THOLKAPPIYAR BIRTH DAY WISHES TO TAMILNADU AND PONDICHERRY GOVERNMENTS : 2007

THOLKAPPIYAR's 2872 nd
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Dravida Peravai organized the 2872-nd birth anniversary celebrations of Tamil grammarian Tholkappiyar on 10 th June 2007 in the Puducherry Tamil Sangam. Head Quarter's Secretary of Dravida Peravai Syed Khader was present and Dravida Peravai General Secretary N.Nandhivarmanl presided. The Former Director of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of Government of Tamilnadu Dr.R.Madhivanan who wrote a book Tholkappiyar Kaalam [2006] that establishes the birth of Tholkappiyar as belonging to 865 B.C delivered the keynote address. Kalaimamani Sithan [80] released the book Thokappiyar Kaalam. Dr.A.Arivunambi Dean of the Subramania Bharathy School of Tamil Studies of Puducherry University reviewed the book Tholkappiyar Kaalam.

The Dravida Maamani Award 2007 was conferred on Kavignar A.Vanthiyathevan M.A, Publications Secretary MDMK by Villisai Vendhar Kalaimaamani Pattabhiraman.

In that meeting Dravida Peravai proposed the following resolutions.

1.Every year Government of Tamilnadu and Puducherry must celebrate the birth anniversary of Tholkappiyar on May 1.
2.The Government of India is urged to bring out a postal stamp of Tamil Grammarian Tholkappiyar on May 1, 2008.

3.Dr.Caldwell who wrote the Comparative Grammar of Dravidian languages is a scholar Tamils must remember with gratitude. His monumental work must be updated incorporating many of the findings of Tamil scholars like Deveneya Paavanar to Mathivanar, and an updated version establishing Tamil, as mother of Dravidian languages must be brought out. To bring out new Comparative Grammar of Dravidian languages in the light of many new facts being discovered ever since Dr.Caldwell wrote, a team of scholars must be appointed by Government of Tamilnadu to accomplish this task.
4.The Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project, which began in the lifetime of Deveneya Paavanar and continued by Dr.R.Mathivanan is yet to be completed. This meeting urges the Tamilnadu Government to undertake the task of completing this Himalayan task.

5. This meeting urges Tamilnadu Government to bring out the THOLKAPPIYAM, English version written by Dr.C.Ilakuvanar and distribute it free to all Universities throughout the world wherever research on Tamil language is being undertaken.

6.Dr.R.Mathivanan had also written a book Silapathigara Kaalam. Based on that from next year onwards Dravida Peravai resolves to organize Silapathigaram Vizha. DP also plans to organize Manimegalai, Jeevakasinthamani, Ravana Kavyam, Naladiyar etc, so that to popularize these works and other works so far ignored by the selective amnesia of Tamil scholars.

7.Tamil Virtual University is functioning to carry forward Tamil in the Internet world. But to our dismay we found for instance for English words in Linguistics equivalent words in Tamil are in a font unreadable and which is not a Unicode acceptable format. We urge this mistake to be rectified as well as the following tasks to be entrusted by the Government of Tamilnadu to the Tamil Virtual University.

a] Tamil Virtual University must upload the Tamil Official Language Dictionary prepared decades ago by Aaatchimozhi Kavalar Ramalinganar.
b] The completed editions of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project so far prepared by Late Deveneya Paavanar and his successor Dr.R.Mathivanan must be uploaded in the net and made freely accessible to all. The preparation of the English version of this Tamil Etymological Dictionary Work must be entrusted to a team headed by Dr.Marudhanayam and it must be uploaded in the Internet
c] Many foreign scholars had published thought provoking books on Tamil language and culture. These books must be translated into Tamil and distributed to all Tamil Departments in Universities and Colleges of Tamilnadu.

d] Wikipedia: This meeting resolves to generate awareness among Tamil scholars on the people involved free encyclopedia project in the Internet known as Wikipidea. There are many mistakes and anomalies there. A team comprising Tanjore Tamil University, World Tamil Research Institute of Chennai, The Dravidian University of Andhra Pradesh,Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, Central Institute of Indian Languages in Karnataka must be formed to debate, discuss and decide the pivotal position of Tamil as the mother of Dravidian language family and new inputs must be incorporated updated uploaded in the net. Even if others joining the team gets delayed institutes under Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the two Tamil speaking states must join and begin this exercise this meeting urges.


9. On the stone inscriptions, monuments protected by Archaeological Department, on the forts and dams, temples of Tamilnadu in all the museums of Tamilnadu in capital and in districts, photographic exhibitions; painting exhibitions must be kept permanently on display. English and Tamil books, CDs, VCDs to tell in nutshell all about Tamil language, history and culture are brought out. A team under the leadership of Professor Vijayavenugopal of the French Government funded Ecole Francaise D' Extreme Orient be constituted by Tamilnadu government and that team be entrusted with drafting and implementing an action plan highlighting Tamil greatness to tourists and others, this meeting urges.


10. The perfect edition of Kurunthogai was brought out by Dr.Eva Wildon; head of the Tamil Department under Ecole Francaise D' Extreme Orient, and on the History of Gingee Dr.Jean Delouche of the same institute had researched for 6 years and brought out a valuable book in French and English. Dravida Peravai urges Tamil Maamani awards by Government of Puducherry to be conferred on these two scholars.

11.The error free, interpolation free corrected perfect editions of all Tamil literature and grammar must be brought out by Tanjore Tamil University and Tamil Virtual University, uploading all these in net world, The books could be published by TamilNadu Text Book Organization and free of cost to all students of plus 2 and college Tamilnadu government must give these books so than future generation develops proper understanding of our culture.


12.Tamil nadu Government must make arrangements to e-publish all Tamil Dictionaries, Tamil Thesauruses known as Nigandu, and on history so that anyone anywhere in the world can download and read everything about Tamil.


13. Tamil Nadu Government is urged to produce short films, documentaries, and tele-serials of Tamil history.
14.The Centenary Celebrations of Aringnar Anna starts in 2008. Dravida Peravai urges Union Government to constitute a national level committee to celebrate this function. The Collected Works of Anna must be complied and given free of cost to all the students of Tamilnadu. The English speeches of Anna in Parliament as well as his writings in Homeland and Home Rule be compiled and a book brought out, this meeting urges the Tamilnadu Government.

15. Dravida Peravai urges the proposed state controlled University set up by Puducherry Government be named after Tholkappiyar.

These are the resolutions, which Tamils can debate, Tamil e-journals and media can publish, and anyone can write constructive suggestions to improve the merit and content of our resolutions.

N.NandhivarmanGeneral Secretary Dravida Peravai0413-2221025

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SEA EROSION AND PONDICHERRY

WILL PONDICHERRIANS BECOME ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES?

TAMIL NADU: KUMARIKANDAM MEENDUM?

Researchers in the Earth and Planetary Science letters state that instead of Earth's surface being divided into 12 major plates there are now 13 plates. In the latest research by Lamont-Doherty scientists about 8 million years ago the accumulated mass of Indian subcontinent became so great that the Indo-Australian plate buckled and broke under stress. The result of this crucial stage in the collision between India and Australia is the break up of Indo-Australian plate into separate Indian and Australian plates. In The Central Indian Ocean Nature is conducting a large scale experiment for us showing what happens to the oceanic lithosphere (earths outer layer) when force is applied. Using drilled samples in 1970 scientists discovered that a broad zone of the Indian Ocean floor stretching more than 960 kilometers from east to west along with the equator was compressed and deformed. They later found that the newly created seafloor had spread outward from the mid ocean ridges in the zone and theorized that the movement of seafloor could only be fitted in only if a distinct boundary existed between Indian and Australian plates... [On this in Dinamani Tamil daily 26.01.1996 Nandhivarman had written as "Meendum Thonruma Kumari kandam?"]

The changes that could happen have been a matter of speculation. Highlighting the gravity of the situation in THE OTHERSIDE October 1997 edited by George Fernandez, Nandhivarman wrote with specific thrust on Pondicherry as follows:

WILL PONDICHERRIANS BECOME ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES?

Pondicherry, a word born out of the Frenchman's tongue is a variation of the Tamil word 'Puthucheri' which means new settlement. Now at the fag end of this century we Pondicherrians have to engage in the quest for new settlements. The danger of becoming ecological refugees looms large. This is neither soothsaying nor a prophecy of doom. A forewarning to plan our resource use in a proper manner to avert this eventuality.

A Report on Ground Water survey and exploration in the Union territory of Pondicherry and its environs prepared by a team of experts of Central Ground Water Board (Southern Region-page 13) contains the following observations:

"The general strike of the cretaceous-Paleocene formations trends NE-SW with gentle dips ranging 2 to 5 towards Southeast. The Cuddalore sandstone formation though maintains the same strike, shows a dip up to 10. The cretaceous and Paleocene beds form an inliers having been exposed due to the denudation of the overlying Cuddalore formation which overlap them completely. A low angle fault trending in NNE-SSW direction is inferred from Mudrapalayam. This fault passes just west of the bore holes drilled by Oil and Natural Gas Commission at Mudrapalayam and Muratandichavadi which when extended passes close to Rayapudukuppam where the rocks show high and irregular dips. Probably this fault takes a swerve towards North East beyond Rayapudukuppam and runs along the out crop contact between the Manaveli and Kadaperikuppam formations met with in the Oil and Natural Gas Commission bore hole at Murattandichavadi is marked by breocinted clay stone indicating probably a fault zone. The limited thickness of Kadeperikuppam formation in the bore holes at Koluvari, Mudrapalayam and Muratanndichavadi appears to be the result of the aforesaid faulting. It is presumed that this fault is met with much below at depth further north of slim hole at Alankuppam.

Photo-geological study has also confirmed the existence of a fault to the west of the coast line a straight scarp running almost parallel to Pondicherry-Marakanam East Coast Road. This straight coast line is also indicative of some structural dislocation.

These observations made since 1973 contain the shocking news about faults otherwise known as geo fractures. Dr.S.M.Ramasamy Director of the Center for Remote Sensing of Bharathidasan University explaining the findings on his project River Migration Tamil Nadu in the interview to The Hindu says

But the East-North-East-West-South-West trending faults on the contrary are showing left handed (sinistral) ongoing translational movements and again the North-West-South-East trending faults are showing right handed (extral) translation movement. Such sinisterly and dextrally moving faults display definite morph tectonic anomalies in the remotely sensed data and also in the field. In addition there is a conspicuous land subsidence between Pondicherry in the North-East and Cumbum valley in the South-West.

The same scholar in an article in the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing dated September 1993 observed:

One such graben has been established along NE-SW trending faults in between Pondicherry- Cuddalore in the North East and Cumbum Valley in the South west ( Kodaikanal and Cumbum Valley).. It is significant to observe that the earthquake epicenters fall along such NE-SW trending fault in Pondicherry, Cuddalore, Ariyalur, Dindigul and Kodaikanal.

The findings of the Central Ground water Board and the findings based on the photographs taken by remote sensing have confirmed the existence of faults. I.e. geofractures and the earthquake epicenters in Pondicherry.

Let us seek the same scholar’s advice on actions to be taken.

The present analysis shows that the NE trending quaternary faults and the NE-SW trending quaternary reactivated faults are seismicity prone in Tamil Nadu. Hence care must be taken in avoiding developmental activities in the form of urbanization, industrialization and also construction engineering structures. Hence it can be concluded that mainly quaternary fracture systems and our quaternary reactivated pre Cambrian faults are pollution accentuating fractures in Tamil Nadu (Pondicherry) and hence pollution discharging industries should be avoided along NS trending fault systems.

Science is issuing a forewarning. Scientists have suggested steps to prevent calamities. We the citizens of Pondicherry must be concerned over these findings. Highlighting these is intended to harm none but to forewarn. Dravida Ilaignar Peravai had taken up with the Union Minister of Forests and Environment on 2.12.1995 the need to scientifically study the geofracture. Pondicherry Administration also is apprised of this through a memorandum submitted on 12-12.1995.

I appeal to the environmentalists of our country in particular to generate sufficient awareness in the corridors of power forcing our Administration to set up a team of scientists to study the geo fracture, the evil effects of pollution discharging industries. the way to arrest our ground water depletion etc.

The depletion of ground water will not only result in salt water intrusion but also will aggravate the geofracture. In fact most of our coastal villages suffer from salt water intrusion. We are getting ground water in all the colors of the rainbow, due to the contamination of ground water by pollution discharging industries. Eachangadu a tiny coastal village with 250 families even today gets water in the color of engine oil from its bore pumps. Our party's campaign led to the closure of the polluting industry in February but even after 6 months villagers suffer without clean drinking water.........

These issues were ignored. Later by 2000 when there were tremors and when in 2004 tsunami struck our coasts, some people recalled our forewarnings made from a decade ago.

And now when waves lash our coasts, drawing attention to the Sea Coast erosion N.Nandhivarman wrote an article in The New Indian Express of 4.06.2005. We reproduce it here because it shows in past decade we continue to focus on Green Issues.

STUDY SUNKEN CITIES OF DWARAKA IN BAY OF CAMBAY, POOMPUHAR AND MAMALLAPURAM IN BAY OF BENGAL

NEED FOR GLOBAL COORDINATION TO STUDY SUNKEN CITIES OF DWARAKA IN BAY OF CAMBAY, POOMPUHAR AND MAMALLAPURAM IN BAY OF BENGAL.

SETTING UP OF MARITIME MUSEUMS TOO IS NEEDED.

Indian land mass what we see now or live is not where India existed. In fact whole world was one continent called Pangea in Latin. Continental drifts, braking of continental plates, expansion of Universe, rise and submergence of seas had resulted in present shape of world’s countries. Keeping this fact in mind, we Indians must assemble together all facts unearthed so far in under water archaeology and show case to the world as Indian being cradle of humanity.

Satellite pictures even today which can be viewed by anyone in Google will show in India the areas nearer to the coasts of Arabian Seas and Bay of Bengal in light blue colour, which are areas that had sunken in seas due to the melting of ice in last ice age and also due to continental drift. So India extended up to Australia. There is need to go deep into the history of South East Asia, peopled by People of Indian Origin.

In Gulf of Cambay city of Dwaraka had been unearthed . In Bay of Bengal Poompuhar, port city of Chola emperors was unearthed. Near Japanese islands, a city called Yonaguni is unearthed. Near Cuba, under water archaeologists have unearthed a city. India, still not realising that it is the cradle of humanity, which I will explain in next pages, must realise that it should take the lead in focussing on all underwater archaeological findings found so far in various parts of the world and in totality study what has been found and indulge in what is yet to be found.

Books of Graham Hancock

Provide further inputs to generate awareness of construct Indian and World History from the findings of impartial quest, as he would list out various evidences unearthed so far which are suppressed because Truth stands at variance of Christian faith and he alleges lot of discoveries remain suppressed and hidden in Vatican secret archives.

The quest of Graham Hancock which brought him to Dwaraka, Poompuhar, Mamallapuram and Yonaguni of Japan is recorded in his book Graham Hancock :Underworld :Flooded Kingdoms of Ice Age. In my television speeches exceeding 140 weeks in Pondicherry AJK Gold Channel wherein I speak on Hidden History and Let us Know Scientific Discoveries carry these slides, hence titles are in Tamil. Graham Hancock's books are published with the funding of Krishna Consciousness Movement

I would enclose few pages from  another book Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A.Crampo and Richard L. Thompson , which is condensed edition of Forbidden Archaeology . Graham Hancock in his critical review of this book says “One of the intellectual achievements of the late 20^th century “ This book is published by Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing Inc.

China is attempting to rewrite the history of the world by highlighting facts challenging that much before Christopher Columbus discovered America, It is Chinese who set their foot there..India 

India lacks behind simply like parrots what colonialists taught us , forgetting our past. The simple fact that in Gulf of Cambay, the City of Krishna, Dwaraka had been found and in Tamilnadu submerged Poompukar and Mamallapuram had been found pushing back out dates in history to 7500 and 9500 B.C. Still we are in slumber dreaming the world began with the Christian calendar.