in the memorial event the chief guest was justice chandru of the madras high court.
he read out a line from kalki's book on srilanka( 70 years back0 there are 3 types of tamils in lanka. the jaffna tamils who are highly intellectual. the colombo indian tamils who are highly mercantile in nature and the plantation labour who are very hard working.
if only the three unite the sinhalese or british cannot harm their interests. also the support of the tamils of the main land will always be behind these ethnic cousins.
It sounded so much like the rheotoric that we hear daily from our politicians. per haps even kalki did not foresee, the refugee problem, ltte or rajivs murder.
the funniest part yesterday was when the chief guest goofed up on the origin of the pen name kalki. he said it was actually 'kalyani krishnamurthy" shorterned. however kalki's son rajendran got up and corrected him. said his mother's name was something else and the pen name actually came from thiru. vi. ka. venketesh