So bored

Nowadays I am so bored of looking at newspapers and magazines. What is the point of seriously discussing about the x boyfriends of Angelina Julie and about the girls go behind Salmaan and Tom Cruise? I know there are some useful stuffs in magazines. But you may have noticed, mostly front pages would contain a hot shot of a beauty and would be titled in a third class way. Generally the ones who buy these magazines are consciously forced to buy because of those hot topics and shots. So they never touch other serious issues. Simply they are not the targeted customers. Accordingly there is no loyalty for the magazine. If another person publishes hotter topic than you, purely customers will switch to them. Some say ‘this is kind of a promotion’. But how do you say this is kind of promotion for your magazine since you are selling the unknown sides of popular ones? This is just a gossip. Gossips make no useful results. Simply another better gossip provider may lead the market tomorrow. But no longer even he will vanish. If you really want a success in this industry, you have to do a research on who are really interested on reading the issues that you are focusing on. Then you select a target and focus your issues based on them. Also keeping an eye on the changes of your target customers’ tastes will further help in improving. People who buy you for Britney spears or Angelina Julie or who ever, they won’t even bother to loyal you. But if you really offer some value to your readers, then definitely you will have a group of people who always prefer you. Even at the recession times, you don’t need to worry.

Tamil culture and my view on it

In my point of view, culture is common for all human beings. It doesn’t matter whether you are wearing a saree or T Shirt or whatever it is. Whatever you are doing should be in a decent manner. So it becomes a common way of differentiating humans from other animals. Why I selected this topic is because many cultures try to force so many things on part of females and mostly they forget to talk about men. So it makes a doubt on the persons who wrote the rules and regulations and it seems cultures bit stimulate male dominance. The traditional Tamil culture had this feature and now it has been improved a lot. All Traditional Tamil literatures illustrated women as a supernatural being and they made a perception such as women are made only to worship their husbands. And they almost forced several things on part of women and taught if they fail to do, they will get hell after death. The main reason for why literatures stimulated male dominance is because the persons who had written many of those literatures were men since women were uneducated and they spent most of their time inside their homes and died without even knowing the outside world. What I am mentioning here is only suitable for middle class families. Women born in the families of kings and lords had numerous opportunities to prove their talents in polities and other areas. Queens became the advisors of kings and did a lot for arts. On the hand, women belonged to lower class families had an urgency to go outside for work and they helped men in finding sources for their financial needs. Anyway later on, poet Bharathi voiced strongly for Tamil women and against to the cast system. He was first to say women are equal to men and tried to make an awareness through his poems on the point of that women needed education. Anyhow they are the stories of past. Now the situation is changed. But the prime weak points of this culture remain the same. Here the mentionable things are the systems of dowry and cast. Still we are brave less to marry a person from a different cast. Why I am saying ‘brave less’ is because most of us are vulnerable to the society and are spending major part of our lives in asking ourselves ‘what others will think of us if we do marry a person from a different cast?’. Guys are guts less to marry girls without dowry. It is most suitable on part of Sri Lankan Tamils who belong to north and east especially the ones who live abroad. Now a mentionable percentage of us have started to feel like shy when speaking in Tamil and most importantly we started to refuse to introduce us as Tamils and at most cases we forget it is the same to killing our mums. What the funny thing is that the ones who never want to say them Tamils seem to get more dowry and they strictly follow the cast system. So they are not fully westernized and don’t like to be real Tamils and so that they are middle of the road. I have no idea on how to call them. There is no doubt in we are following the Tamils who live in Moricious. So no longer we will forget every single word in Tamil and are trying loose our identity. Anyway what I can observe in Tamil culture is that it has scores of things to be improved and some rubbish to be thrown out. Furthermore what I want to tell here is; there is no shy in speaking in the mother tongue. The best language is the mother language and there is no other option to express your feelings in a best way.

Don’t know how

I hope this moment is pretty good since I am sitting and breathing the freshness of the air and am able to write something and sharing it with you. I have bunches of things to say but I don’t know how. My mind repeatedly goes near to my hometown as I returned from there last week only. The days were awesome and I could replay the past of my life. Those memories are unforgettable and it slightly makes tears in my eyes. I went to some villages. Unfortunately I could only see a few faces and a few paddy fields in those villages. So what happened to those villages? Mostly they were like forests. Owners of those lands may be in Europe or somewhere in this world. There is enough land. There are all resources. But no one is there to use them. It is because north of Sri Lanka is desecrated. People who are inside can’t easily go anywhere even if they have an urgency. They can’t simply do what they want. They must always salute some big heads otherwise they can’t continue their lives. I wonder how would it be if there was no war and no spoil of blood in this land? I have a lot of questions like this. But alas I have no answers for these ‘would be’ questions. As I said earlier, I have a lot to say and my mind is full of questions and it seems to be very hard to express my feelings. My pen has so much of ink and I have a lot to say but am finishing it here.

For my society

It was an awesome day since this day has given me a lot of thoughts. Interesting part is that I am in my hometown so that I could enjoy every minutes of life. Hometown is the ever best on earth if not on the whole globe. I know I can only spend a very few days of coming week in my hometown. After that I need to do things what I normally do and to rush myself with a scheduled timetable. I said before I could enjoy every minutes of life. At the same time I have a lot to worry about. How my people are automated to live or most suitably to survive in a strange way, how war has pushed them to live in a moody manner and to not care what is happening to others. They don’t care to wait for hours and days in cues. They don’t worry about what happened and what is happening and even what is going to happen. They don’t care whoever is dead. They don’t realize our society is being back warding every day. They don’t even bother to say their children what happened to this society and to why we are still searching countries to run in. Anyhow what they need is a good entertainment, good cinema and most importantly they have never realized they need a change. They remain what they were 50 years back. They still believe cast is the only factor that make them best. They don’t realize a lot of people may get food in the huge amount of money that they spend for temples. I am not using this piece to blame my society. I am only sharing my opinions here. If we all care at least a bit about our society, we may achieve more as Tamils in this world.