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naadod-@... wrote:
Dear Era. Murugan,

I am sorry I continue beyond your Amen. But, without this mail, the
whole thing will go against my views and also will not do justice.

>From your *last* mail, it appears that you seem to concur with me on
issues like preserving our heritage and treasured 'marabhu' (excl.
marabhuk kavidhaikaL). If that is the case, in retrospect I feel that
I was too harsh on my words. But, I had the reason to be,



>>>It is needless to lament the death of Marabu Kavithai as a vibrant
>>>modern Tamil poetry has since evolved and has taken its place,

> >So one can commit patricide when his new son is born !!! Great
logic.
> >Go take pride and dance on the imaginary corpse of the cherished and
> >beloved tradition.

> Harsh words again.. I never knew that lamenting a death would make
a
> person liable to be booked for culpable homicide of the departed
individual!

Please read again your first posting and the latest. You said
"needless to lament" - that does not imply what you had in your mind as
you make it clear in your later posting. You said one is dead and
something vibrant has taken its place eversince. Undeniable that it is
the natural truth, but humans as we are we are given to lamenting the
death of our beloved. So you know how the tone of my mail orginated.


>
> >> Please do not take pride in believing that our classical tradition
is
> dying, We are beoming one rotten society abandoning all our
> evolved sophisticated traditions and borrowing filth from
> elsewhere.
>
> What made you to assume that I take pride in believing....?! Where is
the
> necessity for all these harsh words?
>
If I elaborate on this point then it becomes circumlocution. I only
suggest that you read your first posting again and you know why I
replied like that.

We take pride in repeating the cliche
"pazayana kazithalum, puthiyana pukuthalum....", I agree. What I am
against is
"pazayana kaziththlum, puthiyana pukuththalum". If it happens by
natural selection, it is good but if it is enforced by some people who
cannot adhere to the norms and want them off. Then as someone who
firmly believes that for a tradition that has endured aeon and
survivied varied onslaughts, it has emerged out of natural selection.
That should be lauded, cherished and preserved - it is something that
we should be proud about. I see only a pathetic trend of speaking or
writing disparagingly about yappu, just because the present lot is
incapable of doing it. The same is true about bommalaattam or hari
kathaa!

Again, as a person who is not given to hurting anybody's feeling, if i
had hurt you by giving an impression that is against you, I do not
hesitate in saying that I am sorry.

anbudan
venkat