Democracy in old India

[Periannan Chandrasekaran]

--- nanda chandran <vpcnk at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> S Palaniappan writes :
>
..>
> >The universalist ideals of Tamil society were not based on such an
> >unrealistic  view of life. They were grounded in a very pragmatic attitude.
> >(see puRam 189).
>
...

>
> All this is only a criticism of "arguments motivated by linguistic and
> racial chauvinism" and should not be interpreted as hatred of Tamil or the
> Tamil people.

:-))
Eminently avoidable comment.
Reminds me of a very famous Tamil aphorism:
"eGkappan2 kutirukkuL illai!"
["My dad is not [hiding] in the barn!" - uttered by the bankrupt son of a
bankrupt person avoiding creditors]

Cheers
P. Chandrasekaran.





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