ANNA INSPIRES TAMILS

Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Pro-Chancellor Mr. Vice- Chancellor, Graduates of the Year and Friends:

Thankful as I am for the unique honor conferred on me by this institution, it is not without hesitation as a good deal of trepidation that I stand before this august assembly to-day to deliver the Convocation address, for though it is a pleasure to be present on the happy occasion of greeting the graduates of the year and wishing them all a bright and prosperous future, it is not an easy task to place before them appropriate guidelines-conscious as I am of my own limitations and aware of the eminence of those who stood at this rostrum in the past and gave weighty and worthy advice to the graduates. Stalwarts in various walks of life, scholars of erudition and experience, administrators of rare abilities, have all been here to deliver instructive discourses, and I do not for a moment imagine that I have the capacity to add any thing substantial to what has been already said by those who preceded me. I am convinced therefore that to be called upon to deliver this  address is not so much an invitation as a command to me bestow the most careful and considered thought on the role of Universities in general and of the Annamalai University in particular.

The fact that I am conscious of my own limitations gives me a sense of relief, for attempt I shall not to offer original ideas or theories with a special stamp, but only reiterate some of the cardinal principles enunciated by those who offered their a advice in past years, perhaps with annotations here and there, bringing to bear the lay-man’s point of view to the findings of experts in various fields connected with education.

This is the age of the common man-whatever the regrets some might have –and it’s his point of view that matters most and I do claim to represent him in all his ruggedness.

Systems and schools of thought, whether it is in philosophy or politics, ethics or economics, are certainly meant for him. Of course, the interpretation should come from scholars and experts and the art of translating them into every day activity is to be undertaken by the administrators. Universities, as the repositories of knowledge and the nursing ground for the emissaries of thought wisdom and service, have got a prominent  role to play-and the prominence is growing every day, as more and more individuals get themselves equipped for the task of bettering society in all its age when we have eschewed monarchy and autocracy and have inaugurated the era of democracy.

During the monarchical or feudal days, Universities had to train scholars and poets to adorn the chambers of Royalty or the gilded mansions of Lord and nobles and their wisdom was meant for the mansion, not for the market place. Those were days when numbers did not count, nor were eminent scholars asked to face the problems confronting the masses. They were content to work in secluded spheres, far from the din and noise of the common man and weave the costly fabric of philosophy of poetry which on turn was to be converted into dazzling garments for the select and the privileged.

The role of the University to-day is not cloistered and confined as in the past. Its function has been enlarged-not in its fundamentals but in its domain. It has to take into account the commonness, but to trim and train, guide and lead him, for asked to do his duty as the citizen of a democracy-a task which kindles sweet hopes but which demands, patience and perseverance, faith and confidence, faith in himself and in others and confidence in his inherent ability to shoulder the responsibilities. The common man has become the birth place of a potential ruler and the duty today, the responsibility today of the universities is to fashion out of him as an individual fitted and equipped for the task of making democracy fruitful and effective.

I said that the duties and responsibilities of Universities have grown in dimension and scope, but pointed out that the fundamentals remain unaltered and these fundamentals are of permanent value and of perennial interest. The supreme task before the University is to give those who seek a vision of knowledge in its true proportions and perspectives, to maintain the sovereignty of ideas and ideals in the world. A balanced mind, the ability to discriminate between what is merely trivial and what is important, the capacity to look at a problem from all its angles without fear or favour, to be tolerant of the other man’s point of view. These are fundamentals which are unalterable and it’s only the universities that can provide society with a continuous stream of men and women endowed with these qualities.

While addressing the University of Brussels, Dr.s.Radhakrishnan, our former president, made the following statement:

“For its proper functioning democracy requires more qualities than other forms of government. It is in the universities that we can develop the true spirit of democracy, appreciation of other points of view and adjustment of differences through discussions. It can be kept healthy and strong by the exercise of individual responsibility and judgement.in universities we have to re-call the struggles of the past and realize the perils and possibilities, the challenges and opportunities, of the present.”

Democracy is not a form of government alone –it is an invitation to a new life-an experiment in the art of sharing responsibilities and benefits-an attempt to generate the common task. Hence we cannot afford to waste a single talent, improverish a single man or woman or allow a single individual to be stunted in growth or held under tyranny and the universities should through the graduates it sends forth year after year, annihilate the forces that attempt at aggrandizement and tyranny, fight against caste and hypocrisy and enthrone human dignity.

Graduates of the year, I wish you all a prosperous future-for, after all, the immediate concern of every individual, graduate or no graduate, is to acquire the means for a decent living. That is the first motivation for all human activity and no one can ignore it, but that ought not to be the sole objective. Something higher and nobler than mere individual material advancement is expected of you – for remember that this University education is a privilege that you enjoy, for which you are deeply indebted to the community of which you are a member. Most of the money needed for maintaining institutions of higher education come from the revenues collected from the community through the State, and a good proportion of that revenue comes from the tillers and the toilers, men who did not enjoy this privilege, men who willingly submit themselves to discomfort, so that they can enable the next generation to lead a better life. Graduates of the Annamalai University, may I ask you, how you are going to repay – what is to be your contribution to the social chest on which you have drawn so largely. Unless you replenish it richly, coming generations will find only an empty coffer. Your superior education increases your responsibility to society and therefore, apart from or along with your own individual advancement, society has got a right to expect an adequate return from you – not so much in terms of money as in terms of service – in toning up society, in bringing light into the dark alleys, sunshine into dingy places, solace into the afflicted, hope unto the despondent and a new life unto every one.

That this is a welcome and worthy ideal none would dispute, but not every one will come forward to translate that ideal into action – and yet our ancient as well as modern thinkers have all stated in unmistakable terms that wisdom is manifested in action.

Unless service is the outcome, the sermons become sweet nothings. As Jefferson stated,

“We must dream of an aristocracy of achievements arising out of a democracy of opportunities”

And when I seek your help and co-operation in the supreme task of serving society, please do not wink and smile and say, it is all so easy to say. I am not unaware of the difficulties in the way, nor am I going to brush aside the influence of the environment on you. May be, the world in which you are to begin the journey is one which will dim your hope, disturb your determination. You may come face to face with the unpleasant sight of practices widely differing from the principles inculcated in you. You may find self-seekers enthroned and the patient worker decried. Tyranny of all sorts may stare at you and every step you take will be a struggle. I admit that the environment is such that even people with robust optimism will be discouraged and forced to take to the part of ease and comfort.

But, we should also realize that a continuous stream of men and women endowed with the spirit of service has been carrying on the crusade successfully and have conferred rich benefit on humanity.We, the Tamilians have been holding aloft this ideal for more than two thousand years and hence we find in pura nanuru .

As inheritors of that rich legacy, you are best fitted to overcome even the environment and serve society to the best of your abilities,

Anyone, who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them – says Albert Schweitzer.

Though the problems in various countries are of a similar nature, the peculiarity attached to the problems of our country is of a pronounced nature.

Ours is not case of starting from scratch-had that been the case the only thing needed would have been the intensity of effort to be put forth. Ours is a case of erosion of the mind – we are not in search of fields, but have to engage in the task of fertilizing it, irrigating it, we are not in search of ideals, but are engaged in the more intricate task of classifying, codifying and verifying layers of ideals. We are not wanting in culture-but have to cleanse it from the cob-web of time and de-adulterate it. In short, we have to re-discover ourselves, and re-construct our entire thought. Once task to-day is to allow fresh air and sunshine and regain the original shape and stature – that which made us well

Known is distant lands and climes.Our literature, art and architecture are fine specimens of human intelligence – but they bear the ravages of time and also the effect of currents and cross currents so that to-day we have to listen to the foreign historian or scholar in order to realize the “glory and grandeur” of our own country.

Age commands veneration –but unless it is recuperated, decay sets in. our culture and civilization are hoary, but we have allowed scars and wrinkles to disfigure them. It is our duty therefore to re-discover and re-construct what is ours and enrich it by drawing liberally upon the achievements of other countries.

Our problem is not want of a system –in any branch of knowledge. We have fine specimens in all spheres. We claim also –and that rightly –immortality for our systems, but we have not succeeded in keeping them fresh and young, effective and energetic, for we have allowed them to decay.

If a system has to endure, says, Dr.Radhakrishnan, it must be perpetually young and ready to change. In other words, it must be capable of accepting new ideas, have the resilience of mind which the young have, have the openness, flexibility and spirit of adventure by which they accept what is given to them and transform it out of recognition.

Eos, a goddess falling in love with a mortal, prayed to god to grant immortality to the lover-‘yes’, said god, and the mortal gained immortality. But he grew old, infirm, senile, decayed –and what was a feast once to the eyes of Eos became a sight to shun and grieve over –and he who gained immortality longed for death – for what is life if it becomes a prey to decay? Then Eos sighed and said, “I prayed for immortality for my lover, forgetting to pray for perpetual youth.”

We in this country are facing some such situation – and we are in charge of the task of rejuvenating our culture and civilization – our entire thought, instead of attempting that, we have been, for too long a period, doting upon the decayed forms attempting to defend them from critics and currents of new thought. And while other parts of the world, after persistent and patient search after truth, have arrived at new conclusions and are scaling new heights, we are content to sit near the shattered rampart and narrate past glory.

Our religion has degenerated into rituals, our society which was once classless and casteless has degenerated into water –tight compartments of caste and creed and all the while, we have kept either silent or have been supplying defense to superstition and orthodoxy by offering liberal allowing this state of affairs to exist, despite condemnation and protest, and, more than that, whenever a doughty warrior comes forth to fight against the evils prevalent, we decry and denounce him as an annihilator of noble values and hoary systems. Periyar Ramasami represents and symbolizes the fury and frustration in a sizable section of society at this state of affairs. To allow systems to degenerate and at the same time denounce those who champion the cause of rationalism is but to perpetuate superstition and orthodoxy and allow this society of ours to get decomposed.

Universities offer the proper forum for a free and full discussion of these intricate problems and graduates trained here are to go forth as emissaries of that social reconstruction which is long over due. The country looks to centers of learning like this

Universities to enable the people to pursue the path of progress, braving difficulties and if need be, courting danger.

Graduates of the Annamalai University, let me call upon you to carry on the crusade against caste which cannot co-exist with democracy, against superstition which cannot co-exist with science and against tyranny of various dimensions which cannot co-exist with liberty, equality and fraternity.

Pursuing vocations for your and your families’ well being, you have to perform your duty towards society. You are to become torch – bearers of rationalism – and rationalism does not mean repudiation of basic and fundamental truths and maxims, but the annihilation of dubious modes of thought and action. You have to work hard and with daring and dash, for we have to clear cob-webs which are centuries old and let reason reign supreme.

Another peculiar feature of our times is the fact that we are a nation in the making, and if in their anxiety to forge integration, some confuse unity with uniformity, it is the duty of men trained here to clearly enunciate the principle and see to it that, in the name of unity, no part of the country is made to become the vassal of another part-knowingly or unknowingly. We cannot be a party to foul play, however worthy the goal. Just on the eve of independence Rajaji stated with an acumen all his own, “our political experiment is really like melting iron and metals and pouring them in to a crucible and making an alloy, an alloy which can stand wear and tear . It is not like the chinaware that other people have turned out in their countries. Their democracies were easy to make – like plastics. But we are dealing with metals.” National integration is a goal, worthy and much – sought after, but neither in the field of language nor in the economic sphere, could we tolerate injustice and domination. That is exactly why this government was brought into existence – it represents the determination of the people to be coerced into accepting Hindi as the official language.

When we plead for the continuance of English as the link language, some people do misrepresent us and misinterpret our motive. They trot out untenable arguments and disputable statistics, bring in the bogey of disintegration and want to silence people by threats and troops. Problems were never solved by autocratic methods – and this problem of language is intimately connected with our way of life, not for the present alone but for the future as well.

The government of Tamilnadu has stated in unmistakable terms that Tamil and English can serve all our purposes, the former as the official language of this state and the latter as the link language. If it is accepted and the most emphatic of Hindi protagonists do accept that - if it is accepted that English can serve admirably as a link between our state and the outside world, why plead for Hindi to be the link language here? What serves to link us with the outside world is certainly capable of rendering the same service inside India as well. To plead for two link languages is like boring a smaller hole in a wall for the kitten while there is a bigger one for the cat. What suits the cat will suit the kitten as well

English is foreign, some argue, as if we were out to destroy or give up everything foreign. We bring foreign wear in foreign ships. We seek foreign aid not only in the shape of money bur also in the from of technical know-how and not a week passes without one or other leader undertaking a journey to the west or east to secure whatever aid is possible to secure. And on top of all these things, we have given up so many systems peculiarly our own.

We are not content with rural economy, we want Trombays and Ennores. And we are not conscious of their being foreign; only in the matter of language we pose as being ultra –nationalists and dub the English language as foreign.

Shelly and Byron, Keats and Coleridge, Emerson and Bacon-they are not foreign to us in the strict sense of the term. Is Tiruvalluvar a mere Tamilian? They are all world citizens – world teachers. And the language enshrining their thoughts is not to be discarded just because it comes from another country. That we are not going to accord a higher status to English is borne out by the fact that we have accepted and are implementing with due caution the principle of making Tamil the medium of instruction in colleges –progressively.

University education is an epitome of all that is best in thought cultivated in various countries, and from you should radiate universal thought and cosmopolitan ideas.

And if we are to get all these and more from out of the graduates of the University we have to re-examine the methods in vogue in universities, in teaching and in administration, and so perfect them that every student feels that he is a co-sharer of the pleasure and privilege of knowledge along with his professors. I shall not dabble in methods of teaching or administration-experts in that field are the natural custodians-my plea is only as regards the necessity for a re-examination.

While the functions assigned to universities are mostly of the same type, the Annamalai University, by its structure and spirit, has got a special function of its own. The great founder’s nobility and generosity has made this institution gain the esteem of eminent men here and elsewhere; but if we analyze the thought and motive force of Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar, we will find that he wanted this place to be not only a seat of learning and research of Tamil Culture and Tamil polity. He had the foresight to realize that Tamilians were going to cultivate their special talents and that was exactly why he started and made a success of the Tamil Isai Movement. Rajah Sir was never a man of tall talk-he believed in solid work and he knew the time was bound to come for us to delve deep into our annals and literature, culture and civilization and succeed in getting due and adequate recognition in the world forum.

Truly great has been our achievement in the field of literature. To be able to announce to the world that we the Tamilians do possess and to present to the world the great Tirukkural which is a Code of Conduct for the entire humanity are something about which we can have pardonable pride and pleasure.

And yet, are we devoting enough attention to these Tamil Classics? Addressing the Convocation here in 1943, the late lamented Sir R.K. Shanmukham Chetty had the following to say:-

“I graduated with a complete ignorance of Tamil Culture and History: in fact with a great deal of contempt for these. I attained a fair degree of proficiency in English literature and the history of European culture. I acquired some knowledge of even Anglo- Saxon and Gothic. I read the translation of the Bible in the Gothic language , but I had not read the Kural of Valluvar. I could understand Chaucer, but the name of Ilango was nothing but a name. Even after leaving College, I kept alive my interest in these studies and built up a Library in which there was not a single Tamil book.

In my early youth when I lived in a world of my own with no sense of responsibility, all this made no difference to me and I was proud of my learning. Soon when manhood came with its cares and problems, I found myself a stranger in my own home…….Gradually I began to realize the incongruity of my scheme of life and for some time now I have been endeavoring to rectify the balance. It was only a few years ago that I seriously attempted to study some of the Tamil Classics. I find that they are fit to rank among the immortal works of the world. I now bitterly regret my neglect of the treasures of my own land.”

It was not an apologia, but the expression of a new determination and Sir R.K.Shanmukaham lived to establish the truth that he had mastered not only the Tamil language but Tamil literature as well. Had he lived for some more years, he would traveled many a land carrying the message of the Tamil Classics, which spoke at such a hoary past about thoughts now placed before the world as blossoms of the modern age.

You, graduates of the Annamalai University, have got undertake the special task of carrying the message that our classics contain to the entire world and declare that what was the most ancient here is what is being introduced to-day as the most modern.

South India is the home of the most ancient culture Though for a fairly long period there was the mist of ignorance, thick and widespread, it has now been acknowledge by all that Dravidian Civilization of a highly developed character can be traced back to the second and third millennia before Christ. Many a Foreign scholar has borne testimony to the perfection with which Tamil language has been developed into an instrument of precise and subtle thought and to the beauty and richness of the literature – which is contained in it. Dravidian literature, philosophy, art and architecture offer therefore a rich and fruitful field for exploration and critical investigation.

Not for more glorification but for a just appreciation of all that is of real value and beauty in our past heritage. We need this research and investigation.

I do not propose to talk about your responsibility in the political arena. Suffice it to say that you should make democracy safe and sound, salubrious and fruitful.

Carry the message that this Universities has given to you wherever you go, whatever the station you find yourselves in and elevate the common man- the average man-

“He seems incredible but represents two –thirds of mankind. He lives in hut. He cannot read or write. His energy is sapped by disease. He labours up to 15hours a day. He works on land he does not own. He and his family are family are usually hungry. He will die young. But he still has hopes for his children; that they will be strong and healthy; will be able to read and write, will know individual freedom in a peaceful world. This is the world’s average Man.”

And the world over, this average Man has become conscious of the injustice done to him and as a consequence we find agitations and marches, struggles and clashes. In many a country, measures to raise his level have been undertaken. Take a pledge, here and now, that we will not lag behind and leave our average man in the lurch. For if the base is weak, the dome is doomed. Inheritors as you are of a noble heritage, you are eminently fitted for this noble task, and on its success depends the future of this nation as of others.

Let us remember what Woodrow Wilson said,

“Nations are renewed from the bottom not from the top . . . real wisdom of human life is compounded out of the experiences of ordinary men. The utility, the vitality, the fruitage of life comes like the natural growth of a great tree, from the soil, up through the trunk into the branches to the foliage and the fruit. The great struggling unknown masses of the men who are not the base of everything are the dynamic force that is lifting the level of society. A nation is as great and only as great as her rank and file.”

May I submit my plea to you, youths blossoming forth from this institution, be firm but not obstinate, let here be a blending of ideas, but never cheap imitation and injurious adulteration, beware of mistaking obsessions for principles and fads for facts, strike at a synthesis and avoid subservience, view as the final on to protest against injustice but project not your own view as the final one, forget not the ancient saying.

University education gives you the basic needs for this stupendous task, but that is not enough. Say along

I read, I study

I examine, I listen

I reflect, and out of

All this, I try to form

An idea in which I can put as

Much of commonsense

As I can.

And remember the longest journey is the journey inward, and since graduation is but the starting point of that journey, I wish you success-reach the goal yourselves-teach others to march towards the goal and let that goal be,

A world without the

beggar’s out-stretched

palm, the miser’s

heartless, stony stare,

the piteous wail of

want, the pallid face

of crime, the

livid lips of lies,

the cruel eyes

of scorn,

A race without

disease of flesh or

brain, shapely and

fair, the married

harmony of form and

use-where

life lengthens, fear

dies, joy deepens,

love intensifies, and

Man regains his

Dignity.

And to get these things realized, let us one and all strive towards the ideal enunciated by Thiruvalluvar,

“cWgáí« Xth¥ ãÂí« brWgifí«

nruh âaštJ ehL”

I am confident that you are being sent into the wide world by the Annamalai University with this objective-you are bound to win, for you are adequately equipped with the spirit supplied by this great institution. May your life be a bright one, and may its luster brighten the entire land! Accept my congratulations and march onwards, towards the land of smiles.

[Annamalai University Convocation Address of Tamilnadu Chief Minister C.N.Annadurai on 18.11.1967]

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TRACING THE TAMILS PAST

AMIDST LETHARGY OF RULERS

Tamils had scaled greater heights in ancient times, and their mathematical skills wherein one out of eight lakh fractions was the least small quantity up to which they could calculate without a calculator or computer. The theorem of Pythagoras could be spelt out in poetic form in Tamil much before his times. Erambam, Kanakathigaram by Kakkai Padiniyar, Kilaralabham, Athisaram, Kalambaham,Tiribuvana Thilagam, Kanitha rathinam,Sirukanakku were the books which I refered says Kaari Nayanar who wrote Kanakathigaram, But all these books Tamils have lost.

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“ Underworld : The Mysterious origins of Civilizations” Nandhivarman urged Tamil scholars to read English books on civilizations to know more and substantiate about the facts relating to the Kumari Kandam, lost in Indian Ocean. Mr.Graham Hancock, the author of this book relying heavily on the inundation maps by Dr.Gelen Milne of Durham University had said 5 percent of the Earth’s surface or 25 million square kilometers were submerged. Three super floods in between 15000 to 14000 thousand years, 12000 to 11000 thousand years, and 8000 to 7000 thousand years have swallowed earth’s surface, more particularly the Kumari Kandam. Researches into the lost civilizations so far had been on earth surface and land-centric and in the vast oceans marine archaeology had barely begun to investigate.

So until scientific researches in marine archeology are undertaken it would be difficult to supplement literary evidences about hoary past. All earth’s continents and land mass had been once upon a time one, and called Pangaea, which in Latin means All Earth. Similarly all languages emanated from one language and a school for Nostratic languages subscribes to this theory. There is book on all writing systems. All these lead to the conclusion that mankind is one, and we had our origins in Africa and spread every where. But our link is lost in the seas. It will take long time to reconstruct Tamil’s past but with available evidences, we will have to start.

Ancient Tamils were highly knowledgeable and had high living standards in ancient times but at same Tamils proved that from mathematics to medicine everything could be condensed within Tamil poetry and grammatical rules. But today though Tamils earn more they remain arivu koolies to the multi nationals and they had forgotten Tamil. Hence ancient times were golden times.

Tamils had slept in midway thereby lost chances to win the race and prove they are the top in human civilization. This loss aggravates further when Tamil rulers with all there power in Center could not secure Tamil its due place.

UNESCO from 1999 onwards is celebrating World Mother Tongues Day every year on February 21. It is in remembrance of the Basha Andolan Dibosh, which means Language Struggle of 1950-52 in East Pakistan currently known as Bangladesh. Then Pakistan Government imposed Urdu as sole official language of Pakistan. East Pakistan had Bengali speakers. So in protest against this order Dhaka University Students and Medical College students staged a protest demonstration. In Police firing 5 people lost their lives on 21 st Feb 1952. The struggle won Bengali equal status with Urdu. To honour the memory of those martyrs UNESCO had chosen Feb 21 as World Mother Languages Day.

We all know the Anti-Hindi Agitation and the numerous lives we lost including self immolation. All that history was not placed before UNESCO with documentary evidences to prove that Tamil struggle is of greater magnitude. This failure of those who ruled Tamilnadu and Tamil Ministers in Union Cabinet had deprived a chance where world history could have spoken about our struggle by celebrating as World Mother Languages Day. Amidst such failures, selfishness of present Tamils not to think about Tamil language we have to bank upon our past to regain the lost spirit of being pioneers in world civilizations.

 Dravida Peravai General Secretary Nandhivarman

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Worsening Crisis in Afghanistan Requires Increased Support for Millions of Refugees and Returnees
New Field Report Warns that Billions of Dollars of U.S. Funding Not Reaching Vulnerable Afghan Refugees in Need

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Washington, DC - The United States must reallocate funding towards programs that support millions of Afghan refugees and returnees, a field report by Refugees International urged today. The new report, Afghanistan: Invest in People, describes millions of Afghans who are returning to an unstable country and struggling to access housing, jobs, medical care and education. In addition, a government scheme to provide plots of land to returning Afghans was implemented with little planning for basic services such as water, schools and health clinics. Authors also met with refugees who have been pressured to repatriate from Pakistan, including from camps closed by force.

"A stable Afghanistan is tied to the safety and well-being of refugees returning home," said Kristele Younes, Senior Advocate for Refugees International. "Despite billions of dollars in international aid, the needs of these people are not being met. If the U.S. is serious about success in Afghanistan, there should be a great deal more focus on community-based projects that help returning refugees find sustainable homes and earn an income."

Afghanistan: Invest in People is based on findings from Refugees International's June mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Over 5 million Afghans have returned home since the fall of the Taliban in 2002, the largest refugee return process in the UN refugee agency's history, while nearly 3 million refugees remain in exile. Despite the magnitude of need, the report notes that the U.S. State Department's refugee bureau only has $50 million a year to help Afghans returning home and those who remain in Pakistan and Iran. In contrast, the U.S. military spends almost $100 million each day in the country. Billions of dollars in additional funding for Afghanistan focus on long-term development projects that do not address the needs of returning Afghans.

The report also calls for a renewed effort to assist refugees in Pakistan, who fear being forced to leave. Most Afghan refugee families have lived in Pakistan for close to three decades, and half the population was born and raised in Pakistan. As a result, many have little to return to in Afghanistan.

"Repatriating people back to a country that is no longer their home and cannot absorb them creates more obstacles to progress," said Patrick Duplat, Advocate for Refugees International. "Instead, the U.S. should inject resources to help refugees further integrate in Pakistan. This would not only help Afghans, but also promotes the development of key Pakistani sectors and services."

In 2007, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) provided registration cards for all previously unregistered refugees. These registrations will expire in December of 2009, leaving refugees with an uncertain future. The Pakistani government's official position is that all Afghans should return home when their cards expire. This is creating severe anxiety among the population, and Refugees International is calling on the U.S. and the UN to ensure that any returns from Pakistan are voluntary.

Refugees International is a Washington, DC-based organization that advocates to end refugee crises. Read our most recent recommendations at: www.refugeesinternational.org.

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ANNA's CENTENARY AND HIS FOLLOWERS

3 rd Febraury 1969: The entire population of Tamilnadu literally seems to be present in Chennai. The demise of Anna brought sea of humanity to the sands of marina beach. To have a last glimpse of the leader every Tamil came perched on the roof tops of over crowded trains, buses and all modes of transport, including by foot. The Madras bound Janet Express was full beyond its capacity and people were in its roof unfortunately when the train crossed the Coleroon Bridge in between Coleroon and Chidambaram stations. Alas! 28 persons were crushed to death and 70 injured in that train where Anna's brothers traveled to have the last minute glimpse of his body. It was a matter of single minded devotion to reach Rajaji Hall where Anna's body was kept for public view that drove every Tamilian. Loss of even lives did not deter them from their determination. The entire police summoned to control crowds could not perform and they resorted to burst tear gas shells several times. I was there in the stampede running to the underground passage of Anna Salai to escape tear gas with burning eyes full of tears already for having lost my mentor.

The Guinness book of Records says " that the funeral of Anna was attended by the largest number of people in the world " Panruti S.Ramachandran in his preface to the book "Anna Speaks- at the Rajya Sabha 1962-66" writes ' The century had witnessed only 3 funerals comparable to anywhere like that of Anna's. The first one was that of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhara Tilak at Bombay in 1920, the second was that of Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi in 1948 and the third was that of Jawaharlal Nehru in Delhi in 1964". He also writes ' another striking feature of the entire funeral procession was the predominance of ordinary people like sweepers, scavengers, slum dwellers and hut dwellers'. In that see of humanity I braved my way where the pit to bury Anna was dug and took handful of that sand which for two decades I preserved till my family members threw it away without knowing its sentimental value. I took the oath not to eat fish for a year to mourn Anna's demise. I was so fond of fish that I cannot remain without eating it. Apart from my personal feelings which by sheer luck I am recording here, millions felt their lives have lost its meaning in a land without Anna. But for Anna, our motherland would not have been named as Tamil Nadu.

The struggle for naming of Tamil Nadu is yet to be written as separate book. Let me reproduce few lines “Tamil Nadu was once named after its capital city, Madras.The situation was a complicated one. Even Congressmen spoke of Tamil Nadu within the state, reserving Madras State for letters and speeches meant for external consumption. To appease the Tamil people they even changed the name of Aranmore Palace in Ooty to Tamizhagam. But they were not willing to set right this anomaly by making a Constitutional amendment. It was Thiru.Bhupesh Gupta of the Communist party who took the initiative in 1961 by introducing a private members bill to amend the first schedule entry number 7 of the Constitution. The purpose of the Bill was to call the Madras State by its rightful name Tamil Nadu in conformity with the historical, linguistic and cultural considerations. Anna's impassionate defense of this bill will be long remembered for its sincere emotion and clear cut reasoning.

The adamant Center refused to yield and opposed the private member's motion to call "Madras State" by its rightful name Tamil Nadu. With its majority the Congress party defeated the Bill, but the change could not be resisted for long. Four years later in 1967 when the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was elected to power in Madras State, Anna as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu achieved his objective with unanimous backing of both Houses of the State legislature. Today there is no Madras State, only Tamil Nadu" Panruti Ramachandran's note in the book mentions.

But we must also remember Sangaralinganaar who fasted to death for this cause in spite of being a Congressman."Thamizh Naadu" should not be misspelt as Tamil Nadu. Is it not our duty to set this right, while saluting all who gave up their lives for the cause of Tamil Nadu.On my 61st birth day I appeal to Tamilnadu Government that it is not mere celebrations people expect from Anna's disciples.All the books of Anna must be brought out in all Indian languages like the honour Maharastra Government gave for Babasaheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, instead of statues galore.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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Updated: August 17, 2008 11:24 PM

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AUROVILLE BELONGS TO SUPER SPECIES NOT INDIANS ?

We want the Government of India to withdraw the approval given to the Auroville Universal Township Master Plan by the Ministry of Human Resources Development vide letter dated No: F 27-3/2000 UU dated 12^th April 2001. The people’s revolt in Nandhigram of West Bengal over setting up of an industry acquiring lands indicates that even if employment opportunities knock their doors, people are not willing to barter their traditional right over their soil. The Amarnath land row is a head ache for our nation. In both cases after things went beyond control, Government of India is now frantically searching for a panacea.  The Master Plan [Perspective 2025] brought out by Auroville Foundation and Town and Country Planning Organization, Government of India Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, needs intensive scrutiny before agitations erupt.

1. The publication under the heading :

ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP: THE VISION

Says :  “ In 1954 [ coinciding with the end of French colonial rule in Puducherry] The Mother had envisioned that “ There should be somewhere upon Earth a place no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of Supreme Truth, a place of peace, concord, harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his suffering and misery, to surmount his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities, a place where the needs of the spirit and the care for the progress would get precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking for pleasures and material enjoyments.”

Dravida Peravai comments: The Honorable French Lady Mirra Alfasa during the French colonial time would have easily set up such a Utopian City in the French colony of Pondicherry. Why this vision did not appear to her at that time? All these experiments she could have carried within Pondicherry with French Government support. Further she could have made Aurobindo Ashram as laboratory where all fighting instincts of man could be conquered? If she had succeeded within Aurobindo Ashram, she could have argued we have succeeded here and this experiment we want to carry on wider scale, hence we need a township. I can quote her from her own words recorded in cassettes in French and brought out in 6000 pages of Mother’s Agenda in English. Did she say that when her eyesight became dim, all around her are cheating her? She had said. When she was in her old age, she had cited many examples on how people around her betrayed her? A Goddess in her lifetime cannot even reform her followers, wants Government of India to sanction a Universal Township, where “over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking of pleasures and material enjoyments, need of spirit will take precedence. In Puducherry people throng due to the need of liquor based on rectified spirit, and her vision, mission and ashram had not lifted Pondicherry from the bane of alcoholism. Her own comments in 13^th volume of Mother’s Agenda that if I build hospital for people’s benefit, illicit children are being delivered there, proves the Poet Bharathidasan’s poetic attack in his epic Kudumba Villakku on the immorality prevailing there to be truth. When she cannot succeed in creating a new species in the ashram, what need arises for a Universal Township. Unless it is for creating a neo-colony nearby with French leaving their original colony Puducherry, there is no need for a universal township to import people from abroad. British, French and Portuguese colonialism ended, and Indian people were happy. Why should we import people from various countries unless it is for creating a neo-colony? If the noble goals of Auroville are for humanity, Indians too are part of humanity, not all are atheists like me, and most are spiritual guided by various saints and gurus over centuries. Are these people unfit to become supermen and women? The Mother left a will in cassette and writing on how Ashram should function after her, and the ninety year old Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, Director of Physical Education of Aurobindo Ashram in his words had said that after mourning period they will listen to that cassette and run the Aurobindo Ashram according to her directives. Till date where that cassette had vanished is mystery, and years back investigative Tamil journal Nakkeeran had exposed this mystery. Our question is if the sadaks trained by Thiru.Aurobindo Ghosh and Ms.Mirra Alfasa failed to run an ashram as per her last will, how can Government of India expect a Universal Township will be run in accordance with her dreams.

2. The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, is a ministry under a cabinet elected by the people of India. It should be impartial. It must plan for the development of all urban cities in India, and not shower its grace to only one Universal Township. Does the Government thinks all Indian cities should stink and Indian people breathe polluted air, while a town of 1619 foreigners including 472 supporters of those foreigners, should have a green belt evacuating Tamil villages either forcibly or cunningly purchasing the lands to ease the locals out of their soil. The Government of India is representative of Indian people. It must think of Master Plans that will beautify all Indian cities, and not show undue partiality to support only one township comprising people who will not vote in Indian elections, who are not tax payers but are people to avail concessions in the name of so many activities, which thousands on non-governmental organizations in India are already pursuing. Puducherry is on the verge of loosing all cultivable lands. In future the Union Territory is not going to produce even a bagful of food grains. All lands are becoming concrete jungles. Same is the case of Chennai and most cities in India. The Government of India wants Indian citizens to live in congested concrete jungles, but it wants a green jungle belt to shield a town of special species from pollution. It is shameful and ridiculous.

3. The Ministry which has Poverty Alleviation in its title must visit the Tamil villages where the Auroville Universal Township will come up, and see the poverty in which neck deep these Tamils have sunk with no one to redeem. There is nothing to do with poverty alleviation, and it is whimsical to sanction a township that never will work for poverty alleviation.

Auroville belongs to nobody in particular, by these words Tamils are kept away, saying “to live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of Divine Consciousness” The imported foreigners only are willing servitor to Divine Consciousness, and Secretary of Auroville Foundation had to just rubber stamp that certificate issued by the residents assembly comprising the foreigners with more than two thirds majority. The words of their Mother that there has to be a place that no nation could claim its property, clearly indicates, that like Vatican, they want city state status, keeping all sovereign countries out of reach. For this only fools in Indian Government could nod like the Sultans and Maharaja’s of past who extended red carpet welcome to East India Company and French India Company.

N.Nandhivarman. General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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 Stoppage of Aurobindo Ashram News : Will CNN-IBN explain?

In January 2007 the television channel CNN-IBN sent a reporter Neeti Tandon from Delhi to investigate the corruption, sexual abuse allegations and other misdeeds. Along with her the chief of investigation team Mr. V.K. Shashi Kumar and his team including the camera man came to Pondicherry from Delhi. The investigation team that came to Pondicherry stayed in “Du Parc Hotel” in Nehru Street close to Governor’s bunglow. They told the management of Ashram that they are shooting a documentary to propagate the fame of the Ashram on behalf of a foreign television channel. For more than a year they recorded many happenings within the Ashram even through hidden cameras. In this secret investigation the land-grabbing that took place in the Aurobindo Ashram, sexual harassment, mysterious deaths and details of frauds have been compiled. They recorded the interview of the prominent personalities of Aurobindo Ashram secretly. A year had passed and on confirming the various charges submitted to the television channel, the management of the channel, through email, asked the explanation of the Ashram trustees for 25 questions. To this it was told in the email reply that usually the Ashram trustees won’t reply and on behalf of the management Saumya Bableshwar told he was ready to reply.

Meantime, another woman journalist, Kavita Sharma, sent by the television channel, recorded in her camera the interview of the Sub-Collector Mr. Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, who was officially enquiring into the sexual harassment complaints given by various women. After recording the complete evidences against the Ashram the television channel decided to telecast on March 15^TH night at 9.30 p.m. in the programme titled ‘30 Minutes’ as a special programme. The repeat show was scheduled on March 16^TH, Sunday at 5.30 p.m. and for this CNN-IBN publicised the promos.

After finalising the telecast programme Kavita Sharma came to Pondicherry on the Darshan day of February 21^ST to give links and her talk at the gate of the Aurobindo Ashram, was shot in the camera (this is shown separately).

At this time on the day of the telecast March 15^TH till evening 5 o’clock in CNN-IBN Channel the promos were telecast. Suddenly, without assigning any reason, the television channel stopped the programme that should have been telecast by 9.30 that night. The lady journalist Kavita Sharma, who unmasked the Aurobindo Ashram and exposed to the outside world, resigned her post and joined another television channel. It is reliably learnt that the investigative wing’s news editor has also tendered his resignation to the management and joined another television channel.

Similarly in 2003 Debapriya Ghosh came to Pondicherry on behalf of ‘The Week’ journal to investigate and in the last minute the journal underwent a heart change and the news that should have appeared in April did not appear which is also past history.

What happened behind the curtains? It is only known to the television channel and Aurobindo Ashram. The popular Indian television CNN-IBN must tell the truth to the public.

Story on: CNNIBN Appeared in  Tamil Weekly “Makkal Manasakshi” on 28.05.2008

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UPDATING HISTORY OF TAMILS

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

Dravida Peravai, a political party which wants to set an example what a political party of Tamils ought to do had decided to launch a website for publishing all information about Tamil history in one resource bank which will encompass the history of Tamil spread across continents inclusive of Tamil Eelam. Though we will be coordinating this effort we appeal to scholars all over the world to come forward with research based articles to establish our past to evaluate our present and to set the agenda for future.

The necessity to launch a history website arose when I read the book “ Kadaikazhaga Noolhalin Kaalamum Karuthum {Period and Message of Sangam Literature 500 B.C to 500 A.D] written by Dr.R.Mathivanan Former Director of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of Government of Tamilnadu. In the preface to the book the learned scholar says, “Japanese have preserved their past history spanning to 2440 years, whereas Egyptians and Sumerians recall with pride their 4000 years of history. The 3000-year-old history of Chinese gives them a unique place. But Tamils with 10000 year of history have not brought it to the world arena.

In Chicago Museum a portrait depicting a Tamil climbing a Palmyra tree mentioning him as Tamil came to the notice of Aringnar Anna that was taken up with the authorities. Instead of many cultural achievements of Tamils this portrait showed Tamil in derogative manner, and on protest the portrait was not removed but the word Tamil in the portrait was deleted. Lamenting about lack of a Museum to depict Tamil Culture, the scholar says that he had relied upon the travelogues of foreigners, literary evidences thrown to light in other languages, recent archaeological findings and the findings of historians who have so far dealt with the History of Tamils. His book would be a compilation of all these evidences in a nutshell, he claims. In Rasatarangini the author Kallanar had brought to light the History of Kashmir from 1800 B.C to 1200 A.D. Like this literary evidence which helped to construct the History of Kashmir, in Tamil the book Nankudi Velir Varalaru comprising 1035 poems and written by Arumuga Nayinar Pillai, which was published in 1920 throws light on the Tamil history, the learned author claims. This book speaks about the family hierarchy of Irungovel, a branch of the Pandyan rulers for 201 generations. This book follows the Kali calendar and narrates the history from 3100 B.C to 1944, hence helps in fixing the date of various rulers and their rule, the author says.

Pandyan dynasty.

Pandyan Palsalai Muthukudumi Peruvazhuthi[ 66^th generation]500-450 B.C

Karungai Ollvat Perum Peyar vazhuthi[67^th generation]450 B.C to 400 B.C

Porval Vazhuthi[68^th generation]400 B.C to 380.B.C

Korkai Vazhuthi-Nartrer Vazhuthi[69^th generation]380B.C-340 B.C

Deva Pandian[70^th generation] 340 B.C-302 B.C

Seya Punjan aliasKadalul maintha Ilamperuvazhuthi[71^st]302B.C-270.B.C

Pasum Poon Pandyan[72^nd generation]270.B.C –245.B.C

Ollaiyur thantha Boothapandian[73^rd generation]245 B.C-220 B.C

Pandyan Nanmaran[74^th generation]220 B.C-200 B.C

Nedunchezhian alias Kadalan vazhithi[75^th generation]200B.C-180 B.C

Marungai Vazhuthi[76^th generation] 180 B.C-160 B.C

Pandyan Uthaman alias Puliman vazhuthi[77^th ]160B.C-150 B.C

Pandyan Keeran Sathan[78^th generation]150 B.C-140 B.C

Kaliman Vazhuthi alias Andar magan Kuruvazhuthi[79^th ]140-120 B.C

Pandyan Yenathi @Nedunkannan [80^th ]120 B.C-100 B.C

Korkai Vazhuthi@ Irandam Pasum Poon Pandyan[81^st ]100-87 B.C

Deva Pootanan@ Ilavanthikai palli tunjiya Nanmaran[82^nd ]87-62 B.C

Thalayanankanathu Cheru Vendra Nedunchezhian[83^rd ]62-42 B.C

Kanapereyil kadantha Ukkira Peruvazhuthi[84^th ]42 B.C-1 A.D

Pandyan Arivudainambi {Purananooru 184][85^th ]A.D 1- 30 A.D

Velliyambalathu tunjiya PeruVazhuthi[86^th ]30 A.D-60 A.D

Ariyapadai Kadantha Nedunchezhian [87^th ]60 A.D-117 A.D

Vetriver Chezhian [88^th generation] 117 A.D-160 A.D.

Nedunchezhian II [89^th generation]160 A.D –198 A.D

Ukkira Maran@ Chitramadathu tunjiya Nanmaran[90^th ]198 A.D-220 A.D

Pannadu thantha Maran Vazhuthi[91^st ] 220A.D-250 A.D

Koddakarathu tunjiya Maranvazhuthi[92^nd ]250 A.D-270 A.D

Thennavan Ko [93^rd generation] 270 A.D-297 A.D

Parakirama Bahu @ Nalvazhuthi[ 94^th generation 298A.D -310 A.D

Kaliyan Koothan [ 95^th generation]……………………………….

Kadalan Vazhuthi [ of Kazhugumalai inscriptions] [96^th generation

Porkai Pandyan [98^th generation]…………………………………..

Pandyan Kadunkhon [103^rd generation] 475 A.D-490 A.D

Ukkira Pandyan [103^rd generation] —–498 A.D

Somasundara Pandyan [105^th generation] 498 A.D-540 A.D.

113 year Pact between Three Tamil Emperors

The Nandhas who ruled North India had fraternal relationship with Three Tamil Emperors but the Mauryas who followed them invaded South India. Imayavaramban Neduncheralathan marched up to Himalayas and inscribed his country symbol, which could not assimilated by the Mauryas who came to Chera country as act of revenge. But the Mauryan armies did not sneak into Chozha territory. This invasion brought home the need to remain united, the call given even now by Kalaignar M.Karunanithi but with no useful purpose to alter ground reality on Tamil disunity. The unity urge united the Three Tamil Emperors who met to sign a Pact of Cooperation in the year 313 B.C, the author Dr.Mathivanan says. Imayavaramban Neduncheralathan, Karungai Olvat Perumvazhuthi and Deva Pandian [ 70^th] jointly signed the declaration of unity that lasted for 113 years. This Treaty of Tamil Unity stood as a rock protecting Tamil lands from Northern invaders.

In the final years of the unity era during 200 B.C, in the Chozha Emperor Karikalan II’s court Poetess Mudathamakanniyar who wrote Porunaratrupadai witnessed the rare scene of Three Tamil Emperors sharing same dais which she records in her Porunaratrupadai [53-55]. Poet Kumattor Kannanar who wrote the second ten in Pathitru Pathu also records the historical meeting of Three Tamil Emperors for which he stands as eyewitness. Later in 42 B.C, Poetess Avvaiyar also had the luck to see Three Tamil Emperors together in a rare scene of Unity among Tamils. That unity did not last nor the lessons of unity learnt till date by Tamils.

THE CHERA EMPERORS:

1.Vanavan @ Vanavaramban [430-350 B.C]

2.Kuttuvan Uthiyan Cheralathan [350-328 B.C] ruled for 22 years

3. Imayavaramban Neduncheralathan [328-270 B.C] ruled for 58 years

4. Palyaanai Chelkezhu Kuttuvan [270-245 B.C] ruled for 25 years

5. Kalangaikanni narmudicheral [245-220 B.C] ruled for 25 years

6.Perumcheralathan [220-200 B.C] ruled for 20 years

7. Kudakko Neduncheralathan [200-180 B.C] ruled for 20 years

8. Kadal Pirakottiya Velkezhu kuttuvan [180-125 B.C] ruled 55 years

9. Adukotpattuch Cheralathan [125-87 B.C] ruled 38 years

10.Selvak kadungo Vazhiyathan [87-62 B.C] ruled 25 years

11.Yanaikatchei Mantharanj Cheral Irumborai [62-42 B.C] ruled 20 years

12. Thagadoor Erintha Perum Cheral Irumborai [42-25 B.C] ruled 17 years

13. Ilancheral Irumborai [25-19 B.C] ruled 16 years

14. Karuvur Eriya Koperumcheral Irumborai [9-1 B.C]

15. Vanji Mutrathu tunjiya Anthuvancheral [B.C 20 – 10 A.D]

16. Kanaikal Irumborai [20-30 A.D]

17. Palai Padiya Perum kadungko [1-30 A.D]

18. Kokothai Marban [[30 –60 A.D]

19.Cheran Chenguttuvan [60-140 A.D]

20.Kottambalathu tunjiya Maakothai [140-150 A.D]

21.Cheraman mudangi kidantha Nedumcheralathan [150-160 A.D]

22.Cheraman Kanaikkal Irumborai [160-180 A.D]

23. Cheraman Ilamkuttuvan [180-200 A.D]

24.Thambi Kuttuvan [200-220 A.D]

25.Poorikko [220-250 A.D]

26. Cheraman Kuttuvan Kothai [250-270 A.D]

27.Cheraman Vanjan [270-300 A.D]

28. Mantharanj Cheral [330-380 A.D] found in Allahabad inscriptions of Samudragupta.

RECONSTRUCTION OF CHOZHA RULE

1.Karikalan I [450-380 B.C]

2. Cheraman Paamaloor erintha Neythalanganal Ilamchetchenni [380-320 B.C]

3.Cherupaazhi erintha Ilamchetchenni [320-270 B.C]

4. Perumpoon chenni [270-245 B.C]

5.Uruva Paikhrer Ilamchetchenni [245-232 B.C]

6. Karikalan II [232-200 B.C]

7. Manakkilli [200-180 B.C]

8. Vel pahradakkai Peruviral Killi [180-160 B.C]

9.Pooravaikopp Perunarkkilli [160-125 B.C]

10. Mudithalai Koperunarkkilli [125-87 B.C]

11.Koperum Chozhan [87-62 B.C]

12. Otrumai Vetta Perunarkkilli [62-40 B.C]

13. Chetchenni Nalankilli @ Maavalathan [40-22 B.C]

14.Kulamutrathu tunjiya Killivalavan [B.C22 - 1 A.D]

15.Kurapalli tunjiya Perum Thirumavalavan [1-40 A.D]

16.Neythalankanal Ilamchetchenni [40-60 A.D]

17. Karikalan III [60-110 A.D]

18. Maavan Killi [110-130 A.D]

19. Nedumudikkilli [130-150 A.D]

20.Chenganan [150-180 A.D]

21. Isai Ve ngilli 180-210 A.D]

22.Kaivankilli [210-240 A.D]

23. Polampoonkilli [240-260 A.D]

24. Kadumankilli [260-285 A.D]

25. Nalladi [285-330 A.D] known by Agananooru 356^th poem

26.Chozha Rule in Andhra [300-400 A.D]

Dr.Mathivanan had undertaken a thankless job. We would urge Tamils all over the world to buy the book “ Kadaikkazha Noolhalin Kaalamum Karuthum published by Thilagam Pathipagam 17 E, B-1, 12. K.K.Ponnurangam Salai, Omsakthinagar, Valasaravakkam, Chennai 600087 Tel:044-24861007 or contact the author at: rmvanan@gmail.com Cell: 9283217788.

Basing the Tamil epic Perumkathai, a historical note is hidden in the poem414 of Narkudi Vellalar Varalaru. It says in B.C 701 a Tamil King Udayanan defeated the Aryans and ruled North India. If he had continued to rule or if he had not succumbed to the submissive Aryan pretenders, The Gupta rule could not have come up, the appendix of the book states. Well our scholars will fight like street dogs for centuries instead of fixing the period of Tamil epics or Tamil Kings. It is within the genes of Tamils not to accept another Tamil as scholar. If a white skinned scholar tells all will fall in line. This mentality must go. Nothing wrong in debating but not debating beyond centuries. In 1921 Maraimalai Adigal established that Tamils must follow Thiruvalluvar Calendar alone. But we still follow the Sanskritized Tamil Calendar. This is a curse on Tamils.Let dogs bark but the sun will rise. Let us hail the new dawn of Tamil unity. Let us join hands to reconstruct Tamil history.

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INDIA URGED TO TAKE KATCHA THEEVU TO INTERNATIONAL COURT :

The Chinese through successful treaties with Bangladesh, Burma, Srilanka, Maldives and Pakistan are building harbours in all these countries on Build-Operate-Transfer basis. India failed to awaken to the gravity of India’s encirclement by China, with hidden agenda to control the sea lanes of Indian Ocean, till nuclear submarine issue ultimately had forced India to have a rethink on its regional neighbours. The bartering of Katcha Theevu during emergency so far remained a fishing rights issue only. Hereafter it becomes a spot where Chinese submarine can reach.

There is an urgent need to sue Srilankan Government in the International Court of Justice for compensation to 980 Indian fishermen killed in the International waters, as well as retrieval of the Katcha Theevu. It is will be appropriate to recall the words of our Present Prime Minister in the Parliament on 23 rd July 1974 (cols 186-201), when the then External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh made a statement on the Re Agreement between India and Srilanka on the boundary in the historical waters between the two countries and related matters.

Hon'ble Atal Bihari Vajpayee who strongly condemned the bartering away of Katcha Theevu, had said that the old mythological name for Katcha Theevu is VALI DEEP, the island where legendary Rama fought a mythological Vali. Dravida Peravai now reminds the Government headed by the same Atal Bihari Vajpayee to fulfill what he had once demanded while he was in opposition; namely retrieval of the Katcha Theevu islands from the Srilankan government. The lives of 980 of our fishermen is lost due to this agreement imposed during the darkest days of emergency and it is time that we scrap this agreement or take it to the International Court of Justice to get due compensation for our fishermen.

There has been precedents in international inter country matters where issues have been taken to the International Court of Justice.1). In the English Channel there is a rocked island known as Minquires-Enrou. They are far way from the British coast and were closer to the French coast. Since it was near its international waters France staked the claim over that island. Britain showed the documents in its possession and the basis of the documents in 1953 the International Court of Justice decided that this island belongs to Britain. As in this case the documentary proof will be in our favour and we will retrieve Katcha Theevu, is we approach the Court.2) An island Clipporton which was closer to Mexican coast actually belonged to France, and since it was far away from French soil no one visited there and hence Mexico claimed right over these islands. But the International Court of Justice decided in the favour of France.

3). Near Philipines an island Palmus Mianjus was in the possession of Spain. Spain one fine morning handed over that island to America. But Netherlands had rights over that island much before Spain had, and in view of this when this matter came before the Court, the Court decided in favour of Netherlands.

These are past precedents. We have recent judgments too wherein decisions by International Court of Justice had been impartial and in the interests of natural justice. Let me quote about a recent judgment in 2002.

 The International Court of Justice, principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has today given (17.11.2002) Judgment in the case concerning sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia). In its Judgment, which is final, without appeal and binding for the Parties, the Court finds, by 16 votes to 1 that "sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan belongs to Malaysia".  Ligitan and Sipadan are two very small islands located in the Celebes Sea, off the northeast coast of the island of Borneo.

Reasoning of Court: The Court begins by recalling the complex historical background of the dispute between the Parties.  It then examines the titles invoked by them.  Indonesia's claim to sovereignty over the islands is based primarily on a conventional title, the 1891 Convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands. Indonesia, thus, maintains that that Convention established the 4° 10' north parallel of latitude as the dividing line between the British and Dutch possessions in the area where Ligitan and Sipadan are situated.  As the disputed islands lie to the south of that parallel, "[I] t therefore follows that under the Convention title to those islands vested in the Netherlands, and now vests in Indonesia".  Malaysia, for its part, asserts that the 1891 Convention, when seen as a whole, clearly shows that Great Britain and the Netherlands sought by the Convention solely to clarify the boundary between their respective land possessions on the islands of Borneo and Sebatik, since the line of delimitation stops at the easternmost point of the latter island.  After examining the 1891 Convention, the Court finds that the Convention, when read in context and in the light of its object and purpose, cannot be interpreted as establishing an allocation line determining sovereignty over the islands out to sea, to the east of the island of Sebatik, and as a result the Convention does not constitute a title on which Indonesia can found its claim to Ligitan and Sipadan.  The Court states that this conclusion is confirmed both by the travaux préparatoires and by the subsequent conduct of the parties to the Convention.  The Court further considers that the cartographic material submitted by the Parties in the case does not contradict that conclusion.

Having rejected this argument by Indonesia, the Court turns to consideration of the other titles on which Indonesia and Malaysia claim to found their sovereignty over the islands of Ligitan and Sipadan.  The Court determines whether Indonesia or Malaysia obtained a title to the islands by succession.  The Court begins in this connection by observing that, while the Parties both maintain that the islands of Ligitan and Sipadan were not terrae nullius during the period in question in the present case, they do so on the basis of diametrically opposed reasoning, each of them claiming to hold title to those islands.  The Court does not accept Indonesia's contention that it retained title to the islands as successor to the Netherlands, which allegedly acquired it through contracts concluded with the Sultan of Bulungan, the original title-holder.  Nor does the Court accept Malaysia's contention that it acquired sovereignty over the islands of Ligitan and Sipadan further to a series of alleged transfers of the title originally held by the former sovereign, the Sultan of Sulu, that title having allegedly passed in turn to Spain, the United States, Great Britain on behalf of the State of North Borneo, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and finally to Malaysia.

Having found that neither of the Parties has a treaty-based title to Ligitan and Sipadan, the Court next considers the question whether Indonesia or Malaysia could hold title to the disputed islands by virtue of the effectivités cited by them.  In this regard, the Court determines whether the Parties' claims to sovereignty are based on activities evidencing an actual, continued exercise of authority over the islands, i.e., the intention and will to act as sovereign. Indonesia cites in this regard a continuous presence of the Dutch and Indonesian navies in the vicinity of Ligitan and Sipadan.  It adds that Indonesian fishermen have traditionally used the waters around the islands.  In respect of the first of these arguments, it is the opinion of the Court that "it cannot be deduced [from the facts relied upon in the present proceedings] that the naval authorities concerned considered Ligitan and Sipadan and the surrounding waters to be under the sovereignty of the Netherlands or Indonesia".  As for the second argument, the Court considers that "activities by private persons cannot be seen as effectivités if they do not take place on the basis of official regulations or under governmental authority". Having rejected Indonesia's arguments based on its effectivités, the Court turns to consideration of the effectivités relied on by Malaysia.  As evidence of its effective administration of the islands, Malaysia cites inter alia the measures taken by the North Borneo authorities to regulate and control the collecting of turtle eggs on Ligitan and Sipadan, an activity of some economic significance in the area at the time.  It relies on the Turtle Preservation Ordinance of 1917 and maintains that the Ordinance "was applied until the 1950s at least" in the area of the two disputed islands.  It further invokes the fact that the authorities of the colony of North Borneo constructed a lighthouse on Sipadan in 1962 and another on Ligitan in 1963, that those lighthouses exist to this day and that they have been maintained by Malaysian authorities since its independence.  The Court notes that "the activities relied upon by Malaysia ... are modest in number but ... they are diverse in character and include legislative, administrative and quasi-judicial acts.  They cover a considerable period of time and show a pattern revealing an intention to exercise State functions in respect of the two islands in the context of the administration of a wider range of islands".  The Court further states that "at the time when these activities were carried out, neither Indonesia nor its predecessor, the Netherlands, ever expressed its disagreement or protest".

The Court concludes, on the basis of the effectivités referred to above, that "sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan belongs to Malaysia".

There are many cases, which can be quoted. But the need here is to stress that India must revoke the Katcha Theevu agreement with Srilanka since it was imposed during emergency and take it to the International Court of Justice to establish India’s right over this island. Also As per clause 76 of the International Law of Seas 1982 “ The coastal state shall establish the outer edge of the continental margin wherever the same extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the base lines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured on sub marine ridges. The continental shelf shall not exceed 350 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.” Inview of this clause there is a necessity to redraw the territorial waters between India and Srilanka. So we have compulsions as per UN obligations to carve out our Exclusive Economic Zone and while such opportunity is at our doorstep we must reopen the Katcha theevu issue with Srilanka and get it back.

The lives of 1000 fishermen is lost because of this agreement to barter Katcha theevu and it is time that we claim compensation from Srilanka for the lives lost apart from staking our rights to regain Katcha Theevu.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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 AUROVILLE AND ASHRAM : FAILURES

The workers of Aurobindo Ashram Hand Made Paper unit wanted to take out a procession to press for their demands including the minimum wages, but the police which had permitted numerous processions since independence, where slogans will be raised, insisted no slogan should be raised. To show to the world that freedom of expression is curtailed, I led the procession with covering my mouth with black flag. Thereafter in every given opportunity I had questioned the rationale of giving income tax exemptions to Aurobindo Ashram Trust, which runs numerous sub trusts, which are commercial in nature but where minimum wages prescribed in law is not paid. They enjoy concessions by never give due concessions to working class. In 1996 when the current phase of internal strife started, I supported the Aurobindo Ashram Inmates Association, which broke into two resulting in creation of Aurobindo Ashram Beneficiaries Association. Then some well wishers of Aurobindo Ashram approached me with requests not to hit at Ashram and wanted to know what my grievances are. To them I told that “the ashram is availing income tax exemption on the pretext of doing medical research but till date ashram had not constructed a medical hospital with update technology to cater to the people of Pondicherry. Let them start constructing a hospital, I will shelve other issues and observe silence. Ashram was not willing to build a hospital at that time. Later when SUN TV interviewed for a 30 minutes programme against Ashram, there too I stressed that all people of Pondicherry are going to Chennai Apollo or Vijaya hospital, and Ashram should build ultra modern hospital for people of Pondicherry. In the same interview I revealed that the devotees of Aurobindo Ghosh, from Madurai were looking for a suitable place within the city to construct the Eye Hospital, and they approached Ashram, which had taken government land for 99 years lease in many places of the city, to provide them land at concession price. They were told to cough up market rate, so the current Aurobindo Eye Hospital is situated 12 kms away in a village called Thavalakuppam. There I said Ashram never does philanthropy on its own or help Aurobindo devotees in their philanthropic acts. In my interviews in media I had compared the yeoman service rendered by Mother Theresa and all mutts in India, and had attacked Ashram to be the only one that never does philanthropy. This selfishness of Ashram in not being of anyway helpful to people only invites public ire whenever any issue crops up in public against Ashram. Thereafter I started questioning that yoga is mere mental exercise like physical exercise and it is not a matter of medical research, and all exemptions given on that pretext are withdrawn. Physical Education Department headed by Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya exists, but there is no Spiritual Education Department, if at all their goal is towards that. It is widely reported struggle of flower vendors, Tamil women, who were first prevented from selling flowers to make a living because Ashram Trust wanted to sell flowers from their gardens, and their ultimate partial victory, is another example of the immature minds that rule the ashram currently.

To re-open the debate on exemptions, I would like to bring to public notice that the Director General of The Indian Council of Medical Research in its letter dated 27^th December 1976, Ref: No: 18/1/74-AA [II] had raised valid objection for the continuance of exemption given to Aurobindo Ashram under section 35[1] [ii] of the Income Tax Act 1961. To that letter P.Counama, then Managing Trustee replied on 2^nd March 1977. Let me quote in verbatim selected passages, where Mr.P.Counama argues for continuance of exemptions.

P.Counama states “Aurobindo Ashram was organized to realize the distinctive aim of Aurobindo’s yoga which is radically different from the aims pursued by the traditional yogic system. Stated very briefly, the difference consists in fact that Aurobindo does not consider the spirit as something separate and antithetic to life in world, but as its source and sustaining principle, as an omni-present reality which, though now hidden behind a veil of ignorance, is yet pressing for its progressive evolutionary manifestation in life itself. The aim of Aurobindo’s yoga is to completely remove this veil and seek the fullest manifestation of the spirit in life and in matter so that earthly life, instead of remaining dark and dolorous as it has been till now, turns into a perfect image of spirit by its own spiritual transfiguration. The traditional yogas, on the contrary consider life, to be an illusion or a vanity, see no connection between the life and spirit admit no possibility of life shedding its age old burden on suffering and evil, offer no hope of a divinely perfect life on earth “

Dravida Peravai Questions:

1. They had sought exemption to do medical research, which aims at proving Aurobindo’s yoga, is radically different from traditional yoga. The letter of Counama is dated 1977 and we are in 2008, so far 31 years had passed. What research the Ashram had done to prove all other Yogic systems in this country, while its yoga alone is scientifically proven to be the best? Have the debated with other ashrams or have they published scientific literature to prove other yogis are wrong or have they done any research at all?

2. The belief in this country, not by us but by theists, is that on death spirit departs from body, and reincarnation or rebirth will follow, for spirit ceases to evaporate with death of body .Have the ashram trust in this 31 years done any medical research availing income tax exemptions to life this veil of ignorance and to illuminate the minds of people that spirit and matter are inseparable, and with body laid to rest spirit also is laid to rest?

3. By what kind of medical research under which scientist’s guidance did Aurobindo Ashram Trust in 31 years made life shed its age old burden on suffering and evil? Have they brought divinely perfect earth into a reality by their researches, if any?

4. The life on earth is dark and dolorous, so Aurobindo Ashram was exempted from tax to carry out medical or other researches. Have they illuminated Pondicherry during power cuts? Have they found out a spiritual power that can replace nuclear power to produce electricity for our country? There would be no necessity to India to go after nuclear deals, if only Aurobindo Ashram Trust had obtained a spiritual deal to drive darkness on India, if not on Earth.

RAY KURZWELL: FANTASTIC VOYAGE: LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO LIVE FOREVER

Ray Kurzwell, the recipient of the $ 500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize, which is billed as a sort of Academy Awards for Inventors, is a 65 year old scientist, who wrote the book “ Fantastic Voyage :Live Long Enough to Live Forever ” He sees “ human intelligence not only conquering its biological limits, including death but completely mastering the natural world. In my view, we are not another animal subject to nature’s whim, he said. This inventor and computer scientist in his book is serious about seeing humanity attain immortality, a seismic development; he predicts is no more than 20 years away. His predictions, Kurzwell said, are based on carefully constructed scientific models that have proven accurate. In 1990 he wrote a book “The Age of Intelligent Machines “, wherein he predicted the development of world wide computer network and of a computer that could beat a chess champion.

Kurzwell writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots which he calls nanabots that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvement of our genetic coding could be downloaded from internet. We won’t even need a heart, so goes his theory.

Dravida Peravai comments: Aurobindo Ghosh dreamt but did not scientifically prove in controlling human cells by integral yoga. He and his companion wanted to defy nature, control the mind in cells and arrest aging to live forever. Both failed. Their followers who got tax exemptions must have done scientific researches to prove their dreams turning them into realities acceptable and beneficial to society. The Aurobindo Ashram Trust or its brainchild Auroville, so far had created numerous trusts only to avail tax exemptions. Most of the objectives of these trusts have no relevance to the dreams and goals of their Masters. Just like any other non-governmental organization they thrive here, with no connectivity with either the philosophy or the goals of their Masters. Hence we can only advice them to accept Ray Kurzwell as their Guru, since he had at least attempted to prove scientifically a goal beneficial to humanity. The remarkable difference in Ray Kurzwell’s approach is his noble mind to make his research downloadable by internet and to benefit whole humanity. This nobility stands in contrast with the selfishness of the super humans with super mind who live in Ashram or Auroville only to keep all fruits for themselves without openly sharing with humanity, if not at least with Tamils who live in their nearest vicinity.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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 UTOPIAN CITY TO USURP TAMIL LANDS

In the days of British colonialism, Indians led by Mahatma Gandhi dreamt that with India gaining independence there will be total prohibition. The Constitution of India could only make Total Prohibition as one of the directive principles, it could never be realized. If that being the case of a constitutional goal, it is reality to admit that the dream of the Mother of Aurobindo Ashram, Ms.Mirra Alfassa, to set up a city surrounding a pyramid like temple named after her, but not exactly like pyramid, but a globe like golden temple, is also an unrealizable and impractical goal.

The Auroville Prosperity [November 17^th to 24^th 1999 published from Auroville in its introduction says: “The early messages for Auroville given by the Mother may appear very general, so as to attract a large variety of people on the basis of goodwill and human unity. But as the abyss between vision and reality kept widening the messages became more and more sharp, till in the latest years the focus shifted overtly to the real purpose of Auroville, the cradle of superman, the advent of the supramental world and a society governed by it. This is Auroville and the consciousness to be achieved. For Auroville named after Aurobindo, is the avatar’s model town, the sought down ages city of God. But the avatar cannot fulfill his message alone, a preliminary nucleus is needed. This was the function of the Aurobindo Ashram, a spiritual sangha. However Auroville exceeds the sangha’s dimensions, conceived to be a town of 50,000 inhabitants, Auroville is meant to be the incubator of the ideal society, the new sathyayuga or golden age that a spiritualized humanity alone can make true. It is that determines the realization of Auroville, the spiritual awakening, or its failure.

Human unity does not say human beings who come from abroad. It also must have taken into account the human beings living where Auroville is set up, for centuries .Even the caste divide is yet to be bridged and unity within villages had be blossom. Nearby every village there exists a ‘colony’ where the so-called untouchables live. Who made them untouchables, the noble minds that thought of human unity, must have applied their mind, to erase that evil where a city of human unity is built up. It is irony of fate that instead of addressing the disease in the society where the city is set up, a utopian dream to bring foreign settlers or seekers had been made the agenda. To bring human unity the Tamilnadu government headed by Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi made earnest attempts in right direction .Yes, the Samathuvapurams, where all castes live in harmony. Those Samathuvapurams must receive the UNESCO funds and not Auroville, which keeps locals at bay, without absorbing them as residents, in face where their families reside for centuries .Every religion or teacher who preach spirituality does them at their own devotees moneys, not at state expense. A government had to be neutral; it cannot work for one teacher’s dream and create a state or city. It can name cities, erect statues, create universities naming the spiritual masters but cannot ignore Sikh gurus, Buddhists, Hindus, or Muslim saints and go after spending crores to realize the unrealizable goal of a French woman.

The dream is further explained: Behind the simplest messages, those quoted over and again is the same truth, the truth consciousness or super mind, the gnosis. As any adept immediately recognizes the guidelines given by the Mother, in their crystalline purity, are those of a spiritual society. The Constitution of India aims at a secular and democratic society, not a spiritual society. Such spiritual societies may be the goal of individual religions, sects, creeds or groupings, and it is for them to strive for it, without evacuating indigenous people from their traditional soil. The birth place of Aurobindo or the birthplace of Meera Alfassa could be ideal locations for setting up such a city, as in the case of other heads of religion. Quit Tamil soil!

“A spiritual being has no material needs, he will sleep on the floor and live in few square meters, and the treasure is within, a jewel that no outer reaches can buy. Did not Mother say that the first necessity is inner discovery, and that ideally should have happened before coming to Auroville? Then everything would make sense, even the 42,000 people packed in a residential zone. The smaller surface they occupy, the closer to Matrimandir

could they live “

According to the Mother of Aurobindo Ashram, the spiritually realized person should have no material needs. Has it happened within Aurobindo Ashram? Is the Managing Trustee Manoj Das Gupta sleeping in the floor and lives in a small room. He lives in a palace like bungalow, when the head of her ashram itself cannot sleep in floor and forgo material needs, how can Mother dream that westerners imported from abroad are spiritually awakened species or will help her dream city come up treading her path of simple living. If these 1619 residents have to live near Matrimandir, a residential complex with 1619 flats is enough, they need not even live in few square meters, and the French lady wanted them to live. There are no 50000 people even after 5 decades. Let Government of India restrict the population with the figures so far grown voluntarily. Governments need not give concessions as in the case of Special Economic Zones. This is a special spiritual zone where our people are not qualified, or though qualified not admitted by the vested interests that had intruded the Auroville. Out of 1619 only 472 are Indians and this shows that by refusing resident status to most Indians foreign vested interests want to keep their numerical advantage within the so-called resident assembly.

“It is within this context that the Mother’s guidelines unveil their true dimension, the building of a new society through its group soul. Where there are no taxes and no Police, where the money circulation, private property and servitude [where servants of hired labour] have no place.”

NO TAXES, NO POLICE, NO MONEY: Can anyone say whether this had been realized anywhere in the world? Is it not foolishness for a sovereign Indian government to financially back a project, wherefrom it has no revenue by way of taxes? The no police slogan is only to create their Auroville Security system, which can conceal all crimes, till date the no police slogan had only frightened our police from exercising its duty.

There should be no money all voluntary work within Auroville. Does it mean apart from the Government officials who man the Auroville Foundation, others are doing voluntary service? For example is the Honorable Chairman of Auroville Foundation foregoing his honorarium if any or traveling expenses? Are all members of the Governing board not claiming single paise and doing their duties voluntarily? As heads of a moneyless economy they should eschew interest in money. As their Mother dreamt they should sleep in the floor not own property at least within Auroville? Ram Manohar Lohia, a socialist leader received one rupee as token salary for being a member of parliament. Why cannot Dr.Karan Singh accept only one rupee or due to inflation Rs 100 as honorarium and come in Second class compartment as Mahatma Gandhi traveled, and eschew money to create a moneyless spiritual society here in Auroville. A leader is one who leads following what he preaches. It is necessary at least Governing Board or Trustees practice what their Mother preached. George Fernandes washes his clothes for many years and we hope that from now onwards since we have pointed out all inmates of ashram or residents of auroville will end servitude or servants or hired labour. Then only they are ripe for the spiritual society here, otherwise they should accept they are running only Business Empire and not spiritual empire. Whole world knows that in order to avoid paying minimum wages if they employ Tamils Ashram is importing poor people from Orissa and keeps them as bonded labour.The President of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Inmates Association Mr.Kamal Dora wrote to then Indian Home Minster Comrade Indrajit Gupta on the bonded labour status of Oriya people. An enquiry was ordered by the Home Minister, which was buried by the local police, thanks to the clout of spiritual empire.

Due to the dilly dallying of then Maharaja of Kashmir to decide which side to cast his trust vote, as in recent trust vote in Parliament, half of Kashmir was captured by Pakistani army. In the war of Kasmir caused by this historical blunder thousands of our soldiers lost their lives. Any patriotic Indian would  think and thank for their sacrifices. If I had been the Prince of Kashmir and if in independent India got positions of power, the first thing I would have done is to bring the families of who have lost their lives in Kashmir war and had given them resident status in Auroville. Even if I had not done that atleast when Kashmiri Pundits where uprooted from their soil due to terrorism, I would have offered asylum in Auroville. Even if I have not contributed to spiritual cause, towards humanitarian and patriotic causes, I would have done something to end human misery.It is mere dream.If I am a Kashmiri I would live there when my kinsmen get killed everyday. Will never look for utopian dreams to secure personal safety. If only the human consciousness instead of spiritual consciousness prevails in those who back Auroville dream, they must think of Indians first instead importing foreigners and elevating them as Supermen with Super Mind. Tamils know only a Super Star, let Dr.Karan Singh get elevated as Superman with Super mind finding the key to death and to show the next species in evolutionary cycle. We wish him all success, with the help of a Dutchman.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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AUROBINDO ASHRAM: HOUSE GRAB:  

The famous House Grabbing case involving Aurobindo Ashram is now listed before Supreme Court and likely to be taken up on 18^th of August, 2008. India's first Finance Minister and Constituent Assembly Member R.K.Shanmugam Chettiar's heir Mr.R.K.Selvarajan Chettiar owns three properties, known as Ragavan House, Columbani House and Kothandapani Godown. These properties were rented out to Aurobindo Ashram for the past so many years. Suddenly a conspiracy was hatched to forge a gift deed of these properties in favour of Mr.R.K.Selvarajan Chettiar's son Murugavel, and from him the Aurobindo Ashram Trust headed by Mr.Manoj Das Gupta bought these properties, but in order to fool the owner, continued to pay the rent even after the alleged purchase of the properties. Mr.R.K.Selvarajan Chettiar came to know of this cheating and lodged a complaint two times with the Pondicherry Police, which refused to register the case, as usual. Mr.R.K.Selvarajan Chettiar approached the High Court of Madras which issued orders to register the case, thereafter an FIR was filed on The Managing Trustee of Aurobindo Ashram Trust Mr.Manoj Das Gupta, among others. Mr.Manoj Das Gupta obtained anticipatory bail in this case. In an interview to SUNTV by 2003 end, I had openly told about this anticipatory bail. Had he been a Minister hue and cry seeking his resignation would have erupted,

The Police who filed the charge sheet later had conveniently omitted the Managing Trustee. The first accused, namely R.K.Selvarajan Chettiar's son Murugavel had approached for relieving him in this case, which was turned down by local court, High Court and also the by the Apex Court. In a connected civil suit R.K.Shelvarajan challenged the validity of the sale deeds executed behind his back and in that the Ashram Trustees in order to side-track the Court raised a technical objection through the said Murugavel who filed an application questioning the stamp duty paid on the suit. This Application was dismissed by the Principal District Munsif at Pondicherry and thereafter a revision filed before the High Court also was dismissed. Presently an SLP in respect of the same is coming up for hearing on 18.08.2008 before the Supreme Court.  On 28.07.2008 the Ashram Trustees concerned put up their appearance through their Counsel and prayed for time and the Court granted time till 18.08.2008.  This House Grabbing case over years had been reported here in New Indian Express, Dinamalar, and SUN TV. But at national level televisions or English and Hindi dailies, have yet to throw light on this case. We live in days when media acts as watch dogs of society. Let present day journalists turn their eye on ashram. We from politics are scoundrels, because there is a saying that politics is the last resort of the scoundrel. But there are more dangerous people within spiritual empires; they too deserve the same media expose before the ultimate masters in a democracy, the people of India.

Order Passed By the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on 28.07.2008

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

(From the judgment and order dated 27/10/2006 in CRP No. 1628/2005 of

The HIGH COURT OF MADRAS)

For Petitioner(s) Mr. K.K. Mani,Adv.

Mr. C.K.R. Lenin Sekar, Adv.

Mr.R.K. Pandey, Adv.

For Respondent(s) Mr. Bijan Kumar Ghosh,Adv.

Mr. P. Gandhi, Adv.

Mr. Dipankar Burman, Adv.

ORDER

Court Master Court Master

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KASHMIR IS BLEEDING KARAN SINGH IS HIDING

Professor Rattan Lal Hangloo, Reader in Department of History of Hyderabad University wrote in The Hindu dated September 12 of 1995 on the chronological sequence of Kashmir problem. There he makes a valid point. “The think tank of Government of India, among others, comprised mostly those Kashmiris who had left Kashmir a century ago or even earlier or had shifted to various parts of India directly from Lahore during partition and therefore were never equipped with the understanding of changing trends in Kashmir’s policy, society, economy and culture.” It will be crystal clear that within these parameters, the Chairman of Auroville Foundation Dr.Karan Singh will find his place in history. He is in Congress and he is the topmost beneficiary of Kashmir’s accession with India, enjoying all through his life, the fruits of office. It would be natural to expect him to be one among the think tanks. Today when JKLF leader is fasting and people of Kashmir reeling under economic blockade are in streets protesting, while Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti battles with Army in Jammu, where has Dr.Karan Singh gone? If he is in think tank, what solution he offers to present politics of hate and complete divide between Kashmir and Jammu? Why not television channels that invite eminent persons to debate call Dr.Karan Singh before camera and ask him what panacea he offers to the present turmoil? After all he is not only a Kashmiri but also is a head of a Foundation that is preaching Human Unity. Will Dr.Karan Singh lead a Peace March with all his foreign friends in Auroville from Jammu to Kashmir and usher in human unity in his home territory. Time has come for acid test. All the Foreign Saints that had descended in Auroville are having Super minds and are Super Men. The Government of India must utilize their expertise to preach and practice human unity in Kashmir valley. The Kashmir Palace owned by Dr.Karan Singh is only getting 64,000 rupees monthly rent, as lamented by Dr.Karan Singh in a TV Channel. The Government of India through Auroville Foundation acquire that Palace and airlift some or all Foreign Saints who want to build moneyless economy in Auroville to go to Kashmir and carry out their experiments. Their presence is needed only in Kashmir where human unity had become a dream of past.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must tell Ms.Sonia Gandhi, who tried in vain to secure the services of BJP leader Mr.Rajnath Singh, to turn her attention to depute the Former Maharaja Hari Singh’s son Dr.Karan Singh to the valley to quench the riots and bridge the divide between people. Hope in the All Party meeting convened by the Prime Minister, a consensus evolves around choosing Dr.Karan Singh as mediator between Kashmir militants and Jammu Hinduvta forces.

The historian recalls the root cause of the unrest. “Even though the Bill for Land to the Tiller was signed by Sheikh Abdullah in 1948, landlordism with its centuries old exploitation and associated feudal obligations had not been wiped out. The full rationalization of land to tiller programme and its implementation had been hampered at various levels by political uncertainties which also gave allowance to militancy in recent years.” This is one of the reasons culminating in current turmoil. When Sheikh Abdullah was imprisoned at kept in Kodaikanal, I had the chance of meeting him in his daily walk around the lake followed by security guards, in 1968, when I went to speak at a Conference there, wherein Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Aringnar Anna was the Chief Guest.

Land to Tiller is not only a Kashmiri problem. In Tamilnadu too we want land to the tiller, and Dr.Karan Singh must have the maturity to accept the fact that land to Tamils is the natural law, instead of becoming an advocate to get land to imported foreigners.

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HUMAN UNITY ONLY FOR 1619 AUROVILLE RESIDENTS 

First time in its history Auroville Foundation had realized that it is answerable to Indian public and is a Government of India organization and not one run by a neo-east India company. Under Right to Information Act they had partially provided the information sought, for which we thank the Secretary Mr.Ramasamy I.A.S, whose continuance irritates the whites conspiring to remove him. The rule by in-charge, who it seems, had amassed income beyond known sources of income dancing to the tune of the neo-colonialists suits vested interests who try always to clip the wings of clean officials.

Auroville Foundation in its reply No AF/G/4-A/2054 dated 23^rd June 2008 states that “most of the areas of Auroville area lies in Villupuram District of Tamil nadu and comprises the Panchayats of Irumbai and Bommayarpalayam. Small area of this Auroville lands are in Kottakuppam, Rayapudukuppam, Mathur Panchayats and Alankuppam within the Union Territory of Pondicherry”

Thanks for the information given by Auroville Foundation. But we want to give additional information to Indian Government and Indian public. The villagers of Irumbai, Bommayarpalayam, Kottakuppam, Rayapudukuppam and Mathur Panchayats coming under Tamil Nadu Government had given representations to the District Collector of Villupuram District of Tamilnadu protesting the action of Tamilnadu Government giving in long lease government puramboke lands of these villages to Auroville Foundation. These representations are numerous signed by most of the villagers. For example to cite few representations, we would recall the memorandums dated 5.08.1998, 11.02.2002 and 20.10.2002. Not only memorandums, a peaceful Protest March also took place and in end a Memorandum was given to the famous Secretary-in-charge of Auroville Foundation. A copy of that memorandum was given to the District Collector. On that basis a tri-partite talks took place between the villagers and Auroville Foundation in the presence of Vanur Taluk Tahsildar, which ended in reaching no agreement. This is history of the continuing struggle of local Tamil people. Meanwhile Supreme Court Advocate Dr.L.M.Singhvi M.P writes a letter to then Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Selvi J.Jayalalitha on 16^th February 2002. In his letter it is said:

Dear Dr.Jayalalitha

I would like to call on you, inter alia, with regard to the project of Auroville, which has rendered great service to the neighbouring villages of the Villupuram District of Tamilnadu.

The Auroville project has received an accolade and endorsement from UNESCO. It aims at Education for Human Unity. It has a spiritual dimension and provides for unprecedented experiments and innovations in science of consciousness and pedagogy, which have a national and international importance. A large number of children in Villupuram District will also be receiving quality education under the project.

Auroville Foundation enshrines the vision of Aurobindo, which was elaborated by the Mother as a concept of collective yoga. That vision is embodied in the Master Plan of Auroville, which had now been prepared and approved in consonance with the mandate of the Auroville Foundation Act 1988. The Master Plan was prepared with the active participation of Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India and has already been adopted and approved under the provisions of the Auroville Foundation Act. I am sending herewith a copy of the Master plan for your ready reference. I would request you to consider promulgating the Auroville Master plan and entrust the task of implementing all follow-up liaison measures to a designated officer of the Government of Tamilnadu.

As a Member of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, I feel that this Master Plan will provide an excellent example of development and will benefit the entire bio-region in and around Auroville.

The development of Auroville, however, requires protection of the area from potential speculators, who want to take undue advantage of the ecological development made by Auroville. In order to achieve that objective the Tamilnadu Government has been approached by the Auroville Foundation for protection and help. It has been suggested that the Tamilnadu Government could issue an order in favour of Auroville Foundation similar to the one that had been issued, no one may develop, buy or sell any area, which falls within the Master Plan of Auroville, unless the Auroville Foundation gives a No Objection Certificate.

It would be gracious of you to extend your whole hearted support to the Auroville Project and its development which would be crucial at this juncture.

I would like to call on you personally to congratulate you and to explain the representation made by Auroville in the afternoon of March 2^nd or March 3^rd , if any of these dates is convenient to you.

I would also like you to visit Auroville whenever you can.

Yours sincerely

L.M.Singhvi

Addressed to: Dr.J.Jayalalitha, Poes Gaerdden, Chennai [as spelt in his letter]

In the party letter head of ALL INDIA ANNA DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM dated 1^st March 2002 J.JAYALALITHA, General Secretary A.I.A.D.M.K party, Chief Minister Designate of Tamilnadu, 81/80 Poes Garden, Chennai 600086 replies:

Dear Dr.L.M.Singhvi

I received your letter dated 16.02.2002 and thank you very much for the kind sentiments expressed therein.

I wish to inform you that I am in total agreement with you on the need to preserve the ecological balance attained in Auroville over the years, through its diverse and sustained efforts in fields such as development, environment, education and spirituality. I assure you that I will give my serious consideration to the request you made in this regard.

However, I think I may have to deny the pleasure of meeting you on March 2^nd or 3^rd in view of other occupations. I am sure we will be able to meet later. With kind regards, I remain. Yours sincerely J.Jayalalithaa

Addressed to :Dr.L.M.Singhvi M.P Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Formerly India’s High Commissioner in U.K. 18 Willingdon Crescent, New Delhi.

BIG NAMES AND REPUTED MEN ARE ADVOCATING THE AUROVILLE CAUSE BUT THERE IS NO MAHATHMA GANDHI TO SPEAK FOR THE TAMIL VILLAGERS. In whole of India only Mehta Patkar comes to memory, when it matters fighting for displaced people. In big dams though people are displaced, the benefits reach millions of people who get water and electricity out of such projects. But from Auroville project is anyone in nearby villages benefited? Take for example the condition imposed on villagers that they should get No Objection Certificate from Auroville Foundation if they want to sell their lands. The fundamental right is curtailed to benefit a single buyer, who can dictate the price. And while an area develops people living there for centuries in poverty get a centuries chance to get a good price for their lands to redeem their families from the clutches of poverty. This chance is curtailed by the neo-colony set up here in Tamil soil.

Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi, current Chief Minister of Tamilnadu is a vociferous champion of State Autonomy. I would like to recall the State Autonomy Conference held at Annanagar of Chennai in 1970, wherein Punjab Chief Minister Gurnam Singh participated, in which I as Student DMK leader along with 4 other party functionaries of Puducherry handed over the State Autonomy Torch in the hands of Kalaignar.Kalaignar. He must know how East India Company obtained concessions from Indian Maharajas, who were blissfully unaware what future holds for their lands.

It may sound harsh statement. But I am duty bound to explain the reasons to Indian public.

To my question on how many Tamils are given citizenship in Auroville, or if this usage is not to your liking, how many Tamils are made Aurovillians, i.e. residents, the answer given by the Auroville Foundation is: “There is no separate enumeration of Tamil people of Auroville. Out of total 1619 Aurovillians, 472 are Indians” is the reply. Going through the information provided,

The approximate nationality wise break up is as follows : Americans 71, Argentinean  9, Australian 13, Austrian 9, 1 Bangladesh , Belgians 22, Brazilians 5, British 52, Canadian 27, Columbian 2, Dutch 72, Ethiopian 1, French 278, German 219, Hungarian 3, Israeli 6, Hungarians 3, Italians 79, Japanese 4, Kazak 1, Korean 11, Lithuanian 2,Moroccan 1, New Zealand 1, Russian 38, Ukrainian 21, Spanish 31, Srilankan 4, Sweden 11, Swiss 45, Tibet 7, Tunisia 1, Finnish 1, Bulgarian 1 Ethiopian 1, Irish 1. The Indians as per the statistics given are 472. [This will be corrected and updated soon]

1. Indian voter lists are available freely in internet. There never exists secrecy. Similarly instead of politicians like me seeking information under Right to Information Act, the Auroville Foundation must publish its residents list in its websites. It need not shy or avoid transparency. We have nothing against all foreigners staying there; our Tamil soil nourished in universal out look for centuries by our poets and philosophers considers humanity as one. “All country is our country, all men are our kinsmen” said our Great Poet Kaniyan Poongunran 2000 years ago. But we have strong reservations about some people sneaking into Tamil soil to make our sons of soil as second class citizens. The foreigners, few with criminal background, wanted in other countries, land here from countries with which India has no extradition treaty. They assume Indian pseudonym and their original names not known. Further Interpol red alerts or warnings are not updated in our CBI websites, neither the local police are aware of such Interpol warnings. The open admission by the BBC fame Mr.Carel Theime, of Auroville Working Committee that they just sent out only and one and only peadophile with a honourable farewell instead of handing over to Police thereby giving breathing time of few more years to Mr. Didier Kieme to continue his atrocities against children of Pondicherry till he was nabbed 4 more years after being sent out by Auriville, necessitated us, to campaign for publishing the original lists of Auroville residents with their nationality. It will help Intelligence Bureau to scan the list or it will help CBI to track down wanted criminals. Other foreigners who have clean records and original passports, who are really doing good to Tamil people, need not have any phobia about our campaign.

2. The admission by Auroville Foundation that it has only 472 Indians as its residents raised serious questions. The Aurobindo Ashram issues a Prosperity card to its inmates, which are more or less its membership list. As per 1999 list available with us the Ashram inmates are 1282 people. These 1282 people, if we take all of them as Aurobindo’s disciples in general, must have sought admission to become residents of Auroville. Naturally, Auroville is a dream of a French woman, they worship as their Mother, and Aurobindo Ashram inmates must have sought residence in Auroville. If they had sought, was it accepted or vetoed. If vetoed who vetoed it, and for what reason? Is Auroville exclusively a town for foreigners who are disciples of Aurobindo? Does it have place for Indian followers of Aurobindo or not? These questions the big names that associate with Ashram and Auroville must ponder and introspect.

3. Auroville has 1619 residents and Aurobindo Ashram has 1282 inmates. Is it written by Brahma in the head of Tamil people that they should become refugees in their own soil, parting their traditional lands, so that 3000 people can set up a colony in their midst ? They speak about human unity, and how can human unity be achieved by keeping away local Tamil people. Mother Theresa helped all the poor, why not such noble spirits exist in the Super minds of Aurobindonians? I have repeatedly charged that All Mutts in India are doing charity and only one ashram that does no charity is Aurobindo Ashram. Like Pakistan occupied Kashmir, the Ex-Kashmiri Maharaja ruled Auroville and like Indian side Kashmir, the Indian followers led by notorious egoist Mr.Manoj Das Gupta controlling the areas in Pondicherry, which they still proudly proclaim as white town, always feeling that colonialist are superior to Indians. Why this division? The Aurobindo-Mirra Alfasa samathi with Aurobindo Ashram, The Matrimandir with Auroville. After all both belongs to the followers of Aurobindo. I am not his follower. I am the follower of Aringnar Anna, wanting to establish Aringnar Anna Rationalist University under Aringnar Anna Foundation. I will not aspire anything within Aurobindo circle. But as rationalist, I could not see why there exists two Trusts one Government controlled Auroville Foundation and one Aurobindo Ashram Trust headed by the President’s chair that is kept vacant.

 If only foreigners understand Aurobindo’s philosophy, as it appears out of 1619 Auroville residents except 472 Indians, majority being foreigners, why not set up international city in a foreign country, than in a remote Tamil village ?

4. The Chairman of the Governing Board of Auroville Foundation Dr.Karan Singh, who hails from Kashmir owns Kashmiri Palace and he recently appeared in television and told that the rent he is getting is not lucrative. Dr.Karan Singh, my humble request to you, is please donate your Kasmir Palace to Auroville Foundation, set up an University there to propagate the philosophy of Aurobindo Ghosh, and people say you are a great scholar in that subject and can become the Vice Chancellor of that University. Instead of uprooting Tamil people from their traditional soil, go to your own soil where terrorism had wiped out all human unity from the minds of people filled with hatred towards each other; preach the gospel of human unity unmindful of terrorism. Mahatma Gandhi visited riot affected regions preaching the message of love and human unity. Why not you, after adoring so many posts under Government of India, lucky in a way from rest of the Maharajas who faded into oblivion with the abolition of privy purses by the Iron lady Indira Gandhi, spend rest of your like in your Kashmir teaching Aurobindo’s Human Unity concept, as you try to do here in a remote village called Auroville? A city which was originally planned for 50,000 people has only 1619 residents. It is less than miniature village. Hence I won’t hereafter call it international city, it is an international village, where so many trusts, sub trusts, show case their achievements with grandiose phrases and get all exemptions under the Sun in India, making us think it is tax haven that is why it attracts foreigners. We all know that only pirates searching for loot in mid seas and new lands were the early settlers in all colonies of the colonial era, subjugating indigenous people. Hence, sorry if we are suspicious about the real intention of the foreign settlers in our vicinity. We are cautious that history should not repeat. Should we remain nincompoops just because Dr.Karan Singh, who had not rehabilitated even his Kashmiri Pundits in Auroville, gives a clean chit to all Trusts, which are out of control by the Government created Auroville Foundation.

5. The larger question before Aurobindo’s followers is: The heirs of Mahatma Gandhi did not reap political benefits but other Gandhi’s, not his kith and kin, enjoyed uninterrupted power. Similarly the blood relatives of Aurobindo Ghosh were denied admission in Aurobindo Ashram, and they fought legal battles over Tampering of Aurobindo’s works by two Americans. It is a curse in India that all movements of great leaders and philosophers are hijacked by others who nourish their dynasties. I am not a warrior of your cause. All great names, who had filled their brains with every verse of Aurobindo, fight the colonial mind and their commercial trusts hidden under the guise of Auroville Foundation, masking their material aspirations under a spiritual camouflage. Liberate the Aurobindo ashram from the clutches of mismanagement and egoist life long Trustees, make it a place that treats Tamils too as human beings before they preach human unity to hoodwink the donors and world.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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FAILED PROPHECY AND FAILED CITY

Dutchman Carel Theime gets angry if I refer Mirra Alfassa as Frenchwoman. Let me quote from Mother’s Agenda. “Born in Paris on February 21, 1878, in a very materialistic middle class family. She completed a thorough education of music, painting and higher mathematics. A student of French painter Gustave Moreau, she befriended the great Impressionist artists of the time. She later became acquainted with Max Theon, an enigmatic character with extraordinary occult powers, who for the first time, gave her a coherent explanation of the spontaneous experiences occurring since her childhood, and who taught her occultism during two long visits to his estate in Algeria. In 1914 she visited the French colonial city of Pondicherry in India and met Aurobindo who had sought refuge there from British. She returned permanently to Pondicherry in 1920 via Japan and China, and when Aurobindo “withdrew” to his room in 1926 to devote himself to the supramental yoga, she organized and developed his Ashram, and tried in vain to awaken disciples to a new consciousness. In 1958 after Aurobindo’s departure, she in turn withdrew to her room to come to terms with the problem, in the cells. From 1958 to 1973, she slowly uncovered the great passage to the next species and a new mode of life in matter, and narrated her extraordinary exploration to Satprem.This is the Agenda”

I am a Tamil, Indian Tamil, and she is a French, French being her mother tongue. After all she spoke only in her mother tongue to Satprem, who recorded it for 22 years. I wonder why Mr.Carel Theime gets angry when I say her or BBC describes her as Frenchwoman. It becomes evident from Satprem’s words that she “uncovered the great passage to the next species and a new mode of life in matter”. Mr.Carel Theime is in India to finish her unfinished agenda. Then Indian people expect that the so many trusts Mr.Carel Theime and his friends from overseas have created should have some connectivity to the purpose of tracing the next species and new mode of life. It is not so. A forestation, environment, solar energy, natural farming etc for which these trusts have mushroomed here can be undertaken by Indians. These are global issues and in every country non-governmental organizations are working on these themes. We require Mr.Carel Theime and company here only to find the passage to next species or the new mode of life in matter. Indians know for centuries to build temples, and all goddesses in India, are due to Indians being matriarchal society. Hence to build a Matrimandir, we don’t need foreign expertise. We need these foreign species here to find out the passage to next species. If for that purpose they are here, we can welcome. But to teach Indians agricultural farming, which Indians knew for centuries before west knew, if these foreign species create non-governmental organizations here, we don’t need them. We say to them Go Back!

In the wrapper of Mother’s Agenda, Satprem says: “This tremendous document- 6000 pages- is the day to day account of over 22 years of Mother’s exploration into the body consciousness and of her discovery of a cellular mind capable of restructuring the nature of the body and the laws of the species as drastically as one day the first stammering of a thinking mind transformed the nature of the ape. It is a veritable document of experimental evolution. A revolution in consciousness that alters the laws of species. And it is a question of our times, for whatever the appearances, we are not at the end of civilization but at the end of evolutionary cycle. Are we going to find the passage to next species…..? Or perish? As scrupulously as a scientist in his laboratory, Mother goes back to the origin of matter’s formation, to the primordial code and there, by chance stumbles upon the very power that changes death, and upon a new energy which curiously parallels the most recent theories on the sub atomic nature of matter. The key to Matter contains the key to death…. And the key to next species” so says Satprem.

After Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa became Guru. Thereafter there is no Guru. If Mr.Manoj Das Gupta is a Guru or real inheritor of his Mother’s mantle, he must have inherited the key to death. With that key, while Ashram inmate Kamal Shah raped and attempted to murder Paravathi Shah, his own brother’s wife, Mr.Manoj Das Gupta who deputed 8 of his men, who silently delayed taking her to nearest hospital, could have sent that key to death to save Parvathi Shah. After all the God of Death, Yama has not bought modern cars, yet he uses old aging buffalo from the times of Sathyavan and Savithri. He could not have dared to take the life of Parvathi Shah, if the key to death is in the custody of Mr.Manoj Das Gupta. There would be no deaths in Aurobindo Ashram. But what happens is shocking. There has been deaths, which means, whatever the Gurus told as theory, their disciples failed to research further and prove scientifically, what their Masters visualized. Let us go back to hear Mirra Alfasa’s own words, on what went wrong. After all as Mother she knew what fault is behind her children’s failures.

“You no longer knew where you stand; there is Sri Aurobindo Society, Sri Aurobindo Action, and Sri Aurobindo this and that…. The result is dispersion. Yes but when you tell them that especially if you put it that way to Navjatha of Sri Aurobindo Society he will say all right, Sri Aurobindo Action had to go… Each one says I am the one who should stay... That is no solution. You have hit the point; lack of unity is the cause of all difficulties. Even the ashram has been contaminated by the disease; each department considers itself a separate entity. And since there is no more cohesion, nothing works. That is the situation.   [Mothers Agenda volume 13 page 84]

You would have read our demand for bringing all sub trusts under Auroville Foundation as one entity, one department under the Indian Government controlled Auroville Foundation. The reason why we made such a demand stands proven from the words of the Mother of Aurovillians and Ashramites. The creation of Trust after Trust is a disease which started in Aurobindo Ashram Trust and spread to Auroville Foundation. The motive behind so many trusts is tax evasion. Let us go back to 1975, when Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust passed a historical resolution. “Resolution dated 19.12.1975: It has been decided in the interest of ashram that in order to free from Income Tax on its business incomes that would otherwise be attracted inevitably because of the new Income Tax Amendment Act 1975 and the recent decisions of the Supreme Court of India on Trusts doing business, the Ashram shall stop doing business and its existing businesses shall be taken over by Aurobindo Ashram Harpagon Workshop Trust…. By this precedent, Ashram created Trust after Trust with the motive to evade tax. The irony of naming a Workshop as Trust sounds like Mohammed John Iyengar, if any person could imagine of such a name, which proves its hollowness. This precedent is followed in Auroville Foundation. Dravida Peravai had submitted a memorandum to then Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on 10.10.1998, for which the reply came on 2^nd November 1998.

Tax exemptions to perform scientific research were obtained by ashram. Had any research been undertaken? No we can say. Let them refute. Our humble submission is when that Frenchwoman who claimed to have found the key to death, what happened?

 Satprem reports: Before my eyes they drove twenty five screws into her coffin. There was a ray of sun on the nape of her neck, her hands were tightly clasped together, and there was such strength in those hands. Such power in that supposedly dead body. And then that fierce concentration……. Already night and silence have fallen over the little actors, their good and evil, their sorrow and petty affairs. Tomorrow this scribe too will return to the flame of love whence he came, and she to the sweetness of Ganges. But what about men? What about history? Still millions and millions of men destined to die? Still sorrow upon sorrow?  When there will be undying love? When a lovely earth? Is it once again put off? “A new way of dying ought to be possible” she said in 1963. She spoke so much to me about death. Savitri too went to death to release Sathyavan….

So Death had won. The Key to Death could not save Mirra Alfasa.This is truth. And if at all those who believe in her had faith in what she spoke are wrote, they must have carried forward from where she left. They would have undertaken scientific research to prove her theory or to realize her dream. Neither the business trusts of ashram nor the eyewash trusts of Auroville Foundation are pursuing the goals of their prophets. If Mr.Carel Theime finds our criticism on failed prophets to be harsh, he must vow to do research and find the key to death or guide the humanity to the next evolutionary cycle. We don’t question anybody's faith. Let them believe that key to death could be found. If it is faith, let them have their faith. The followers of Jesus Christ till day even after 2000 years believe resurrection will take place. Like that for 2000 years let these people search the key to death. But till the prophecy stands scientifically proven, rationalists have the liberty and freedom of expression to call the failed prophets a failure.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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