A clever New way to Promote Tamil Language

 A clever new way to inadvertently teach Tamil Language to North Indians.

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Tamil Nadu State Gov can promote Tamil Language in an easy and clever way. To start, they can just add Transliteration of Tamil in the Devanagari script as shown below. 

This method would familiarise and memorise Tamil words to non-Tamil people. They would pick up Tamil words and certainly increase their Tamil Vocabulary. This method may not be a complete solution to teaching Tamil but may prove to be a small beginning. 

This change does not need any major approval, budget, or discussion with Central Gov.

A few Examples:  

1 - அலுவலகம் Office अलुवलाकम

2 - தயவுசெய்து அமைதி காக்கவும் Silence Please तायवुसेत अमैती काक्कवुम

3 - எம் ஜி சாலை M G Road एम जी सालय 

4 - அண்ணா துரை தெரு Anna Durai Street अन्ना दुराई तेरु

5 - சிவன் கோவில் Shiva Temple सीवन कोवील

I feel confident, if I see this sort of signboards everyday, I could pick up a lot of commonly used Tamil words. Inadvertently, this can also lead me to make connections with Tamil alphabets with its pronunciations, thus familiarising even with Tamil written script.

NB: This Language Promotion Trick is equally applicable to all other languages too

Create Island, Create Land-Wealth from City Rubble and Garbage.

Creating Islands: New York city is built on Garbage dumped in sea. I am sure it is possible to dump garbage and construction rubble into sea and create city islands. Use more imagination, it can help create safe harbours on coast, it can help create urban land creating valuable revenue for country, It can help reduce current population density on main land. It stops ugly landfills and dumping yards on land. Best utilization of unwanted and and unusable things in creation of Land-Wealth.

Artificial Coral Reefs

Artificial Coral Reefs: Help Fishery and tourism industry: Create artificaial coral reef using materials like unusable ships, vehicles and rubble. Some countries even have dumped unserviceable airplanes in the sea to create Artificial coral reefs. After sinking stuff in shallow seabed, In about ten years, artificial Coral reefs comes to life and atracts a lot of fish. Many countries of world have coral viewing tourism industry too. They use transparent bottom boats and diving tourism.

Take Land to solve refugee problem humanitarian manner

Take Land to solve refugee problem in a humanitarian manner: India can negotiate for land in exchange of keeping refugees from neighbouring countries. Strategically it is most important to take land to provide sea access to NE states. It is very important to expand chicken-neck area that links bengal to NE. If this does not work, take on lease area either from Myanmar or Bangladesh to give direct maritime access to NE.

Ishwar-Allah-God

Allah is nothing else but Allah. He can not reincarnate. He can not have a son. True Muslims do not like Allah to mean God or Ishwar.

God is God, he can be approached only through Church and He has one son. True Christians do not like God equated with Allah or Ishwar.

Ishwar is Ishwar He takes birth, He can be approached by anybody from anywhere and He is not differentiate between Hindus, Christians or Muslims. True Hindus do not like Ishwar to be equated to Allah or God.

Keep Ishwar-Allah-God where they are. Guys, please do not be over enthusiasts to equate them.

Glasgow: A pleasant experiences, worth sharing and worth emulating.

Many years ago, when I landed at Glasgow airport, it happened to be Birthday of British (Scottish) poet Robert Burns. As I was alighting from flight, every passenger was greeted by a pleasant official of a private airline on the tarmac. He presented every passenger with hallmark Scottish pride gifts, 1- A well bound book containing collection of poems by Robert Burns and 2- A small bottle of scotch. Along with these gifts, he also passed on pamphlets that provided celebratory program schedules at various locations in city and a list of addresses of restaurants that offered celebratory dinner with poet’s favorite dish, “haggis”.

Scotland is proud of her son, Robert Burns, who had died nearly 250 years ago. His poems evoke Scottish nationalism. Certainly worthy of emulating similar practice in our country with our heroes. My friends in Scotland assured me that haggis is not really a tasteful dish that they can enjoy and yet they never skip eating it on Burns’ birthday. Not only is it tradition, eating it evokes pride and nationalism, much the same way national flag or national anthem does.

May be some corporate houses can go out of their beaten path and think of honoring their towns, traditions, literature, sanskriti etc. using appropriate gifts on appropriate occasions. A well-made miniature Taj Mahal, a metallic Shivaji, miniature Bridge of Hawrah, Mumbai Halawa, Puran Poli, Tulasi Ramayan. The list can be endless. Every town and city has something to offer from its history and tradition. Ministry of culture and tourism can enable this scheme.

“giving-up” made cool

PM Modi made it look cool to give up gas subsidy.

Similarly, if upper castes/classes are told how their sacrifice have made difference to lower castes, you will help remove the ‘sting’ from reservation. Make it glorious for upper castes/classes. “Giving up” is cool.

It works for both, the upper gets encouragement and the lower develops love and gratitude for what they receive.