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"I desire that I write for myself alone. It is when that which is buried in me finds expression in words, that I myself come to truly know what was buried in me. It may well be that the reason that I write is because I feel that I may discover more and more and come to know what else may be inside me. As I continue to write, and as more and more experiences unfold from within me, and as I become subject to these experiences, it seems to me that I may, in a way, make it possible for me to know who I am..." Why do I write - Sundara Ramasamy (English translation by Nadesan Satyendra from the Tamil original)  
 
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Tamils: a Trans State Nation
Tamils are an Ancient People...
Reflection on 10th Anniversary of launch of tamilnation.org on 10 May 1998 "I am a human. I am an ordinary human. I have said that which has touched my 'mind and heart' (manam). This is my creed.  I do not say that you must necessarily believe that which I have said.  Accept only that which you find acceptable after you have used your reason to examine well what I have said. Reject the rest. " E. V. Ramaswami Naicker-Periyar : a study of the influence of a personality in contemporary South India - Anita Diehel
 

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"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."  de Tocqueville

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"Language is more than a symbol. In it is stored the accumulated experience of a people... to part with it would be to loose the key to our past, to cut away the roots from the tree..." On Language & Nation - Eamon de Valera

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Tamil Digital Renaissance
"..The digital revolution is bringing Tamil from paper to the computer and the internet -  and is helping to bring Tamil people together not simply culturally but also in political and economic terms..."
The Strength of an Idea
 "..A feeling or a thought ...the aspiration towards liberty, cannot be estimated in the terms of concrete power, in so many fighting men, so many armed police, so many guns, so many prisons, such and such laws, ukases, and executive powers. But such feelings and thoughts are more powerful than fighting men and guns and prisons and laws and ukases..."
Nations & Nationalism  - What is a Nation?
"... national sorrows are more significant than triumphs because they impose obligations and demand a common effort. .. A nation is a grand solidarity constituted by the sentiment of sacrifices which one has made and those that one is disposed to make again..." Ernest Renan: Que'est-ce qu'une Nation? Paris 1882
Self Determination: Principle & the Law
"If democracy means the rule of the people, by the people, for the people, then the principle of self determination secures that no one people may rule another - and herein lies its enduring appeal."
Tamil Eelam Struggle for Freedom
 

 

 

"The struggle for Tamil Eelam is about the democratic right of the people of Tamil Eelam to govern themselves in their homeland - nothing less and nothing more... It  is not about securing benevolent Sinhala rule... An independent Tamil Eelam is not negotiable. But an independent Tamil Eelam will negotiate with an independent Sri  Lanka the terms on which two independent states may associate with one another in equality and in freedom. Sovereignty, after all, is not virginity..." Nadesan Satyendra in Tamil Eelam Struggle for Freedom - An Overview
Caste & the Tamil Nation
"The Tamil nation is a political community, a grand solidarity. To maintain its solidarity, the Tamil nation has to remove all sorts of divisions that causes dissension and discord among its members."
Women in Tamil Society  - Ideology, Nation & Gender
"To view nationalism without factoring in the gendered view is to ignore a significant factor that contributes to nationalistic sentiment."
Fourth World -  Nations Without A State
"Increasingly, the Fourth World is emerging as a new force in international politics...The Third World has declared a geographic war on the Fourth World. This global conflict is assisted by First and Second World states.." Bernard Q. Nietschmann
Beyond Nations & Nationalism: One World
"...the building of a nation is of necessity accompanied by the discovery and encouragement of universalising values... It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows..."  Frantz Fannon
International Relations in a Multi Lateral World
"...Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing..." Arundhati Roy 
Manufacturing Consent & the Media
"In most cases the dominated are encouraged to see the world as the powerful do..." John Harrington
War & Armed Conflict
"War is the exercise of force for the attainment of a political object, unrestrained by any law save that of expediency.." Carl von  Clausewitz
What is Terrorism?
Alice in Wonderland - What is Terrorism?"The most problematic issue relating to terrorism and armed conflict is distinguishing terrorists from lawful combatants" - UN Special Rapporteur, Kalliopi K. Koufa
Human Rights & Humanitarian Law

"...International law is political. .. We must abandon the myth that with law we enter the secure, stable and determinate. In reality we are simply engaged in another discursive political practice about how we should live.." Dr Colin J Harvey

Conflict Resolution
" Man's illusions are of all sorts and kinds. The greatest of them all are those which cluster round the hope of a perfected society. One of the illusions incidental to this great hope is the expectation of the passing of war... that (man) should struggle even by illusions towards that end, is an excellent sign; for it shows that the truth behind the illusion is pressing towards the hour when it may become manifest as reality.." Sri Aurobindo on the Passing of War
Spirituality & the Tamil Nation
"...when our words begin to coincide with our deeds, principle emerges with power to influence. We also begin to learn something about our own ‘dharma’ or own ‘way of harmony’..."
Truth is a Pathless Land
"What is Truth? said Pilate confronted with a mighty messenger of the truth, not jesting surely, not in a spirit of shallow lightness, but turning away from the Christ with the impatience of the disillusioned soul for those who still use high words that have lost their meaning and believe in great ideals which the test of the event has proved to be fallacious..."
An Unfolding Consciousness: Matter to Life to Mind...

"Religion is for those who believe in hell, spirituality is for those who have been there." - David Bowie


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Nations without States: Political Communities in a Global Age, by Montserrat Guibernau "...The task of intellectuals in nations without states involves the constant actualization of the nationalist ideology to respond to the community's needs. His or her job is one of service to society... intellectuals are subversive and construct a discourse which undermines the legitimacy of the current order of things. They denounce the nation's present situation within the state and offer an alternative to it by promoting the conditions and processes of conflict.

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"... As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the World, as in being able to remake ourselves. We must become the change we wish to see in the world...” Mahatma Gandhi

"They call you 'Little Man', 'Common Man'; they say a new era has begun, the 'Era of the Common Man'... I have never heard you complain: 'You promote me to be the future master of myself and the world, but you don't tell me how one is to be the master of oneself.'... Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your 'liberators' are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: Only you yourself can be your liberator! This sentence makes me hesitate. I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate, because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth..." Wilhelm Reich

"...We do not want to deceive ourselves with words; we want to start from what we have, right where we are, with our cloddy shoes and the little ray of sunshine on the good days; such is our simple hearted faith. We see that the world around us is not so great, and we aspire for it to change, but we have become wary of universal panaceas, of movements, parties, and theories. So we will begin at square one, with ourselves such as we are; it isn't much, but it's all we have. We will try to change this little bit of world before setting out to save the other. And perhaps this isn't such a foolish idea after all; for who knows whether changing the one is not the most effective way of changing the other..." Satprem on 'Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness'
"..Leader presumes follower. Follower presumes choice... In a very real sense, followers lead by choosing where to be led. Where an organised community will be led is inseparable from the shared values and beliefs of its members..." - Dee Hock - The Art of Chaordic Leadership
 

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