Thursday, January 15, 2009

tamil conference on thomas myth

jan 15th, 2009

it would take me too long to read through the following with my poor tamil, so i haven't. but i am going by the good swami's recommendation, although i do get the feeling that it is really about the tamil, rather than south indian, contribution to indian religion.

some tamils have an unfortunate tendency to say "south indian" when they mean "tamil". tamil is only a subset of south indian, although for example the LTTE used to have maps on their site which happily "awarded" all of kerala and parts of karnataka and andhra to "tamil eelam" :-)

we linguistic minorities don't get anywhere near the coddling that the so-called religious minorities such as the greens and whites get. sigh!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Swami



Dear Sri/Smt
 

I am forwarding a very important message.
 
A seminar has been organised to expose the Thomas myth, on the following dates 25 March to 27 March, 2009, to be held in Chennai. Venue Pasum pn Muthuramalinga Devar Hall, 158 Habibulla Road, North Usman road,Chennai, 600017.
 
Further details can be had from Veda Prakash. Cell 9840292065
.
Please do participate and submit your papers.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vedaprakash Vedaprakash <vedamvedaprakash@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2009 7:58 AM
Subject: "மதம் மற்றும் தத்துவங்களில் தென்னிந்தியாவின் பங்கு" சென்னையில் கருத்தரங்கம்


 

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திராவிடச் சான்றோர் பேரவை மார்ச் 25 முதல் 27, 2009 வரை சென்னையில் "மதம் மற்றும் தத்துவங்களில் தென்னிந்தியாவின் பங்கு" என்ற தலைப்பில் ஒரு தேசிய கருத்தரங்கத்தை ஏற்பாடு செய்துள்ளது. பல சரித்திர, தொல்லியல், தத்துவம் இதரத் துறை வல்லுனர்கள், சரித்திர ஆசிரியர்கள், ஆய்வாளர்கள் பங்கேற்று ஆய்வு கட்டுரைகளை சமர்ப்பிக்கயுள்ளார்கள்.

இடம்: பசும்பொன் தேவர் மண்டபம், 158, ஹபிபுல்லா சாலை, (வடக்கு உஸ்மான் சாலை கோடியில்) தியாகராய நகர், சென்னை - 600 017 (கோடம்பக்கம் ரயில் நிலைத்திற்கு அருகில்).

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3 comments:

witan said...

Swami says the seminar has been organised to "expose the Thomas myth", but the rest of the material in your blog and in the link provided ( http://vedaprakash.indiainteracts.com/2009/01/07/conference-at-chennai-contribution-of-south-india-to-indian-religion-and-philosiphy/ ) do not indicate any such thing. In the link, the intended "seminar" is mentioned as a "conference": Conference at Chennai on “Contribution of South India to Indian Religion and Philosophy”. Also, I tend to look with suspicion on any organization or other entity whose name starts with "Dravida".

murali said...

Nizhal,

After todays capitulation by the GOI to the atlanticist millimeter,i want to share some thoughts.I am going to 'exasperate ' you,but cannot help.

TN is not kerala.In kerala OV Vijayan,Narayana Guru,Amritananda Mayi have made some progress.Still the Hindu society there is defined by the sambandam relationship Namboodiris had with nair women.This worked fine in the matrilineal society of the times.

This injected sanskrit classics,philosophy and 'certain racial types' into kerala society.The likes of Shiva Shankara Menon ,MGK Menon are a small minority in kerala as a whole.

Vedaprakas,that is how he is describing himself,not vedaprakash is barking up the wrong tree.

This conference will end up cerifying the neanderthals 'uniqueness.'

There are only two ways to bring TN into national mainstream.

1)No chance of this hapenning.Some emperor like a modern Vijayanagara dynasty from Karnataka sets right the neanderthals.No chance given the Tamil revival.

2)A modern Sri Rama teams up with a modern Vibhishana.At least theoretically more probable,if Iswara wills.Have no clue how this modern Sri Rama will be.

shankar said...

The organization's name can be loosely translated as "Council of Dravidian Scholars", which does not portend well. I don't believe such an organization will expose the myth of Thomas. There is something fishy here.