At the outset let me make it clear im not a brahmin. All that he has done is to demolish a 10000 year old harmonious culture into bits and pieces. The same tamil literature even about 1000 years ago clearly shows caste was not a determining factor in the functions done by a individual. On the other hand while the britishers followed the divide and rule, people E.V.Ramaswamy knowingly or unknowingly played into their hands. A known playboy during his youth, he wanted the worldly pleasures throughout his life, what better way than to hypnotise the illiterate people. The easiest way was to attack the numerically weaker brahmins and gain political greatness. For 2 generation of people he might have been god, but im sure the next generation has it moves outside tamilnadu for their livelihood will notice the tomfoolery of the dravidian parties which was founded by E.V.Ramaswamy. Not the fact while he created a mass hysteria against the so called casteist practices of the brahmins, he never renounced the caste tag in his name. Someone here commented, tamil wouldnt have survived but for him, i only pity his ignorance, no language or culture can die on its own if it has a standing of its own, it could die if it is a parasite on some other root language. Anyway the tamil fanatism has not led all tamil youth to eternal prosperity, when they move out of tamil nadu for their jobs, one must see the pain in the faces of the young boys and girls when they feel incompetent to express themselves in english while their contemporaries who may be less talented walk away with glories just because of their better expressing capablities. Revolutions do happen in 2 ways. One is when a mass hypnotic leader mesmerises the populace, the other is when the populace gets frustrated and goes out to throw lock, stock and barrel the conditions responsible for their state. Tamil nadu has been seeing the first for the last 60 years, maybe the day is not far off for the second type of revolution to occur.
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by Natures on Apr 30, 2007 10:36 AM Permalink
Its ridiculous saying that typical tamil not able to express well in english. It shows your ignorance or a typical upper middle class mindset.
One question, IF they dont express well enought How could they get outside their state, seems illogical. Make your point clear before you venture into vomiting your stuff here.
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by mariappan on Apr 30, 2007 11:05 AM Permalink
My friend i left out another point"IF they dont express well enought How could they get outside their state". Just check out the number of emigres suffering like in malaysia and in gulf.Hope you will at least a tear in ur heart for these poor souls. Emigration is not based on the level of english, emigration is based on the need to satisfy the basic human needs of food, water and shelter. When that is lacking in one's own native land, survival instincts take over and come what may one goes beyond shores even if it is a illusory mirage. Sitting in cosy AC rooms in chennai you wouldnt understand the sufferings of the tamils of bombay in 60's and 70's nor of the tamils in karnataka in 80's and 90's. And these tamils are not i repeat not forward caste/forward class, but people on the fringes of social/economic status.
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by mariappan on Apr 30, 2007 10:58 AM Permalink
My friend, your reply is proof of what english is being spoken off, translating tamil verbatim into english is not english "Venture into vomiting your stuff". The way that has to be said is spat out not vomiting, the same holds good when a candidate in a interview says "ion's matter are plasma" got my point. Its not to say everyone from tamil nadu is bad or ppl from other states are better, Its just to say the level that has gone down post 1967. Prior to 1967 the tamils and bengalees occupied more than 70% of IAS positions, check out for yourself the present day percentage for tamils and the reasons for the same. No amount of mudslinging on cyberspace is going to change the facts on ground.
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by Ram Sharma on Apr 30, 2007 10:37 AM Permalink
anti hindi feelings created by politicians in tamil nadu is also not good. though english is the language of business, hindi and not english, is understood by the common man in urban areas of all north, west and eastern states. blind hatred created against hindi does not help the people, who have to go out of south india. because u have to interact with common people also, including peons in the offices.
