பாரதியார் பிறந்த நாள்

வேதம் நிறைந்த தமிழ் நாடு,பாரதியாரின் பாபா பாட்டு மற்றும் பல வரிகள் நினைவில் இருக்க வேண்டியவை.
Each year Bharathiyar’s birthday 11th December reminds me what a man he was and what a contribution he had done in his short life. Yet it gives me sad to see that every year his birthday goes not much of notice. Every schools in Tamil Nadu and rest of the world where Tamils live should dedicate the day to celebrate and remember his works with Talks/debates and other cultural activities.
I am very happy to remember singing a Villuppaattu on Bharathiyar when in school as a kid of 11 years. Wonderful thing is that the teacher who trained us was not our school’s Tamil teacher but our English teacher who also taught religion in school. She penned so much of words on how Bharathiyar’s songs was a waking up call to those slaved by the English. I still remember the songs on Viduthalai Viduthalai or Aum Shakthi Aum…
If we don’t give the children right knowledge when their minds are young, it will be hard to teach them anything useful when they grow up with ‘English’ education.

We are now in an age where people wants to celebrate in grand scales for those in film industry or a politician who talk much on Tamil culture but nothing much done by them for this great poet who lives in every Tamil hearts.

Few years back I happened to read on Bharathiyar’s ‘Fox with the golden tail’ in chennaionline. But when I do a search now, I can’t find it. Wonder why this excellent writing of Bharathiyar in English is not seen in the internet now. Is it because he talks and simply reveals on religious conversions or is it because he talks on his own community’s pitiful and pathetic low levels of intellect and spiritual wisdom which also contributed to other religions to come and convert Veda followers to their own religions?
Wish it appears somewhere soon for us to help in understanding our own failures for others to get conversions from Vedic religion.

Also sad to see his photos without the red kumkum. Its not hard to see why, if we just know why ‘Fox with golden tail’ is difficult to get in internet as thought in above para the reason why many of recent photos of Bharathiyar shown without red kumkum gets clear.
But it’s a weak attempt to show him without his religious identity….He loved his language, country, religion yet he loved humanity and all beings for it was very clear when he said, ‘If a human goes without food, whats the purpose of this universe’. Remember he said not one Tamil or Indian or Hindu, but a human.

Even the modern film recently made on his life, did not do justice to him…with the usual ‘modern’ style of film making they had not touched anything that old films(like Kappalottiya Thamizhan or Veerapandya Kattabomman, Avvaiyar) touch.