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From: Mani M. Manivannan
To: murug@... ;
Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Newton in kuRaL veNba


Dear Achwin,

If you are THE ERA. MURUGAN, the famous author, I am delighted
to make your acquaintance. And I would strongly encourage you
to join the Agathiyar list. To subscribe, send a message to
agathiyar-subscribe@egroups.com or go the group's home page at
http://www.egroups.com/list/agathiyar

That would confine the exchanges to Agathiyar and leave Webmasters
for the technical discussions. Also, browse the www.forumhub.com
site, if you have time. There are a couple of authors in that group
and the exchanges are always interesting.

I do look forward to you article on the definition of poetry.

Still I am not clear on your objection. Though cinema is now the
popular art form, there are people who are desperately trying
to revive the older art forms such as therukoothu and the stage
plays. Though the western inspired "dance" forms and "rap"
music are in vogue, cathir (bharathanattiyam) and carnatic
music have its fans and practitioners. Classical art and modern
art have their spheres of influence and can easily coexist.

Who knows, somebody has already written the Newton's laws
in puthu kavithai form! The point is, it has been an age-old
tradition of India to put formulas in verse. That somebody
would revive that art form in modern times need not be surprising.
Nor should that be ridiculed. There are people who don't "get"
puthu kavithai or Piccasso. And there are others who don't
understand Ahananooru or Kamba Ramayanam.

It is one thing to understand and appreciate Shakespeare in prose
and entirely another to read the original, with the appropriate
training in English poetry. I can listen to music, any kind of
music, without having any understanding of the theory. I can
still enjoy it. However, those that understand the theory
enjoy it in a completely different way that is very appealing to them.
My appreciation of the TCP/IP protocols as a user and a programmer
are completely different.

Nobody says you cannot appreciate classical poetry without
mastering the yappilakkaNam. That is a different kind of
appreciation. However, once you do understand the rules, your
appreciation is enhanced. A Tamil scholar's view of Tolkappiyam
and a linguist's view of it as well as a computer scientist's
perspective of it are all different. While as a Tamil student
one may ignored Tolkappiyam. But if you dabble in compiler
technology or Natural language processing or computational
linguist, you are likely to come away with an appreciation
of Tolkappiyam that is vastly different.

Composing KuraLs to codify Einstein's principles or illustrate
the principles of project management are elegant and stimulating
intellectual excercises and they draw their own following.
I wonder what is in that you find abhorrent!

Regards,

Mani M. Manivannan
Newark, CA, USA.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: murug@...
>
>
>Thanx for the mail. Well, I've to write a detailed letter on modern verse
>and on what is poetry and what is not poetry. I shall be posting it in a
>couple of days to Inayam.
>
>I do not know about what othes feel, but as an IT professional and a Tamil
>author, poet and columnist I find that all these roles could co exist and I
>still can write meaningful poetry (Pudhu Kavidhai) without
>getting Project Management technics or OOPS into my poem!
>
>Warm regards,
>Era.Murugan
>(Achwin)