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Jonas Pulendrarasa Students of the Department of Politics and Public Administration are protesting against the political move from the university to remove the Professor Ramu Manivannan from his position as Head of Department in charge. His removal from this position is a strategy to avoid him to voice and defend his opinion on the education situation in the university. According to him, the university administration asked him to sanction students who were taking part in previous silent protests. He refused by responding it is their rights to protest in a democratic society. As many students who have studied in his department previously and who are studying in the department, the professor Ramu Manivannan is an dedicated and formidable professor who inspire students to get the best of themselves. In fact, he applied in his teaching the actual university motto: “Learning Promotes Natural Talent”. He raised the natural talents of a generation
of students who came with dreams and frustrations. He and his academic colleagues cultivated activities and methods to promote creativity and self-learning. This generation of students is looking at the world and its daily improvement but realizes that they are in a university, which contributed to the humanity with its intellectual knowledge, is no more in line with today’s society. These students during one year studied rights and theories that human societies in the past have produced and permitted to our society to evolve and transform. However, They soon realized that the society where they live is far from those theories and many rights that a simple human being should have are being denied. Corruption is gangrening the society and their education. Hence, endanger their future and the future of the society.
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What does all this mean?
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There was a time where political removal, corruption, killings, lack of basic rights were seen as a necessary burden to accommodate to survive … but it is today over.
transformational change on how our Tamil society should and will evolve in the future. We have to organize and discipline ourselves to challenge the actual system.
Today, there is a new generation rising and wiling to bring change in the society. They don’t want their children to live in such a society, where discriminations, nepotism, corruption is omnipresent. They believe in the professor Ramu Manivannan and his inspiration to bring transformational change in the society. His removal is the removal of the society they believed in and wanted to build.
The media has overtly failed to support the students by supporting the system and the democratic will of the people by suppressing the discontent voice of the students. This shows that the establishments look to not to discuss issues but just to control the damage as they do with the Tamils in Eezham.
A new set of free newspapers from the students and the youth should set our discourse, our opinion and analysis Their decision to strike classes and stick to their that reeducate the population on their capacity to decision is the most formidable decision from understand and to bring change. students who really believe in change and a better future. In 2009, 40 000 Tamils were killed deliberately by a state government. We as Tamils even after 6 years, we The frustration expressed by this youth is one that is are unable or unwilling to take the responsibility to accumulated for a longtime and goes back to all the change and decide the course of our lives. The OHCHR political promises that were given to their parents and report on Sri Lanka details the atrocity of the war and to them when they were young. When one Tamil the ongoing persecution of Tamils due to their ethnicity young person grows up he/she saw the deep in Sri Lanka. inequality that shape the Tamil society and ways in which the people escape these issues. They Our hands are tied and we are ideological and mentally experience the contradiction of Tamil values and divided. The establishment is publishing news and morality with the reality. It is not merely a analyses that aims to contain the discontent of the consequence of “natural” people behaviors but a population and tries to make any fight for the Tamil consequence of intended political decisions in the cause as anti-national as we saw in the MEMO issued past and in the present. The Tamil society finds itself to the professor Ramu Manivannan earlier this year. If locked between major political parties and major fighting for the rights of your own kind is anti-national medias discourses. Political parties are polarizing and then to which national do you belong to? playing a competitive Tamil national discourse. They compete to show who is the most revolutionist and We are powerless as a nation today and decades ago to those who are safeguarding progressive ideas of the save Tamils from extinction. Tamils in Eezham don’t Tamils. However, they successively failed to provide dismiss another arm conflict if they continue to be a democratic and progressive platform to solve real oppressed. How should we react to this? Isn’t also our issues, which the Tamil society is facing. Similarly, responsibility as Tamils to rise and avoid the extinction these critics go to other minor political parties in of a part of our ethnic group in this world? Aren’t we also oppressed in other ways? Each person that Tamil Nadu. questions the system is isolated and put aside. Isn’t this The overt failure from political parties to let grow a system complicit by its actions in keeping us divided? democratic space in universities are part of their Isn’t that depriving our will and our freedom? failure to respect the will of the people to develop Shouldn’t we get together as one and get rid of freely their idea and create a path for their freedom. whatever divide us to build a new society? If not for us, The students and the youth should start questioning, shouldn’t we do it for our kids ? and create a set of standards and bring For students by students, Madras university
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Learn/discover Fight back ! Fight back ! I learned writing with two fingers To finally see only you The only place for me You hold me in turmoil, Despair! Knowledge, are you stranger to them? I see there my own loss That of ours, in their illusions of being Anyway! I will find you, knowledge! Come and see my rage! Rise up insensible body Your will is irascible Calm down and fight! Are we lazy? Or brave fighters? What have you learned about your ancestors? Blazes up your courage like them! Imagine the future of our heritage Let us complete the duty of our generation Pass on our knowledge around Without waiting for a return! Feasts the victory On your anger Intoxicate yourself with joy Create your own path! Carry this flame Human greatness Lets us break the chains Without waiting for the flames!
Nadu kal – a Hero stone with Tamil script
Flowers will be found Reason will bloom Lets us cherish this hope Against the evils of today!
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