Hindi people's envy of Tamil antiquity and Indian gov refusal to contribute to Tamil Chair Harvard

[kvpak]

USD 6 million required to establish a Tamil Chair at Harvard Univ. We have collected money from Tamils around the world to a little over 3 million.



Indian gov could easily contribute this. Note India spends multi-fold for Hindi chairs, scholarship etc at foreign universities. Also multi-million dollars spent on Sanskrit.



Indologist David Shulman,"Tamil is one of the world's major languages, and the only South Asian language to have evolved continuously from a very ancient past while remaining a living contemporary language spoken by tens of millions of people. Its literary tradition is among the nest in human civilisation, encompassing marvellous love poetry, epic, philosophical texts, reflexive sciences of grammar, logic, and poetics, historiography, and an enormous religious literature."



Hindi government would love to see Tamil destroyed.

 

[manlion]

TN govt sanctions Rs. 10 cr for Tamil Chair at Harvard varsity

CHENNAI, OCT 27:
The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs. 10 crore towards setting up a Tamil Chair at Harvard University in the US, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said today.

The move came following requests made to late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa by two US-based Tamils, he said.

V Janakiraman and Thirugnanasambandam, who had been making efforts for establishing the Tamil Chair at the varsity, had taken up the matter with Jayalalithaa and sought the government’s help, he said.

Subsequently Jayalalithaa included it (to extend assistance to such an initiative) in the list of promises as part of AIADMK’s election manifesto last year, he recalled.

“I have directed that a sum of Rs. 10 crore be granted on behalf of theTamil Nadu government, which follows Amma’s (Jayalalithaa) footsteps, towards setting up a Tamil Chair at Harvard University and implement the (poll-time) promise,” Palaniswami said in a statement.

The move will help in taking up research work on India based on Tamil language, enabling more students to pursue research on Tamil culture, and bringing Tamil archives being maintained in US libraries under the research ambit, he said.

These will ultimately help the world know about the richness of Tamil language, the Chief Minister added.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...l-chair-at-harvard-varsity/article9927755.ece

 

[Chhatrapati]

There is no Chair for Punjabi which has more speakers than Tamil. Then Bengali, Tamil is not even in top 10.

Why always this language crazy dudes bring up some stuffs. Irrelevant AF.

 

[manlion]

There is no Chair for Punjabi which has more speakers than Tamil. Then Bengali, Tamil is not even in top 10.

Why always this language crazy dudes bring up some stuffs. Irrelevant AF.

why /how Tamil qualifies

Harvard Tamil Chair - Jonathan Ripley - Tamil Preceptor at Harvard University

Harvard Tamil Chair Anthem

 

[manlion]

There is no Chair for Punjabi which has more speakers than Tamil. Then Bengali, Tamil is not even in top 10.

Why always this language crazy dudes bring up some stuffs. Irrelevant AF.

joker, comparing Tamil's universal reach with Punjabi (restricted to Canada/England/Pakistan/India ) and Bengali ( Bangladesh /India ) ?

 

[El Sidd]

That's just racism.

 

[Chhatrapati]

joker, comparing Tamil's universal reach with Punjabi (restricted to Canada/England/Pakistan/India ) and Bengali ( Bangladesh /India ) ?

Day thiruttu moonji!! Maryadaya pesu. Neenga tamil pesuma? illenna satham podathe.

Tamil is like any other language in the world. It has classical language status in India. Like any language, government is doing steps to promote Tamil language.

 

[kvpak]

Indian s spending every years 100s of crores to fund Hindi studies abroad (tax money from Hindi and non-Hindi peoples). But all expenses for Harvard Tamil chair is borne by Tamils. This is discrimination. Slavitude. Outrageous.

Like Catalonia, Tamil Nadu assembly should declare independence. I know Indian army will move in massively. OK. We will wait for right time to evict occupiers.

 

[manlion]

Day thiruttu moonji!! Maryadaya pesu. Neenga tamil pesuma? illenna satham podathe.

Tamil is like any other language in the world. It has classical language status in India. Like any language, government is doing steps to promote Tamil language.

how is you blabbering relevant to what I said ? Tamil reach and recognition is beyond India. Stop lying, India only promotes Hindi and the dead Sanskrit , Tamil is not dependent upon Indian govt support or promotion

btw, watch your language and theres no compulsion that I should respond to your Tamil gibberish. This is Pakistani not Indian forum and you are not the mod either to suppress Tamil's voice .

How Indian Government Promotes Hindi Around the World (India promotes Tamil ?? joker !! )

Example Projects

2.1 Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR)

Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) of the Government of India established a Hindi Chair in 2010 at the Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU) in Armenia; that is, ICCR pays the salary of a Hindi professor at this Armenian university. Indian government has provided similar funding for professor positions and scholarships in a number of other foreign universities as well. ICCR should establish such professor positions for all Indian language or for none of the Indian languages. Why should Hindi get such preferential treatment?

2.2 Vishwa Hindi Divas Celebrations (World Hindi Day)

Many Indian embassies around the world celebrate Vishwa Hindi Divas (World Hindi Day) every year starting from 2006. Is glorifying Hindi the duty of Indian embassies? Not only the embassies but also other departments of the Indian government spend their resources on World Hindi Day in foreign countries. For example, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources often join hands with Indian embassies in celebrating World Hindi Day. Ministry of Education and Human Resources' duty is to educate people and develop human resources within India. Why is it spending its resources abroad to glorify Hindi--the language of a certain region populated by about forty percent of the total Indian population? Is there no educational needs within India and is it so flush with unspent monies to go oversees and promote Hindi? Are people of other languages children of lesser languages?

2.3 World Hindi Secretariat (WHS)

Indian Government established the World Hindi Secretariat (WHS) in Mauritius in 1999 (foundation stone for the building paid for by the Indian Government was laid that year). The main objective of the WHS is to promote Hindi as an international language. Secretaries of the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Human Resource Development and Culture are members of the Executive Board of the World Hindi Secretariat. Don't these secretaries (the top civil service officials of these two ministries) have more important matters than to promote Hindi around the world which "benefits" only Hindi people and not the rest of the population?

2.4 Central Institute of Hindi (Kendriya Hindi Sansthan)

The Central Institute of Hindi (Kendriya Hindi Sansthan) was established in the 1960s as an autonomous organization of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Culture. One of its responsibilities is promotion and propagation of Hindi at the international level. Yet another Indian Government organization is inducted into the international glorification of Hindi. Celebrating its golden jubilee in 2011, it boasted, "For over half a century thousands of people from all over the world have been trained in teaching Hindi in their respective countries, from Fiji to China." If only the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Culture take as much enthusiasm in teaching our children in India their mother tongues, English, mathematics, science and computers, India would have much higher standard of living for all the peoples of India. Instead resources are wasted to satisfy Hindi politicians who are rightfully proud of their language. Our gripe is that use your own money to promote Hindi around the world, don't use our non-Hindi Indians' taxes to glorify your language all over the world.

Canada promotes / supports Tamil

 

[Dash]

@manlion

Ni Tamil pesa ma. At least some gibberish like you said.

 

[Suriya]

Day thiruttu moonji!! Maryadaya pesu. Neenga tamil pesuma? illenna satham podathe.

Tamil is like any other language in the world. It has classical language status in India. Like any language, government is doing steps to promote Tamil language.

Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Tamil, Sanskrit,Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.

 

[kvpak]

Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Tamil, Sanskrit,Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.

But spends 70 times as much on Sanskrit propagation compared to what it spends on Tami, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia combined. What is the justification?

 

[manlion]

Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Tamil, Sanskrit,Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.

India's award means nothing, its pandering to the demands of Kannadiga, Telugu etc chauvinists , envious of Tamizh's classical status.

Demand for classical language status for Kannada under consideration

https://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007...guage-status-for-kannada-under-consideration/

Kerala demand for classical language status for Malayalam

https://www.oneindia.com/2011/01/14...ical-language-status-formalayalam-aid0126.htm

Tamil was the first Classical Language of India. The government declared Tamil (in 2004), Sanskrit (in 2005). These two languages are undoubtedly parental sources for many languages belonging to the Indo-European family and the Dravidian family of linguistic groups. Later the government declared Kannada and Telugu (in 2008) as classical languages of India.In 2013, Malayalam was also given status of classical language. In 2014, Odiya was also given the status of Classical language.

With this the following six languages are included in the list of Classical Languages:

1. Tamil (since 2004)
2. Sanskrit (since 2005)
3. Telugu (since 2008)
4. Kannada (Since 2008)
5. Malayalam (since 2013)
6. Odiya (since 2014)

https://www.gktoday.in/classical-languages-of-india/

"Tamil only classical language that had survived all the way to the modern world"

wheres is your Sanskrit, Kannada , Telugu , Malayalam or Odiya ?

"every one wants his language to be in the top but we have to take a decision"

 

[manlion]

To the envy of ....... Singapore PM Greets his Nation in Tamizh and English

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

Singapore PM Greets his Nation in Tamizh and English

That tweet was intended for all those celebrating deepavali in Singapore, to which most of them are local Tamils- not the whole nation. i dont even understand what those weird alphabets mean