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Subject: Re: Anbulla Singapore Amma Gnanam Nadarajah
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:56:14 +0530
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From: "Bala Pillai"
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Anpulla Amma Gnanam,
Mikka nandri for replying my email - most appreciated. I am all admiration
for you, 70+ aged Amma Gnanam :-).
I would so much like to get lots more elder, semi-retired and retired Tamils
with precious minds and connections to cooperate with wired Tamil youth in
raising Tamildom. It would add holism, graciousness and connectedness as we
move towards greater and greater consensus on societal priorities in the
global Tamil mindcosm.
In particular, one area where you would be able to assist is in showing us
possible ways of us reducing close-mindedness amongst Tamils, much of which
comes from a lack of self-esteem and unexamined minds.
I can reluctantly understand why perhaps our fathers and many generations
prior to them did not examine their minds and pretty much passed on the
mindsets and beliefs that were brought down the generations.
But we are exposed to so much wisdom, so many books, to television, to so
many perspectives, countries and societies. How can we justify not
reexamining our minds in view of all these availabilities? How can we
justify simply passing down, without examination, what was passed down to
us?
We know that the "Chinese whispers" syndrome introduces errors when things
are passed from one to another in 2 minutes. Surely there is room for errors
when things are passed down through generations! And that must be the reason
why God or Nature provided us the reasoning/thinking/brain faculty to reason
for ourselves right from wrong, no?
[Chinese whispers: the game where a group of people stand in a line, and a
phrase is uttered to one in one end. And the person has to whisper what she
heard to the person next in line and on and on till it reaches the last
person in the line. And we ask the last person what she heard. Nearly
everytime, it is quite the opposite of what was told to the first person]
What approaches can we try to encourage self-examination of minds?
But first let's get you properly connected so that you can exchange emails
in Tamil. Please have your son to:-
a) download and install Thamil Innaiya Erumbugal E-Kalappai. Instructions
are at http://www.tamil.net/special
b) if he has any questions to go through Erumbugal Uthavi past questions and
answers which is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-uthavi
c) I would very much like it if you could pass on my Introduction to your
son, and have him contact me for his and Tamildom's benefit. As you well
know, today we learn from people and places we never would have thought of
learning from, including little ants in the ground! And one of the best
places for Tamils, if I may say so, is Thamil Innaiya Erumbugal at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erumbugal
d) Once you are past this stage, please do contact me via Yahoo Instant
Messenger at 'bala2pillai' and I will explain how you can assist us in
bringing lots more retired and semi-retired Tamil minds on board Tamildom.
You will be helping yourself while helping others, just like ants do, in so
doing.
anpudan../bala
bala@...
sydney, australia
----- Original Message -----
From: gnanam nadarajah
To: Bala Pillai
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: Bala Pillai -- Introduction
> Dear Bala
> Sorry for not replying to your mail sooner.
> I have got all my messages entangled n I am sorry I am not so very
organised
> in my pc.
> Interesting to know all about u. U are of the same age as my son who is
in
> s'pore.
> He is supposed to come this week with his sons n he will as usual tidy up
> my pc n at the same time giving me a kutty lecture too. I have this habit
> of saving whatever interesting sites I find on the desk top for easy
access
> which he does not approve. He says that it should all b sent into a
folder.
> He always makes short trips n is not enough to help much thouhg I mus
tsay
> he is a good teacher but I get angry with him when he will sit beside me n
> say 'now mother practice what Ihave showed u'
> He does not believe in me taking notes.
> All my life I have been doing self study n I must read n do things n when
I
> am stuck i will ask someone.
> I am in the age group when our studies were interrupted by the 2nd World
> War.
> My father saw the importance of the girls in the family getting the same
> education as the boys in spite of all his friends having different views.
> They tried to brain wash him not to send me n my sister to school as we
will
> soon b getting married n our education will b a waste. :-(
> Thanks to him n our good mother we are today what we are because they
> forced us to continue our studies.
> My mother who came from sri lanka was worried that the girls (2 of us )
will
> not know tamil .so she spent allher time in teaching us how to read n
write.
> Then during the occupation period we had to stay at home n that is where
> when our real tamil studies began .
> Both of us read all the books my mother had again n again n that is how my
> interest in tamil language began.
> So my tamil language is self studied.
> I am a retired teacher n at one time of my teaching period i was asked to
> teach tamil.
> At 1st I refused thinking that I will not b able to do a good job but I
had
> no choice so I had to teach for nearly 3 years. I enjoyed it but my
chinese
> principal felt that I was taking too much trouble in teaching the tamil
> kids that he got me out of it n made me get into the english stream.
>
> SO now I have come to this computer age where I have to do a lot of self
> study.
> Sometimes I wish i had been S'pore till I had mastered the tamil e mails.
> I did attend a workshop conducted by the SINDA but at that time I was not
> too good with the pc so I was slow to learn.
> I have just learnt to go into the tamil sites but was not able to read som
e
> of the text.
> I am trying to read the thirumanthiram n the explanation in tamil though I
> have the book but I want to read what others have to say.
> Now my priority is to b able to write tamil e mails.
> Iam not so fluent in expressing in tamil for want of practice but time
will
> cure it .
> Kattarthum kaimannalavu kallaathathu ullagalavu.
> Regards n best wishes
> amma gnanam nadarajah
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bala Pillai"
> To: "gnanam nadarajah"
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:31 PM
> Subject: Bala Pillai -- Introduction
>
>
> > Anbulla Amma Gnanam Nadarajah,
> >
> > Thought I'd introduce myself, so that we can build a relationship
faster.
> > Here goes.
> >
> > anbudan../bala
> > bala@...
> >
> > Bala Pillai
> > Introduction
> > Draft 1.3 May 11 2002
> >
> > 1. What's Bala's mind like?
