(October 27, Chennai,Sri Lanka Guardian) Denying reports that Sri Lankan Tamil scholar Karthigesu Sivathamby would not take part in the Classical Tamil Conference to be held at Coimbatore in June 2010, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday said some forces were always trying to act as stumbling blocks to efforts made by the DMK for the welfare of Tamils, and the promotion of Tamil.In a statement here, he said that the scholar had agreed to attend the meet and has sent his suggestions on topics to be discussed at the event.
'Sivathamby himself has informed us that he will be present well in time for arrangements to be made for the research session. He has also indicated five subjects for discussion,' Karunanidhi said.
The five topics suggested by Sivathamby include the concept of classical languages and the world classical languages other than Tamil; classical languages of India and introduction to language families of India, Samarian language and Tamil, Tamil and Japanese, IndoAryan, Mundari, Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, the relationship of Tamil with tribal languages of India; Tamil as a classical language; Tamil as official language in pre-Western period, inscriptional Tamil and Tamil as an official language - Indian experience, Sri Lankan experience and Singaporean experience.
Further, it was only because Sivathamby had asked for more time for scholars to prepare research papers that the conference was postponed from January 2010 to June 2010, he said.
However, quoting Sivathamby, media reports said even today that he was reluctant to take part in the conference.
'In an audio interview given recently to BBC Tamil Service, Sivathamby had categorically said that it would be inappropriate for him to attend the world classical Tamil conference organised by the DMK government,' a report said.
'In yet another interview to a pro-Tamil website, the internationally renowned Tamil scholar had said he would certainly not participate in the world Tamil conference.
In the interview with BBC, the scholar had gone on record about the letter he had written on his dissatisfaction over the stand taken by the Chief Minister on the Sri Lankan Tamils' issue.' -Sri Lanka Guardian
Why sis Sivathamby regarded as some kind of a super Tamil scholar ? he was in one of minor the Universities in the suburbs of Colombo before he went off to Jaffna. he wrote a few papers on the caste system in the Batticloe area. A search for his publications reveals that his fame rests on his pro-LTTE politics. The bane of the Tamils is the extremist intellectuals who have taken them on the false path of violence, just as the leftist intellectuals have taken large parts of the world on to the path of violence. Enough is enough.
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