Guest guest Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Cultural mothers like Bharata Mata or Tamil Taay are quite complex phenomenon. The tamil taay figure is marginal in 99.9999999% of tamil lives, and the tamil-taay represents a sort of a (sub)nationalism. All children of her, whether hindu, christian or muslim, are welcome to her. See P. Mehta and S. Ramaswamy conversations in the Frontline (The Hindu group): http://www.flonnet.com/fl1604/16041160.htm See prof. Sumathi's original article: http://www.flonnet.com/fl1601/16010920.htm The poem is written in 19th century (not as erroneously claimed to be a 20th century product). Also, Annadurai did not make it a state song, he was dead by then. Reading Sumathi's book (URL given earlier) or her articles do not state any court case or anything. I'd imagine prof. Sumathi's book will have a chapter dedicated or some jl. aricles to describe that interesting episode if it ever happened. The lines as existing in tamil texts for children (nowadays, with Call center economy from the west booming, reading Tamil is getting reduced.All are into convent schools) do not have any ref. to sanskrit. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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