From: sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: valai malar 'a' - some comments
Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:34:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: `a', December issue, review

Sankarapandi writes: 
 
> Because of other discussions, I did not get time to read the second issue of
> SCT magazine 'a' fully and give my comments earlier.

> Already Gopals and Sundarapandian expressed their disappointment for not
> getting  enough feedback from the general public in this net.

    I think that by `general public', you are referring to SCT readers. 
 We need some feedback from the SCT netters as we don't know how people
 find our `a' magazine. We have received four replies so far, including
 your reply and we will accept replies or contributions till this Friday.

> KUSHBOO's devaalayam (Cap letters to atract the audience here) did not surprise
> me because this net is no different from the TN general mentality.  People
> might call me as 'cynical' person looking at everything with a distorted
> outlook.

    I don't see a `Kushboo mania' in the net, but there is a `Kushboo mania'
 in T.N. to build a temple for her. But there is a movie culture in the net
 like the movie culture in Tamil Nadu to have a lot of discussions on `minnal
 varigaL', `nilaa' songs, `malar' songs, top 10 Ilayaraja songs,top 10 Kamal
 movies, top 10 Rajini movies etc. I see the TN's general mentality in these
 movie discussions and many of the flames on Periyar by some SCT readers on
 one statement supposedly said by Periyar ( they did not give any reference
 to when and where Periyar said it ) and passing criticisms on him. If one   
 is to make criticisms on a leader, he should not do so  just based on some
 rumours or what he heard from others. He has to look at the social and
 economical conditions of the society the leader lived in and how the leader
 approached the very problems affecting the society he lived in. A leader
 should be credited if he identifies the problems, social or economical, his
 society is facing, ignored  by other leaders in his time, but the solutions
 that he offers to such problems are debatable. 
 

>  But I am more and more becoming cynical (?) because a posting on
> Khusboo or 'poo songs'  or '10 movies' or just politics can evoke so many
> responses whereas the SCT magazine 'a' goes unnoticed.

   I like to comment on this. I think that, if we don't get a letter for `a'
 from the netters, it does not mean that they are not reading it. 

>  We need not be experts
> to comment on the contents nor we need to be writers to contribute.  Can't we
> just go through atleast one article of it and comment a few lines.  Atleast
> write some flames on the articles ?

  A feedback from netters is helpful for improving the magazine, but if they
 don't like to comment on the magazine, no problems. 

> No doubt we deserve Kushboo as our god or leader !

  I think that this comment is unwarranted. 

> "enRu madiyum indha `cinema' mOham"

  See, even if you change a word in Bharati's poem, it ends in an universal
 point of view! ( I once heard that American movie videos are hot in Russia! )

> Sankarapandi

 - SP

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