Tamil scientific tradition

The building shown above is CERN (the largest particle physics lab in the world). You can see the statue of Chidambaram Nataraja in front of that building. Why should Europe's largest and most respected physics laboratory give importance to a tamil deity?

TAMILIANS - ALL OVER THE WORLD - WAKE UP and get to know your roots - explore and find out about the great scientific tradition of our forefathers.

Until today, three people from India have got the Nobel Prize for Science.

Sir C V Raman
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and
Venkartaman Ramakrishnan.

ALL THREE OF THEM ARE TAMILIANS!!!!

I have no intention of belittling anyone - i am not trying to say that others do not have talent... all that i am trying to show is that tamilians have a glorious past that had deep scientific roots.

Our system of medicine - SIDDHA - is more than 5000 years old. Even when new diseases like chickengunya and swine flu swept parts of India - siddha medicines were available to save lives. (Please do not ask where all the so called "western doctors" were hiding during such diseases)

Our system of keeping fit and seeking God - YOGA - is very ancient. Aryans stole this system and are claiming it as their own. Yogam is a pure tamil word. Aryans claim that it came from the word "Yuj" You be the judge and decide which one is more closer to yoga "yogam" or "yuj". (idakalai has meaning in tamil - whereas the stolen word - renamed as "idagala" has NO MEANING in hindi or sanskrit. "suzhu munai" has meaning in tamil - whereas it has absolutely no meaning when it is said as "shushumuna". Unable to pronounce tamil's proprietary sound "zh" - they copied "suzhu" as "sushu" - they copied "munai" as "muna" - and joined them together as "sushumuna". Let us not fight over this. Let yoga remain an Indian art for the whole world. But let us not forget our roots.

What is sad is that not many of us are aware of our legacy. Our schools do not teach us about our own legacy. We learn about shakespeare as a great dramatist. How many of us know that "silapadhikaram" - a tamil classic was a complete drama. It even goes to the extent of defining how big a stage should be - how wide it should be - how actors should dress up etc... Shakespeare is only 400 years old - but silapadhikaram is almost 2000 years old!!!

In the field of architecture - our temples have no equal in the whole world. Tanjore temple with a 80 ton stone atop its structure is a feat that cannot be achieved even by today's cranes. Its shadow does not fall on the ground at any point of time.... how many such structures exist in the world today???  Angkor wat is also a proof of our architecture.

I have just given examples from medicine, spirituality, drama/literature, architecture...  the achievements of the tamil people - our forefathers are astounding. Let us learn about it and feel proud to belong to a tradition that was a torch-bearer to today's civilizations. Let our kids learn tamil and become scholars and SCIENTISTS :-)