Indira Parthasarathy
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I voted in 1952 in the first General Elections and I voted today in my next building Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam and maybe,I am one of the few voters who have been voting till now. Maybe,this is the last Election I am voting!
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When I saw a State (with limited powers) budget without freebies covering all sectors,especially Education and Arts with utmost care, I recorded my tweet.. If only people have read my literary works they would know that I have never praised those in power for fame or favour.
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When Gandhiji was assassinated in 1948,I was a student in Govt Arts College,Kumbakonam. At Kadakklangudi street, the RSS volunteers disciples of Golwalker were distributing sweet peanuts and peppermints to young children to celebrate the occasion!
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Another New Year! So far seen 94!Qualified enough to bless you all!
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I hail from the same street in Kumbakonam where the Mathematical Genius Ramanujam lived until discovered by Prof.Hardy of Cambridge University.A failed student of pre-graduation course he would have failed in Neet examination also! No admission in any professional course!
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Some people are surprised that I am on Twitter. It is because it is the shortest form of expressing one's thoughts like Thirukural. I think Valluvar was the pioneer of Twitter.Since at my age(92+) I cannot type one full page without faltering I took to Twitter.
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I am leaving my body after my demise to Stanley Medical College with acceptance of my children and I would not have any funeral rites .'Birth is an accident and death is a certainty' Sartre.
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' A Fasicist who captures power thru' democratic elections can never be overthrown by'democratic' elections again' -Arthur Koestler.
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'பெரியோர் என்று வியத்துலும் இலமே, சிறியோர் என்று இகழ்தல் ,அதனிலும் இலமே'
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Today is my late wife's remembrance day(4th August 1992) .People ask me why I chose the pseudonym ' Indira Parthasarathy'. Maybe,it was a visionary wisdom as I feel now we are still inseparable.
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No media reported that today is Martyrs day when the one and only Gandhi'ji shed his life for an ungrateful nation. Genuine Ram temple is in Rajghat on the banks of Yamuna river , not in Ayodhya where a bogus temple is built on the foundation of religious bigotry,sound and fury
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It is surprising that Bharati has nowhere mentioned Savarkar in his poems or prose works, although V.V.S. Iyer, (Bharati's mentor in a way) and Savarkar were close friends when they were in UK.Baraiti's silence in regard to Savarkar seems to be eloquent.
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As my 90 minute play மழை premiered in Delhi in1969 to a typical Tamil audience used to 180 minute plays,as the final curtain came down I got up.A stern -looking lady asked 'Is it over'. 'Yes ' I said 'How do you know?'Because I wrote it' I said and left the Hall in a hurry.
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Maybe I am wrong. It was Tiruvaluvar who questioned Manu Shastra first. Among six duties prescribed for Brahmins one of them is 'seeking alms'.Kural says ' If that One who has prescribed 'begging is honorable He be damned'
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I had a brahmin teacher in III form (now 8th class) who daily prayed for Hitler's victory as he called himself 'Aryan'and the DK movement called the Tamil brahmins were 'Aryans'.He fondly hoped that Hitler would accept him and provide him his own house!
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I would request the Hon.Chief Minister of Tamilnadu besides giving 'a dream house' to the eminent writers, he may kindly arrange for their medical benefits in their old age which would go a long way in boosting their spirits,
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The way the mastero T.M.Krishna is reaching to the common man in the North,South, East and West of India shows culture and politics are not divorced from each other that gives us hope for the future of India!
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It beats me completely, why this much hate for English? Without knowing English could we have known about democracy,fraternity, equal opportunity for all, women's emancipation et all? True,the British plundered us economically but gave us the greatest gift knowledge of English!
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When I was a kid brought up in a brahmin street i Kumbakonam, I have seen old brahmin grandmothers carrying their grandchildren to a Muslim fakir for treating snake-bite . He used to invoke the name of Allah and bless the child .Faith has no religious barriers.
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An enthusiastic Vice-Chancellor told Tagore ' I want to make it compulsory reading 'Gitanjali' for all my students in the University'. Tagore smiled and said ' Surest way of making them hate reading 'Gitanjali'.
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There is no difference between an Hindutva and Islamic fundementalist .Hate is the bottom line of their philosophy. They create 'the other' and hate them. God would not easily pardon them.
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Happy New year for my young friends in the Twitter Republic. Had some age-related health issues. But the spirit will never die.'It is the mind that makes the heaven of hell or the hell of heaven'.
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Udayanithi Maran should not have commented on Hindi labourers like that. In the early fifties when I went to Delhi to teach most of the workers in road laying were from Tamilnadu! Insulting the proletariat like this is not in good taste!
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A Balaji temple in one of the cities of the US carried a notice in the Bill Board 'The Indian devotees are kindly requested to drop dollars and not rupees'. I realised how Balaji is not 'patriotic' enough to value of our own currency.!
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I congratulate the Chief Minister M.K.Stalin for beginning his tenure so well.He asked to remove his and his father's pictures from his office as it was not a party office. He must put an end sycophancy which was the hall mark of Jayalaltha's regime.
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Most of the Brahmins in Tamilnadu are suffering from this delusion that BJP is their messiah.They dont realize that BJP would like to have the States south of Vindhyas as subordinates to constitute Akand Hindustan which is their dream.
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Best translation in prose rendering of 'Kamba Ramyanam' in English, in my opinion is by a doctor and also an ex-minister in MGR's cabinet, H.V.Hande.Very faithful to the original and provides an extremely good and elegant reading! Dr, Hande is now 96+ and very active!
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And how many of you know that the most prodigious and brilliant Tamil writer Jayamohan's mothertongue is Malayalam?
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Three birth dates today! Periyar who broke barriers of casteism ,MS who broke barriers of musical excellence and Narendra Modi for breaking barriers of humility.
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Most of the Brahmins think that BJP is going to be their Messiah! They are going to be disappointed. BJP knows,as a crafty poltical party which side of the bread is buttered
They have appropriated DrAmbedkar, Bhara I will not be surprised if they try to appropriate Periyar too!
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I feel overwhelmed by the response for my previous tweet. I tweeted only to tell my fellow-citizens that our Constitution has given us this right and voice and that we must exercise it according to our conscience and not for other considerations.
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The distant memory of Nehru's sonorous sing-song voice announcing the 'tryst with Destiny' on 15th August during midnight and Pankaj Mullik's barritone voice singing the National Anthem are still resonating in my inward ears! I was 17 at that time!
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' OnRiyam' ஒன்றியம்') in Tamil means 'Union'. India is a Federal Union like United States and not a unitary Govt. as stipulated in our Constitution. So what is wrong about Tamilnadu Govt. referring to the Centre as 'OnRiyam'that BJP and allies in Tamilnadu should protest?
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When Bharati was arrested in 1914 one of the charges was he was among the 12 subscribers in India for a banned Irish journal the voice for Ireland's freedom. What is amazing is how come Bharati could have known about the mag and how he subscribed when communic-
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Grateful and remarkable gesture on the part of Pope to have apologised to the Canadian indigenous tribe for the injustice done by the christian whites to them all. Who should apologise to our adivasis and dalits for the caste hierarchy created in India in the name of religion?
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Quite a few orthodox section of the Vaishnavies wrote to Birla to withdraw my Sarswati Sammaan that I won from Birla Foundation for my play on Ramanuja.What hurt them most was that I presented him as a social reformer who wanted social inclusiveness!
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V.O.Chidambaram Pillai was also subject to torture and inhuman punishments by the British when he was jailed for sedition.But he never apologised for his action to get released! This is what true heroism and patriotism is all about!
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' The tears shed by the suffering citizens of a country are potent weapons to bring the downfall of an arrogant ruler'- Thirukural(the foremost Indian classic written in Tamil belonging to the early centuries of the Common era)
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Someone asked me why I didn't write fiction in English for a better reach. In one of my stories a rural woman says referring to a young widowed girl'இவ எந்த க்கடையிலே பூ வாங்கினாளோ பூ வைத் தொலைச்சுட்டு அடுத்தமாசமே பொறந்த வீட்டுக்கு
வந்துட்டா' Can you write it in English?
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My Sahitya Academy award winning novel 'Kuruthipunal'(1977) has been translated in Telugu and published by it recently and the wrapper doesn't carry the original language of the novel or the name of the author I am not surprised. It is Sahitya Akademy.
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I am not going to be around till 2024 when I hope and wish good things may happen for the good of our country. So I would like to congratulate them now in advance.
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Thejaswi Surya a BJP MP from Karnataka seems to be suffering from histrionic personality disorder,a mental condition that would always seek public attention.
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'Imayam' who got Sahitya Academy award this year is one of the best Indian writers writing in Tamil and his works are on par with the best of Indian writing. He vividly portrays the most marginalized lives of the Tamil society catching the music of their speech diction.
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An eminent Tamil writer and a central Govt official went on deputation to then West Germany and suddenly fell ill and was admitted in an hospital in West Berlin. There when he heard two nurses speaking in Malayalam to each other he felt his depression got vanished!
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We are all the Roman mob watching a helpless man being mauled by a hungry lion in the arena!
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I thank and best wishes for all those who wished me on my birthday எனக்குப் பிறந்த நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள் கூறிய அனைவருக்கும் நன்றி.
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My laptop also old and 'ill'. Given it for repairs.Find it difficult to type in Android because vision none too good.I thank all those who had congratulated me for the Fellowship.
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No 99percent literacy.The Trump voters are semi-literates. They are in majority.They are white redneck workers who believe 'God save America alone'. They are like BJP voters, the Hindi-Hindu fundamentalists
99% படித்தவர்கள் உள்ள ஒரு நாட்டில் டிரம்ப் போன்றவர்கள் அதிபராக முடிகிறதென்றால் அங்கிருக்கும் கல்வி முறையில் மட்டுமல்ல தேர்தல் முறையிலும் ஏதோ கோளாறு இருக்கிறது என்று பொருள்
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The rest of India should get separated from the Hindi belt if it needs to be modern progressive democratic country? It is difficult to make progress if it has to coexist with States like UP and MP with a medieval mindset,?
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I have been living in Chennai from 1992 since my wife's death. From childhood for 22 years in Kumbakonam. For 33 years in Delhi for professional career. Chennai has made no impact on me like Kumbakonam or Delhi of past memories!
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The beauty of American democracy is that the sitting President's private house can be searched to find secret classified documents causing great embarrassment to him. Can this ever happen in our so-called democracy?
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From reliable sources I hear that Rama has left Ayodhya with Sita for the forest seeking peace and tranquility!
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In an interview I was asked' Why do you write in Tamil,
why not in English?' ' In one of my stories an old woman says about a young widow' இவ எந்தக் கடையிலே பூ
வாங்கினாளோ கல்யாணமான கையோட பூவைத் தொலைச்சிட்டு பொறந்த வீட்டுக்கு வந்துட்டா.' I asked him 'Can you say this in English?
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Kanian Poonkunran, a Tamil poet, who sang 2000 years ago ' I belong to every city in the world and all the citizens in the world are my kin' would now be declared ,if he were to live in India today, not as a citizen of India, according to NPR rules.
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English replaced Latin sermons in Churches in England during Protectorate (Oliver Cromwell) in 1650. Three hundred and seventy one years later,in Tamilnadu Tamil has replaced Sanskrit in temple worship, after Hon.M.K Stalin becoming the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu!
@M
.K.
Stalin.
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I went to Annamalai University for a post-graduate degree in English as also as my father thought. Suddenly on going there I changed my decision and joined Tamil M.A. I have no regrets till now.
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In the First General Elections in1952 I voted for M.Kalyanasundaram (Assembly) and A.K.Nambiyar (Parliament ) Communist Party. Now we have to search for Communist Party with lens!
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I like R.K.Narayan the most among the Indo-Anglian writers because he wrote Tamil novels in English.
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One of the tallest veteran Tamil writers who wrote stories about the arid land and the dialogues of the rural people as free-flowing eloquent poetry ,Ki.Rajanarayanan is no more! A true trend-setter!
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I feel like a literary orphan, with all my contemporaries gone, in a land of online technocrats, pandemic maladies and religious fanatics!
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I hope our PM does not claim that Rishi Sunak's elevation as the PM of UK is one of the achievements of BJP rule in India!
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Now 'heroes' like Lachit Borbhukan are raised from their graves for electoral reasons that an Hindu ahom native warrior(ahoms came from China in 13th CE and yet 'natives') resisted a ' Muslim Moghul foreigner king' Aurangzeb, (Muslims came in 13th century and yet 'foreigners') .
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As one from Kumbakonam and also in the nineties, I greet Dr. M.S.Swaminathan from Kumbakonam ,who has turned 97 today.There is no international agricultural science award he has not got.Greet him to celebrate healthy centenary year.
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'If only Niagra Falls had been in India it would not have been a tourist spot,it would have been a pilgrim centre with a temple and a myth created around it' _ Monier Eilliams
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Idli,Dosa, Vadai etc our breakfast items are not mentioned in 'Kamalambal Charithiram' (Rajam Iyer) one of the earliest three Tamil novels (19th century). The hero has as his breakfat ,' Thenkuzhal'. 'Cheedai' ,'Murukku' and 'Pittu'!
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It is interesting though Saivism is claimed to be essentially the religion of the Tamil region the word 'Siva' is not found in the Sangam classics. But the words 'Mayavan'(Dark God) 'Nediyavan'(vamanavathar) referring to Vishnu are found in Sangam literature.
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This is the beginning of centenary year of Thi.Janakiraman, one of the most eminent writers in Tamil. He was my English teacher when I studied in the School Final class at Town High School, Kumbakonam
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'Patriotism and Nationalism are in a way, modern synonyms for religious and ethnic bigotry' Tagore.
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'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, now a children's classic, was in fact designed for the chess game. Alice, the white piece makes the first move and the rest of the characters,the various other pieces move accordingly as in chess game. Lewis was a celebrated mathematician.
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That Dr.Hande's mothertongue is Kannada doesn't surprise me. One of the best Tamil writers now is Dilipkumar whose mothertongue is Gujarati. He has also edited one of the best anthologies of contemporary Tamil short stories
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Raja Raja Thevar- 'Thevar' is not 'caste'. It means Divine like King' .Worshipping kings like this called 'Puuvai Nilai' categorized by Tolkappiyam. ' திருவுடை மன்னரைக் காணின் திருமாலைக் கண்டேனே ' -திருவாய்மொழி.
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Pammal Smbandam Mudaliar translated 'Hamlet' as 'Amaladhityan' showing as in the original the Queen committing adultery.The play failed as Tamil culture could not digest it.Later,he adapted it as 'Manohara' in which the King (man) committed adultery. It was a great success!
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I have decided to have root canal procedure tomorrow after a long hesitation as I am told it would cause lot of pain after local anesthesia wears off. I am having it at Acharya Dental clinic. I request my friends to pray or wish for me that there will be only bearable pain.
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With nearly all my contemporaries gone I still remain as a living archives to relate my memories about them!
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22 years from childhood in Kumbakonam,33 years in Delhi for professional career and for the last 30 years in Chennai after retirement sum up my life. And I am yet to develop emotional attachment for Chennai as I have for Kumbakonam and Delhi as they exist in my memory!
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Kamban says nobody spoke 'truth' in Ayodhya in the sense nobody spoke 'lies' to give a distinguishing identity to 'truth'. But it looks like none of our Ministers in Delhi utter 'lies' in the sense no one among them speaks 'truth' to give a distinguishing identity to 'lies'!
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Tamil New Year Greetings to all the Tamils in the world! Let Dr.Ambhedkar's birthday bring sane wisdom to our countrymen who spread venomous hate in the name of caste and religion!
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@VanniArasu_VCK
@jegadees1014313
@CMOTamilnadu
தமிழகச் சமய அறநிலையத் துறை பொருத்தமாக இருக்குமென்று தோன்றுகிறது. வைணவம், சைவம் என்று பிரிப்பதைக் காட்டிலும்
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Kumara Guruparar ,a Tamil saint and poet( 17th century CE) went to Mogul court and got grant and permission to build a saiva mutt in Kashi. He spoke with the King in his own language, maybe Hindustani. He has used two words 'Sabhash' and 'Salaam' in his poetry.
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Three cheers to BJP! At last, it has succeeded in taking 100 percent literate people of Kerala to the medieval age! All credit should go to Amit Shah!
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Bharati's funeral was attended by only 14 and he lived in penury struggling to get his books get published, but now politicians of various hues compete with each other to appropriate his name to garner votes for electoral gains!
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One of the earliest feminist rebels in the then Madras province was Bangalore Nagarathinam, an eminent musician who knocked down the male pride by organising a rival Thiyagaraja festival with women artistes to counter a 'males only' function by the male musicians and succeeded!
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Now I have realised that if my tweets are on literature, those who abuse me in the most parliamentary language if my tweets are my political views, keep a safe distance away from me blissfully ignorant of what my tweets are about!
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'Uraiyur'(near Trichy)was once famous for cigars that Churchill, and Sherlock Holmes,the famous detective character created by Conon Dyle smoked only ' Uraiyur 'Cherut' (சுருட்டு) as they called it.
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Comrade Sankariah, a living legend who fought for the rights of poor farmers is hitting a century today. In any other democratic country there would have been national celebrations.
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Today is the birth day of the tallest intellectual among the political leaders of the pre -Independence era. I salute you all on his day!
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Sodium down. Hallucinative dreams.Hospitalised for 3weeke. Now they say the world is real! I liked that hallucinative world. That guy Putin is bent upon using nuclear weapons. Perhaps he has a death wish!
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Bharati birthday. First Indian poet to have greeted Russian proletariat revolution 1917. And also the first to have criticised mass killings by the State in the name of Revolution later!
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At this age I have Herpis that causes lot of pain,agony and mental depression. I request my fe4llow Twittereti to pray for me that I must recover at the earliest to have my second dose of vaccination.
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Are we a nation of civilized people that we should watch
helplessly a noble soul being crucified by the State and judiciary?
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In my opinion Ambhedkar was the tallest intellectual of his period. Others didn't have to struggle as he did in his childhood and as a young man,
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Kamal says there was no 'Hindu kingdom' during the Chola period! True. But did Raja Raja declare himself as a 'Saiva' ruler? To call him a 'Saiva ruler' is as absurd as calling him a 'Hindu ruler'. All kings build monuments, mosques or temples only to show off their own pride!
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Hindi has officially 48 regional totally different variations according to the latest census and Hindi and Urdu have the same origin in Khairiboli spoken around Delhi region. Can anyone tell me which of them is my National Language to make me feel justifiably proud?
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In a meeting in Delhi a Nigerian playwright declared that once there were no blacks in Africa and after a meaningful pause,smiled and added 'till the white man came'
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Kamban's touch:Ravana had many women,yet his fatal error was he fell in love with Sita! 'He caged her in his heart.When Rama's arrow pierced his chest it looked for this love. 'கள்ளிருக்கும் மலர்க்கூந்தல் சானகியை மனச்சிறையில் கரந்த காதல் உள்ளிருக்கும் எனப் புகுந்ததோ ஒருவன் வாளி!
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Happy New Year to all my fellow twitterers ! Let us move with the same resolve as Mahakvi Bharati said 'We are born everyday fresh and new'('இன்று புதிதாய்ப் பிறந்தோம்') and overcome all our hazards and maladies!
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'A dream is a private myth and a myth is a public dream'- Joseph Campbell. How true!
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The National Book Trust celebrated its 100th book publication, inviting all the political VIPs including the Education Minister but didn't invite the author of the book! I was the author of the book! It happened in 1969.
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Kamban was lucky. His 'Ramayanam; was not branded as a religious work and relegated to the 'puja' room like Valmiki's, which went a long way in getting it appreciated mainly as a literary master piece!
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