Varalaru Sanga Sinthanaigal
  • Dear Gokul
    very interesting Punarchiyum iraivanai serum Vazhi....Thats exactly
    what our ancestors have said...

    The same concept is echoed in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

    But it really pains my hear to hear to the present day purists and
    lyricists and poets ....
    calling Punarchi.....'Thappu'

    Thappu seivoma....appan senja thappile atha petha vethalai...

    Kannum kannum kalanthachi...kannil mattum karpu poyachu...

    Kanni ponnu karpai kaaval ketkuthu.....

    Kannai mooina maanam kappal erume....


    Drivig four hours a day I end up listening to all the Kodambakkam
    junk...

    But generally the attitute towards martimony nad sex has somehow
    become Bad...Wrong...

    Is this the influence of the British....and Europeans in the 18th and
    19th century when they were sanctimonious atleast on paper thanks to
    Vaticans veiw on sex...

    If you see Discovery's coverage on Big temple one of the reasons they
    say why Indian Temples didnt become as fa,ous as the Indian Mosques
    and Mogul art was there was explicit eroticism like in Khajuraho and
    Ajanta and even in south indian temples and this offended the pious
    18th century missionaries etc????

    Any views folks?

    Sri
  • Dear Sri,

    I believe that our (Indian and especially Tamil) attitude is very
    hypocritical. We have a Kamaththuppaal. We have sanga ilakkiyangaL where
    love and sex are celebrated. And then we have the so called "Tamizh culture
    protectors" who find fault with what Khushboo said. I suppose Tamizhs were
    all conceived by God or found under a cabbage patch ;)

    It is as if, the Kamasutra was written in some other country. I find this
    attitude completely puzzling.
  • Dear Arun
    I totally agree but I think a few changes have happened which have made
    us a pseudo conservative...

    In the sangam we had Kalavumanam.....Kaamathu Paal in thirukural...

    You go to mahabaharatha half of them are borne out of Wedlock....

    But yet things have changed and we have now this attitute that anything
    sexual is ugly,impure,wrong....

    I totally agree with you

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