MGR Tamil Autobiography 'Why Was I Born?' (Part 1)

 

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Timeless Song: 'Pudhiya Vaanam! Pudhiya Bhoomi' (New Sky! New Earth!)

In the film 'Anbe Vaa', this song, with lyrics by Kavignar Vaali, sung by T.M.S, set to music by Mellisai Mannar M.S.V, and performed by MGR, has become a timeless and enduring classic.
All such deeply meaningful, life-guiding, and invigorating songs by MGR will remain timeless in Tamil literature.

MGR did something no other actor has done. Each of his films contains such a meaningful, sweet, and refreshing song. These songs convey useful and healthy ideas that guide life. These types of songs reveal MGR's social consciousness.

MGR's personality, imbued with social consciousness, immortalized the songs of many lyricists like Kannadasan, Vaali, Pulamaipithan, Alangudi Somu, Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, Udumalai Narayana Kavi, and Muthulingam.

MGR presented his film songs and films not just for entertainment, but also as tools to absorb life-guiding philosophies.

To listen to the song:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tY7wmv-UDGQ

[Digital Art (Google Nano Banana) help: VNG]

V.N.Giritharan's Kindle (Amazon e-book) 'An Immigrant' (Novel)

The latest Kindle (Amazon e-book) edition of V. N. Giritharan’s acclaimed novel An Immigrant is now available! Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/43SNbhI
 

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V.N.Giritharan's Kindle (Amazon e-book) 'America'

The latest Kindle (Amazon e-book) edition of V. N. Giritharan’s acclaimed novella  America  is now available! Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3XrY5at
 

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Abridged Tamil Translations of the Best Works in World Literature — Now on Amazon Kindle

The abridged Tamil translations of the best works in world literature are now available as Amazon Kindle eBooks Fydor Dostoevsky' s Crime And Punishment  https://amzn.to/4nJZ0Oc

The abridged Tamil translations of the best works in world literature are now available as Amazon Kindle eBooks. Loe Tolstoy's War And Peace  https://amzn.to/3WJiesz

The abridged Tamil translations of the best works in world literature are now available as Amazon Kindle eBooks. Loe Tolstoy's  Anna Karenina - https://amzn.to/4oT59IU 

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Diasporic Short Story: "Mice" by V.N. Giritharan (English translation by Google AI Studio, edited by V.N. Giritharan)

[This English translation of the Tamil story is a collaboration between Google AI Studio and V.N. Giritharan. The original Tamil version of the story follows the translation. Digital painting assistance (Google Nano Banana technique) by VNG.]

[A short story first published in Thayagam magazine (Canada). Later also published in Pathivukal  online Tamil magazine. It was also included in the 'America' collection published by Sneha (Tamil Nadu) - Mangai Pathippagam (Canada) from Tamil Nadu. Regarding this, writer Se. Ganesalinging stated in his foreword to the collection, 'He has tried to convey the philosophical significance of the human foundational existence of survival through a mouse.']

Couldn't bear the cockroach problem. Tried every possible method. From the Chinese 'chalk' onwards, there was no untried method. Victory belonged to the cockroaches. If I simply admitted defeat and moved from one 'apartment' to another, it would be like the story of digging a well and a ghost appearing. Instead of cockroaches, it would be the problem of mice. In Canada, only the buildings are tall, not the rats. These mice seemed new to me, who had seen fat, rolling village rats. From country to country, from land to land, living beings transform and live in various forms.

Diaspora Tamil Short Story: "A Co(w)untry Problem" by V.N. Giritharan (English translation by Google AI Studio, edited by V.N. Giritharan)

[This English translation of the Tamil story is a collaboration between Google AI Studio and V.N. Giritharan. The original Tamil version of the story follows the translation. Digital painting assistance (Google Nano Banana technique) by VNG.]

[This short story, published in 'Thayagam' (Canada) newspaper, is included in the 'America' collection published by Sneha Pathippagam. It is also featured in the short story collection 'Panaiyum Paniyum' compiled and published by ES.Po and Indira Parthasarathy.]

Being Sunday, there wasn't much pedestrian traffic on the routine roads. No vehicle congestion either. Ponnaiya's Honda Accord was slowly cruising west on St. Clair. Ponnaiya loved driving on Sundays or holidays. Without any tension, and without worrying about horns honking behind him, he could enjoy the city at a leisurely pace, couldn't he? However, lately, even on Sundays, people had started honking. The city was expanding. "As the city expands, people seem to lose their patience," Ponnaiya would tell himself on such occasions. "The quality of life for people should rise at the same pace as the city's growth. Otherwise, it's a problem," he would sometimes ponder with a serious expression.

The car sped past Old Weston Road and the Keele Intersection. To the left, Canada Packers' slaughterhouse sprawled over a large area. A massive abattoir where hundreds of cattle were cut up daily.

Ponnaiya was naturally a little compassionate. He wanted to show love to other living beings. As long as he was in his hometown, he was a pure vegetarian. After coming here, he gradually changed. "With this climate here, if you don't eat this, a person will just die." Suddenly, the moving traffic stopped. Ponnaiya looked at his watch. It was past eleven. The Punjabi guy had asked him to come at ten.

The Punjabi's garage was the only reasonably honest one Ponnaiya knew. There had been a slight tremor in the steering wheel since yesterday. Ponnaiya was rushing to get it checked. "What's this traffic block at an odd time..." Thinking this, he looked ahead to see what was causing the traffic jam.