Journey Down Memory Lane

தமிழ்த் தேசியம்

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C

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Journey Down Memory Lane To Reach 'tamiz Izam'
R.Shanmugalingam

Chapter 30

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I am convinced that we cannot live in the past, except in memories. I have learnt very early in life that what has to be done today has to be done today. It is but prudent to look what doing today can do to the tomorrow. A harmonious blend of tradition with modernity is one way of adjusting our style of actions. There are controllable problems that can be solved if we want to, and uncontrollable conditions that have to be endured.

Hitherto it is almost a tragedy that we have been enduring controllable factors and trying to solve uncontrollable problems. The fact that we are a smaller percentage of the population in Sri Lanka is an uncontrollable factor under a unitary form of government. Nature may take eons to reverse this barring some calamity. Controllable problems such as security of our people, fostering our language and culture, are at the whim and fancy of others and we have to endure it. The barbaric act of the Sinhala army to demolish a Library is a clear example of our endurance stance in a controllable situation.

There are very valid reasons for accepting the devolution proposal alms, if we are so helpless and our position is so hopeless. The thousands of lives sacrificed was for lowering our position from some rung in the ladder to the bottom of the pit.? Think, fellow tamizA think. A word or two in realism, until and unless the freedom fighters are removed from the face of the earth to the last man by Chandrika government and her international supporters, or with the full participation of the freedom fighters in the devolution process, there is not going to be any peace in that region.

Now a word of caution, I reiterate my position on the devolution of power by the Sinhalas to tamizar is a malignant illusion. If we are the dogs who will not give up our canine characteristic of licking the water even in an ocean of water, then go ahead and accept it. If we are the dogs in our other canine characteristic of gratefulness, then there is nothing to be grateful to the Sinhalas. Go ahead and win international support for their support in the fight with words and not bullets.

I received a copy of the tamiz monthly from tamiz NAdu tamiz panhi. Dr. M. V. Sethuraman has composed a few verses in tamiz and I have tried to convey its contents in English, in the hope that all is not lost for tamiz Izam as many want us to believe.

Tears We will Dry by Poet Laureate Va. Mu. Sethuraman

Joined in blood with feelings, our
Freedom fighters to face defeat? Never
Cultured and principled Izat tamiz citizens
To drown in distress makes no sense.
Arrogant and lowly with deceit in heart
and attack our proud warriors hard
How can we tamizar watch this all
disabled and bereft of resolve.
Merciless and cruel Sinhala monsters born
break our hearts and be renown.
Determined freedom fighters par excellence braves
to be sent by these dishonest creatures to their graves.
The three pronged attack with total tyranny
Who are they to chide our litany?
Do you expect the incomparable heroes with hearts of gold
to befriend the haughty and impudent Sinhala fold
Mother earth of tamiz Izam soiled by the festered
by full blooded tamizan will never be tolerated.
Pouncing Liberation Tigers be bitten by mongrels
to watch without trepidation invites wrath of the angels.
tamizan world over but no tamiz nation
here is the chance and grab it with determination.
Home of tamizar is tamiz Izam
rejecting it is being dumb.
Attaining tamiz Izam is a show
of our unparalleled warrior ego.
we are the descendants of the ancient
Chera Chola Pandiya dynasties magnificent.

The heat of volcanic eruption is nothing
to the heat of the tamiz warriors comparing
This heat is the instrument of death and death knell
to Sinhala gangsters and their ticket to hell.
How can roguish vileness challenge
the pure in heart to war and engage
Flood of blood no deterrent
war of real anger to prevent
jAz Nakar jAz its strings who snapped
no rest until rendering them the living dead.
Oh! for us to be decimated and jaz mum
handled by perpetrators of heinous crime
Intense war will not surrender to treachery
nor to Sinhala Buddhists thuggery.
Mortal tamiza are you speechless
Let us march with anger and fearless
tamizar of tamizakam travel with us
to wipe out the tears.
Nations of the world may say nay to tamiz Izam
true it is the coming of the nation of tamiz Izam.
Canopy of nonflammables may try and control
but the fire flower of freedom will blossom know ye all.
Murderers of tenets of Buddhism
pretending to be exemplary is Nihilism.
The seed of tamiz Izam will germinate
and grow to be praised and all to appreciate.
Wicked and cruel Chandrika the President
and her people with duplicity for precedent
To their horror will soon realize
tamiz Izam the nation will materialize
the Angels have so decreed." Eng. Interpret. Shan.

I believe that such moral upliftment makes a lot of difference to an otherwise indifferent outlook towards the whole tamiz problem. Again Thiruvalluvar has something to offer here.

"enhnhit tunhika karumam tunhiNtapin
enhnhuvam enpatu izukku." kuRaL 467.

Deliberate decide dare and act
desist after thought once dared. Eng. Interpret. Shan.
continued

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