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- From: pae (@ global25.citicorp.com)
on: Tue Feb 16 17:40:06
sooriyan, good work. You have used lot of english names in the story which could have been avoided. ozhunga font tag-lam podunga. :))
- From: aruLarasan (@ psiphi.umsl.edu)
on: Tue Feb 16 22:12:08
hi sUriyan,
i am a self-appointed nakkIran of this hub :-))
so, here i go.
(1) in your first introduction of Jose Hernandez you end the paragraph with "ulagil enjiyirukkum orE
vallarasin thalaivar ivanudaiya OttinAl thErndhedukkap paduvAr. piLLaiyArappA, ellOraiyum kAppAththuppA".
to me it smacks of racism. this is all the more reinforced by further characterizations like "bIr enRalE
bOdhai ERugiRadhu", etc. may be i am biased and hence tend to misinterpret innocuous statements of
other
indians, but, that statement could have been avoided. for the typical indiyan an usual "them" is
"blacks", but since you are living in this country (US) you seem to have substituted hispanics for blacks.
(2) the last section "m.j peterson ... varasidhdhi vinAyagar". miga ultramodern bottle-il pazhaya kaLLu?
(3) this is similar to the point #(1). your villains in the story are non-indiyans and the nallavargaL
are indiyans (even the police officer). this is again a reinforcement of the indian racism and prejudice.
(4) inspite of all these misgivings, it's a good story - very different from the others in this hub.
take it easy.
- From: sooriyan (@ 192.149.1.168)
on: Wed Feb 17 08:17:25
aruL: 1. Good observations, made me look back. I
admit I was condescending to dumbos, now i realize
it could be seen as being contemptual of the race.
Will bear it in mind in future. Should take effort to express what I am laughing at clearly.
2. no comments.
3. I think prem, vidya, anu, vikram and Jose are all neutral, did nothing good or bad. Jose was the simpleton and Richard was the loony. The villains are Schmitt Schwartz and Walter who would exploit an unstable veteran like Richard Bollard.
4. Looking back the mistake I did was to introduce the neutral characters. They would be needed in a novel but they take away valuable space in a kurunkathai. I should have written it in first person as Richard and expanded more on what destablised him and how blowing up a building made sense to him. May be someother time...
Thanks Nakkeera, neer porut kutram kandeer, pae sor kutram kandaar. anaal naan tharumi alla. enakku porkizhiyum vEndaam :-)
- From: aruLarasan (@ psiphi.umsl.edu)
on: Wed Feb 17 11:55:26
thanks, sUriyan, for taking the comments in the right spirit.
- From: babu (@ 198.153.135.233)
on: Wed Feb 17 22:15:15
sooriyan, a *very* different story congrats. Made a interesting reading.
- From: Kanchana (@ spider-tj084.proxy.aol.com)
on: Wed Apr 14 22:43:45
Sun/Sooriyan,
I apologize for getting to your story so late. Interesting premise. I notice you have "america vAzkkai II" under the title. Does that mean this is one story from a loosely-tied series? If so, hope we get to see others soon.
- From: sooriyan (@ 192.149.1.168)
on: Thu Apr 15 14:47:14
kanchana,
The first one was the "erichchal vanthathu EnO?". My wife found the punch line of that story to be bordering on bathroom humor and asked me to write a "nalla perumaaL kathai" as piLLayaar suzhi. That is the story behind this story.
The seed for the next one is ready but I'm stuck half way in another story.
will take a while before I finish them both.
Thanks.
- From: ravi SUNdaram (@ )
on: Mon Mar 13 12:17:26
The screen shots have been moved to a different
site.
http://www.geocities.com/ravi_aruna_manasa/shortstories/erichchal/erichchal.html
- From: ravi SUNdaram (@ 192.149.1.168)
on: Mon Mar 13 12:18:48 EST 2000
thappu thappu. the correct link is
http://www.geocities.com/ravi_aruna_manasa/shortstories/vinayak/vinayak.html
- From: Ranga (@ slip166-72-122-27.ca.us.prserv.net)
on: Mon Mar 13 13:08:09 EST 2000
ravi alias sooryan,
Hmmmmm! (Thideernu LKG kku poyitteenga!)
- From: ravi Sundaram (@ client-151-201-135-89.bellatlantic.net)
on: Mon Mar 13 21:41:48 EST 2000
Ranga, 100% correct. LKG stuff thaan. I wrote this almost a year
ago. One of my "hello world" kind of program.
The screenshot page mentioned at the top is
now blocked by our firewall. So I moved it to
geocities as part of my organisation and added
a link and I did not know it would result in
automatic promotion to current archives!
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