Ramadhas action text in the book release of 'Music of Music' ... Tamil music should be made a compulsory subject ...

PMK founder Ramdhas has insisted that Tamil music should be made a compulsory subject.

The book launch event titled 'Music of Music' written by Bamaga founder Ramdhas was held online today (June 12).

The event was organized on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Community Development.

Folk singer Pushpavanam Kuppusamy took the first step.

Speaking at the book launch, Ramadhas said:

"Music is mixed with the life of the Tamils. In agriculture, planting seedlings, weeding, booming, all have separate songs.

Tamil music is the earliest music in the world.

When Tamil music, which had once flourished, collapsed in the 20th century, only two people in Tamil Nadu became angry.

One is the king. Sir. Annamalai Chettiar, another RK Shanmugam Chettiar who later became the first Finance Minister of India.

They both formed the Tamil Music Society and took action to spread Tamil music.

They boldly declared that if no musicians came to sing at the Tamil Music Festival, we could sing Tamil songs ourselves.

The music festival they held was well held. That is why Tamil music was saved.

It was with the aim of bringing Tamil music to the grassroots that we formed the Ponguthamil Development Foundation in 2003 and the Ponguthamil Pannisai Manimanram in 2005 and continued to hold Ponguthamil Pannisai festivals not only in Tamil Nadu but all over the world for ten consecutive years.

JV Kannan, a senior journalist, assisted me in this task.

There are many references to Tamil music in Sangam literature.

103 properties are mentioned in the syllabus. There are a lot of Tamil songs in the song. Tamil music should be read from childhood.

 That is why I made a request to Karunanidhi, who was the Chief Minister during the previous DMK regime, to make Tamil music a compulsory subject in schools.

I also demanded that they should pass the Tamil music course only if they pass the exam.

 But he did not comply with that request.

Everywhere in Tamil Nadu, Tamil ... anything is called Tamil. But where is Tamil in Tamil Nadu? We are ready to give a gift if you show where Tamil is.

 You can learn English by watching shows on Tamil TV. That much English is mixed. Occasionally, something comes up with two words in Tamil. It’s just that we have to set aside thinking that something is a word we don’t know.

To change that, we have started and run People's Television with Tanitha Tamil.

We did something to promote Tamil in Tamil Nadu.

We used unique Tamil words in Demographics and Tamil Osai dailies. We set up notice boards here and there and wrote unique Tamil words on them.

We have produced and released a film called Grammar which speaks only unique Tamil words in verse.

Tamil music is completely ignored in Markazhi music festivals.

Even if Tamil-speaking people attend music festivals, they only sing songs in other languages.

They say there are no songs to sing in Tamil if asked.

Bharathidasan criticizes that singing songs in other languages ​​without singing in Tamil is tantamount to begging.

 He wrote a poem on the subject of Tamiliyakkam:

"Dogs and stomach growlers; Lamo to seek out the word of mouth?

Go and bury the pride of your native Tamil!

Toyunten nikartamilar patame telunkicaiyaic colli piccai eyunkal enpiro..? 

What a life you are like as a human being!

Are you saying that there is no music in Senthamizhil?

Can you win if you know Tamil or have Tamil knowledge? ' Bharathidasan is harshly critical of that. But to no avail.

All my desire is that there should be Tamil in the streets of Tamil Nadu.

Time does not go on like this. Of course the period will change one day. We need to change that.

We will have a time when Tamil will flourish in Tamil Nadu ".

Thus spoke Ramadhas.