Today (31.08.10) Malaysia is 53 years old. As a nation, we have come a long way, but the life of the Malaysian poor Indians largely remain the same, or worse than 1957.

To change the current sufferings of the Indian community, Hindraf / HRP was born. Here we list 53 reasons why every Indian should support HRP / Hindraf.

1. For the first time in 50 years (2007), Hindraf created the mass realization of the Indians in this country. 25th November, 2007 rally buried the ‘crab story’ that Indians can never be united! Give them a reason, they will be united. At the right time, Indians will come together to move mountains. Hindraf did exactly that.

2. Since 25th November, 2007, there is no more fear factor among the Malaysian Indians. They do not fear the police, authorities, the UMNO government and this has been demonstrated in all HRP / Hindraf activities to date.

3. HRP is full of fearless leaders, young and old, nationwide. Fear is stupidity!

4. In 514 days ISA detention, Mr. P. Uthayakumar meditated upon and realized the real reason for Indian problems in Malaysia. While many Indians blame Samy Vellu, Tamil movies, and Indian attitude for their failures, Uthayakumar concluded that the real culprit is the UMNO’s racist policies.

5. HRP realizes that MIC / Samy Vellu is a dead horse. There is no point in condemning MIC anymore. All BN component parties have no power. UMNO rules the country in the way they want at all levels. UMNO has well trained Biro Tatanegara graduates to segregate Indians in all aspects of life.

6. HRP realizes that Indians have been systematically segregated from the mainstream development of Malaysia by UMNO’s racist policies and practices. Time has come for UMNO to pay for this karma!

7. HRP understands the real way things work in Malaysia. They realize UMNO’s dirty politics in creating a mandore system and propagating ‘Indian fights Indian’ scenarios. So, they have avoided all ‘Indian vs Indian’ situation to the best of their ability.

8. Mr. P. Uthayakumar realized (in his 514 days in jail) that the only reason Indians were treated badly is because they don’t have political clout and therefore created the 15/38 political empowerment strategy.

9. Hindraf / HRP is bold and courageous. They articulate what should be articulated without fear or favour. They express political ideas in very direct and clear words. They minimize politicking to greatest extent possible.

10. HRP is full of positive energy and good people. Here you see Indians who think and believe that they are crucial in Malaysian politics and have the people power (makkal shakti) to bring change.

11. Mr. P. Uthayakumar’s boldness and character has brought like minded Malaysian Indians and all the forces of good together. Day by day, more and more Indians are attracted to join HRP because of it’s true, bold and selfless nature.

12. Hindraf / HRP have supporters from all over the world. Their message is being heard loud and clear in countries like England, USA, Australia etc.

13. The implications of Hindraf / HRP struggle is for the whole nation, nay, minorities all over the world. All communities and the country will enjoy the benefits of the change that it intends to bring.

14. HRP is a group of political activists with true desire to bring real change. They are absolutely different from the conventional politicians who are self centered.

15. While HRP is at war against UMNO, that does mean to give a blank cheque to Pakatan Rakyat (PR). There will be no more free votes from Indians.

16. HRP says a big ‘NO’ to replace UMNO with a BN clone Pakatan government. HRP wants real and substantial change for the Indian poor which Pakatan has failed to demonstrate so far.

17. HRP is not going to be part of any coalition, BN or PR. HRP will remain as a check and balance, a Third Force in Malaysian politics. This force is crucial to handle race based UMNO politics and vote based PR politics.

18. P. Uthayakumar is a very focused person and does not divert his attention from raising the Indian issues which has no takers at all. If the Malay/Muslim and Chinese MPs speak up on Indian issues, HRP won’t be here today.

19. Hindraf / HRP are not racist organizations. Hindraf / HRP do not deny any Malaysians’ their rights. They fight for the victims of racism (the poor Indians) in UMNO’s 1Malay-sia.

20. HRP realized that the poor Indian is the poorest of all communities in Malaysia, poorer than the Malay, Chinese, or even the orang asli. The sky is the limit for Malays, Chinese have rich community support and new villages and orang asli have their ancestor’s land. While the poor Indian do not have any of these!

21. HRP brings up issues, not a racist agenda. They only want the government to help all poor, and that means not to segregate the Indian poor.

22. HRP fights for the basic needs of the Indian community – land for Tamil schools, Hindu temples, burial grounds, scholarships, etc.

23. Mr. P. Uthayakumar is a super analyzer and critical thinker who sees newspaper reports from an Indian angle on a day to day basis and comes up with conclusions and convictions that no Malaysian has ever done. Refer to www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com.

24. Mr. P. Uthayakumar is a loving and caring person. He loves his fellow Indians especially the poor and feels their suffering as his own. He has renounced his entire life in fighting for the Indians in this country.

25. HRP does not only condemn the government and system but also makes positive criticism towards the government, if they listen it will only improve the government delivery system for all communities. HRP offers practical and permanent solutions that would make any government great (BN or Pakatan), if they listen.

26. HRP wants a permanent and blanket solution for all Indian issues. HRP believes that granting of land (scheme) alone will help solve many of the critical Indian problems.

27. HRP has developed and tirelessly work at maintaining an alternative media, www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com on a day to day basis to champion the Indian issues.

28. HRP is a very objective organization with special concern for numbers – from 18 point demands to 27 issues on HRP website, to 15/38 Indian majority seats. They know what they want!

29. Only HRP has got a workable plan to bring change to the Indian poor. All other Indian parties have no practical solution, even on paper, against continuous marginalization of Indians by both the BN and PR governments. They are lost. Now, Indians have no choice but to support HRP.

30. Consistency is HRP’s strength. They take up issues and go forward till the end.

31. Today, HRP is the authority on Indian issues. HRP website has all the evidence.

32. While HRP points out what’s being done (or not done) by both UMNO and Pakatan governments, their critiques are more interested in the ‘hope’ of a better government for all if Pakatan goes to Putrajaya.

33. HRP is Nike style – they ‘just do it’! They do not wait for perfection, they speaks their minds and do what need to be done ‘now’. HRP’s progress so far is evident of this Nike style of leadership.

34. HRP understands and believes that only change in the government policies and practices can help solve the multi-faceted Indian problems. Like eradication of poverty is the job of the government, not some NGOs or group of individuals.

35. HRP knows clearly how UMNO and Pakatan governments cheat the Indians by giving peanuts and do media politics of ‘telur sebiji riuh sekampung.’ Because of this, both parties find it difficult to work with HRP. Whereas HRP means business.

36. HRP realizes and has demonstrated that only peoples’ power (makkal shakti) can bring change. UMNO is worried only of peoples’ power! Wherever HRP goes they are welcomed by big numbers of policemen.

37. HRP is a productive organization, they are not just talkers like most Indian parties. They are doers of the real work that need to be done.

38. HRP’s continuously reference to the constitution and it’s violation by the UMNO government has given birth to a more informed Indian community leaders nationwide. Now, Indian want their rights, not the mercy of the UMNO government!

39. Mr. P. Uthayakumar and Mr. P. Waythamoorthy are indeed assets to the Malaysians. To put this country in order, all Malaysians and media must take efforts to recognize, appreciate and understand them for what they are.

40. HRP realizes that Indian problems are not their doing, it’s the result of UMNO’s social engineering in bad faith over the years. As we all know no Indian want’s to be poor, no Indians’ ambition is to be a criminal!

Only Hindraf / HRP champion the rights and welfare of the ‘stateless Indians’ in this 53 years old country. Hindraf / HRP boldly says that all those persons in Malaysia who are not citizens, are British subjects!

41. HRP fights for the upward mobility of the poor Indian community. That can happen only through granting equal educational, scholarships, and business opportunities to the Indian poor.

42. HRP realized that Indians have been systematically segregated from the mainstream development by the UMNO government for decades. UMNO’s pro-Malay policies has only helped the Malay and Chinese business communities. This bi-racial business cooperation has further denied Indian of all possible opportunities.

43. Out of 4,000 Indian lawyers, HRP / Hindraf has only a few who are championing the Indian poor issues. Hindraf chairman, Mr. P. Waythamoorthy is in London to continue his international lobby. While Mr. P. Uthayakumar leads the HRP and grooming the future leaders.

44. These two leaders are the God given heroes for the Indian community. So, it’s the duty of every Malaysian Indian to fully utilize them to bring about the change they most desire.

45. HRP realizes that the whole Malaysian politics is about number of racial votes. Struggle for the Malay votes has been the primary goal of the both political divide. The Indian poor’s votes have been practically seen as the least important for any political party to be or remain in power. In such a situation Indians have no choice but to form their own block of political power by creating Indian majority seats. And that’s what HRP is doing. And they have succeeded in Buntong and Sri Andalas.

46. HRP’s fight is based on needs, not race. For example, they fight for the eradication of poverty, of which 90% happens to be Indians. HRP wants affirmative action by the government of day to address serious socio-economic issues related to the Indian poor.

47. HRP fully understands that it were the Indians who opened up this country, which was largely an uninhabited and impenetrable jungle, and thereby opened up the country for large scale immigration of Indonesians and Chinese into the interior. The Indians were the precursors of modern Malaya.

48. HRP fully understands that all those temples, cemeteries and schools should have been granted land and gazetted as such way back in 1957. And the failure to do so by the Alliance and BN governments results in today these institutions are classified as ‘illegal structures’. This is a double cheat!

49. Hindraf boldly says that Britain still has locus standii over Malaysian affairs as the terms of the handover has been breached.

50. Hindraf boldly says Malaysians have a right to assemble, or form associations and parties, and that registration is a mere procedure, and that such procedures cannot inhibit or prevent the forming of an association and dcurb their constitutional rights. Therefore, Hindraf exists!

51. Hindraf / HRP declares that any rights they fight for, is a fight for the rights of all Malaysians!

52. Hindraf became the agent of change in 2008 GE! It electrified the nation and opened the possibility of the opposition parties working together under a single umbrella.

53. Hindraf / HRP declares that BN will be removed from power in the next general election (GE 2012/13)!

Happy merdeka day, HRP will make sure Malaysian Indians also will ‘merdeka’ soon from marginalization !

“One Police Sergeant Major Jamal took the petition and threw it to the ground, showing utter disrespect for the wishes of the rakyat and for a petition to the Sultan himself. When Uthayakumar went to look at the policeman’s name tag , the policeman raised his fist to punch Uthayakumar . This is an unleashing of police terror on a vulnerable rakyat. And this is the bloody impunity of the police in Malaysia. They can do whatever they please because there is no accountability for them. ” says Uthayakumar. The Sergeant Major Jamal raised his fist to punch Uthayakumar once only. The repeated action for illustration purpose only.

You can be forced into Islam when you are seven years old and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, there is no recourse for you – every body gangs up against you – the courts, the police, the administration, the politicians.
When some dare speak up against the injustice in all this, they are brutaised.
This is the democracy guaranteed us in the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION – see for your self in this video what happened when Hindraf attempted to petition the Sultan of Perak on the denial of religious freedom guaranteed in Article 11 of the Malaysian Federal Constitution..

Pakatan staring at massive loss in next election

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:22

By Athi Shankar

GEORGE TOWN: If April’s Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election results were to be applied across the Peninsula, Pakatan Rakyat would lose Selangor and Kedah in the 13th general election.

The coalition, however, could retain Penang, albeit with reduced state seats.

At federal level, Barisan Nasional may regain its parliamentary two-thirds majority, which the Umno-controlled coalition lost in the 2008 general election.

In short, a snap national polls now would reduce Pakatan’s political strength considerably, mainly due to loss of ethnic Malay and Indian votes.

The staggering electoral projection was Pakatan’s final analysis from its Hulu Selangor by-election post-mortem findings, which was compiled in a report dated May 5.

Compared with DAP, PAS and PKR would suffer more electoral heartbreaks in the next general election if the Hulu Selangor momentum stays through the next general election.

The DAP would be able to retain its political footing due to an overwhelming ethnic Chinese backing for Pakatan.

According to the report — a copy was made available to FMT by a party source — Pakatan would only be able to win 18 of 56 state seats in Selangor and meekly surrender the state government to the Barisan Nasional.

DAP is projected to win the same number of 14 state seats as in 2008.

But PKR’s state seats would drop from the current 18 to a mere four, while PAS could be wiped out in Selangor, losing all its six state seats.

Bad show in Kedah

The findings projected Pakatan to lose badly in Kedah, winning only four from 36 state seats. It now governs the state with 20 seats.

Contrary to popular belief, the post-Hulu Selangor analysis projected Pakatan to lose in Perak, winning only 21 of the state’s 59 assembly seats.

In 2008, Pakatan captured 31 seats.

The only positive aspect of the findings was that the coalition would be able to retain Penang, winning 28 from 40 state seats. Currently, Pakatan has 29 in the island-state.

At parliamentary level, PKR is projected to win between 30 and 33 seats, while DAP may be able to secure 30 to 31 seats.

PAS, on the other hand, could perform badly by winning only 11 seats, 12 less than 2008.

Overall, the Pakatan coalition would only win 70 to 75 federal seats, compared with 80 won in 2008, thus virtually giving BN the two-thirds majority.

The findings also revealed that the (Hulu Selangor) campaign carried out by Pakatan, especially by PKR, was “loose, poorly coordinated, without any theme, except for a smearing campaign and counter-defensive actions, and crippled by a weak machinery”.

In the by-election polls on April 25, BN candidate from MIC P Kamalanathan scored an upset win over PKR supreme council member and former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim by a 1,725-vote majority.

Kamalanathan polled 24,997 votes against Zaid’s 23,272 votes. PKR won the seat in the 2008 general election.

Zaid’s loss was the second successive by-election defeat suffered by Pakatan following the Bagan Pinang state by-election defeat last October.

In Bagan Pinang, BN’s Mohd Isa Samad triumphed with a landslide 5,435 majority, garnering 8,013 votes against PAS’ Negri Sembilan commissioner Zulkefly Mohamad Omar, who polled only 2,578.

Significantly, both the Malay-majority constituencies have decisive numbers of Indian voters.

Equally significant was that Indian votes have shifted by 8% to 10% from Pakatan to BN.

Indian voters comprised 20.7% or 13,664 of Bagan Pinang eligible voters. They formed 19.3% or 12,453 of Hulu Selangor’s 64,500 registered voters.

Mid-term review

Both Bagan Pinang and Hulu Selangor are considered to be majority constituencies in the country, in which the Malays form the majority with significant population of Chinese and Indians.

“Pakatan would have suffered severe electoral reverses if the Hulu Selangor by-election was actually a snap general election,” said a Pakatan insider.

The report stated that Pakatan saw Hulu Selangor by-election as a mid-term review on the performance of the PKR-led Selangor government in a “neglected” parliamentary seat.

Much to Pakatan’s chagrin, the post-election study disclosed that Khalid Ibrahim’s administration “just passed the litmus test without any credits”.

Hulu Selangor also revealed a swing of 8% to 10% among Malays towards BN, while Pakatan has become over-dependent on Chinese votes for its political survival.

Overall, Pakatan secured 36% Malay votes, 41% Indians and 77% Chinese, which was comparatively better than 2004 but marginally poorer than 2008.

Pakatan held out in semi-urban areas despite BN’s fierce onslaught, but lost out in rural estates and villages.

According to several Pakatan campaigners, the current nationwide swing of Indian voters towards BN after voting en bloc in 2008 for Pakatan was triggered by the ruthless demolition of Penang Indian traditional village, Kampung Buah Pala last year.
“Pakatan state governments in Penang, Kedah and Selangor must act fast to stop the rot,” they concluded.

A BN official said that following Hulu Selangor and Bagan Pinang victories, BN has now conceded that Indians, not ethnic Chinese, are its second largest vote bank after the ethnic Malays.

“That can be decisive in the next general election,” he told FMT recently.

The parade of “Muslim sensitivities”: Where is it taking us?

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To be certain, there is a need to be respectful of different customs and belief systems. But “Muslim sensitivities” cannot and must not be the measure by which a non-Muslim citizen is denied the right to eat pork, watch a movie or use “Allah”. If we allowed that to happen, we would be a nation where behaving like an exposed nipple trumps constitutional rights to freedom of religion, assembly, association and expression.

Would we still advocate that South Africa follow Malaysia’s example?

Ramesh N. Rao is the Human Rights Coordinator for the Hindu American Foundation, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre, Longwood University.

By Athi Shankar

GEORGE TOWN: The Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) wants the federal government to set aside RM53 billion in next year’s budget for the socio-economic development of the Indian working class community. Heeding to the public call by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to share ideas with him for Budget 2011, HRP pro-tem secretary-general P Uthayakumar has written in requesting the country’s chief executive to allocate the fund.

Although the demand would raise eyebrows in the Putrajaya, Uthayakumar claimed the multi-billion ringgit budget request for the Indian poor was actually a bargain deal.

“The RM53 billion proposal is merely to undo all the injustices done to Malaysian Indians for past 53 years,” he told FMT.

He said HRP had only proposed ‘a mere billion ringgit retribution for a year’ of injustices and racial discrimination carried out by the Umno government to marginalise, sideline and isolate Indians from the country’s mainstream political and socio-economic development.

He said due to Umno’s half-century racist programme, the Indian working class were badly hit in both public and private sectors.

He pointed out that majority of Malaysian Indians were poor and comparatively, in real terms, were the poorest community in Malaysia.

He claimed Indians were even poorer than the poor Orang Asli, Malay, Kadazan and Iban, who have their traditional villages and ancestral lands as their “social safety net”.

He pointed out that even the Chinese poor have their Chinese new villages as their social safety net.

“The Indians don’t have this . . . even if they were to have it, it would be destroyed,” he said.

He recalled that only last year Penang Indians lost their last traditional village on the island – Kampung Buah Pala, courtesy of the Pakatan Rakyat government.
“Due to the racist policy, Malaysian-born Indians have been systematically excluded and segregated from the national mainstream development,” said Uthayakumar, who is also the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) legal advisor.

20-point demand

HRP had also enlisted a 20-point demand for the federal government to fulfil in a year’s time for the betterment of the Malaysian Indian community.

1. Grant each of the 450,000 hardcore Indian poor in the country the 10-acre land ownership that had been distributed to some 442,000 poor Malays under the Felda, Felcra and Risda schemes.

2. Grant land titles to all Hindu temples, burial grounds and crematoriums, Tamil schools and Indian settlements to execute permanent solution to this long running problem.

3. All Tamil schools must be converted to fully financially aided government schools by December 2011 on par with national schools.

4. The 12,650 places in the 39 MRSMs, fully residential schools and 20 elite public colleges such as MCKK, Tengku Kursiah, Cyberjaya College to be opened to all deserving poor Indian students. And, these students shall never be coerced into involuntary and forced conversion to Islam under any circumstances.

5. Grant all poor Indian students, who had scored 5A1s and above, JPA, Mara, Petronas, Yayasan Negeri,  GLC Yayasan, TNB, TM scholarships.

6. Grant to all other poor Indian students, PTPTN loans for them to pursue their ambitions even in fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, bio-medicine at local private and overseas universities and institutions of higher learning.

7. No poor Indian student to be denied or deprived of higher education, and the sky should be their limit as is the case for any Malay Muslim student.

8. A minimum monthly wage for all Malaysians across all sectors be capped at RM1,300.00 per month.

9. Socso be made the poor man’s insurance scheme and be given round-the-clock insurance coverage, unlike the current coverage of only accidental death and disability at, to and from work.  The minimum Socso pension should be capped at RM750, which is the marker for poverty in Malaysia.

10. Scrap metal, car wash, petty trading, stall and food stall, lorry, taxi, buses, tourist vans and other similar operational licences and bank loans be granted to all deserving poor Indians.

Participation in policy planning meetings

11. Licences, permits, direct projects, contracts, bank loans and business opportunities be granted to all deserving Indians craving but denied upward mobility opportunities.

12. Indians shall not be segregated from serving in the Malay-Muslim controlled civil service and GLC-owned banks and corporations.

13. Racial discrimination shall not be practised in career growth, salary increment or top civil service jobs such as secretary-generals, director-generals, managers and officers.

14. Legislation shall be passed and enforced strictly to ensure Indians are not discriminated in the Malaysia Chinese-controlled private sector.

15. A specific Act shall be passed to protect Malaysian Indians, to secure and safeguard the interests of the poor, defenceless and politically powerless ethnic Indian community.

16. The 209 Giat Mara colleges, vocational and technical schools and colleges, and all government funded and aided skills training institutions should be fully open and available to every poor Indian.

17. Full legal aid for all criminal cases beginning from remand proceedings onwards for all Malaysians earning RM5,000.00 and below.

18. Affordable three bedrooms with a minimum of 1,000 sq-ft state funded homes at nominal rentals of RM50 per month or purchase price of RM25,000 made available to all poor Indians. Government loans must be ever available for those blacklisted, those above 55 years of age or those rejected of bank loans. This is to avoid cases such as 21 Indians, including a three-month-old baby, living in a low cost apartment, as reported in the media last month.

19. The estimated stateless 150,000 Indian children and their 300,000 Indian parents, who have been denied birth certificates and identity cards, are issued those documents by end of December 2011.

20. All Indian-based welfare homes for orphans, senior citizens, single mothers and disable persons are granted full annual financial funds and facilities.

Uthayakumar also offered Hindraf and HRP participation in the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), Implementation and Co-ordination Unit (ICU) and the Central Coordinating Unit (CCU) to help the government implement all the demands.

“This would effect permanent solutions to pressing and critical daily problems faced by Indian poor,” he said.

I felt like “highlighting” a few matters to all my Brothers & Sisters!
It may be laughable for some and inspiring for most.
Also it is something to seriously ponder and make a firm decision and change.
Most of us need to understand that there is a power in
the words we utter. In simple it is called “Soll Sakthi” (power of word).
If we keep repeating the same word or sentence of request, the “Soll Sakti” works positively.
So now lets see what a Malay scholar in Tamil has to say of it.

Recently, a friend of mine had a chance to meet a high rank  Malay “Pengarah” in the government who is involved in the policy making and many other things. Surprisingly, he speaks good  Tamil and told that he had studied in a Tamil primary school and took Tamil and Tamil ilakiam in MCE and got a credit. While they were discussing so many things, the friend asked him,
“Boss, we Indians also born here and will die for this country if necessary yet we are not getting equal treatment. Why?

His answer is, “What ever treatment the Indians are getting is because of them self. You Indian people call us using the nickname “Naattan”. What does this mean? We Malays  belong to this country and you Indian people are NOT….isn’t it…?. It doesn’t matter whether you Indians are telling this word with understanding the meaning or not but we Malays understand even if not all of us understand “naattan”.
You Indians keep on telling us that we are the ones who belong to this country and you people are not. Since you Indians yourself declare by saying that at least a few millions times a day..right? So the power of word (Soll sakti) that you’ll bless us with is making us grow stronger day by day. And naturally one day you Indians are NOT going to belong to this country, thus why should you be given equal treatment?
History may  proof many things about Indians in Malaya first but with Indians daily blessings we are becoming the Prince of this land. So what are you Indians going to do about it now. It has been almost 50yrs we were blessed by your words.
Now we must thank you for that and we are getting stronger day by day..
from today onward don’t use that word anymore call them Malay.
Now lets see where we Indians stand in this land after so many years. We know you Indians develop this country by planting rubber trees, develop roads & railways but the lazy Malays were given Bumiputra status and enjoy benefits. You will realize that we are in either reverse mode or  loosing / dying mode.

1. Idli and putu mayam, is our traditional food but now Chinese started to make, sell & even export to Singapore.
We Indians are still going round on motorbikes with box selling putu mayam. Why…?
Note: A little upgrade from bicycle to bike.

2. Vadai, Tengga paal appam,puttu and urundai, now Malays are doing and earning good money by selling it in pasar malam.
We Indians are busy watching “MEGA SERIAL” at home…!

3. Murukku and Achi murukku, now Chinese and Malays are doing & exporting to Singapore.
Note:You may notice in some Malay made packets they call it Maruku and some “Kaataans” are already calling this is a product from their ancestors.
And we Indians…?
” Oh ye ke, kamu pun pandai buat Maruku, ehmm, sedap lah”… thus indirectly supporting them.

4. Kalliama, Murugan, Vinayagar and Ayya, now Chinese started to pray, they believe in our form of worship more than us…! Why???
We are busy looking for glamorous & economic prospected names & religious believes.
Pls. believe me, now days they have temples called “Amma Cakap Koil” and “Aiya cakap koil”.. many more I may not know off. A china man will get the trans & will speak in Malay -:)

5) If you were to ask our family members when we are going out for dinner or supper. First word, they’d say is “We go for Chinese food”.
Y is so said? Mind set… Chinese food is healthy and tasty.
Do we realize ourselves that our food has many grains, spices and many more natural stuff which is better for health. I may need not say  for you may know the Chinese food content (MSG , Fats etc ) & quality of preparing is of no concern ha.!. Further to that, our foods do not get promoted out of the home kitchen.

Note : I know of a few Chinese who our envy our food for its natural content and our people for strength and agility. But we don’t appreciate our own foodstuff ha..!
Also H1N1 has given our food content a DISTINCTION.It has natural healers.
Pls. check out how many Indians died of H1N1 in Malaysia.
As you can see from above simple examples, we are giving away everything that belongs to us slowly without pain nor realizing.

6)Thaipusam / Tiruvilla / School functions – Our youngsters are proud to show off as the Tamil movie hero’s in action. Their mischief then gets them into trouble with the authority & police followed by being whacked by them in prisons…
…….some to death.
Then what happens…. practically nothing.
Even upon seeing or being beaten to death does not inject fear in them to change mindset. They keep repeating the same.
Why this is happening and why we are not changing at all….???
Firstly are the parents on right track to guide the young??

Sorry if I have offended anyone, this is my personal view on some basic happenings in our Indian society and nothing relating to personal attacks…!

Indians don’t have to dominate the pasar malam or any business centers. But we should do more then just selling kacang putih in a lot of the pasar malam or business centers.
Also one need to understand that at the whole sale markets, the Indians are being sold goods at a higher price thus effecting the market price which he sells flowing down.

We need the unity, which our community lacks most to step forward and change from the tiny scale we are in to a larger one in future.

We can see that now the Indians are given many courses for free or best price by the government. The financially or academically incapable families should take up.
Be noted that the good and expensive courses in the university and colleges we still have to fight for.. the weapon… very good academic results… what else.

Nandri, Vanakam and for once, please for the future of our generation please use your brains to think of
MOVING FORWARD….!

Vaalga Valamudan

Nam Samuthayam Namathu Kadamai

செம்மொழி மாநாட்டில் மலேசியாவிலிருந்து கலந்துகொண்டவர்களில் உங்கள் குரல் இதழாசிரியரும் பாவலருமாகிய கவிஞர் ஐயா செ.சீனி நைனா முகம்மது அவர்கள் குறிப்பிடத்தக்கவர்.

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பகுதி 1:- (3.38ஆவது நிமயத்தில் கவிஞரின் உரை தொடங்குகிறது)

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செம்மொழி மாநாட்டுக்குப் பிறகு, 06.07.2010 அன்று மாலை ஒய்.எம்.சி.ஏ. பட்டிமன்ற நிகழ்ச்சி ஒன்று நடந்தது. செம்மொழி மாநாட்டுச் சிந்தனைகள் என்ற தலைப்பில் கவிஞர் சீனி நைனா முகமது, பிரான்சு பெஞ்சமின் லெபோ, சிங்கப்பூர் அமலதாசன், மலேசியா ஐ.இளவழகு ஆகியோர் உரையாற்றினார்கள். மறைமலை இலக்குவனார் தலைமை தாங்கினார்.

கவிஞர் சீனி ஐயா, தொல்காப்பிய எடுத்துக்காட்டுகளுடன் பேசினார். அவன் வந்தான் என்பதை ஆங்கிலத்தில் He came என்பர்; மலாயில் வேறு மாதிரி கூறுவர். இதில் அவன் என்பதை எடுத்துவிட்டால், வந்தான் எனத் தமிழில் எஞ்சும்; ஆங்கிலத்தில் came என்பது எஞ்சும். தமிழில் உள்ள சொல்லில் உயர்திணை, இறந்த காலம், ஆண்பால், திணை ஆகியவை வெளிப்படுகின்றன. ஆங்கிலத்தில் இறந்த காலம் என்ற ஒன்று மட்டுமே வெளிப்படுகிறது.

தமிழில் வெட்டு என்பது வினைச் சொல்; அந்தச் செயலைச் செய்யும் கருவிக்கு வெட்டி (மண் வெட்டி) என்று பெயர்; இது போல் ஆங்கிலத்தில் cut என்ற வினையைச் செய்யும் கருவிக்கு cutter என்று பெயர்; அதே நேரம் heat என்ற என்ற வினையை ஆற்றும் கருவிக்கு heater என்று பெயர். Cut உடன் er சேரும்போது, T இரட்டிக்கிறது; ஆனால், heat உடன் er சேரும்போது இரட்டிக்கவில்லை. இது ஏன் எனப் பலரையும் கேட்டேன். விளக்கம் கிட்டவில்லை. ஆங்கிலத்தில் இதற்கான இலக்கணம் இன்னும் வரையறுக்கப்படவில்லை. ஆனால், தொல்காப்பியத்தில் இதற்கு விளக்கம் இருக்கிறது.

முதற்சொல் குறிலாக இருக்கையில், வரும் சொல் உயிரானால், முதற்சொல்லின் ஈற்றெழுத்து இரட்டிக்கிறது. ஆனால் நெடிலாக இருந்தால் இரட்டிப்பதில்லை. கல் என்ற சொல்லுடன் அடி என்ற சொல் இணைந்தால், கல்லடி என்ற சொல்லில் ‘ல்’ என்ற எழுத்து இரட்டிக்கிறது. ஆனால், கால் என்பதுடன் அடி இணைந்தால், காலடி என ஆகிறது. இங்கு இரட்டிப்பதில்லை. இதற்கான இலக்கணத்தைத் தெளிவாக வரையறுத்துள்ளது, தமிழின் செம்மையைக் காட்டுகிறது என எடுத்துரைத்தார்.

செம்மொழி மாநாடு வெற்றிகரமாக நடந்தாலும் இங்கே அறிவுபூர்வமாகத் தமிழை வளர்க்க வேண்டும் என வலியுறுத்தினார். ‘யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளீர்‘ என ஒருவர் பாடினால், அதை என்ன செலவானாலும் திருத்திவிட்டுத்தான் மறுவேலை என்ற துடிப்பு எவரிடமும் எழவில்லையே. அப்புறம் என்ன செம்மொழி? எனக் கண்டித்தார். ‘அசத்தப் போவது யாரு?’ என்ற தலைப்பினை விமர்சித்த அவர், அசத்தப் போவது நாயா, பன்னியா? மனிதன் தானே? அசத்தப் போகிறவர் யார்? என எழுத வேண்டியது தானே எனக் கேட்டார்.

தமிழகப் பத்திரிகைகளையும் வானொலிகளையும் தொலைக்காட்சிகளையும் பார்த்து, மலேசிய ஊடகங்களும் இப்போது கெட்டுவிட்டன. தமிழகத்திலிருந்து வரும் இவற்றை மலேசியாவில் தடை செய்தால் நன்றாய் இருக்கும் எனக் கூறினார்.

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நன்றி:- ஒய்.எம்.சி.ஏ. பட்டிமன்றச் செய்தி [வல்லமை மின்னிதழ்]

மலேசியாவிலிருந்து செம்மொழி மாநாட்டில் கலந்துகொண்டு, கட்டுரை படைத்தவர்களுள் தமிழ் ஆய்வியல் அறிஞர் இர.திருச்செல்வம் குறிப்பிட்டுச் சொல்லப்பட வேண்டியவர். இவர் படைத்த கட்டுரையும் அருமையானது மட்டுமல்ல; இதுவரை எவரும் ஆய்வாக வெளியிடாத அரியதும் கூட. அவருடைய உரையின் நிகழ்ப்படத்தைக் காணும் முன்னர், அவரைப் பற்றி கொஞ்சம் தெரிந்துகொண்டால் நன்றாக இருக்கும்.
ஐயா இர.திருச்செல்வம் கடந்த 25 ஆண்டுகளாக ஆய்வியல் நோக்கிலேயே தமிழைக் கற்றுத் தேர்ந்தவர். மொழிஞாயிறு தேவநேயப் பாவாணர்தம் வழித்தடத்தில், பன்மொழிப் புலவர் இரா.மதிவாணருக்கும் சொல்லாய்வறிஞர் ப.அருளியார், கு.அரசேந்திரன் போன்றோருக்கு அடுத்து – தமிழகத்துக்கு அப்பால் வேர்ச்சொல் ஆய்வுத்துறையில் ஆழ்ந்து பணியாற்றிக் கொண்டிருப்பவர். இதுவரை வேர்ச்சொல்லாய்வு தொடர்பான 4 நூல்களை எழுதி வெளியிட்டிருப்பவர்.

தமிழ் இலக்கண இலக்கியத்தில் பரந்துபட்ட புலமையும், மொழி ஆய்வுக்குரிய உலக மாந்த ஒப்பாய்வு ஆழமும் பெற்றவர். தமிழ், சமற்கிருதம், மலாய், ஆங்கிலமொழி ஆற்றலும்; ஆங்கிலத்தைச் சார்ந்து இலத்தீன், கிரேக்கம், செருமானியம், இசுபானியம் முதலான மேலைநாட்டு மொழிகளில் தொடர்ந்த பயில்வும்; இந்தி, தெலுங்கு, மலையாளம், கன்னடம் முதலான திரவிட மொழிகளை நூல்வழி கற்றுணர்ந்த திறமும்; இவற்றோடு உருது, அரபு, சீனம், சப்பானியம் முதலிய இன்னுஞ்சில மொழிகளில் புது முயல்வும் கொண்டவராக விளங்கும் அரும்பெறல் ஆற்றலாளர்.

மாநாட்டில் இவர் வாசித்தளித்த கட்டுரை ‘மலாய்மொழிச் சொற்களில் காணும் தமிழ்மொழி வேர்கள்’ பற்றினதாகும். இதுவரையிலும் மேலோட்டமாக மலாயில் காணும் முழு தமிழ்ச் சொற்களை மட்டுமே பலரும் வெளிப்படுத்தியுள்ளனர். ஆனால், மலாய் அறிஞர்களும் வியந்து நோக்கும் வகையில் வேர்ச்சொல் நிலையில் தமிழுக்கும் மலாய்க்கும் உறவு மூலம் இருப்பதை இந்தக் கட்டுரை நிறுவுகிறது. மறைந்துபோன சில தமிழ்ச்சொல் வடிவங்களை மலாய்மொழி வெளிப்படுத்துகிறது. முன்னைத் தமிழரும் மலாய்மாந்தரும் ஒவ்வொரு மூலக்கருத்தின் இழையறாமல் சொற்புனைந்து அளித்துள்ள அறிவுநுடபம் அதிநுட்பமாக உள்ளதை இக்கட்டுரை எடுத்துக் காட்டுவதாக உள்ளது.

ஐயா இர.திருச்செல்வம் அவர்களின் உரை அடங்கிய நிகழ்படம் இதோ:-

பகுதி 1:- (5.52 நிமயத்தில் உரை தொடங்குகிறது)

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