From: kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi)
Subject: Re: Gandhi statue in Villupuram blown up
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:03:40 GMT

In <C1Iyy8.4rs@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:

>In article <1993Jan27.143005.13799@engage.pko.dec.com>
> rajamani_t@vmsnet.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan) writes:
>>(UPI News) 
>>Assholes!
>>
>>RT

>Sad news indeed. Could some one post who blow up the Gandhi
>statue in Sri lanka, about 4 or 5 years ago? I think near kadhirkaamam?
>Gandhi symbolized liberation through peaceful means.
>One usually hears a lot of Gandhi and Bharathi in SL Tamil functions.

        Mahatmaa Gaandhi silayai udaithathu paRRi emakku theriyaathu.
        Indiayaavil Congress kaararkaLE Gandhiyai mEdaikku thaan
        payanpaduththi koLvar.
       
  
        MK Gandhi's name is used only for political rhetorics by
 Congress-I people. None of them including Nehru, Indira stood
 by any Gaandhian principles. Now they might cry foul after the statue 
is broken. Everythinh is Indira mayam. IG National Stadium. Nehru stadium.
JN Univ. Even airport.
Even if Gandhi statue is there who cares. Nobody lives upto the ideals [except
some old sarvOdaya people]. The organisation that killed him , RSS should
have been banned umpteen number of years ago. But the congress men who
came to power did not do that.
 

    NC Bose/ Bhagath Singh /Vaanji Naathan still remain in the hearts of Indians.
   In tiruchchi there is a ST called Bhagath Singh St in a rural slum area. 
   Bhagath Singh who blew up the Indian parliament to me is a great guy whatever
   he did he gave up his life.

   "izhaiththathu igavaamaich chaavaray yaar
    pizhaithtathu oRukiR pavar"
   thamizh maRai.

    Who can blame some body who dies after taking oath.  

     About paarathi, I personally feel he is a mini kayavan. 1000 people
may try to convince me otherwise but I do not agree.
here is an example of his kayamai:
                
            thamizhth thaai: paarathi: 

    "aathi sivan peRRu vittaan
     agathiyan enROr aariya mainthan
     niRaimEvum ilakaNaj seithu koduththaan"

     What does he mean. His ancestors might be aarians 2000 years ago. But
       he should not give wrong information like this. 
       
     I admire his poetry. uNarchchi is there. But there are thousands
     of poets not spoken of. If I have time I can show that Bharathi's
     tradition of poetry claimed by a lot of Bhaarathi fans to be unique
     is wrong. He has copied the tradition of simple thamizh set by
     a lot of siththars. He himself admitted that. His kummiyadi peNNE is directly from vaLLaalaar's
     poetry.
   
      He wrote freedom songs. I admire him for that.

      The srilankan thamizhs in general had their own poets/ writers.
      Even now they have their owm of which we know little. How many Indians know 
     uNarchchi kavi kaasi aanandan.  
      Last year in OTTAWA we had a patti manRam titled, "paarathi
     inRu irunthaal kaLipuRuvaanaa! kavalaip paduvaanaa!" The majority
     5 of the 6 speakers were eezham people. I was the only Indian speaker.
     They know about paarathi and do have some discussions about him.
     But they do not do like some Indians who go to the extent of
     naming thamizh sangams as "paarathi sangam" as if paarathi is thamizh.
     These are the same people who ostracized paarathi for his liberal
     views on caste.

      I shall write later about how people work in distorting thamizh
      literary tradition. One Premaa Nandakumar has written in her
                            *********************** 
      book that "paanjaali sapatham " is the first drama-poem in
      thamizh.
     
        All these kayavars have to stop writing and spreading
        misinfo to make paarathi look bigger.
        paarathi will have his own place in thamizh literature[a small
       little sure corner for singing about women liberation and
       freedom]
      What a kayamai?

     silappadikaaram is the first drama-poetry written in the subcontinent
     to my knowledge. I shall correct myself if somebody can quote 
     any other work as good as silappadikaaram that talks about
     dance, drama and poetry so early in Indian history.
     [mEgathootham came very late in 12 th cent]


   Kathiravan 
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