ஞாயிறு, 10 ஆகஸ்ட், 2014

Caste, creed and battle against them

திருமணங்கள் சாதிகளும் கிழித்த கோட்டில்
தீர்மானம் பெறுகின்ற அதனால் தம்பீ,
நறுமணமாய் மக்களதைக் கருதிக்  கொண்டார்
நாள்கோள்கள் நல்ல நேரம் கணிக்கும் நேரம்
வருமுனமே விபத்துகளைத் தவிர்ப்ப தற்கே
வருங்காலப் பெரியவர்கள் மனத்துள் சாதி
உறுமுகமாய் இனுமதனை விளைத்தார் பெற்றோர்
உண்மையிலே இதைமாற்றல் குதிரைக் கொம்பே.

வெகுநாளாய்ப்  பலபெரியோர் உரைத்த போதும்
வேண்டியதோர் பாதுகாப்பு வளையம் போலும்
தகுமுறையில் ஊட்டமதை அடைந்து கொண்டு
சாதிமுறை மன்பதைக்குள் செழித்து நின்று
நகுநடனம் பயில்கிறதே மிகையீ  தாமோ?
நாமிதனைக் கோடறுத்து நடக்கப் போமோ?
தொகுமுறையால் இதுசொன்னேன் துவளல் வேண்டாம்
துணிவுடையார் எதிர் நின்றால் இனிவாழ்த் துக்கள்.

கிழித்த கோட்டில் -  வரையறுத்த எல்லைக்குள் ;  நறுமணமாய் = ஏற்புடைய கொள்கையாய் ; நாள் ........நேரம்:   = திருமண காலம் ;  விபத்து  = சாதி மாறிக்   கொள்வனை கொடுப்பனை ;  வருங்காலப்  பெரியவர்கள் =   சிறுபிள்ளைகள் ;
உறுமுகமாய் =  வளரும் தன்மை உடையதாய் ;  இனும்  = இன்னும் ; குதிரைக் கொம்பு  = இயலாதது ;
ஊட்டம்  = வளர்வதற்கான ஊக்கம் ; மன்பதை = சமுதாயம் ; நகு நடனம் = கோமாளி ஆட்டம் ; மிகை ஈது ஆமோ =  மிகை அன்று;  கோடறுத்து = வரம்பு மீறி ;  தொகு முறை =  பல சான்றுகளையும் ஒரு சேர ஆய்ந்து ;

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Casteism  DC  Deccan Chronicle| Pramila Krishnan | August 09, 2014, 06.08 am IST

Chennai: The first page of all school textbooks carries this message: Untouchability is a sin, Untouchability is a crime, and Untouchability is inhuman. To make this idea work on the ground, the government has introduced a lesson on casteless society in Class 6 textbooks this year. And, for the first time, all schools have been asked to invite people from different communities to participate in the flag hoisting during the Independence Day celebrations on August 15.
It’s time for such positive action as several complaints reach the police on discrimination faced by students in schools and fights between student groups, who are divided in the name of their castes. Educationists and social activists across the state have urged the government to work on effective measures to ensure that the poison of untouchability does not affect school children.
In March 2014, 16-year-old Dalit student Sathi Ozhipu Veeran (his name translates as Caste Eradicating Braveheart) in Madurai was beaten up by his schoolmates.  Class 11 student Veeran was asked how he could wear decent clothes and how he could call himself Sathi Ozhipu Veeran. 
His father Santhosam has filed a complaint with the police and a trial is on in the Madurai district court (Protection of Civil Rights) now.
“I am so worried about the behaviour of children in schools. I named my son Sathi Ozhipu Veeran thinking that his name would spread awareness on casteless society. When I learnt that he was attacked for his name, I was in a state of shock,” Santhosam told DC. With a promise that Veeran would not be attacked anymore, Santhosam has agreed to send him back to school.
In another recent instance in Virudhunagar, a group of dominant caste students scolded Dalit student Anandharaj for attending school, which has a large number of students from their caste. 
They abused him and told him that he shouldn’t use footwear. Veeran and Anandharaj stand as proof of the danger of casteism brewing in classrooms, say A. Kathir, director of the Evidence NGO in Madurai. 
“When young minds are corrupted in schools, the kids would grow with the attitude and live with it. It’s high time we taught children about a casteless society beyond the syllabus,” he said.
Educationist S.S. Rajagopalan said since casteism is embedded in the minds of everyone in society, it’s not an easy job to erase it from the minds of children. 
“Until the matriculation school system was introduced in 1978, children from all strata of society studied in the common school. There were no differences among the children. Privitisation of education has widened the differences among school children now,” he said. Rajagopalan stresses that a common school system is the only solution to unite children.






வெள்ளி, 8 ஆகஸ்ட், 2014

Sumangali Pusai on Sunday 10 August.

பண்பார் மக்கள் வந்து
பைந்த‌மிழால் தொழுதிடவே
அன்பால் மனங்கனிந்தே
அருள்புரியும் சிவதுர்க்கா!

உன்பால் வந்து மனம்
உருகித் தலைவணங்க
கண்பார்த் தருள்புரியும்
காளியம்மை  மறுவுருவே!

மண்ணுமலை இலங்கிடவும்
மக்களின்வாழ் விலங்கிடவும்
எண்ணுமிரு தினங்களிலே
எழில்மணம் புரிந்திடுவாய்.

மங்கல அணிபெறுவாய்
மலர்மாலை பலபெறுவாய்,
சந்தனம் குங்குமமே
சார்த்துவர்புன்  ன‌கைபுரிவாய்.

மங்கல   அணிமகிழும்
மங்கையர் புடைவரவே
தங்குவை தொழுவருனை
தருகதிரு வருளினிதே.  

For the Sumangali Puja on 10.8.2014 at Potong Pasir Sivadurga Temple Singapore.

மண்ணுமலை - another name for  this place "Potong  Pasir".  Potong = excavation. Pasir - sand.
Previously sand was being taken from  this place. Now a modern estate.

Revealed: What led to destruction of Indus Valley civilisation

 சிந்து  நாகரிகம் ஏன்  மறைந்தது ?

ஐயப்பாடுகள்  அகன்றுவிட்டனவா?



 
alt200-year-long drought wiped out Indus Valley: StudyIn a ground-breaking discovery led by an Indian-origin palaeoclimatologist, researchers have found that a 200-year-long monster drought nearly 4,200 years ago doomed the Indus Valley civilisation in present Pakistan and northwest India.
Based on isotope data from the sediment of an ancient lake, the researchers suggest that the monsoon cycle, which is vital to the livelihood of all of South Asia, essentially stopped there for as long as two centuries to wipe out the Indus Valley civilisation -- also knows as the Harappan civilisation.
"The Indus Valley was characterised by large, well-planned cities with advanced municipal sanitation systems and a script that has never been deciphered.
But the Harappans seemed to slowly lose their urban cohesion, and their cities were gradually abandoned," explained Yama Dixit, a palaeoclimatologist at University of Cambridge.
The team examined sediments from Kotla Dahar-an ancient lake near the northeastern edge of the Indus Valley area in Haryana -that still seasonally floods.
The team assigned ages to sediment layers using radiocarbon dating of organic matter.
In various layers, they collected the preserved shells of tiny lake snails which are made of a form of calcium carbonate called aragonite.
The team also looked at the oxygen in the argonite molecules, counting the ratio of the rare oxygen-18 isotope to the more prevalent oxygen-16.
Kotla Dahar is a closed basin, filled only by rain and runoff and without outlets. During drought, oxygen-16, which is lighter than oxygen-18, evaporates faster so that the remaining water in the lake and, consequently, the snails' shells, become enriched with oxygen-18.
The team's reconstruction showed a spike in the relative amount of oxygen-18 between 4,200 and 4,000 years ago.
The data, published in the journal Geology1, suggests that the regular summer monsoons stopped for some 200 years.
According to Anil Gupta, director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun, this work fills a gap in the geographic record of ancient droughts.
But large questions still remain.
"What drove this climate change 4,200 years ago? We do not see major changes in the North Atlantic or in the solar activity at that time," he said.