Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Dear Venkat
The answer to your question as a minority in foreign nation can be bad! But as professional you move in an educated circle but there are indercurrents there all the time. Vellaikaran atleast on surface will attempt to be equal!

I don't think anywhere else you will have taxpayers money given to built a large temple complex for a ethnic minority. Balaji Temple in Birmingham has been funded partly by the millenium project The land I understand was agoin leased from the local council...having said that they are encouraging religoius harmony in their small way in reciprocation...there are 7 small figuritive hills...one dedicted to each major religion..buddism..christianity..Islam...etc and the biggest for Balaji..

Malathi
Though I agree with your point regarding minority feeling.
I take exception to two points..the Dalits and backwords may not feel the difference I think is politically uncorrect..Infact they I think will feel better here than home atleast you respected for what you are professionally!there was nice chapter in Inspite of the gods by Edward Luce..where he interviews a Principal of a big instituition in a city ..well respected by all..however cannot walk with slippers in his home village...(before any one starts its Western media propaganda...This man is married to an Indian and lives in India and it is actually a very good book on India)

Shankar
I am really sorry I have to agree with Venkat..Please do not believe all you read or hear...Bobby Jindal converted when he was in Highschool may be he had ambitions but nobody forced him to convert to become a Governor!!

from Wikipaedia
Holyoake invented the term "secularism" to describe his views of promoting a social order separate from religion, without actively dismissing or criticizing religious belief. An agnostic himself, Holyoake argued that "Secularism is not an argument against Christianity, it is one independent of it. It does not question the pretensions of Christianity; it advances others. Secularism does not say there is no light or guidance elsewhere, but maintains that there is light and guidance in secular truth, whose conditions and sanctions exist independently, and act forever. Secular knowledge is manifestly that kind of knowledge which is founded in this life, which relates to the conduct of this life, conduces to the welfare of this life, and is capable of being tested by the experience of this life."[8]

btwa UK and US are not called secular It is France and India, south korea,mexico

GRS
I am talking about the masses ...My children know about the heritage of ancient tamils and our culture..
let us not forget the British dug out our history and educated us...Indus as well as a lot of temples which were in ruins including our beloved bigtemple, so the average Joe public who doesn't know this because we don't have enough of it in our history books...its only Indus..Kushans..Moarya..gupta..Asokha..Harsha..Mughals...british(half a page on Tamil kings and Vijayanagaram..)
They can easily be led astray by these fictory(fiction+history) movies.

Even our learned member Sankar believes that a true Hindu Bobby Jindal had to convert christianity to become a Governor...in a country let us face it the president is a son of a Kenyan with a middle name Hussain.


GRS
Have you decided when you are closing MEET THE TAMILIAN....I THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE GOING TO WRITE A FEW WORDS ON THE MAN THEY WANTED TO MEET AND WHY

Sri




If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin, Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson



If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin, Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson