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Tamils: a Trans State Nation
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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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"நான் மனிதனே! நான் சாதாரணமானவன். என் மனத்தில் பட்டதை
எடுத்துச் சொல்லி யிருக்கிறேன். இதுதான் உறுதி. இதை நீங்கள்
நம்பித்தான் ஆகவேண்டும் என்று சொல்லவில்லை. ஏற்கக்கூடிய
கருத்துக்களை உங்கள் அறிவைக் கொண்டு நன்கு ஆய்ந்து
ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளுங்கள், மற்றதைத் தள்ளிவிடுங்கள்." |
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| "When the past no longer illuminates the future,
the
spirit walks in darkness."
de
Tocqueville |
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with a Vibrant
Culture...
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"...the culture of the Tamils belongs to
the great and immortal treasures of the world's civilisation..." Dr. Kamil.V. Zvelebil |
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...and
a Rich
Language & Literature
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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..." |
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The Strength of an Idea |
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"..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..." |
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Nations &
Nationalism - What is a Nation? |
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Self Determination: Principle & the Law |
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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." |
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Tamil Eelam Struggle for Freedom |
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"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 |
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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." |
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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." |
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Fourth World - Nations Without A State |
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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
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Beyond
Nations & Nationalism: One World
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"...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 |
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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 |
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Manufacturing Consent
& the Media |
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"In most cases the dominated are encouraged to see the
world as the powerful do..."
John Harrington |
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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 |
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What
is Terrorism? |
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Human Rights & Humanitarian Law |
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"...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 |
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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 |
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Spirituality & the Tamil
Nation |
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Truth
is a Pathless Land |
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"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..." |
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An
Unfolding Consciousness: Matter to Life to Mind... |
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"Religion
is for those who believe in hell,
spirituality is for those who have been
there." -
David Bowie
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