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From: nefthi@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (a.sandeep)
Subject: Re: commonness among Tamils...
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:58:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.171443.3929@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> un025720@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>I always wondered why all Tamils,irrespective of their castes have no family 
>name. Tamil cousins do not have the same last name as others in the country do.
>We just end up adding one more first name as our last name. This is also
>true among tamil muslims and christians. Does anyone know if this was in
>practice for very long and if this just unique to Tamil culture??
>
>Manjula Ibrahim
>West Virginia University

The following reply comes from my preparation for a talk I gave on 
"Do we need last names". I was motivated by people asking me constantly
why I have a single name (of course I have to add my father's initial
as my first name. You know why, otherwise all the computers will be
down, and  .. we can't read netnews .. just kidding):

Last names are uncommon to dravidian culture, and the concept of last 
name originated outside of dravidian culture.  Last names were used in
France by 1000 AD (I amy be off by certain centuries this way or that
way by different authors; but you get the point). Before that everyone 
had just one name just like dravidians.

The way I see the need for last name was that people tend to have
names after gods, saints, disiciples names etc., and this provided
only a limited set of names, and there was a need to distinguish
one Moses from another Moses or from one Jesus to another Jesus
(of course I can not say that about Jesus maybe).

In south, especially among tamilians we all go by one name that is
your name for your entire life. Since, the rest of the country was
influenced by other cultures they wanted to see our names (tamilians)
also the same way. When we start our school that is when we start 
adding one's father's as first initial, and that is only for records.
Also, married women changing their last names is also a concept new to
dravidian culture.

Some of the south indians who are influenced by cultures other than
dravidian may not agree to this, and that is understandable because,
their affinity is more towards the other culture than the dravidian
culture.

Hope this clarifies your question.

Sandeep
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Affable)
Subject: Re: Umakku yentha oor'o ?
Reply-To: Venkatachalam Aruna <aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu>
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:09:04 GMT

In article <12NOV199220003976@elroy.uh.edu> cosc14bs@elroy.uh.edu (Sivasankaran  
S., Univ. of Houston) writes:
Siva> Neengallawm yentha oor ?
pirantha ooraa? valarntha ooraa? padichcha ooraa? ippa irukkira ooraa?
In which one, you're interested?
Siva> Collecting statistics. That's all.
Collecting statistics for what? Hope it's not for Clipper or Oracle 
projects. ;-)
Siva> My friend has agrred to summarise and post results
Is your friend sane? ;-)
Siva> 
Siva> -Surya. 

-Venkat
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From: krashok@mse.cse.ogi.edu (Ashok Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Indian Parliament
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:43:00 GMT
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Material Science & Engineering

In article <1992Nov6.173554.3136@vela.acs.oakland.edu> janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand) writes:
>In article <Nov.6.11.45.49.1992.19059@endeavour.rutgers.edu> surendra@endeavour.rutgers.edu (Arun Surendran) writes:
>>
>>About the Indian Parliament,
>>
>>	1. There are 524 seats in the lower house (Lok Sabha)
>
>	I thought it was 542.
>	
>>	Surendran.
>
J Anand

From Ashok Krishnamurthy(krashok@mse.ogi.edu):

I think Anand is right. There r 542 seats in the Lok Sabha. I
can't help comparing the American democracy with the Indian.
In India, the Lok Sabha is the more powerful body hving the 
power of veto whereas in USA, it is the Upper House(Senate)
hving the same.The no. of people in the Senate is only 100
(2 per State) whereas in India the no. of members in the Lok
Sabha is proportionate to the population of the state(for example:
UP has 85 LS seats whereas Bihar has only 54 and Tamil Nadu 34,
AP-42,Karnataka-28,etc.). I think it is quite logical that the 
body which has the power of veto should represent the people in 
the various states in proportion to the population....or is it?
(One may argue that since each state is an integral part of the
Union,each shd b accorded = status when it comes 2 the power of 
veto). Anyway I think it is an interesting point.(Not that it really
matters in present day Indian politics where opinion held reg. an
issue = f(money recd. from people hving vested interets)).

In fact, I think that people who can think and analyze logically
and rationally( and hv foresight and planning) ,in short, the 
intelligentsia, shd ultimately hv the power of veto reg. any
measure. Elections being what they r in India at present, I doubt
if this is happening. In fact, the Rajya Sabha has more of the
intelligentsia as its members than the LS where any Goonda,Chamcha
& Dokhebaaz(a Tamil equivalent to the Hindi word is:cheat)-(eq. to
Tom,Dick & Harry in Eng.)can become a member. So the LS hving the 
power of veto is not really good for India,I feel.

I invite yr comments & opinions on the above.

Ashok Krishnamurthy.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: thai@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Sankaran Thayumanavan)
Subject: Re: Balakumaran Puthagangal
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:30:52 GMT

natarajan68@wharton.upenn.edu writes:



>   en udanpirava udanpirappukkale,
>   "Merkuri pookal", "Akalya", "Pachhai vayal manadhu", "Karaiyora mudhalaigal"
>and "Thayumanavan" (idhu enakku migavum pidithadhu) padithirukkiren.....
>kadaisi moondru alladhu naangu varudangalil balakumaran ezhhudhiya nalla 
>puthagalai patri yaarukavadhu theriyuma?.....detroit anabargal 
>yaaridamavadhu puthagangal irundhal iraval vangi padikka ava......
>badhil podavum....

i read this book recently.  'malai neratthu mayakkam'.  I liked it.
civil engineers, kothanaargal, chithaalgal, mesthrigal indha puthakathai
kattayam padikkavum....    

unfortunately, innum naan 'thayumanavan' padikkavillai...

>anban
>Ramachandran Natarajan

anban,   
thayumanavan
From: RDIWAKAR@cmsa.gmr.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: DeepaavaLi Release
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:47:27 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs

Movie Title :  Thrumathi Pazhanichchami
Actors      :  Sathyaraaj and Sukanyaa
Direction   :  Sundarraajan

Story       :  Sathyaraaj is illiterate and shares a room with his friend
Goundamani in Coimbatore.  The hero is determined to marry a girl who is
in the teaching profession.  The first half of the movies is about how
Sathyaraaj meets Sukanyaa and marries her.  Before marrying Sathyaraaj,
Sukanyaa extracts three promises from him.  After the marriage, Sathyaraaj
demands three promises from Sukanyaa which go against the earlier promises
he made to Sukanyaa before the marriage.  Now the serious part of the movie
begins.  Sathyaraaj narrates to Sukanyaa (in a flash-back) how his father and
sister were killed when he was young by an evil man in his native town. The
villain manufactures fire-crackers with child labor and prevents anybody from
going to school.  This explains why Sathyaraaj is illiterate and wanted to
marry a teacher.  Sukanyaa and
Sathyaraaj go back to the town and set up a school only to be bothered by
the villain and his countless thugs.  In the end Sathyaraaj and Sukanya
prevail over the villain and the school is attended by all the children
who were exploited.

Sathyaraaj shows his "silambam" skills in an interesting fashion.  However
somebody could have duped for him!  Typical good guys vs bad guys movie.
Sukanyaa has acted very well.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: vantha naaL muthal intha naaL varai vaanam maaRavillai.....
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 00:41:54 GMT

vantha naaL muthal intha naaL varai vaanam maaRavillai
vantha naaL muthal intha naaL varai vaanam maaRavillai
vaan mathiYum, neerum, katal kaatRRum, malarum, maNNum,
kotiYum, solaiYum, nathiYum maaRavillai
manithan maaRivittaan.........

nilai maaRinaal kuNam maaRuvaan
poY neethiYum nErmaiYum pEsuvaan
thinam saathiYum pEthamum kooRuvaan
athu vEthan vithi enROthuvaan
manithan maaRivittaan mathaththil ERivittaan

paRavaiYai kaNtaan vimaanam pataiththaan
paRavaiYai kaNtaan vimaanam padaiththaan
paayum meeNGaL pataiYinai kaNtaan
ethiroLi kEttaan vaanoli pataiththaan
ethanai kaNtaan paNam thanai pataiththaan
manithan maaRivittaan mathaththil ERivittaan

inpamum kaathalum iYaRkaiyin neethi
EtRRa thaazhvukaL manithanin saathi
paaril iYaRkai pataiththathai ellaam
paavi manithan piriththu vaiththaanae
manithan maaRivittaan mathaththil ERivittaan

vantha naaL muthal intha naaL varai vaanam maaRavillai
vantha naaL muthal intha naaL varai vaanam maaRavillai
vaan mathiYum, neerum, katal kaatRRum, malarum, maNNum,
kotiYum, solaiYum, nathiYum maaRavillai
manithan maaRivittaan.........


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From: surendra@endeavour.rutgers.edu (Arun Surendran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re:Indian Parliament
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:45:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


About the Indian Parliament,

	1. There are 524 seats in the lower house (Lok Sabha)
	2. The only requirement to form a government is that
	"...the government should have the support of the majority
	of the members of the lower house". 
	3. Congress has 195 seats in the Lower HOuse.

	Surendran.
From: chandran@comp.lancs.ac.uk (M. Ramchandran)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: List of Deepavali Tamil Films
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:25:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

Could anyone summarise a list of recent and deepavali Tamil films?

Ramachandran
Liverpool John Moores University
From: sp2@cec2.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: murugan-kaNNadhaasan
Date: 5 Nov 1992 13:35:38 -0600
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

>
>
In article <kat.720938060@sybok> Kathiravan writes :
>
>   murugan-kaNNadhaasan
   ----------------------
  Are you running short of Kannadasan's lullabies? 

>
>  saravaNap poikayil neeraadi-thuNai
>   thantharuL endREn muruganidam
              -------
  Allow me to point out a common mistake you commit
 in writing in ADAMI scheme of K.Srinivasan. `endREn'
 is wrong. It should be
               enREn
              ------
 
>  irukaram neeti varam kEttEn-antha
>   mannavan innaruL malarthanthaan.
>
>
>  avanidam sonnEn en anjuthalai-antha
                      ----------
   This should be `anchuthalai' in ADAMI.
                  ------------

>   aNNalE thanthuvaiththaan aaRuthalai!
                             -----------
>  ivvidam ivarthantha inbanilai-kaNdu
>   enninidam naan kaNdEn maaRuthalai.

  Did you notice a word play here by Kannadasan ?

    anchuthalai
   -------------
      1. anchuthalai ( bayaththai , fear )
      2. anchu-thalai ( 5 heads )

    aaRuthalai
   -----------
      1. aaRuthalai ( comfort )
      2. aaRu-thalai ( six heads, Arumugam is 
                       another name for Murugan )

> (next stanza deleted)
>
> Kathiravan
>
 - Kanmani

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara)
Subject: Re: Clinton is a dravidian and speaks tamil and a saivite
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:24:41 GMT




thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan) writes:

>For persons like Mr Selvakumar, the article I wrote was a joke (if you thought
>otherwise). I have no intentions of following up your aryan/dravidian articles
>which I feel not relevant to me and I think it is Bull-Shit (BS).

>But I could not prevent laughing at your conclusions that the entire world is
>made up of dravidians.

>Do not follow this article if you are serious

>RT


     I thought of keeping quiet for sometime because of my work,
though I wanted to write something about the changes I felt during my recent
India trip.  But your above posting prompts me to react.  I should have written
this just after your comments about Dr.Selvakumar's postings.

     I have seen your postings both in SCI and SCT.  I wonder how you can write
Selva's postings as BS. I may agree to you if you have written about Kathiravan
alone because he suffers from DMK/DK (minus Periyar EVR) mentality. But Selva
writes his articles with a lot of study, research and thinking.  We may not
agree to what he says.  But he allows you to argue with sufficient information.
He does not indulge in empty bashings or chavunistic sloagans like you or
Kathiravan.  If you feel that you dont agree with him write your point of view.
He is one of the few netters who post articles by doing some serious homework
unlike most of the junk postings about the junk Tamil films.  If the topic he
talks is not relevant (to a certain extent I feel that they are not relevant to
me) to you, just type 'n'.  But they are not BS as you call.  Just go through
all your old postings (dont call them as articles).


S. Sankarapandi

ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: krashok@mse.cse.ogi.edu (Ashok Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Regarding no. of songs of Kannadasan in films
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:11:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.45440
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Material Science & Engineering

In article <1992Nov6.173353.2804@vela.acs.oakland.edu> janand@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jayaraman Anand) writes:
>In article <fb78.721060364@sol> fb78@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) writes:
>>krashok@mse.ogi.edu (Ashok Krishnamurthy) writes:

>>This is just a wild guess. 30 years X 60 films per year on the average
>>over the 30 years X 6 songs per film = 11000 songs approximately!
>>
>	The average # songs per movie should be 5. Another point, lots of 
>	movies have multiple lyric-writers.
>	
>>- ganesh
>>
>J Anand.

From Ashok Krishnamurthy:

Thank u Ganesh & Anand. Both yr analyses r quite scientific and plausible.
To date,I think that no one has really worked out this kind of thing. Just
as no one knows how many ragas are there in Carnatic music,(since u can always
create a new raga by various combinations of the basic notes),probably no count
exists reg. Kannadasn's songs.  My hunch(has no scientific basis) was around
8000 songs.

The main attraction his songs hold for me r his deep philosphical insight that
is made intelligible to even the common man(for example(though slightly morbid
but nonetheless true) his song:Veeduvarai uravu,veethivarai manaivi,kaaduvarai
pillai,kadaisivarai yaaro) and the excellent music of Viswnathan-Ramamoorthy
(mainly). His poetic imagination is another strong point(for example:Malar
galai poll thangai urangugiraal....The comparison is superb- just as a flower
probably the sunflower,which goes to sleep at sunset(!) & in Malarnthu malaraa
-tha.... the lines "nadiyil vilayaadi kodiyil thalai seevi...." reg. the ilan
thendral are just wonderful).

Another one of his concerns was for environment as reflected in "Vandanaal
muthal inda naalvarai vaanam maaravillai...."in which man is living today:
divided by caste and various other barriers all of which are self-made. The
comparison between Nature which has not changed in its basic nature and the
changed man of today is beyond compare.  He just pooh-poohs the scientific
advancements of man("Paravaiyai kandaan vimanam padaithaan...."etc.)as they
do not seem to have contributed to any mental development of the right kind
in proportion.

His lyrics on love and kaathal are equally enticing("Naan pesa ninaippathellaam
nee pesa vendum.... " in "Paalum pazhamum",etc.).

Well if u guys hv any more opinions and viewpoints,I wud b glad to hear them.

Ashok Krishnamurthy(krashok@mse.ogi.edu)

A
A
A
A
A
A
muthal inda naal varai vaanam maaravillai

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: kn the movie Roja..
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:29:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.203648.15880@nas.nasa.gov> raghavan@wk28.nas.nasa.gov (Venkatraman Raghavan) writes:
>Movie stuff, you may want to skip.
>
>Talking about the movie 'Rojaa',
>kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:
>
>  >                    This movie tries to tell people the following :
>  >1. India will not give Kashmir
>
>yes. that is the theme of this movie.
>
>  >2. Indian tamils should be united and should not try to 
>  >   have a seperate homeland and fall prey to external forces.
>
>  >The second is explained clearly by the song, "Thamizha thamizha".
>
>I don't think so. (I may be wrong, I have heard that song only twice,
>once while watching the movie and once on local radio). IMO, This movie
>does not in any way criticise the Eelam issue. The movie is about
>national unity. It can be applied to any separatist movement in *India*
>(= any group which wants to splinter India); past, present or future.
>

I can't agree with you. 

The writer only warns the Indian tamils. He asks them to be united.
Thats it. This song is written at the right time when some idiots
for political stunts (Ramadoss and Panrutti Ramachandran) are asking
for a seperate Tamil homeland. The reason they say is discrimination
of tamils in India !!!!! which is a real *bull****. They think that
they represent 50 million tamils in India which is again a bull****.
Indeed, the movie is about national unity. 

anpudan,

V R Kumar 



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Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Request for Lyrics
From: pc_madhu@ruby.enet.dec.com (MADHU)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:53:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Can any kind soul post the lyrics of the song "Ninaipathellam Nadanthuvittal.."
from the movie "Nenjil Or Alaiyam"

Thx

Madhu
From: kanth@cse.ogi.edu (Meenakshi Srikanth)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: a poem
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:42:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.45729
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR

In article <1992Nov11.205331.15102@news.Hawaii.Edu>, vasan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (T. R. Srinivasan) writes:
|> 
|> 	By Ku. Pa Ra (K.P Rajagopalan)
|> 
|> 	WHAT ELSE WAS IT
|> 	---------------
|> 
|> 	When I speak of love
|> 	you laugh at me
|> 	You call poetry phony.
|> 	Don't you do it
|> 	deliberately
|> 	because I adore it?


	.. and so on.. beautiful poetry .. deleted..
 
|> from Modern Tamil Poetry book.
|> 
|> srini
|> (email: vasan@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu)
|> 
|> 	

Come on ! Please post this in Tamil !

Poetry such as these which do not have any tamil cultural connotation
needs to be read in Tamil for its beauty to be fully appreciated. 

so please.
srikanth.-- 
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Aloha, OR 97006.

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From: nl@chem.ucsd.edu (Dr. N. Elango)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: On the relevance of Satyagraha
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:53:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: network.1drhb0INN3t2
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdchemi3.ucsd.edu

rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman)

stuff deleted--

[2] Thani Tamilnadu
>>	Yes! DK asked for Dravida Nadu to be rejected by all except TN. The

stuff deleted--

I do not fully understand what do you mean here. 

As far my understanding goes, when periyar organised DK, one of their ground
rules for the party was that it should not contest any election. That means
to me that they were not after enjoying power like any political party
in today's world. They wanted to bring social reform in the decans. which was 
necessary. Thanks to their efforts. When the fact is that how would one 
convey such a meaning as you portray in these lines are the views of DK? 
I understand that from time to time today's DK leadership has bent to the 
ruling party.

Elango (nelango@ucsd.edu)
From: gb29+@andrew.cmu.edu (Guntur N Balaji)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Correction on correction of factual error ! Whew !
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:21:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Uf00j=i00WB29ZZEYm
Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


From: narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana)
Subject: Re: Another factual error !
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:22:50 GMT

In article <wezipTu00YUoQfW2w9@andrew.cmu.edu> gb29+@andrew.cmu.edu (Guntur N Balaji) writes:
>Well, Sriperumpudur is not 30 miles from Chitoor.  It is 117 kms from
>Chitoor and is 40 kms from Madras ( I mean Broadway ).  Sriperumpudur
>had been famous for but one thing - Sri Ramanuja was born there - until
>4 years ago.  Ever since Rajiv Gandhi was killed there and the
>Cholavaram race track was shifted to Sriperumpudur, it has been more
>in the news.
>
>Considering the fact that the suburbs of Madras are well within 10 kms
>of Sriperumpudur as of today, I think by the turn of the century,
>SPPudur will be like what Poonamallee is today to Madras.  And the border of
>Andrapradesh is more nearer to Madras than to Sriperumpudur !
>
>Balaji/...

We travelled by car from Chittor to Kanjeevaram. It took about 4 hrs.
Sri Perumbudur is half way between Kanjeevaram and chittor. Since I
estimated 40km per hr, I thoought it may come to 30 miles. If find
appropriate metric to british conversion, you will get the precise
distance.
...kt

Sriperumpudur is NOT halfway between Chitoor and Kanjeevaram.  It is
halfway between Madras and Kanjeevaram !  Kanjeevaram is 32 kms from
Sriperumpudur and consequently 72 kms from Madras.  I can give you the
name of all the towns on the way from Madras upto Chitoor if you want ! :-)
( I mean on the Madras Bangalore Trunk Road, which goes via Chitoor )

My home town is Ranipet, which is 47 kms from Chitoor and 112 kms from
Madras.  And Sriperumpudur lies on the way to Madras, about 72 kms from
Ranipet.  Kanjeevaram does not come between Madras and Chitoor.  It is
offset from the Madras Bangalore Trunk Road by *just* 5 kms.  When you
said you came by car from Chitoor to Kanjeevaram, you would definitely
have passed Ranipet on your way :-) ( Home, Sweet Home ) and just within
300 mts from my house ! :-) :-)

Forget the metric - british conversion.  It is more important to get the
relative positions of these towns.  As I have plied from Ranipet to
Madras all through my college life ( Yes I studied in Madras ), I know
this area too well to make a mistake !  And bless my big heart, I dont
stand corrected !

And when I said Madras was more nearer to Andhra than Sriperumpudur, I
meant the place Tada, which lies in Andra and is 40 kms from Madras to
its North.  ie., somewhere on the way to Sriharikota.   And the Andra
border is farther from SPPudur than from Madras !

Hope this clarifies you.  Thanks for letting me do so.
Regards,
Balaji/...