Deiva Thamizh Naatinile

Ever since I listened to this and ever since any incidents that pains me as it happens in Tamil Nadu, this song sung by MS Subbulakshmi comes to my mind. The song tells us how the God's divine land of Tamil Nadu( Vedam Niraintha Tamil Nadu of Bharathiyar is just as appropriate) is swayed by ignorance to a level where even insults is taken by its people as praise and glory to such a low level of ignorance the people have fallen..This is exactly what one feels each time when one reads/hears about something that really pains....but even just as the song says, Deiva Thamizh Naatinile....there are always hopeful of other news/incidents that happen and tells us that its really the God's divine land...and as in Deivatthin Kural as flowed from Kaanchi Mahaswamigal, this land even if at times gets swayed by modernism or any 'ism' it has always come out shining with double brilliance in its work of enlightening the people of world...and as he said, thats the history of Deiva Thamizh Naadu.....while explaining the greatness of Tamil Nadu, Kanchi Mahaswamigal tells how when someone migrates to another land from Tamil Nadu, they easily accept and adopt the new language and in few generations their children forget Tamil language....but when someone comes and lives in Tamil Nadu, they never forget their own language and even after many generations, they still keep speaking their own language....Tamil Nadu does not force its new arrivals its own language...it let the new arrival to live with its own glory...not just that it allows and preserves any great piece of work of the arrivals.....and he quotes how Saints Thiyagarajah's songs in Telugu is preserved by Tamil music lovers...and no doubt again Bharathiyar said it, 'Sundera Telunginil Paatisaithu' what a glorious contribution to another language by this Deiva Thamizh Naatin one of the greatest sons.