By: Victor KarunairajanYesterday’s meet was fine and pleasant
In Isai Kalaamanram’s homely abode
To search for goals that need be met
With youthful dreams and hopes
To instill confidence in our folks
And make Canada truly our home.
The young have visions long and far
Tuned and readied to near perfection
Pledged with promise to serve well
With energy, enthusiasm and nerve.
Let’s get on the track right away
Stirred by Mum Bharat’s great son
Poet, prophet and social activist
Our beloved Subramanya Bharathi.
Unjust establishments he challenged
Immaterial community or country’s;
Fearlessly he faced the British Raj
With the might of his perpetual pen.
He cared less for his secure self
But heeded more for India’s cause
So that one day the land be freed
From foreign and far-off rule.
Never there was another Indian,
Proud, dignified and so forceful
Who used his rare writing skill
In rich commendable literary style
For the inspirational bliss and joy
Of kids, adults and statesmen
Scientists and India’s economists
Dramatists and dance teachers
With such prophetic dreams
That one day India will be free.
A tribute to the young people who ga-
thered at the premises of Thamil Isai
Kalaamanram, Sunday August 12, 07
and explored how they could use their
youthful visions for the good of their
community and its welfare.
Dates for our diary:
Workshop on Bharathiar September 2, 2007
Bharathiar Day Celebrations - September 9, 2007
Subramanya Bharathi- (December 11, 1882 - September 11, 1921) was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, freedom fighter and reformer. Known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar (the laudatory epithet Maha Kavi meaning Great Poet in Tamil), he is celebrated as one of India's greatest poets. Bharathi was prolific and adept in both the prose and poetry forms, and his rousing compositions helped rally the masses to support the Indian independence movement in South India. Bharathi lived during an eventful period of Indian history; his contemporaries included other prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement such as Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and V.V.S.Aiyar.
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