இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-22
கலித்தொகை.(2)
பாலை பாடிய பெருங்கடுங்கோ.

" ...இரந்தோர்க்கு ஒன்று ஈயாமை  இழிவு"

நம் மரபில்,

இரப்பது இழிவு;

ஏற்பது இகழ்ச்சி என்றே ஓதி மக்களை 

வளர்த்துள்ளார்கள். 

இருப்பினும், 

மிகவும் தவிர்க்கவே இயலாத நிலையில் ஒருவர் இரந்து இன்னொரவர்முன் நிற்க நேர்வதே நெருப்பினுள் உறைந்திருப்பதற்கு ஒப்பான அவலம், இகழ்ச்சி

எனத் தமிழர் கருத்துறுதி கொண்டிருந்தனர். 

அதே சமயத்தில்

தன்முன் வந்து  'ஏதேனும் ஈவாயாக' என்று நிர்ப்பவரக்கு ஒன்றும் ஈயா நிலையில் ஒருவர் இருப்பது இழிவின் இழிவு.அவ்வாறொருவன் உயிர்கொண்டு இருத்தலே இழிவு எனக் கருதி வாழ்ந்தனர் தமிழர்.

வீரம்,மானம் ஆகிய உயர் மறப்பண்புகளுடன், ஈகையும் ( வறியார்க்கு ஈதலும்) மிக உண்ணதப் பண்பெனக்கொண்டு வாழ்ந்த இனம் நமது. 

பொருளைப் பெரிதாகக் கருதி

மிகையாகச் சேர்ப்பதிலும் 

சேர்ந்திருந்த யாவற்றையும்  கொடுத்துவிட்டு

இனி வந்து இரப்பார்க்கும் உதவி செய்யப் பொருள் தேடி ச் செல்ல ஆயத்தமாகும் பாங்கன்றோ பாடலில்.

இரப்பார்க்கு இல்லை எனாத மனமும் வளமும் பெறுவோம்.

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 To me,who has been  an unseen landlord (@ Chennai ) and a tenant (@ Tiruchy) simultaneously  during some time earlier, this poem is nearer to my experiences as a tenant.

 The Ballad of the Landlord

Landlord, landlord,
My roof has sprung a leak.
Don't you 'member I told you about it
Way last week?

Landlord, landlord,
These steps is broken down.
When you come up yourself
It's a wonder you don't fall down.

Ten Bucks you say I owe you?
Ten Bucks you say is due?
Well, that's Ten Bucks more'nI'l pay you
Till you fix this house up new.

What? You gonna get eviction orders?
You gonna cut off my heat?
You gonna take my furniture and
Throw it in the street?

Um-huh! You talking high and mighty.
Talk on-till you get through.
You ain'tgonna be able to say a word
If I land my fist on you.

Police! Police!
Come and get this man!
He's trying to ruin the government
And overturn the land!

Copper's whistle!
Patrol bell!
Arrest.
Precinct Station.
Iron cell.
Headlines in press:

MAN THREATENS LANDLORD
TENANT  HELD  NO BAIL

JUDGE GIVES NEGRO 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL!

- 

*Langston Hughes

 

No lengthy introduction is needed to Longston Hughes for modern readers. Yet, a brief one on the poet would do.

Born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes (1871–1934).When Langston was young, his father divorced his mother Carrie and even left the country. After the separation with her husband, his mother had to go to places seeking employment. His early life was thus unstable and his childhood was not a very happy one. He had to spend most of his childhood in Kansas with his maternal grandmother Mary Patterson Langston. It was his grandmother Mary Langston who instilled a lasting sense of racial pride in Langston Hughes.

Though Hughes is known as an Afro-American, his ancestral mix shows more. His paternal and maternal great-grandmothers were African-American; his maternal great-grandfather was white and of Scottish descent; his paternal great-grandfather was of European Jewish descent. His work permeated the pride in his African-American identity and its diverse culture. Hughes died at the age of 65 on May 22, 1967 from complications after abdominal surgery, related to prostate cancer.

Hughes was a many-sided personality - poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He is considered one among the chief bards of the Harlem Renaissance. He was also one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes chose to be unashamedly black at a time when blackness was démodé. He stressed the theme of "black is beautiful". His main concern was the uplift of his people, whose strengths, resiliency, courage, and humor.

His poetry and fiction portrayed the lives of the working class blacks in America, lives full of struggles, joy, laughter, and music. He summed himself as "my seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind," He confronted racial stereotypes, protested social conditions, and expanded African America’s image of itself; a “people’s poet” who sought to reeducate both audience and artist by lifting the theory of the black aesthetic into reality.

THE BACKGROUND THEN:  During the times of Langston, in the U.S.A color discrimination was in its peak. (Has it subsided now?) The blacks suffered untold miseries. 

The tenant and landlord in the poem are symbols of the black and whites representing the perpetual human divide in the country. The police and the judges were mostly whites and were certainly not neutral. Even the Press failed to be impartial as they served as the mouthpieces of the Whites.

Here, in the poem, we witness the black (‘tenant’) being mercilessly exploited by the white (‘the landlords’). To make things worse, the police and the court also are also 'palm-touching pals' to the ‘landlord’. They congregate  to cause exploitation of the ‘black tenant’. Ironically, the hero in this ballad is not the landlord (though the title shows him), but it is the tenant, who raises voices for the injustice and turns a hero against oppression.

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 RTI FLASH 4

'File notings' are to be taken as 'information'  as defined in Sec 2 (f) of the RTI Act 2005 and so can't be denied if requested under RTI.

In this case the original petitioner (Ms.R.S.Khan) was awarded a penalty of 'censure' in the disciplinary proceedings (DP) of the Controller general of Defense Accounts (CGDA). Aggrieved by the penalty imposed on her,  she invoked the RTI Act and requested  information in respect of matters related to the DP. Her request was rejected by the PIO and the First Appellate Authority of CGDA. The CIC which heard her appeal allowed her request and ordered disclosure of the information that included file notings.

Against this order the Union of India approached the Delhi High Court wherein Ms R.S. Khan became the Respondent. 

The court expressly lashed out at the Central Govt. Stand that 'file notings are in the form of views and comments expressed by various officials and these do not come under 'information' as defined in Sec 2 (f) of the Act.'

The court held that there is no specific exemption under the RTI Act for 'file notings' against disclosure.  It concurred with the CIC and confirmed the order for disclosure of file notings.   

This is the earliest leading case in the matter of disclosure of 'file notings.'

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இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை- 21
மலைபடுகடாம் (79-80)

" ...சொல்லிக்காட்டிச் சோர்வின்றி விளக்கி
நல்லிதின் இயக்கும்‌...ஒழுக்கமும்"

தொடர்வோம்.

வல்லோர், நல்லோராயின்,

தம்மில் இளையோர், அவைகளில்
தமது கருத்துக்களைத் தெளிவுற  முன்வைத்துப் பரப்பிட இயலாது நாணி அலமரும் நிலைகளைத் தவிர்க்கத், 

தாமே முன்வந்து, தம் திறத்தால், அவர்களது கருத்துப் பிழிவைத் தக்கவாறு மேம்படுத்தி விளக்கிக் குற்றமிலாது காட்டுவது இளையோரை மேலும் செம்மையுறச் செய்யும்;  ' நல்லிதின் இயக்கும்'.

கொடி படர் கொழு கொம்புபோல- உதவிடக் கைலாகு கொடுக்கும் உயர்வொழுக்கமரபினைத் தொடர்வோம்.

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 RTI FLASH (3)

In a case regarding obtaining information under RTI Act from a private school, the Delhi High Court clarified that "information" as defined under Section 2 (f) of the RTI Act 2005 has to be construed that

 'it includes in its ambit, the information relating to a private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any law in force at that time.' 

Instead of definitely concluding whether the private school (Poorna Prajna Public School) is a 'public authority', under the RTI Act 2005, the court settled the issue by clarifying that if any public authority could lawfully obtain information from a private/ public body, then such information should be obtained and provided to the RTI applicant .

See: 

Delhi High Court 
W.P. No 7265 of 2007
Decided on 25 Sep 2009.
Poorna Prajna Public School Vs CIC & Ors

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 RTI Flash (2)

In a case relating to a dispute on a request for disclosure of information contained in the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), the words "information accessible under this Act" (in section 2 (j) of RTI Act 2005) was interpreted by the Delhi High Court  as :

 'information which is accessible to a public authority but not information to which the public authority is denied access.'

This case arose against the CIC order to the Election Commission of India(EC) to disclose information contained in the EVM to the requestor. The Election went on appeal against the Central Information Commission (CIC) order and the Delhi High Court interpreted the words in Sec 2 (j) as above. 

The HC quashed the CIC order issued to the EC to disclose information in the EVM.

See: 

Delhi High Court

W.P. No 4715 of2008

Decided on 4th Nov 2009.

Election Commission of India Vs CIC & others

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 RTI Flash.                                                    Sl No 1.

What is 'appropriate government' as per Section 2 (a) of the RTI Act 2005?

This issue was dealt with in  the following case:

C.W. P No 19682 of 2006

Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh

Decided on 22-01-2008

The question of 'appropriate authority' - whether State information Commission(SIC) or Central Information Commission( CIC)- for the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, was raised before the High Court.

The court declared that as the said Bar Council  has jurisdiction over more than one state, the 'appropriate authority' ( vide Section 2 (a) of the RTI Act 2005) is the CIC and not the SIC of any of the two states or that of the UT of Chandigarh.

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 The Wind Blew Your House Away

 

The wind blew away your house
And, you still worry about the wind blowing in my hair?!
The myth of which cave’s sleepers has you intoxicated so?
Why are you sleeping?
A hundred tribes go to ruins while you sleep
The scandal about the kingdom’s thieves is everywhere
But, with your two hands, you still hold on to the two ends of my shawl

You are asleep behind this worn out curtain, and I,
with this same ‘forbidden’ hair of mine
will weave a ladder as tall as the sunrise
to bring out the sun
And you are asleep and water passes over you

And you never saw
how in the forest, pine trees were cut down, night after night,

in place of poplar trees
And there were no tigers when
mythological Damavand Mountain
was hanged from the loin
And for every grain of rice that had come to our table through hard labor,
in the rice paddies,
they planted iron, bricks, and walls

And you are sleeping,

and water thirsted for Hamoon Lake,
blood of Zayandeh River clotted,
and the breath of Hoor Wetlands’ humid nights
were buried under mud

The wind blew away your house
The scandal about the lootings has broken out
With your claws, you grab on to my night’s hair
Lest the famine-stricken nights of our dinner spread
reveals the emptiness of your fists
Lest anyone sees your temper

I am veiled
but not veiled according to volition of my own free body
I am veiled because of your spoiled body and mind
You are asleep behind this worn out curtain, and I,
with this same ‘forbidden’ hair of mine
will weave a ladder as tall as the sunrise
to bring out the sun.

- Hila Sedighi (1985- ), Iran.

Knowing the poet and the background would facilitate a better understanding of the poem here.

The Poet Hila Sedighi,   was born in 1985 in Tehran. This brave, young, poet, painter and civil rights activist in Iran took an acive part in the 2009 presidential campaign of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. But the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ‘declared returned’ to office. Demonstrations against such a farce became known as the Green Movement .The members and supporters of this movement took to the streets claiming the election was fraudulent and demanding that the election be annulled.

 

Hila wrote powerful poems protesting against the severe repression that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election and emotionally recited them in public. Her public readings of poems drew her large audience and also the wrath of the government. Due to her active, direct involvements in protest activities of the Green Movement, she was forced to resign from her job with the Tehran Municipality in the summer of 2010. On December 9, 2010, the agents of the Intelligence Ministry searched her home and took away a number of her personal belongings including her computer, notes, books etc. By way of harassing her, the Intelligence ministry summoned and interrogated Sedighi countless times, including during nights. In August of 2011, the Revolutionary Court handed over to her a 4 month prison sentence. This was suspended later for five years. A travel ban was also imposed on her and that was concurrently lifted. 

In the meantime in 2012, Sedighi was awarded the Hellman-Hammett Grant (prize) for free expression for protection of human rights. The authorities arrested Hila Sedighi  on Jan 7, 2016, at Imam Khomeini International Airport when she and her husband were returning from a trip to the United Arab Emirates.  Sedighi’s arrest in 2016 was said to be in connection with a sentence issued against her in absentia by the Culture and Media Court (a special court to try media and culture-related crimes). No reason was given by the government or judicial officials for her arrest or where she is being detained. International voices rose against her arbitrary arrest and she was released on bail after a couple of days.

 

Perhaps the January 2016 arrest of Hila Sedighi was due to her posting, in her blog, a video of her reading the poem critical of the ‘veil’(compulsory head coverings that women must wear in the Islamic Republic of Iran). In the video, that went viral, she was shown sitting alongside a photo of her without the ‘prescribed veil. In the verse, she was forcefully harsh on the government for showing undue interest in issues such as a woman’s ‘veil” while corruption and other maladies grow uncontrollably in the country.

Hila’s has studied law and she continues to live in and write from Tehran. Her poems are mostly related to the trials and tribulations of Iranians and particularly women. In public recitals, she performs her poems with passion and genuine pain and draws the audience to her. She mostly writes in Persian and her poems are translated in several languages. Ms. Sedighi bases her art on current, gross and continued human rights violations in Iran, boundless injustices based on the regime’s medieval regression, and defense against unwanted Arabization.

The Background: The extremist fundamentalism practiced by the .Iranian government owing allegiance to the ideals of its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini and its Judiciary was one that will brook no dissent at any level. The authorities too worked overtime to instill a sense of mortal fear in the minds of the dissenters, their families and general public. Measures were unleashed to intimidate and silence any voice of protest through arbitrary arrests and dreaded imprisonments. Any artistic expression was under unprecedented assault in that period as evidenced by a steady surge in the crackdown on members of the artistic community.  

In October 2015, a Revolutionary Court sentenced poet Fatemeh Ekhtesari to 9 years and 6 months in prison and another poet, Mehdi Mousavi, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. In addition, both were sentenced to 99 lashes. The documentary filmmaker Keywan Karimi was sentenced to 6 years in prison and 233 lashes for “insulting the sacred” and for showing “illegitimate relations” ( for just Shaking hands with persons of the opposite sex).Further, three music producers, Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, were sentenced to 6 years in prison alleging that their productions were  “propaganda against the state”. The poet and lyricist Yaghma Golrouee was arrested at his home on November 30, 2015, and later released on bail. Poet Mohamadreza Haj Rostambegloo was arrested on December 16, 2015, and bailed out two days later.

Not only poets and artists, the crackdown, has also targeted journalists and individuals associated with reformist groups in Iran. These arrests and intimidations have intensified as the country approached the critical Parliamentary elections in February 2016. The mounting arrests of young artists (‘national treasures’) in Iran was yet another indication of the suffocating domination of Government’s security and intelligence agencies over the Iranian Judiciary.

Now , in the light of these the reader ca go to the poem again.

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 இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-20
மலைபடுகடாம்(வரி 62)

" மதி மாறு ஓரா நன்றுணர்..."

மனமே நாம் கொள்ளுவோம்.

நமதறிவின் ஆக்கங்கள்  குறையுமாறான எச்செயலையும் என்றும் செய்ய இசையோம் என்பது நமக்கு மரபிலிருந்து வளர்ந்திருக்கும் நற் பண்பாகும்.

அறிவின்பாற் சென்று ஆக்கங்கள் பெருக்குவோம். அறிவு பிறழா வழியே நம் பயணப் பாதையாகட்டும்.

நாளும் நன்றுணர்வோம்; நல்லறிவிலிருந்து மாறோம்.

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Czech

The Censor

- Ivan Kraus ( born, Prague 1/3/39/ )

The Censor is seated on a stool ( or possibly two stools).
The Dancer enters.
At a sign from the Censor she begins to dance.

Censor: More slowly, please.
The dancer continues to dance.
The Censor stops her.
Censor: Hold it! Show me that last movement again.
The Dancer does so.

The Censor shakes his head.
Censor: No. Not that. Omit it.
The Dancer resumes her dance.

Censor: No. Not that. Onit it.
The Dancer dances.
Censor: That's not allowed.

The Dancer again resumes dancing.
Censor: Omit!
(after a while)
Omit!
(after a while)
Leave out!
(after a while)
And that!

The Dancer no longer dances, she is merely walking about
the stage.
Censor: What's this? Call that a dance? Why aren't you
dancing?
The Dancer shrugs her shoulders helplessly.

Censor: Don't do that!
The Curtain starts to come down.
Censor: Just a moment!
The Curtain stops.
Censor: I won't stand for any innuendo. Gently, now...
that's better... gently ... very, very slowly ...

The End


[Translated by George Theiner]

 

THE POET:  KRAUS, IVAN (1939– ), Czech writer. Kraus was born in Prague into a Czech-Jewish family. His father, Oto Kraus survived Auschwitz. Kraus studied at the School of International Economic Relations in 1959. He emigrated after the Soviet invasion in the summer of 1968 and lived in many countries- the USA, Switzerland, Italy, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and France. From 1971, he lived in Germany, where he worked (1971 to 1992) as a TV scriptwriter, puppet player and writer. From 1990, he has a dwelling in the Czech Republic.

Ivan has worked in variety of roles such as a writer, puppeteer, mime and actor in and outside Prague. As an actor he performed in many Czech plays. He was one of the artists who started the first Black Theatre of Prague in the 1960s. He is recognized as a ‘witty Czech writer’, writing humorous stories, sketches, plays and television scripts. In his literary works he worked in the tradition of Czech and Anglo-American humor often displaying the absurdity of socialist life. In writing his plays, Ivan Kraus was often inspired by his own experiences in different countries. Amnesty International has published some of his satirical works. His works are filled with subtle verbal humour and play with languages. 

'The Censor' comes from his collection of short satirical pieces and appeared in Index on Censorship in 1976.

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 இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-19
ஐங்குறுநூறு
ஒரம்போகியார்.

" நன்று பெரிது சிறக்க! தீதில்லாகுக."

'நன்மைகள் பெருகட்டும் நாட்டில்; அதே சமயம் அறவே இலாது தீதெலாம் வற்றட்டும்.'

முந்தையது பெருகினால் பின்னது தானே குறையும் என்று சோம்பியிராமல் தேடிக் களைய வேண்டும் தீமைகளை.

முந்தையோர் பெருவிழைவிதுவே.

அவ்வழியில்,

நன்மைகள் பெருக்குவோம் நாளும்; 

தீயன யாவும் விலக்கு வோம் இணைந்து.

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RULERS AND SHOES 
- Chandra Gurang

The rulers,
Covering their filthy feet
With different design of shoes
Feel secure.

The shoes also
Having got to live under the ruler’s feet
Regard themselves fortunate.
They attain great pleasure
In being at their boss’ service
And being their blind followers
Intone the names of their masters.

These rulers,
In assurance of the courtier shoes
Don’t pay heed to anyone.
In the hands of abettor shoes
Fear none.
And slam kick
Upon tender dreams.

These shoes,
Tread mercilessly
On innocent lives.
And trample
The beautiful flowers of garden.

But one thing-
Whatever transgression and oppressions
These rulers carry out,
They do it only after putting on their shoes.
Without shoes, their naked feet
Cannot even traverse a single step.

Rogue Rulers!

 

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Chandra Singh Gurung (1976) is an young poet of Nepal, born on 5^th August 1976, currently living in Bahrain. His father Kumba Singh Gurung and mother Setu Maya Gurung live in Nepal. Graduated in Commerce from Nepal College, Kathmandu Chandra is proficient in Hindi and English besides his mother tongue. His knowledge of English has helped him translate works of some foreign poets into his mother tongue. He has also translated poems of some Nepali poets into Hindi.Chandra had coordinated the poetry readings in support of Ashraf Fayad in Nepal.

Married and blessed with two children, he is working with a contracting firm in Bahrain. He has brought out his first collection of poetry in 2007 and is working at his second collection of his poetry.  He writes poetry with a heart, shrouded with an honest political sense. His poetry aims to present the un-adulterated anguish of the ‘socially conscious global citizen’ about the prevailing global socio-political-economic environment. Not elaborately clothed in allusions, his poems come direct from the core of his very being. Chandra’s poems have the potency to glide smoothly to the readers making them take a closer look at the environment and society we are in. His recently published poetry book under the title, ‘UskoMutubhitraDeskoNaxaNaiThiena’ (His heart did not have country’s map), is a perfect evidence for the poet’s ability to reach out to the audience.

The ‘Rulers and Shoes’ presents the poet’s sharp narration formulated by his painful observation of the real world around him.  The denouement of the poem is easy to understand, and that increases the readers’ enjoyment manifold. Really, Chandra does not write for his self-satisfaction, but for the sake of nation, society and humanity at large.

The Poet’s remarks on “Rulers and shoes”

 

“I write in my native language Nepali, this poem is the translation of my original work. This poem is included in my first anthology published in the year 2007. During that time Nepal was ruled by undemocratic King Gyanendra.   The main political parties were agitating against the autocratic regime. The Maoists insurgents were fighting against government forces with their demands of writing a new constitution. Later, Maoists Leaders agreed to accept the democratic process ending Nepalese Civil War and join other political parties to fight with the autocracy of King Gyanendra. During that time, human rights violations were at high numbers. This poem was written then.”

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 இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-18
மலைபடுகடாம் ( வரி 54-55)

" கனிபொழி கானம் கிளையொடு உணீஇய
துணைபறை நிவக்கும் புள்ளினம்..."

கனிபொழி கானம்போலப்  'பயன் மரம்' (குறள் 216) நாமுமாவோம்.

பொழி மழையன்ன பழந்தொங்கு கானகத்து மரங்கள், நாளும் நற் கனிகள் ஈந்து பறவைக் கூட்டங்களுக்குப் 'பயன் மரங்களாய்' உயர்ந்து நிற்கின்றன.

செல்வத்துப் பயனே ஈதல்.

இயன்றது ஈதல் என்றும் சிறப்பு.

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 பதில் என்னவாம்?

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இந்திய அளவில் கல்லூரிகளை அதனதன் தரத்திற்கேற்ப வரிசைப்படுத்திய தர வரிசைப் பட்டியலை மத்திய அரசு ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் வெளியிடுகிறது

இந்த ஆண்டு மத்திய அரசு வெளியிட்டுள்ள முதல் (டாப்) 100 கல்லூரிகளின் பட்டியலில்,1967 முதல் திராவிடக் கட்சிகளே ஆண்டு வரும் தமிழ் நாட்டில் உள்ள 32 கல்லூரிகள் இடம் பெற்றிருக்கின்றன. இதில் பல கல்லூரிகள் 1967க்குப்பின் நிறுவப்பட்டு வளர்ந்து நிற்பவை என்பது பெருமை கூட்டுவதாகும்.

அறிவது யாதெனில்,

நாட்டிலுள்ள உயர்தரமான கல்லூரிகளில் கிட்டத்தட்ட

மூன்றில் ஒருபங்கு (32/100.) தரமான கல்லூரிகள் தமிழகத்தில்!

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இந்த ஆண்டு வெளியிடப்பட்டுள்ள முதல் (டாப்) 100 இந்தியக் கல்லூரிகளில் இடம்பிடித்துள்ள தமிழகக் கல்லூரிகளின் பெயர்கள்

தர வரிசை எண்களுடன் இதோ.

இது மாணவர்களுக்குப் பெரிதும் உதவக்கூடும்.

தரவரிசை - கல்லூரி

5 - மாநிலக் கல்லூரி - சென்னை

6 - லயோலா கல்லூரி - சென்னை

10 - PSGR மகளிர் கல்லூரி - கோவை

17 - மெட்ராஸ் கிறிஸ்தவ கல்லூரி - சென்னை

22 - தியாகராஜர் கல்லூரி - மதுரை

25 - PSG கலை & அறிவியல் கல்லூரி - கோவை

27 - ஸ்காட் கிறிஸ்தவ கல்லூரி - நாகர்கோயில்

29 - ஸ்ரீ கிருஷ்ணா கலை அறிவியல் கல்லூரி - கோவை

31 - செயின்ட் ஜோசப் கல்லூரி - திருச்சி

33 - Madras school of social work - Chennai

34 - அரசுக் கலைக் கல்லூரி,கோவை

38 - மகளிர் கிறிஸ்தவ கல்லூரி - சென்னை

39 - பிஷப் ஹீப்பர் கல்லூரி - திருச்சி

41 - ராணி மேரி கல்லூரி - சென்னை

46 - எத்திராஜ் மகளிர் கல்லூரி - சென்னை

50 - செயின்ட் சேவியர்ஸ் கல்லூரி- பாளையங்கோட்டை

52 - லேடி டோக் கல்லூரி - மதுரை

53 - செந்தில்குமர நாடார் கல்லூரி - விருதுநகர்

54 - ஜமால் முகம்மது கல்லூரி - திருச்சி

58 - அய்யா நாடார் ஜானகியம்மாள் கல்லூரி - சிவகாசி

64 - ஸ்டெல்லா மேரிஸ் கல்லூரி- சென்னை

65 - ராமகிருஷ்ண மிஷன் கல்லூரி - கோவை

66 - ஹோலி கிராஸ் கல்லூரி - திருச்சி

68 - வ.உ.சி கல்லூரி - தூத்துக்குடி

70 - கொங்கு நாடு கலை அறிவியல் கல்லூரி - கோவை

74 - பாத்திமா கல்லூரி - மதுரை

78 - மகளிர் கிறிஸ்தவ கல்லூரி - நாகர்கோயில்

80 - அழகப்பா அரசு கலைக் கல்லூரி - காரைக்குடி

82. CMS கல்லூரி - கோவை

85 - NGP கலை அறிவியல் கல்லூரி - கோவை

87 - வேளாளர் மகளிர் கல்லூரி - ஈரோடு

90 - மகேந்திரா கலை அறிவியல் கல்லூரி - நாமக்கல்.

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 இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-17
மலைபடுகடாம்.(38)

" அருள் நெறி திரியாது"

அமைப்போம் வாழ்வதனை.

'வாழ்வாங்கு வாழ்தலே' வாழ்வு.

முன்னோர் மரபின் முதன்மைகள் சிதையாது, 'அறம் பிறழா' வாழ்க்கை அமைத்துக் கொள்வதே அர்த்தப்படுத்தும் நம் வாழ்வை.

தொகுத்த நன்னெறிகள் யாவும் தொடர்ந்திட வாழ்வோம்.

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Friend of Wisdom

Philosopher they call me,
Following Pythagoras of old,
A friend of wisdom it means and
Nothing more.
For years, I tried to understand
Philosophy’s principles and
For decades, her ethics strived to apply
Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus
My subjects were, thus
Faithfully myself
Devoted to their teaching
With no success, I confess
From my part
But not for the lack of trying.

And now,

As I descend life’s end clearer by the day
I come to realize to my horror
That although I remained a loyal friend
To wisdom to this day
Wisdom herself has never thought of me
The same way.
- Demetrios Trifiatis, (2013)

[Born (1944) in a small village 300 kms off Athens in Greece  Demetrios Trifiatis, lost both his  parents  early (father at 10 and mother at 14.)in his life. Moved to Athens and had to work to survive and to have early education there. After a stint of military service in Greece, he migrated to Canada. His graduate and Post Graduate studies in Philosophy were from two popular universities in the Country. Trifiatis gained Canadian citizenship in 1976 and taught Philosophy and English  and simultaneously authored a number of published short stories while in Canada. 

Trifiatis was recognizably visible and making lasting contributions  in a  variety of  fields- athletics (running marathons), education, philosophy, inter-disciplinary research, politics (candidate for Greek and European Parliament), humanitarian work, international peace-building (notably the Malta Summit 1989).All through, he has been working to alleviate the suffering of his fellow humans in any way he could.

He is truly an international citizen (lived in Canada-18 years, England, -2 yrs, Denmark, and China -1 yr each, US, Russia, the Balkans, New Zealand etc -some months) Trifiatis is a multi-linguist too -speaks Greek, English, French and has studied German, Danish and Italian. Back to Greece, retired, he pens his poems and nurses his garden. 

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 இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-16
மலைபடு கடாம்.
இரணிய முட்டத்துப் பெருங்குன்றூர்ப்பெருங்கௌசிகனார்.

" திருமழை தலைஇய இருள் நிற விசும்பின்"

பயனெனப் பரவுவோம்.

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திரண்ட கார்மேகம் பரந்த வானத்தை இருண்டதாக்கிப் பொழியும் மழையே

 பூமிப்பரப்பில் உயிர்கள் வாழவும், மாந்தர் வாழ்வில் அறம், பொருள் இன்பம் எனும் முக்கூட்டு நிகழவும் உறுதுணை.

இருண்ட வான் தரும் செல்வம் மழை.அம்மழை தரும் திருவே நம் வாழ்வும் வளமும்.

இருண்ட சூழலிலும், இயன்றது வழங்குவோம் வையத்துயிர்கள் உய்ய.

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இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-15
ஐங்குறுநூறு (7)
ஓரம்போகியார்.

"அறநனி சிறக்க அல்லது கெடுக"

அறமே தலை தமிழர்க்கு.
நீக்கமற அறமேம்பாடு எய்துவதே முந்தையோர் விழைவு.

அறப் பயிர் வளர இடையூறாகும் களை அல்லவை.
ஆகவே, அல்லவை அகற்றப்படுதலவசியம்.

நல்லறம் வளர அல்லவை யாவும் அகற்றுவோம் வாழ்வில்.

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Yet again, time has struck an irreconcilable end to the mortal life of an unrelenting trailblazer and brave women champion of gender equality and protector of gender discrimination in the United States of America.

In the demise of the most illustrious liberal women Supreme Court Justice of the U.S.A., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (87),on 18th September,2020, the women of the world and particularly those of the U.S.A have lost a real crusader who stoutly stood for the spectrum of women's rights throughout her two score plus seven  years of innings in the highest court of the country ever since she was appointed to the apex court in August 1993 by the then President Bill Clinton. 

Happily married to Martin D. Ginsburg (1954-2010) and blessed with children, she was a true liberal and that brought her at ease to find  it comfortable for herself to be on the side of the supporters of the same sex marriages, still a controversy in many cultures and countries. Her physical height (5'1") may be considered (often mentioned, uncharitably)far less in American Standards but she rose as a peerless colossus  in the thickly male dominated world of lawyers and judges in America and she is now regarded as "a jurist of historic stature."

Prior to occupying the dais of the court, she battled valiantly in half a dozen landmark cases before the Supreme Court and won all but one. These cases pertain to a gamut of issues relating to fair treatment of women and men.

  

As a judge, she became noted for her scathing dissenting opinions penned for several judgments delivered during the period spanning  a quarter century and little more of her tenure in the court and this earned her a nick name too ('Notorious R.B.G.'). 

Looking back, it  has now turned out to be an irony that  the one who was rejected in 1960 because she was a women (by the then Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter) for a clerkship with the Justice, has clawed her way to become the second-ever women justice (in the top court of the U.S.A. ,after former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) and is currently regarded as a " jurist of historic stature." 

It is certainly impossible for any one involved with and working in the rights domain, to forget the the name and contributions of the equal rights crusader, Justice Ginsburg. 

Our humble homage here to the departed brave.

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 20/9/2020

இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-14.

ஐங்குறுநூறு. (5)

ஒரம்போகியார்

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" பசியில்லாகுக பிணி சேண். நீங்குக"

நன்மைகள் வளர, மலர, 

வீடும், நாடும் 

பசியில்லாத, 

பிணிகளற்ற 

நலத்துடன் விளங்க வேண்டும் என்பது தமிழ் மரபின் பொது விழைவு.

பசியகல உழைப்பும், வளனும், இயைந்த பகிர்வும் சேர்த்து நிகழ்த்திப் , பிணிகள் அண்டாத நற்காப்பு சிறக்க நாமும் உதவுவோம்.

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19 /9/2020

இலக்கியச் சொல் வரிசை-13

ஐங்குறுநூறு (2)

ஓரம்போகியார்.

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"... கேண்மை

வழிவழிச் சிறக்க.."

நட்பென்பது

நெஞ்சில் நிலைப்பது;

நினைவினில் இனிப்பது;

நீள,அகல, ஆழ

அளவுகள்  கடந்தது.

நட்பு ( கேண்மை)

நாள்தோறும் ( பயில்தொறும்),

காலந்தோறும்,

வளர்ந்து, சிறந்து இனிமை தரும்.

நலம் பெறுவோம்

நன் நட்பில்.

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IS OUR FREEDOM GETTING ERODED FAST?

 FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT.2020  

The regular country reports by Freedom House  (a non-profit based in USA) assess the level of political rights and civil liberties in the nations surveyed. 25 indicators are used within seven categories given below: 

-electoral processes, 

-political processes and pluralism, 

-functioning of government, 

-freedom of expression and belief, 

-association and organisational  rights, 

-rule of law, 

-personal autonomy and individual rights. . 

The 2020 report,  has ranked  India at  83rd position along with Timor-Leste and Senegal, among the  195 nations surveyed,  This is near the bottom among the category of  "Free countries." 

The report shows a decline  in freedom in India from last year's position. By sliding down 4 points- from 75 to 71- India has become one of the world’s least free democracies,  among the world’s 25 largest democracies.

The Score for Political Rights is 34/40 and  37/60 for civil liberties. (Total 71/100).The report  has warned about “the Indian government’s alarming departures from democratic norms" under the present regime.

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 RTI

Having regard to the scheme of the RTI Act, the right of the citizens to access any information held or under the control of any public authority, should be read in harmony with the exclusions/exemptions in the Act. Evaluated Answer Books have to be disclosed under RTI Act.

 

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELALTE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO.6454  OF 2011

[Arising out of SLP [C] No.7526/2009]

 

Decided on 9 August, 2011

 

Central Board of Secondary Education & Anr.                       ... Appellants

Vs.

Aditya Bandopadhyay & Ors.                                        ... Respondents

 

With

CA No. 6456 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) No.9755 of 2009)

CA Nos.6457-6458 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) Nos.11162-11163 of 2009)

CA No.6461 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) No.11670 of 2009)

CA Nos.6462 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) No.13673 of 2009)

CA Nos.6464 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) No.17409 of 2009)

CA Nos. 6459 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) No.9776 of 2010)

CA Nos.6465-6468 of 2011 (@ SLP (C) Nos.30858-30861 of 20                                

 Bench: R.V. Raveendran, A.K. Patnaik

 R.V.RAVEENDRAN, J.

 

This is a Landmark decision on Exemption –

Elaborate discussion of the scheme of the RTI Act and Exemptions under the Act.

 

The cases were filed by the Central Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal Council for Higher Education, University of Calcutta, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, West Bengal Central School Service Commission and Assam Public Service Commission, challenging the common order and judgment dated 05/02/2009 passed by the division bench of the Calcutta High Court that allowed disclosure of evaluated answer sheets to applicants under RTI.

The far reaching implication of the judgment is that all Examining bodies/ Authorities including Universities in the Country, Public Service Commissions and such authorities have to provide copies of evaluated answer sheets of candidates when requested by them under RTI Act 2005]

 

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