Tamil Positive Quotes

Who do you blame for this mess? Was it the colonials who screwed us for centuries? Or the superpowers that are screwing us now? Who screwed us?’ ‘The Portuguese assumed the missionary position. The Dutch took us from behind. By the time the Brits came along, we were already on our knees, with our hands behind our backs and our mouths open.’ ‘I’m glad we were colonised by the British,’ you say. ‘Better than being slaughtered by the French,’ says the Priest. ‘Or enslaved by the Belgians.’ ‘Or gassed by the Germans.’ ‘Or raped by Spaniards.’ ‘Sometimes, when I think of the mess this country is in, I think it might be better to let the Chinese or the Japanese buy us over, let the Yanks and the Soviets own our thoughts or let the Indians take care of our Tamil problem, like we let the Dutch take care of our Portuguese problem.

In Karnatik music, compositions are mainly in Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. Musicians will find that the aesthetics of the melody seems different when the same musical phrase is sung in two different languages. This is primarily because of the sound of the syllables, which are the pillars on which the melodic phrase is structured. This could be partly psychological – the result of the mind interpreting the melodic flow differently when other syllables are placed in the same position. The syllables and the compound sounds unique to each language register differently in our mind, making the structure of the phrase seem different.

A journalist from Madras, coming to meet him in Bombay, found Gandhi sitting cross-legged on a couch, wearing handwoven clothes, writing a letter to a friend in Gujarati, using materials ‘of the more common swadeshi type’. The ‘paper was none too fine, the pencil had to be pressed hard to make an impression, and the envelope would not easily open in the prevailing [monsoon]weather’. The reporter (a westernized Tamil Brahmin) also noticed ‘that one of the curls of [Gandhi’s] spectacles had broken midway and was being held in position by a piece of thread knotted round his head. I was wondering why a fresh curl had not been put in, but soon found a broken curl was not without its uses, as it serves well enough for a toothpick on occasions'.

All your stress is not from others - it's just from your Thoughts.