Thirukural is one of the best art of living book available in India without any caste based discrimination. You will definetly find it interesting.Tamil meet also says about hinduism, it depicts about tamil deities, rituals performed by tamils for several generation.
It all began in January 2010, some said kalaingar would die before it happens, some said it will be recorded in Indian History! Many questions arose among people that What are the real big "infra developments" happeneing due to this?what are the significant changes going to take place?
Last world tamil conference held at 1995 after 15 yrs it now in coimbatore.It was a conglomeration of tamil scholars all over 39 countries. I wanted to curse Chief Minister Karunanidhi with the worst possible words than anyone for Two reasons.
1)The way he acted during Eazham conflict
2)family politics and too much of reservations he brings in.
karunanidhi took the decision to conduct tamil conference when lankan war was going on and people started calling him traitor.He wanted to cover up the betrayal he did for tamils.Now people will forget all his drama's and think him as the saviour of tamil.
but whatever you say, he is our Chief Minister and he is thousand times better than Jayalalitha on any day and billion times better than the so called national party leaders in TamilNadu.
If you are from Tamilnadu, you will know that why this conference is conducted now. DMK want to win more votes in Kongu region for that nearly 300 crores they have spent on Coimbatore infrastructure all of sudden. Next thing grand father wants to project himself. But 90% out of 360 crores was spent to develop the infrastructure of Coimbatore.Airport - new terminal was opened in record time on behalf of the Tamil conference.Coimbatore railway junction got a good face lift.
This is truly misleading. the amount was mainly spent on improving infra of coimbatore.So many roads were newly laid existing widened.Lots of foot path was laid and many gardens new bridges etc. This is overdue to coimbatore for long time and only now have they done it. I was sick of the Linguistic chauvinists wasting the public money of self-centred publicity stunts and leaving the common man in the lurch in times of economic hardship.Tamil people know how to preserve the culture. Why simply conferences. Waste of Public money.
But many suggested such big event hardly happens in India..this meet would be one of the most unforgettable event for every tamils. It will also be helpful to promote tamil language and its literature globally other than that coimbatore infrastructure also have been developed.
When they announced this "Theme song by Karunanidhi will have music by A.R. Rahman" Whole India was eagerly waiting for that song.It has created that much hype all over India.
At the end of the day,it's more of a commercial affair to promote the Tamil Conference. So it's bound to be commercial in a way to attract the masses,the way it's picturised shows that. At least ,I presume so for not going in depths with the history of tamils in the visuals. And for not including other eminent singers,the reason told by Gautham vasudev menon was that "we just shot with the available singers when the shoot went on". So there's the excuse. But agree that there's a lotta things wch can be included to call it a complete 'tamizh anthem'.To be really practical,it's a huge task to bring in all the bigwigs under a single roof and shoot a video. They just shot it with the available musicians. I guess,the prime importance in the video should be given to the visuals which emphasizes tamil culture rather than pondering upon the missing musicians. The Taj Anthem, Pray for me Brother, Vande Matharam were much much better than this. I still get goosebumps when I hear Pray for me brother!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJmRsIO2wWo
But at last it had a great success. Here are the some pictures representing tamil's history
Traditional Tamil hospitality extended to guests:
Message of planting and conserving trees through this:
Scene from Silapadhikaram, one of the five Tamil epics shows Kannagi with the anklet in Nedunchezhiya Pandian's court
Sadu kudu' is a popular sport in rural Tamil Nadu
bull fight has become an iconic identity of the Tamil region
The traditional art of 'kolam', an everyday ritual followed in Tamil households
I hate this conference,because a great Tamilan ,Ex-president And a Father of Indian Science,Role model for all Students Dr. A.P.J.Abdulkalam was not invite to this conference.
These conferences pave the way for adopting new grammer, writting scripts for coming generation and it also involves the historical discussion with local arts performance. These Tamil conference are nothing but the modern versions of Tamil Sangams which dates back to 300B.C.