MY VIEWS-#1
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Here are some of my views that I made I Forumhub in April 28, 2000.
That is 12 years ago. 12 years. One Maamaangam.
Nothing has improved.
Things have only worsened.
But there are scoundrels who will lie and mislead.
Dont beleive them.
Know the Truth.
I beleive strongly that the Tamilnaadu organisations or the govt. or the universities should set up panels of historians/archeolists and assign them into units which are given specific tasks in the compilation of history. A particular group collects,researches, compiles, analyses and publishes volumes on a particular topic in history, eg., Pallavas.
This is not even going to be a fraction of the cost of holding one 'maanaadu'. It would not even be a fraction of the cost of petrol for the lorries and buses for a 'pEraNi'.
It will not even be a fraction of the amount of money spent in annual festivals and kumbaashikams of the temples in Malaysia. (You will be surprised to understand the amount that such a small community spends on that.)
And a great deal of books and manuscripts are being lost every minute of every day of the year.
Many works have not seen the light of the day.
The pitiable thing is that most monumental works are very old. After them, deeper research has not been sufficiently done. No proper updating has taken place.
I am not confining this general remark to just history only.
It applies to all, I repeat - all, of Tamiliana.
Say, for instance, the Siddha Medicine. Some of us take pride in claiming Sumerian or Sumatran Medicine as Siddha Medicine. But have we sufficiently researched Siddha Medicine?
How did 'salliyakaraNi' work?
What exactly is 'salliyakaraNi'?
Is it muuligai?
Or was it a mixture of ingredients?
If it was a muuligai, what was the active component which was responsible for the effect?
Was it an alkaloid?
Can that effective component be syntesised?
How did Vijayalaya ChOla survive 24 battle wounds?
How did those 'vilzhppuN's heal?
What sort of plastic surgery did they perform in order to promote a rapid healing and prevent deformity?
Well! This is Medical History or Historical Medicine. This can be very useful to the present generation.
Simply saying that 'Oh Tamils had this.Tamils could do that', is just not enough.
How do you land an elephant from a ship and take it to the shore? Rajendra Chola did that in his naval campaign.
This are deeper aspects of historical research.
How do you polish a perfectly round ball of stone within a cage, both of which has been sculpted in situ together?
What ingredients and technology do you have for making glazed wall plaster?
How do you make a brick that is one and a half foot in length which is stone-hard?
How did you cement it together so that even after a thousand years, you can't prise it loose from one another?
There you are! You see what we lack and where we slack?
Just a wee bit of examples.
We just are'nt organised enough.
Our priorities are jumbled up also. In all fields.
Can we 'kaizan' our way up? Or do we 're-engineer' our way out of it?
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