CHENNAI SANDESH
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July 12, 2013
Madurai
Bench of Madras High Court Betrays the Vice Grip of English on the Judiciary
Justice Mani Kumar of the Madurai bench of
Madras High Court dismissed two petitions on July 12 saying that advocate
Bhagat Singh tried to present the cases of the petitioners in Tamil; the Judge
pointed out that Indian Constitution permits use of only English in the Supreme
Court and High Courts. If arguments in any other Indian language is sought, the
permission of the Rashtrapati or the state Governor must be obtained. One of
the petitioners is Ayisha Banu of Kovilpatti in Thuthukudi district seeking the
court’s direction to the External Affairs Ministry to bring back her husband
stranded in Saudi Arabia. The other petitioner, a panchayat official from Kanyakumari
district, had sought the court’s direction for approval of his house building
plan. Both petitioners were denied relief, pointing to the grim reality of the
sway of English over a free country that is Bharat.
How
Hundreds of Chennai Walkers responded to the Call to support RSS relief work in
Uttarakhand
One fine morning last week, hundreds of
walkers frequenting a public park in T.Nagar, Chennai, were pleasantly
surprised to find a huge digital hoarding at the park’s entrance
containing an appeal to donate in cash and kind for the relief work by
RSS – inspired Uttaranchal Deivi Apada Peedit Sahayata Samiti. The banner
also bore the local contact number, that of Shri Bhaskaran, an office bearer of
the Walkers Club, who had thoughtfully displayed the banner there. In a couple
of days, a DD for Rs 40,000, being the walkers’ contribution, was sent to the
Dehra Dun office of the Samiti. By the way, Bhaskaran, a businessman now, was a
pracharak of the Sangh 35 years back. A full page multi colour advertisement
containing the appeal published in the nationalist Tamil weekly
‘Vijayabharatham’ came handy for him in printing the flex banner.
Malaysian
Tamil Scholar Appeals to Tamils in Bharat to speak English-Free Tamil
Dr. S. Kumaran, Head of Tamil Research in
Malaya University of Malaysia fervently appealed to Tamilians in Bharat to
cultivate the habit of speaking in English-free Tamil so that the
language could be passed on to the next generation intact. He said he
could observe Tamilians in Tamilnadu resorting to English quite often. He was
sad that the population of Tamilians in Malaysia went down from 11 percent to 7
percent over the years, owing to the policies of the government there. Kumaran
was addressing the literary club meet at Urumu Danalakshmi College on the
outskirts of Tiruchirapally. The Tamil Research department of the college is to
sign an MOU with Kumaran’s department. S. Sekar, Principal of U.D. College
chaired the session.
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