Culture Diffuses By Osmosis. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Culture Diffuses By Osmosis.



Tamils settled in Kerala
Feel shy to speak Tamil
And want to hide their race
From their tongue and looks.
.
Tamil Brahmins proudly use it.
They keep it as their mother tongue.
They speak, sing and dance in Tamil,
Generation after generation.

Tamils, save Brahmins, are held as black.
In a culture, inferior dissolves in the superior.

10.11.2002

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Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India
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