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Tamils: a Trans State Nation
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Beyond
Nations & Nationalism: One World
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Tamils are
an Ancient
People... |
| "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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"Nations are as much cultural as political forms, and the creation of a
unique high culture of world significance is often central to their
legitimation." - John Hutchinson, and
David Aberbach in Nations & Nationalism, 1999
"...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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"...A language is more than just a means of communication. It is a
repository of a community’s collective history and heritage."
Kumar
Kumarappan quoted in Learning & Teaching
Tamil |
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Vazha Tamizh |
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Tamil
Digital Renaissance |
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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 |
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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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International Relations
in in the Age of Empire |
| "...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...
A class is hegemonic not so much to the extent that it is able to
impose a uniform conception of the world on the rest of society, but to
the extent that it can articulate different visions of the world in such a way that
their potential antagonism is neutralised." 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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