The Thamilar Thahaval Aandu Malar, 2005
The 14th Anniversary Issue of Tamils’ Information, a publication in
Thamil and English, established in Toronto, Canada is now available.
It’s a monthly bulletin providing valuable information on many
matters, particularly to the Thamilians in Canada. And its Annual is
usually an excellent encyclopedic volume of research oriented and useful
writing but certainly not academic in style of writing.
The editorial board consists of S.Thirchelvam, Ranji Thiru, Vijay
Anand, Sasi Pathmanathan and Anton Kanagasuriyar.
S. Thiruchelvam a.k.a Thiru / Esthi, the Chief Editor was a well
known and path-setter journalist and editor while he was in Sri Lanka.
He had first worked for the Thinakaran as a topmost newsman and literary
columnist for the paper under the editorship of the late
R.Sivagurunatahan.
Later he worked in the newsroom of the SLBC and had also presented
several news programmes over the Thamil Service of the station. He then
moved to Yaalpanam and edited two influential weeklies, now defunct,
“Eelanadu” and “Eelamurasu”.
His son, Ahilan, was an outstanding student in studies and sports but
fell victim to an assassin’s gun intended for Thiruchelvam. This drove
him and his wife, Ranji, who was a teacher, to flee to Canada. And in
North America, Thruchelvam build up his reputation slowly and steadily
and is at present a well known figure in Scarborough, Toronto in Canada.
The Annual published by Ahilan Associates and produced by Eelam
Thamil Information Centre is made available in February each year to
coincide with the Annual Awards given to outstanding Canadians and a few
selected recipients from other countries. Yours truly while he was
living in the U.S. (2002-2004) was also one of the invitees to receive
such an honour.
The Award was given for my contributions to contemporary Thamil
Literature as a Sri Lankan.
This Annual is available from: Tamils’ Information, P.O.Box - 3,
Station “F”, Toronto, ON, M4Y 2L4, Canada.
“Growing with the Community” is the logo of this Annual and the
Bulletin and its aim is to entrench deeply and elegantly the path that
had been followed.
The Current Issue The 172 page bigger issue has very interesting
articles both in Thamil and English. Many contributions are on one of
the worst natural disasters this country has faced - the Tsunami. A Law
student from Canada, Harini records an eyewitness account of the Lankan
misadventure in a moving piece of writing.
As the chief editor says more than 70 thousand innocent Thamilians
have been killed during the 20-year war situation in the country and
within a few hours more than 20 thousand had lost their lives the
devouring massive and huge tidal waves.
Let me list the titles of the articles in English even though most of
the articles are written in Thamil so that our readers could form a
general idea of the contents of the Anuual:
The Rise of the Second Generation of Thamilians as Expatriates (Rev.
A. P. Yeyasegeram), The Canada I Saw (Yogeswari Ganeshalingam), They
Could Make It (P. Kanagasabapathy), Let’s Wish Long Life To the Journal
(Theevakam V. Irasalingam), Nationalism - The Essence in Today’s
Existence (Ponniah Vivekanandan), Separate History for each component
places in Thamil Eelam should be written (S. Sivanayagamoorthy)
BBC’s Thamil Oasi- Thamil Translatiion), Health Maintenance in
Homeland (Dr.Shan Sundar), Tsunami-A Curse (Kanageswari Nadarajah), The
Thamil Diaspora and the Thamil Nation after the Tsunami (Anton
K.Sooriyar),Parents contribution for their children’s success in
Education (Poomani Thuraisingam), Copyright (E. Senthilnathan), Husband
Abuse and Neglect (S. Pathmnathan), Sibling Rivalry (Vallinayagi
Ramalingam), Us in Foreign Climes-Some experiences (Amala Ambalavanar),
Is it True that only 10% of our Brain is used? (K. Jawarhal Nehru), Life
is for Living (Sivavathani Prabhakaran)
New Changes in telephone Service: Telecommunication Via Internet Dr.
T. Vasntahkumar),
Nano Science: 21st Century Technology (Jiffrey Udumalebbe), The Rise
and Fall of Fuel Price (Vijay Kulathungam), The credit Situation (R. R.
Rajkumar), The Growth of Thamil Education in Germany (Nagula Sivanathan),
Thamil in Singapore(Pon Balasundaram),
Married couples hoodwink Britain: Do they enter into Matrimony or
Britain? (Wimal Sockanathan), Maintenance of Teeth- a thing to earn (Dr.
S. Yogeswaran) Should we be the Agent of Death? (Shyamala Navam,) The
Siddhars and Medicine (Dr Bala Sivakadadcharam), Achievements in Sports
on the Canadian soil (S.Ganesh), Humiliating the Elders (Fred
Balasingahm), Won’t That Day Come Again? (Thanalakshmi Sabanadesan),
Here and there (Sundarakalavalli Sivapathasundaram), Pleasantness in
Ageing (Ratnesh Shanmuganathan),
Old Age security Pension Regulations: An open discrimination (Aloy
Ratnasingahm), Creating a New State under international Law (Jegan
Mohan) Should children be beaten? (Deiva Mohan), Home-Property(Manuel
Jesuthasan), Let’s discard meaningless and old habits without any basics
an make it new in our language (Ilankayan),The value of time (A. P.
Chelliah),
The amazing Growth of Brain in a five year old Child: Understand the
parentage and succeed(Pandit M. Selvarajah Alexander) Dried, Failed
Jumped (V. N. Mathialagan), Our Creations and Quality P. Wigneswaran),
In the National Stream (Thamilpitiyan), Would we be lost? (Vyramuttu
Thivyarajan),Age Old Experience is better than Admixture (K. Navam),
Artistic endeavours in Canada (V. Sornalingam), The Birth of the
Canadian Screen World ( Guru Aravindan), What is art/Artist? (Anton
Felix), Liberation (Dr. A. Shanmugavadivel), The duties of Hinduism (Thambiah
Sripathy) Poetry and Grammar (Poet V. Kanthavanam), Bounded Duty (A.
Muthulingam), Juvenile Literature in Lands of the Expatriates (Chinniah
Sivanesan), Thamil Books and Marketing (Vasantha Nadarajan), The defunct
Thamil Magazines and reasons for it in Canada (Ira Sambantan), Literary
Evaluation( Gnanam Lambert),Is a literary Journal problematic? (P.
Sriskandan), Literary Criticism, Recommendation (T. Sivabalu), D-day (Asai
Sivathasan), Totally different Children’s Education Savings (Siva
Kanapathipillai), Service persons-Shall we reckon our limitations? (Naga
Iramalingam), Lankan Thamilians’ role in the publication of Malaysian
Thamil books (N. Selvarajah, A Night Poem and a Borrowed Poem (Kalarathan)),
An Individual Solace (A separate Solace for Everyone (Maharaji), what
the Thamilians should do in Commerce (Varan), Who Are We (Raj Rrajadurai),
Parental Involvement makes a difference in Children’s Education (Jaya
Sundar), The Gift of Life (Kulamakan Kulasegeram), How December 26, 2004
changed my life (Harini Sivalingam), Asian Tsunami of 2004 (Nimal
Navarithinam), Transgressions, Redemption, and Insecurities in Germany (Manivillie
Kanagasabapathy), AIESEC (Vaithegi Vasanthakumar), What do we achieve? (Vaishnavie
Gnanasaravanapavan), Arts vs. Sciences (Siva Vijenthira), My Home Away
From Home (Vahesan Vivekananthan), Good god and Problem of Evil (Rajesh
Mohan), The Hindu calendar (Nala Balarajan), Who cares for the children?
(Sangeetha Nagarajah), Voluntarism in Thailand (Yalnee Shantharam),
Canada -the Model of Accommodation (Anojini Kumaradasan) Behind the
Microphone over Lankan Commercial Radio (K. S. Sivakumaran), Tamils’
Information -an exemplary publication (Varathar).
Apart from these articles there are a few informatory facts on Canada
included I this compilation.
I wish that the chief editor had condensed the titles of the articles
in a more precise manner so that the reader understands the substance
clearly.
The Annual also gives citations on Award winners for 2004 Willie
Arunachalam (Vijay Kulathungam), N. Selvarajah (Esthi), Manickampillai
Velayuthapillai, (Ranji), Murgavel Paramanathan(Kavinayagar), Niranjana
Chandru,Sangeethapooshanam I.Velauthapillai (Thiru), Babu K.
Rajakulasingam (Aahaiyan), Muthuraman Rajivaharan), Velayuthan Sivabalan
(Aahaiyan), Karu Kanthiah (Aahaiyan), Mahaan Kulasegeram, Aran
Sriskandarajah, Gayathri Ganeshan and Mayuri Manoharan. The volume
carries pictures of the contributors and awardees.
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