I was happily celebrating the Tamil New Year on April 13th. Little did I know that as of 2008 the new year has been changed. It has been moved to the month of January to coincide with Pongal. This "wonderful" change has been made by the all knowing scholar, the crusader of all Tamilians the world over - Mr Karunanidhi.
Baisakhi is observed as the Hindu New Year in Haryana, Punjab, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Orissa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Myanmar, Kampuchea, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. It marks the first day in the Hindu solar calendar dating back to Aryabhatta and the Surya Siddhanta (fourth century CE). Hindu seers calculated the earth's distance to the moon, sun and other planets at a time when most of the world was unaware of the value of the integer zero. But our so called CM knows more than them.
This change has been the worst thing that has happened to Tamilians ever in this century. It just proves that M.K has finally lost all his thinking capacity and this is a very good example of how power can be misused totally. Why is it that he is only meddling with Hindu festivals? If they claim they are not meddling with the Hindus then why was the reading of the panchangam prohibited in most temples? Why were orders sent that no special pujas were to be performed commemorating the Tamil New Year? It is a shame that such things happened in Tamil Nadu while Tamilians all over the world celebrated the New Year on April 13th. How was MK planning to stop the NRIs from doing so?? While he is changing the festival dates why doesn't he just change the new year to coincide with his birthday and why not celebrate his son Stalin's birthday as the new Diwali?
I believe all his talk about love for Tamil and Tamil scholars is all just a big lie. If he is bent on propagating Tamil and the great scholars of Tamil then why don't we have a special day for Bharathiar? He is one of the greatest poets in Tamil. He was a revolutionary and made many enemies due to this nature. But whatever he followed are the same ideologies MK claims to follow. Bharati was a great freedom fighter and motivated many people to join in the freedom movement. So being the case why does Tamil Nadu not allocate a special day for Bharathiyar?
The only fault of Bharathiyar is that he was born as a Brahmin. That obliterates all his valuable contributions and makes him just another Brahmin who was no good. That's the only reason for the absence of any recognition. MK is no advocate of Tamil. He and his party are just anti Hindu and anti Brahmins. They are not secular. Such prejudiced people should never be allowed to hold any post of power. The dangers of such a thing has been demonstrated time and again. Yet these people rule us. God help the Tamilians. It's scary to think of what he will do next. Let's pray we are able to come through it all.
Baisakhi is observed as the Hindu New Year in Haryana, Punjab, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Orissa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Myanmar, Kampuchea, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. It marks the first day in the Hindu solar calendar dating back to Aryabhatta and the Surya Siddhanta (fourth century CE). Hindu seers calculated the earth's distance to the moon, sun and other planets at a time when most of the world was unaware of the value of the integer zero. But our so called CM knows more than them.
This change has been the worst thing that has happened to Tamilians ever in this century. It just proves that M.K has finally lost all his thinking capacity and this is a very good example of how power can be misused totally. Why is it that he is only meddling with Hindu festivals? If they claim they are not meddling with the Hindus then why was the reading of the panchangam prohibited in most temples? Why were orders sent that no special pujas were to be performed commemorating the Tamil New Year? It is a shame that such things happened in Tamil Nadu while Tamilians all over the world celebrated the New Year on April 13th. How was MK planning to stop the NRIs from doing so?? While he is changing the festival dates why doesn't he just change the new year to coincide with his birthday and why not celebrate his son Stalin's birthday as the new Diwali?
I believe all his talk about love for Tamil and Tamil scholars is all just a big lie. If he is bent on propagating Tamil and the great scholars of Tamil then why don't we have a special day for Bharathiar? He is one of the greatest poets in Tamil. He was a revolutionary and made many enemies due to this nature. But whatever he followed are the same ideologies MK claims to follow. Bharati was a great freedom fighter and motivated many people to join in the freedom movement. So being the case why does Tamil Nadu not allocate a special day for Bharathiyar?
The only fault of Bharathiyar is that he was born as a Brahmin. That obliterates all his valuable contributions and makes him just another Brahmin who was no good. That's the only reason for the absence of any recognition. MK is no advocate of Tamil. He and his party are just anti Hindu and anti Brahmins. They are not secular. Such prejudiced people should never be allowed to hold any post of power. The dangers of such a thing has been demonstrated time and again. Yet these people rule us. God help the Tamilians. It's scary to think of what he will do next. Let's pray we are able to come through it all.
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