporuL yaar yaar vaaik kEtpinumi - apporuL 
>         meip poRul kaNpa(thu) aRivu"
>                            - thiruk-kuRal [43-03]


>PS: [All] Std. disclaimers do apply [as always...]   ;-)
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From: raman@cs.utexas.edu (Raman Rajagopalan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: TN News: Court proceedings of Rajiv assasination censored
Date: 30 Jul 1992 18:31:31 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: bathtub.cs.utexas.edu

In article <Bs7out.IyG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu (m vishnu) writes:
>
>News item from 'ulahath thamizar' (15-07-1992)
>(Rough Translation)
>
>
>Rajiv kolai vazakku visaaraNai
>makkaL cevihaL En moodappaddana ?
>
>(Rajiv assassination court case
> Why censorship ?)

>Despite the fact that LTTE has denied any involvement in the assasination,
>the Indian government has put the blame on LTTE and have arrested many
>TE Tamils.  It is expected that, during the court hearing, many of the
>TE Tamils will speak about the IPKF atrocities.  These would be
>published daily in the Indian newspapers.  This might create an
>emotional backlash (uNarvalaihaL) against the IPKF and Indian government.
>The officials have censored to prevent such a backlash.

This is a strong claim, made without proof.  Have you considered that 
there may be some interest in de-publicizing the case to prevent/reduce 
attacks on the sri lankan refugees still in India (sikhs in 1984)?

I am willing to believe that during a war, atrocities may have
been committed.  That does not change the fact that LTTE associates
committed many many crimes of their own in Tamil Nadu during the
DMK days.

I would tend to doubt that any claims made about IPKF would change
the minds of the people of Tamil Nadu.  From what I understand,
the DMK's support of LTTE was one of the leading reasons why
they lost power in the latest elections, and there has been
plenty of (at worst) circumstantial evidence implicating the
LTTE in the assination of Rajiv Gandhi.

>
>Meenan Vishnu 

Register another vote to reduce irrational propaganda - 
strongly biased claims made without proof.

- raman rajagopalan
From: prasad@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Sreeram P. Veluchamy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: murdering tamil names
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:38:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


About the name : Coimbatore and its original name Koniyammanpudur:


I had been given to understand that the name was for KOVAN an Irula chieftain 
from aound the Mettupalayam-Nilgiri areas. If I am not too wrong, references to this effect can be found in the Anglo-Indian/Anglican writings of the pre-Independence era.  

Another, place-name origin: Ooty or Ootacamund from

UDHAGAMANDALAM
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: pc_madhu@ruby.enet.dec.com (MADHU)
Subject: Looking for the next episode of Pirivom Sandhipom
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:06:04 GMT

What has happened to the subsequent episodes of the above story?

Sarvabhauman Madhusudanan
From: sivap-m@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Muhunthan Sivapragasam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Kannathasan Song
Keywords: kavithai
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:44:51 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci
Originator: sivap-m@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU


	The best lines I heard from Kannathasan's songs have the following
meaning, I do not remember the lines can someone post it ?

	It says even when you point at someone ( to point a mistake )
three fingers are pointing at you ( imagine showing one finger at hime by
folding your hand ), only one at whoever you pointing at.

	But the best kavithai lines I read are ( I do not read kavithais
much ) by Mu. Mezththa.

	"Vizhikal nachchththirangalai varidinAlum,
	 Viralkal ennavO yannal kambigalOduthAan".

								--muhunthan
From: espdm@warwick.ac.uk (RANGANATHA RAO GURURAJ)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Linguistic barrier ?
Keywords: National integration
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:31:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

Vanakkam.

I was chatting with my Pak pal last night and an interseting aspect
came up. He was saying that Japanese and Germans have made rapid
strides because their language had science in them. They need not have
to switch over from their national language to English to learn
science at higher levels like Postgraduation, Research and so on.

I told him that we do have masters in science in Tamil medium of
education. I do not know if PhDs exist in Science subjects with
Tamil as the medium of instruction.

Even if not, i dont strongly believe that Hindi, if it's made the common
language of the country can cope with science. Moreover transition will
take ages. Most importantly research in Medics for example is
done primarily in US and UK. .....There are points like this..

I request your views on the above.

Mikka nandri

R Gururaj

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