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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Even though we speak Tamil at home, why should we not have a majority of the songs in Tamil during the Carnatic concerts?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->A significant proportion of Carnatic songs are written in Tamil. Just check out M.S. Subbulakshmi's repertoire. Many other Carnatic songs are written in Kannada, Telugu, Samskrit and a few even in Hindi. Should we ban all these merely because Tamil is the language spoken in Tamil Nadu? Should the Karnatakans ban Tamil Carnatic songs because their language is Kannada? Should we become mono-lingual, despising other languages, in imitation of a few Americans who think that their American-English is the be-all-and-end-all of all speech?
All our Indian languages are beautiful-sounding and part of our extended heritage. Showing respect for Samskrit (or Kannada, Telugu, Hindi,...,... for that matter) does not reduce the respect people have for Tamil.
Besides, Samskritam is the innate secondary mother tongue for all Hindus with Indian or South-East Asian ancestry - regardless of caste considerations. Our first mother tongue might differ, but Indians are unique in having a shared second mother tongue (or call it father tongue) whether we have had the opportunity to learn it or not.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is the ultimate sad situation, that after all that happened in the Kanchi Mutt, there was not one non Brahmin citizen of Kanchi prepared to make a favourable comment. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Phantom (admins, name check!!): Does that one Dalit who killed himself protesting the arrest of seer count ?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The media will not show this of course, but Tamil Hindus of all castes and communities greatly love and respect the Kanchi Shankaracharya. For the anti-Hindu media, showing this would be intolerable. They present him as being someone who is known and respected only among the Tamil brahmins. However, he is revered as much by many in those Tamil communities that the Dravidian parties only call "Dravidian" when they need votes but make fun of when the voting polls have closed.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Even though we speak Tamil at home, why should we not have a majority of the songs in Tamil during the Carnatic concerts?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->A significant proportion of Carnatic songs are written in Tamil. Just check out M.S. Subbulakshmi's repertoire. Many other Carnatic songs are written in Kannada, Telugu, Samskrit and a few even in Hindi. Should we ban all these merely because Tamil is the language spoken in Tamil Nadu? Should the Karnatakans ban Tamil Carnatic songs because their language is Kannada? Should we become mono-lingual, despising other languages, in imitation of a few Americans who think that their American-English is the be-all-and-end-all of all speech?
All our Indian languages are beautiful-sounding and part of our extended heritage. Showing respect for Samskrit (or Kannada, Telugu, Hindi,...,... for that matter) does not reduce the respect people have for Tamil.
Besides, Samskritam is the innate secondary mother tongue for all Hindus with Indian or South-East Asian ancestry - regardless of caste considerations. Our first mother tongue might differ, but Indians are unique in having a shared second mother tongue (or call it father tongue) whether we have had the opportunity to learn it or not.
Posts 53 & 55:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is the ultimate sad situation, that after all that happened in the Kanchi Mutt, there was not one non Brahmin citizen of Kanchi prepared to make a favourable comment. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Phantom (admins, name check!!): Does that one Dalit who killed himself protesting the arrest of seer count ?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The media will not show this of course, but Tamil Hindus of all castes and communities greatly love and respect the Kanchi Shankaracharya. For the anti-Hindu media, showing this would be intolerable. They present him as being someone who is known and respected only among the Tamil brahmins. However, he is revered as much by many in those Tamil communities that the Dravidian parties only call "Dravidian" when they need votes but make fun of when the voting polls have closed.