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April 13, 2008
What is wrong with the TN CM?
At the age of 58 you are asked to retire because the government thinks you won’t be able to give your maximum output. The government also feels that you need rest, and that your performance will suffer as you grow old. May be the government is right. Personally I have seen people at the age of 87 losing their memory, talking to TV host peeping into the TV, needing help to enter and exit the bathrooms and also losing their senses and minds. Our CM is already 87, supposedly hail and healthy, and is still successful in sending nonsensical bills to the assembly. This time he wants Pongal, which comes around January 14 to be considered as Tamil New Year, and not April 14th!
I know M Karunanidhi is a great Tamil Scholar, a well-read intellectual, an amazing orator, and an awe-inspiring writer and a magnificent historian. But I think he is a lot weak in astronomy, and it is high time he gets his basics right.
I admire what Cho Ramaswamy commented about the bill. 'I suspect that those who endorsed the government's renaming quest must all be DMK supporters. If this government can do this, it can also announce new names for all the 12 months after Periyar, Anna, Stalin, Azhagiri, Kanimozhi and so on.' 'Culture, in my opinion, cannot be ordered by law and therefore no regime has the power to do so,' he asserted.
It isn’t only about culture, but also has geographical, astronomical and astrological reasons. Let us get into the basics now –
*A day is considered to have 24 hours, because Earth rotates around its own axis in that period.
*A year is considered to have 365 ¼ days, because Earth revolves around the Sun in that period.
The universe is considered to have 12 Zodiacs, and this is considered to be true by astronomers also. Now these 12 Zodiacs are nothing but – Mesha (Aries), Rishabha (Taurus), Mithuna (Mithuna), Kataka (Cancer), Simha (Leo), Kanya (Virgo), Thula (Libra), Vrishika (Scorpio), Dhanus (Sagittarius), Makara (Capricorn), Kumbha (Aquarius), & Meena (Pisces).
The first sign of Zodiac is considered to be Mesha, and even the West considers Aries (Mesha) to be the first Sun sign (hence people born between March 15 and April 15 are called Arians). Now the planet Sun stays in each house for a month and takes 12 months to cross all the Zodiacs. So when Sun moves into Mesha (Aries) the first sign – between April 14 & May 14 – it is celebrated as New Year in the Indian system. Not only Tamils but also Punjabis, Andhraite, Bengali, Assamese et al celebrate their New Year in this time frame.
If we listen to M Karunanidhi, then we will be celebrating New Year when Sun moves into Sagittarius, which happens to be the 9th Zodiac sign! And may be later he will ask us to celebrate Diwali on his birthday, Christmas on the day his son Stalin was born, and Good Friday on MGR’s death day!
Posted by Kenni at April 13, 2008 01:41 PM
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