காவேரி
(காவிரி என்பதே சரி.) முதலான சில தமிழ்ப்பெயர்களாவது சூட்டியதற்கு மகிழ்ச்சி.
ஆறுகளின் பெயர்கள் எனக் கிருட்டிணா முதலான பெயர்கள் வைத்திருக்கலாம். வைகை முதலான தமிழக ஆற்றின் பெயர்களைச்
சூட்டியிருக்கலாமே. தமிழில் யானைகளுக்குரிய பெயர்கள் தமிழ்மக்கள் விலங்கறிவியலில்
- யானையறிவியலில் மிகச்சிறந்து உள்ளமையைக் காட்டும். தும்பி முதலான 45 பெயர்களைப் பிங்கல நிகண்டு (பா. 2412) கூறுகின்றது. நூல்களில் இருந்து யானையின் பெயர்களைத் தொகுத்து ‘விக்சனரி ‘ 170
பெயர்களைக் குறிப்பிடுகிறது. யானையின் உறுப்புகளின் பெயர்களும் தமிழர்க்கிருந்த யானை அறிவியல் பிறருடன்
ஒப்பிட இயலாத அளவு உயர்ந்துள்ளதைக் காட்டும். புதிய அறிவியல் தளத்தில் (http://www.newscience.in/articles/yanaiyiyal
) இவை குறித்து விரிவாகக் காணலாம். யானை வகைக்கே நூற்றுக்கு மேற்பட்ட பெயர்கள்
இருக்கும் பொழுது யானைகளுக்கும் தமிழ்ப்பெயர் சூட்டுவதுதானே அழகாகும். முதல்வர்
மக்களுக்குப் பெயர் சூட்டினாலும், விலங்குகள், பறவைகளுக்குப் பெயர் சூட்டினாலும் தமிழ்ப்பெயர்களே
சூட்ட வேண்டும் என வேண்டுகின்றேன். தமிழ்நாட்டவரும் தமிழர்களும் தமிழ்ப்பெயர்
சூட்டாவிட்டால் யார்தான், தமிழ்ப்பெயர் சூட்டுவர். ‘தமிழை மறப்பவர்களைத் தமிழர்களும் மறப்பர்’ என்னும் சூழல் உருவாகிவருவதை உணர்ந்தால், அயற்பெயர்களுக்கு
இடம் இல்லாமல் போகுமல்லவா? தமிழ்ப்பெயர் சூட்டுவதால் அவரது மதிப்பு மேலும் உயரும்
என்பதை அவர் உணர வேண்டும். அன்புடன் இலக்குவனார் திருவள்ளுவன், தலைவர், தமிழ்க்காப்புக்கழகம்
சனி, 14 ஜூன், 2014
பொலிவியா நாட்டினரே! நீங்கள் மாந்தர்தாமா? உறுப்பு நாட்டினரே! நீங்கள் அறிவும் பரிவும் உள்ளவர்தாமா?
பொலிவியா நாட்டினரே! நீங்கள் மாந்தர்தாமா?
உறுப்பு நாட்டினரே! நீங்கள் அறிவும் பரிவும் உள்ளவர்தாமா?
சூன் 15, 1964
அன்று 77 வளர்நிலை நாடுகள் கூடி அமைத்ததே 'வ - 77'
(G-77) என்னும் அமைப்பு.
இப்பொழுது இவ்வமைப்பில் 133 நாடுகள் உள்ளன. இந்தியாவும்
இவ்வமைப்பில் உள்ளது. இதன் பொன்விழா
மாநாடு தென்அமெரிக்க நாடான பொலிவியாவில் சாண்டாக்ரூசு நகரில் வரும் (சூன்) 14,
15 (2014) நாள்களில் நடக்க உள்ளது. இம்மாநாட்டில் உறுப்பு நாடுகளின்
தலைவர்களும் உயர் மட்டச் சார்பாளர்களும்
கலந்துகொள்வார்கள் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது. பக்சே படுகொலைகளைத் தட்டிக்
கேட்காமலும் தடுக்காமலும் மறைமுகமாக உதவிய ஐ.நா. அமைப்பின் செயலர் பான் கி மூன்
முதலானவர்களும் கலந்து கொள்கின்றனர்.
பொருளியல் வளர்ச்சிக்கான இவ்வமைப்பு அமைதிக்கான விருது வழங்குவதற்குரிய
தகுதியற்றது. ஆனால், அமைதிக்கான விருதை அமைதியைக்
குலைத்த படுகொலையாளி பக்சேவிற்கு இவ்வமைப்பு
கூடும் கூட்டத்தில் பொலிவியா நாடு வழங்குகிறது. இவ்வமைப்பின் தலைவராக இப்போது பொலிவியா அதிபர் உள்ளதால் அவர் இதனை
முன்னெடுத்துள்ளார். பொலிவியா நாட்டின் 'அமைதி -
மக்களாட்சிக்கான உயரிய விருதினை' மக்களாட்சிக்கு எதிரான பேரினப் படுகொலையாளியான, உலக மனித நேயர்களும் அறவாணர்களும் மனிதஉரிமைக்கான போராளிகளும்
தண்டிக்கக் காத்திருக்கும் வெறியன் பக்சேவிற்கு வழங்க உள்ளார்.
நாம் சொன்னால் இந்திய அரசு கேட்கப் போவதில்லை என நாம் வாளாவில்லாமல்
இவ்விழாவினைப் புறக்கணிக்குமாறு இந்திய அரசிடம் வலியுறுத்த வேண்டும்.
உலக நாடுகளில் வாழும் தமிழர்கள் தத்தம் நாட்டினை இவ்வாறு
விழாவைப் புறக்கணிக்க வலியுறுத்த வேண்டும்.
நாளை காலம் மாறும்; பக்சேவிற்கு வழங்கப்படும் பொய்யான
பட்டங்கள் பறிமுதல் செய்யப்பட்டு 'உலகக் கொடுங்கோலன்' என்று அழைக்கப்படுவான். எனினும் வெறும் நம்பிக்கையில் வாழாமல்,
நாம் இது போன்ற கொடுமையிலும் கொடுமையான
நிகழ்வுகள் நடைபெறாமல் தடுக்க ஒல்லும் வகை பணியாற்றிட வேண்டும்.
'உற்றநோய் நோன்று
உயிர்க்குறுகண் செய்யா தவர்க்கு' (குறள் 261) வழங்கப்பட வேண்டிய விருதை, பக்சேவிற்கு
வழங்கி, பொலியவியா குடியரசு நாடு தன்னைத்
தாழ்த்திக் கொள்கிறது. அவ்விழாவில் பங்கேற்று வளர்நிலை நாடுகள் தங்களை
இழிவுபடுத்திக் கொள்கின்றன.
133 என்றால் திருக்குறள் அதிகார எண்ணிக்கை நினைவிற்கு வரும்
நமக்கு இனிமேல் 133 வளர்கொலைநாடுகளே நினைவிற்கு வரும். எனவே
வளர்நிலை நாடுகளே
வானுயர் தோற்றம் எவன்செய்யும் தன்னெஞ்சம்
தான்அறி குற்றப் படின் (குறள் 272)
என உணராமல்
தன்னைத்தானே உயர்வாகக் காட்ட முயலும் படுகொலையாளி பக்சேவிற்குத் துணை நிற்கலாமா?
கயமைக்குத்துணை
நிற்பது கயமைத்தனம் இல்லையா?
வஞ்சகனைப்
பாராட்டுவதும் வஞ்சகம் அல்லவா?
கொலையாளியைப்
போற்றுவதும் கொலைச்செயல்தானே!
நீங்கள் அனைவரும் கயவர்களா?
வஞ்சகர்களா? கொலையாளிகளா?
அல்லது
உயிர்கள் மீது நேயம் கொண்ட, துன்பத்தில்
உழல்பவர்க்கு துணை நிற்கும், அல்லல்பட்டு ஆற்றாது
அழுவோர் கண்ணீரைத் துடைக்கும் உயர்ந்த உள்ளம் கொண்டவர்களா?
இனப்படுகொலையாளியைப் போற்றும் வஞ்சக நிகழ்வில் பங்கேற்பீர்களா?
அல்லது புறக்கணிப்பீர்களா?
என்பதைப் பொறுத்து உலகம் முடிவு
செய்யும்!
உலகம் உங்களைக் கட்டியணைக்க வேண்டுமா? காறித் துப்ப வேண்டுமா என நீங்களே
முடிவெடுத்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள்!
வஞ்ச மனத்தான் படிற்றொழுக்கம் பூதங்கள்
ஐந்தும் அகத்தே நகும். (குறள் 271)
Selective genocidal rape in arsenal of ‘international community’ imperialism
Selective genocidal rape in arsenal of ‘international community’ imperialism
[TamilNet, Friday, 13 June 2014, 01:59 GMT]
The so-called Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict is a clear demonstration on the acceptance of genocidal rape as a weapon in selective cases, where the deployment of it through agent States is needed for imperialistic engineering. Omission is more powerful than inclusion in sending messages. If the Summit has risked its credibility by the omission of the ‘very special case Sri Lanka’ that always relished in seeing Tamils naked, then the global importance of the ‘Sri Lanka paradigm’ to today’s ‘international community imperialism’ has to be understood without any doubt. While William Hague and Angelina Jolie are just managers of the main show, the imperialism behind them was ingenious in choreographing sideshows too, to diffuse any uprising.
The greatest insult to Eezham Tamils is the relegation of their issue from the main stage to Canadian High Commissioner’s residence and to the ‘side events’ of the summit.
There are also the crumbs thrown at UK Tamils that Hague would consider asylum cases of rape-torture victims.
As usual, those who have been mobilised for sideshow performances to imperialism would eulogise that even the crumbs and attention they had ‘achieved’ wouldn’t have come otherwise.
The main agenda of the Summit was kept a secret to UK Tamil public while sideshow performers were mobilised, informed circles say.
The UK Tamils could have performed the main show to the world, had they mobilised and demonstrated in strength against such a Summit of gross injustice. They have the capacity, which they had shown during the war. But, what ‘counterinsurgency’ imperialism, operated in which ways and infiltrated through what genre of polity and personalities have hijacked away the spirit and strength of mobilisation, has to be carefully perused by the UK Tamils.
Tamils have to recollect the International Crisis Group (ICG) differentiating national questions for independence: which ones will be recognized, which ones will be watched and which ones will not be recognized. The Eezham Tamil question was listed in their last category.
It is this policy outline that is reflected in the omission of ‘Sri Lanka’ from the main agenda of the Summit and in the eyewash of sideshow orchestrations.
Even after repeated and explicit acts by a bloc that masquerade in the name ‘International Community’, if the fact has not been dawn on Tamils that where precisely their struggle has to be addressed, then there must be really something wrong with them and their ‘civilisation’.
Addressing the struggle at the UK Establishment, which is the idea-setting and show-managing member of the bloc, and getting the answer from it, is more crucial than demonstrating against Rajapaksa in London.
Chronology:
The so-called Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict is a clear demonstration on the acceptance of genocidal rape as a weapon in selective cases, where the deployment of it through agent States is needed for imperialistic engineering. Omission is more powerful than inclusion in sending messages. If the Summit has risked its credibility by the omission of the ‘very special case Sri Lanka’ that always relished in seeing Tamils naked, then the global importance of the ‘Sri Lanka paradigm’ to today’s ‘international community imperialism’ has to be understood without any doubt. While William Hague and Angelina Jolie are just managers of the main show, the imperialism behind them was ingenious in choreographing sideshows too, to diffuse any uprising.
The greatest insult to Eezham Tamils is the relegation of their issue from the main stage to Canadian High Commissioner’s residence and to the ‘side events’ of the summit.
There are also the crumbs thrown at UK Tamils that Hague would consider asylum cases of rape-torture victims.
As usual, those who have been mobilised for sideshow performances to imperialism would eulogise that even the crumbs and attention they had ‘achieved’ wouldn’t have come otherwise.
The main agenda of the Summit was kept a secret to UK Tamil public while sideshow performers were mobilised, informed circles say.
The UK Tamils could have performed the main show to the world, had they mobilised and demonstrated in strength against such a Summit of gross injustice. They have the capacity, which they had shown during the war. But, what ‘counterinsurgency’ imperialism, operated in which ways and infiltrated through what genre of polity and personalities have hijacked away the spirit and strength of mobilisation, has to be carefully perused by the UK Tamils.
Tamils have to recollect the International Crisis Group (ICG) differentiating national questions for independence: which ones will be recognized, which ones will be watched and which ones will not be recognized. The Eezham Tamil question was listed in their last category.
It is this policy outline that is reflected in the omission of ‘Sri Lanka’ from the main agenda of the Summit and in the eyewash of sideshow orchestrations.
Even after repeated and explicit acts by a bloc that masquerade in the name ‘International Community’, if the fact has not been dawn on Tamils that where precisely their struggle has to be addressed, then there must be really something wrong with them and their ‘civilisation’.
Addressing the struggle at the UK Establishment, which is the idea-setting and show-managing member of the bloc, and getting the answer from it, is more crucial than demonstrating against Rajapaksa in London.
Chronology:
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வெள்ளி, 13 ஜூன், 2014
Navalar documents: Tamils should work for own revival of culture links
Navalar documents: Tamils should work for own revival of culture links
[TamilNet, Thursday, 12 June 2014, 03:22 GMT]
Tamil Nadu government should come out with an independent cultural initiative in reviving the identity and involvement of Eezham Tamils in their charities at Chithamparam. Eezham Tamils living in the island, in Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora should be able to participate and be benefitted by the cultural initiative in which education, publication, heritage museum and heritage tourism should get priority. While documentation on the Mutts of Eezham Tamils at Chithamparam from the times of the Kings of Jaffna appeared earlier in TamilNet, the documents currently released on Arumuga Navalar charities at Chithamparam speak for themselves on what the Eezham Tamils should do. There is no substitute to self-initiation in the cultural pursuance of a people.
Tamil Nadu government should come out with an independent cultural initiative in reviving the identity and involvement of Eezham Tamils in their charities at Chithamparam. Eezham Tamils living in the island, in Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora should be able to participate and be benefitted by the cultural initiative in which education, publication, heritage museum and heritage tourism should get priority. While documentation on the Mutts of Eezham Tamils at Chithamparam from the times of the Kings of Jaffna appeared earlier in TamilNet, the documents currently released on Arumuga Navalar charities at Chithamparam speak for themselves on what the Eezham Tamils should do. There is no substitute to self-initiation in the cultural pursuance of a people.
TamilNet Editorial Board
“It
is desirable that the residents of Jaffna should be given an
opportunity to interest themselves in the Trust particularly as it owes
its inception to a Tamil scholar of Jaffna descent,” says a 1951 Madras
High Court judgement on the administration of the charities of Arumuga
Navalar at Chithamparam.
Earlier,
a 1937 Madras High Court judgement of the British times, appointed the
trustee of the Arumuga Navalar School in Jaffna, to look after the
school and charities in Chithamparam too. The School in Jaffna
deteriorated under Colombo government take-over. The Madras High Court
in 1951 identified Jaffna Saiva Paripaalana Sabha and Hindu Board of
Education to represent the people of Jaffna in running the Chithamparam
charities.
Navalar
had declared that the education and other cultural charities
established by him at Jaffna and Chithamparam in Tamil Nadu should
continue through the academic lineage of his students.
After
the demise of Navalar in 1879, the lineage of his students, K.
Sathasivappillai, S. Ponnampalapillai and S. Visvanathapillai continued
the management. Later, as there was a succession issue, The Madras High
Court in 1937, appointed the trustee of Navalar School in Jaffna (T.
Kailasapillai) to look after the Chithamparam charities too, according
to a clause in the will of Sathasivappillai.
What the Colombo government did with the Navalar School in Jaffna, handed over to it, is well known. The pioneer native educational institution started in the 1840s to challenge colonial education, became a middle school, while Buddhist institutions started after it became universities in the south.
What the Colombo government did with the Navalar School in Jaffna, handed over to it, is well known. The pioneer native educational institution started in the 1840s to challenge colonial education, became a middle school, while Buddhist institutions started after it became universities in the south.
One
of the Jaffna organisations, The Hindu Board of Education, identified
by the Madras High Court in 1951 to represent the people of Jaffna for
the Chithamparam charity, has also become almost defunct, when the
organisation handed over more than 250 schools to the Colombo government
in 1960.
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The will documents from the time of Arumuga Navalar to Visvanathapillai and the Madras High Court judgements of 1937 and 1951 appear in this column.
Those who could read Tamil should carefully go through the Will Documents to get the feeling and the spirit with which the charities were made and administered.
The court judgements understood the spirit and that’s why they were insisting on the participation of the people of Jaffna.
The feeling and the spirit are what that needed today among the Tamils in Eezham, Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora.
[Maravan Pulavu K. Sachithananthan, who was earlier a member of the Trust Board, representing Jaffna Saiva Paripalana Sabha, kindly provided the copies of the documents in the 1980s. Some information was obtained in 1973, from the late Advocate T. Somasundaram, who was then president of Jaffna Saiva Paripalana Sabha.]
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The will documents from the time of Arumuga Navalar to Visvanathapillai and the Madras High Court judgements of 1937 and 1951 appear in this column.
Those who could read Tamil should carefully go through the Will Documents to get the feeling and the spirit with which the charities were made and administered.
The court judgements understood the spirit and that’s why they were insisting on the participation of the people of Jaffna.
The feeling and the spirit are what that needed today among the Tamils in Eezham, Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora.
[Maravan Pulavu K. Sachithananthan, who was earlier a member of the Trust Board, representing Jaffna Saiva Paripalana Sabha, kindly provided the copies of the documents in the 1980s. Some information was obtained in 1973, from the late Advocate T. Somasundaram, who was then president of Jaffna Saiva Paripalana Sabha.]
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UK shields Sri Lanka’s genocidal rape committed on Tamils
UK shields Sri Lanka’s genocidal rape committed on Tamils
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 22:49 GMT]
Britain, which was actively in complicity with the genocidal war conducted without witnesses against Eezham Tamils, now in a global summit convened in London this week, shields the systematic genocidal rape committed on Tamil women too. The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, organized by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and the high profile Special Envoy of UNHCR, Angelina Jolie, with delegations from 140 countries and ministers from 100 countries including the US Secretary of State, was highlighting the cases of all but the Tamils. “Regrettably, Foreign Secretary Hague has forgotten about the courageous survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka,” said Bianca Jagger.
“Sexual violence in Sri Lanka is not on the conference agenda. More than this, the Stabilization Unit Team of Experts, created by Mr Hague, has not been assigned to the country to investigate. The team is working on both ongoing (DR Congo, Syria) and historic (Libya, Bosnia, Rwanda) cases of sexual violence in conflict -- and has recently expanded its remit to cover more countries including Burma... Yet Sri Lanka, where rape has been used as a weapon of war for many years of brutal civil conflict, is not being examined,” Bianca said in a feature appeared in Huff Post Impact on Wednesday.
“I am afraid that at the moment, the Sri Lankan survivors are still treated as "outcasts." They are being relegated to the edges of society. Their plight is being ignored by the support systems of the state -- by the Agenda for the Summit and, I am afraid to say, by the UK government. As Mr Hague said in his opening statement to the Summit: 'What would it say about Britain if we chose not to act -- now that we know the facts, how can we turn aside? I would like Mr Hague to answer his own question,” Bianca said.
Meanwhile The Guardian on Tuesday highlighted Britain’s hypocrisy of convening the summit but sending back Tamil rape and torture victims to ‘Sri Lanka’.
“This week's global summit to end sexual violence in conflict has its origins in a 2012 film Angelina Jolie made about the Bosnian war, called Land of Blood and Honey. William Hague was so shocked by the unflinching portrayal of the rape camps run by Serb forces that he suggested a partnership with Jolie to raise awareness about the widespread use of rape as a weapon of war,” The Guardian said.
“The object was to do something to curb it, by pursuing prosecutions and stepping up training, particularly of national contingents in peacekeeping forces, so that civilians would be protected against predatory soldiers. The Foreign Office has set up a team of experts, made up of more than 70 forensic, legal and investigate specialists, who have gone to six conflict or post-conflict zones across the world, including the Syrian borders, Libya, Bosnia and Mali,” The Guardian further said.
Britain, which was actively in complicity with the genocidal war conducted without witnesses against Eezham Tamils, now in a global summit convened in London this week, shields the systematic genocidal rape committed on Tamil women too. The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, organized by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and the high profile Special Envoy of UNHCR, Angelina Jolie, with delegations from 140 countries and ministers from 100 countries including the US Secretary of State, was highlighting the cases of all but the Tamils. “Regrettably, Foreign Secretary Hague has forgotten about the courageous survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka,” said Bianca Jagger.
“Sexual violence in Sri Lanka is not on the conference agenda. More than this, the Stabilization Unit Team of Experts, created by Mr Hague, has not been assigned to the country to investigate. The team is working on both ongoing (DR Congo, Syria) and historic (Libya, Bosnia, Rwanda) cases of sexual violence in conflict -- and has recently expanded its remit to cover more countries including Burma... Yet Sri Lanka, where rape has been used as a weapon of war for many years of brutal civil conflict, is not being examined,” Bianca said in a feature appeared in Huff Post Impact on Wednesday.
“I am afraid that at the moment, the Sri Lankan survivors are still treated as "outcasts." They are being relegated to the edges of society. Their plight is being ignored by the support systems of the state -- by the Agenda for the Summit and, I am afraid to say, by the UK government. As Mr Hague said in his opening statement to the Summit: 'What would it say about Britain if we chose not to act -- now that we know the facts, how can we turn aside? I would like Mr Hague to answer his own question,” Bianca said.
Meanwhile The Guardian on Tuesday highlighted Britain’s hypocrisy of convening the summit but sending back Tamil rape and torture victims to ‘Sri Lanka’.
“This week's global summit to end sexual violence in conflict has its origins in a 2012 film Angelina Jolie made about the Bosnian war, called Land of Blood and Honey. William Hague was so shocked by the unflinching portrayal of the rape camps run by Serb forces that he suggested a partnership with Jolie to raise awareness about the widespread use of rape as a weapon of war,” The Guardian said.
“The object was to do something to curb it, by pursuing prosecutions and stepping up training, particularly of national contingents in peacekeeping forces, so that civilians would be protected against predatory soldiers. The Foreign Office has set up a team of experts, made up of more than 70 forensic, legal and investigate specialists, who have gone to six conflict or post-conflict zones across the world, including the Syrian borders, Libya, Bosnia and Mali,” The Guardian further said.
Angelina Jolie and William Hague said in their joint article in the Sunday Times on the June 8, "It is in our power to remove rape as a weapon of war from the world's arsenal of cruelty. And it is in our hands to treat victims not as social outcasts, but as courageous survivors."
However, in the case of Eezham Tamils, all the partners of genocidal Sri Lanka have decided to treat the Sinhala State as a ‘very special case’ and to encourage it to do whatever it likes in the imperialistic engineering in the island, political observers commented.
The current MI 6 chief and the then British representative at the UN Security Council, Sir Robert John Sawers said during the genocidal war that the LTTE was long blighting the Sri Lanka government.
Media exposure has now made Hague to announce that he would investigate the asylum seekers’ claims in the UK.
This is reluctant eyewash. Justice comes only when the Eezham case is investigated on a par with other global cases recognized for investigation.
The blame is not entirely on William Hague and Angelina Jolie. What the British Tamil diaspora articulators, known for their gullibility about the ‘virtues’ of the British Establishment, were doing, is the question.
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India to build ‘cultural centre’ at Jaffna
India to build ‘cultural centre’ at Jaffna
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 23:12 GMT]
The Government of India, after taking permission from the Sri Lankan state, is planning to construct a cultural centre at Jaffna. A Memorandum of Understanding for implementation of the project was signed by the High Commissioner of India Mr. Y.K. Sinha and the Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Nihal Jayathilaka in the presence of Basil Rajapaksa, the website of the Indian High Commission for Sri Lanka reported on Monday. The aim of the project was “to rejuvenate and nurture the ancient cultural heritage of Jaffna”, the report further said. Jaffna civil society activists however are sceptical and wonder whether this project is a “cultural imperialist” collaboration between New Delhi and Colombo to distort, fetishize and commercialize the culture of the Eezham Tamils.
“The Cultural Centre is to be built in the next 36 months, on a plot of land adjacent to the Jaffna Public Library, made available by the Jaffna Municipal Council. The Centre and the adjoining water body - the Pullukulam will be transformed into an integrated cultural space that can also accommodate open-air performances with the help of a floating stage,” the report said.
Further, “The purpose of the Jaffna Cultural Centre, which is being built at an estimated cost of SLR 1.2 billion, is to provide suitable social infrastructure for the people of the Northern Province, especially for the people of Jaffna, to help them to reconnect with their cultural roots as well as to the rest of the country and to rejuvenate and nurture the ancient cultural heritage of Jaffna.”
“The Centre will enable the people of Jaffna to enjoy various local and international cultural products. It would also serve as a delivery centre for training, instruction and education in a variety of cultural disciplines. The Centre is being developed as an iconic building that will emerge as a cultural forum that embodies coexistence and cooperation amongst the various communities on the island.”
In the way the report has been framed and in the manner in which the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ has been signed, it appears that the interest seems to be more in promoting the ‘reconciliation’ agenda of the genocidal Sinhala State rather than an attempt to help the Eezham Tamils “to reconnect with their cultural roots”, the civil society activists from Jaffna commented.
Meanwhile, the supposedly Hindu-centric government in India has been completely silent about Buddhicisation process in the Tamil homeland and the systematic destruction and desecration of Saiva temples, both of which are a component of structural genocide.
After allowing the Sinhala state to destroy the very roots of Eezham Tamils’ culture, to alter demography, and to ethnically re-engineer the Tamil homeland, what culture do the Indians seek to promote, the Tamil activists question.
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The Government of India, after taking permission from the Sri Lankan state, is planning to construct a cultural centre at Jaffna. A Memorandum of Understanding for implementation of the project was signed by the High Commissioner of India Mr. Y.K. Sinha and the Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Nihal Jayathilaka in the presence of Basil Rajapaksa, the website of the Indian High Commission for Sri Lanka reported on Monday. The aim of the project was “to rejuvenate and nurture the ancient cultural heritage of Jaffna”, the report further said. Jaffna civil society activists however are sceptical and wonder whether this project is a “cultural imperialist” collaboration between New Delhi and Colombo to distort, fetishize and commercialize the culture of the Eezham Tamils.
“The Cultural Centre is to be built in the next 36 months, on a plot of land adjacent to the Jaffna Public Library, made available by the Jaffna Municipal Council. The Centre and the adjoining water body - the Pullukulam will be transformed into an integrated cultural space that can also accommodate open-air performances with the help of a floating stage,” the report said.
Further, “The purpose of the Jaffna Cultural Centre, which is being built at an estimated cost of SLR 1.2 billion, is to provide suitable social infrastructure for the people of the Northern Province, especially for the people of Jaffna, to help them to reconnect with their cultural roots as well as to the rest of the country and to rejuvenate and nurture the ancient cultural heritage of Jaffna.”
“The Centre will enable the people of Jaffna to enjoy various local and international cultural products. It would also serve as a delivery centre for training, instruction and education in a variety of cultural disciplines. The Centre is being developed as an iconic building that will emerge as a cultural forum that embodies coexistence and cooperation amongst the various communities on the island.”
In the way the report has been framed and in the manner in which the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ has been signed, it appears that the interest seems to be more in promoting the ‘reconciliation’ agenda of the genocidal Sinhala State rather than an attempt to help the Eezham Tamils “to reconnect with their cultural roots”, the civil society activists from Jaffna commented.
Meanwhile, the supposedly Hindu-centric government in India has been completely silent about Buddhicisation process in the Tamil homeland and the systematic destruction and desecration of Saiva temples, both of which are a component of structural genocide.
After allowing the Sinhala state to destroy the very roots of Eezham Tamils’ culture, to alter demography, and to ethnically re-engineer the Tamil homeland, what culture do the Indians seek to promote, the Tamil activists question.
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Art, literature, should enlighten masses on larger forces at work
Art, literature, should enlighten masses on larger forces at work
[TamilNet, Monday, 09 June 2014, 23:29 GMT]
When the last king of Kandy in the island of Ceylon, who belonged to the Telugu-speaking Nayaka dynasty of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, was conquered and captured by British imperialism in 1815, history, literature and plays written on him by both Sinhalese and Tamils in the island were focussing only on a historically still unproven point that he killed the children of the Sinhala chieftain Ehelapola who joined the British and made the chieftain’s wife to pound the heads of the children in a mortar. That was the highlight of all the plays on the king, performed to this date. None of the writers or playwrights saw the ultimate culprits or the larger dimensions of the onset of colonialism. That was the success of British colonialism.
We find the re-enactment of the same paradigm today, in the writings, theatre and films on Eezham Tamils that focus on ‘self-criticism, self-defeat or self-pitying’ but never project the phenomenon in its due larger perspectives or identify the ultimate forces that are operating to their interests. This is the current conquest of ‘counterinsurgency’ oriented neo-imperialism, commented academic circles in Jaffna.
Tamil Nadu was historically much better as it didn’t fall a prey to the British campaign of projecting Kaddappomman as a bandit.
In 1857, writing from London, there were Karl Marx and Engels to set the perspectives right, by coming out with the lead “First War of Indian Independence” when the British tried to paint the wide-spread war of that year in India as mere “Sepoy Mutiny.”
Unfortunately, the so-called Marxists today have compromised with imperialists.
Ananda Coomaraswamy, born to an Eezham Tamil father and English mother, refused to join the British Army during the First World War, protesting Britain’s denial of independence to India. As a punishment, his property in Britain was confiscated and more than that, he was not permitted to enter into any part of the then British Empire, including India and his fatherland Ceylon. He lived in the USA for three decades and was never able to see India or Ceylon in his subsequent lifetime. But the British could not stop the scholar from making a global impact in culturally facing colonialism.
If the Tamil creative writers, researchers, playwrights, artists and film-makers care more for how the posterity is going to judge their work and their times, then they should not care for publishers of the Establishments, funding agencies, interviews to corporate media, acceptance by ‘refereed journals’ and the so-called international awards, but should consciously orientate their work for directing the struggle to face its due target and for giving confidence and optimism to the masses, the academic circles commented further.
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When the last king of Kandy in the island of Ceylon, who belonged to the Telugu-speaking Nayaka dynasty of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, was conquered and captured by British imperialism in 1815, history, literature and plays written on him by both Sinhalese and Tamils in the island were focussing only on a historically still unproven point that he killed the children of the Sinhala chieftain Ehelapola who joined the British and made the chieftain’s wife to pound the heads of the children in a mortar. That was the highlight of all the plays on the king, performed to this date. None of the writers or playwrights saw the ultimate culprits or the larger dimensions of the onset of colonialism. That was the success of British colonialism.
We find the re-enactment of the same paradigm today, in the writings, theatre and films on Eezham Tamils that focus on ‘self-criticism, self-defeat or self-pitying’ but never project the phenomenon in its due larger perspectives or identify the ultimate forces that are operating to their interests. This is the current conquest of ‘counterinsurgency’ oriented neo-imperialism, commented academic circles in Jaffna.
Tamil Nadu was historically much better as it didn’t fall a prey to the British campaign of projecting Kaddappomman as a bandit.
In 1857, writing from London, there were Karl Marx and Engels to set the perspectives right, by coming out with the lead “First War of Indian Independence” when the British tried to paint the wide-spread war of that year in India as mere “Sepoy Mutiny.”
Unfortunately, the so-called Marxists today have compromised with imperialists.
Ananda Coomaraswamy, born to an Eezham Tamil father and English mother, refused to join the British Army during the First World War, protesting Britain’s denial of independence to India. As a punishment, his property in Britain was confiscated and more than that, he was not permitted to enter into any part of the then British Empire, including India and his fatherland Ceylon. He lived in the USA for three decades and was never able to see India or Ceylon in his subsequent lifetime. But the British could not stop the scholar from making a global impact in culturally facing colonialism.
If the Tamil creative writers, researchers, playwrights, artists and film-makers care more for how the posterity is going to judge their work and their times, then they should not care for publishers of the Establishments, funding agencies, interviews to corporate media, acceptance by ‘refereed journals’ and the so-called international awards, but should consciously orientate their work for directing the struggle to face its due target and for giving confidence and optimism to the masses, the academic circles commented further.
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Ensure safety of TN fishermen, find permanent solution: Jayalalithaa to Modi
Ensure safety of TN fishermen, find permanent solution: Jayalalithaa to Modi
[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 June 2014, 23:07 GMT]
Condemning the Saturday arrest of 82 Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa impressed upon Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure the safety of Tamil Nadu fishermen. In a release dated Sunday, she urged the PM “to put an end to the unabated, brutal, unprovoked attacks on and abduction of our fishermen by the marauding Sri Lankan Navy” and to arrive at a permanent solution to this problem along with “a strong and robust diplomatic response”. Referring to consistent attacks on the Tamil Nadu fishermen in the past three years, she also lamented that despite a change of regime in the centre, these brutal assaults by the Sri Lanka Navy continued unabated. As an immediate measure, she called on India to register “the strongest disapproval of the belligerent actions of the Sri Lankan Navy.”
“The repetition of such aggressive acts by the Sri Lankan side, immediately after the change in Government at the Centre and the consequent reset in our relations with Sri Lanka does not seem to augur well for the peaceful pursuit of fishing in the Palk Bay by fishermen from Tamil Nadu,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said.
Condemning the Saturday arrest of 82 Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa impressed upon Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure the safety of Tamil Nadu fishermen. In a release dated Sunday, she urged the PM “to put an end to the unabated, brutal, unprovoked attacks on and abduction of our fishermen by the marauding Sri Lankan Navy” and to arrive at a permanent solution to this problem along with “a strong and robust diplomatic response”. Referring to consistent attacks on the Tamil Nadu fishermen in the past three years, she also lamented that despite a change of regime in the centre, these brutal assaults by the Sri Lanka Navy continued unabated. As an immediate measure, she called on India to register “the strongest disapproval of the belligerent actions of the Sri Lankan Navy.”
“The repetition of such aggressive acts by the Sri Lankan side, immediately after the change in Government at the Centre and the consequent reset in our relations with Sri Lanka does not seem to augur well for the peaceful pursuit of fishing in the Palk Bay by fishermen from Tamil Nadu,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said.
“It
is important that the repeated infringements and effective abrogation
of the very basic human right to livelihood of our fishermen to fish in
their traditional waters of the Palk Bay, to which they have a historic
claim, are strongly and decisively dealt with by the Government of India
at the highest diplomatic level with the Government of Sri Lanka,” the
release added.
Referring to her earlier appeals, and of exploring talks between fishermen from both sides “provided they are held in a conducive atmosphere and in an accommodative spirit of mutual understanding and reciprocity”, she also said that “obdurate and obstructive attitudes” of the Sri Lankan government led to failure of talks in Colombo in May 2014.
“In order to put an end to the unabated, brutal, unprovoked attacks on and abduction of our fishermen by the marauding Sri Lankan Navy, the time has now come to lay down a time bound action plan to achieve a long-term, permanent solution to the problem and also to put in place a strong and robust diplomatic response. I am confident that with the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu acting in concert, it would be possible to achieve a permanent solution to this vexatious issue,” she further said.
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Referring to her earlier appeals, and of exploring talks between fishermen from both sides “provided they are held in a conducive atmosphere and in an accommodative spirit of mutual understanding and reciprocity”, she also said that “obdurate and obstructive attitudes” of the Sri Lankan government led to failure of talks in Colombo in May 2014.
“In order to put an end to the unabated, brutal, unprovoked attacks on and abduction of our fishermen by the marauding Sri Lankan Navy, the time has now come to lay down a time bound action plan to achieve a long-term, permanent solution to the problem and also to put in place a strong and robust diplomatic response. I am confident that with the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu acting in concert, it would be possible to achieve a permanent solution to this vexatious issue,” she further said.
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