the progress of getting new details in tamil history is so slow that the system will breed only amatuer historians. no one will have enough work to do it full time.
observe all the active historians we know.within the group and outside. dr. kalaikovan,in one of his article mentions that people like him are obsessed with history and use lunch breaks and short minutes they get to develop history. I wonder, are there so many developments to engage them for all their lunch breaks? we should ask ourselves honestly what developments have happened after nilakanda sastri. just guess work. some of it intelligent some of it can be termed as ridiculous. venketesh