The Tamil Nadu Government has dropped plans to hold the ninth World Tamil conference and instead has announced a World Classical Tamil conference to be held in Coimbatore from June 24 to 27 next year.
The reason is that the World Tamil Conference can be hosted only by the International Association of Tamil Research( IATR) and it has been put off by the State Government's efforts to usurp its right.
Efforts to get IATR approval having failed, it can no longer be called the World Tamil Conference. The conferences are held by rotation in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, etc.
The State Government originally planned to host it in Coimbatore in January next year. After AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister J Jayalalitha pointed out that the organizer should be the IATR and not the State Government which can only be host, the Government put off the meet to June next to get the approval of the IATR.
The IATR, however, refused to be hustled into a decision. It said a full year would be needed for preparations and any entanglement with politics should be avoided.
Following this stinging rebuff, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi called a high-level meeting here on Friday, attended by linguists, scholars and educationists, besides State Ministers. It was decided at the meeting to hold the conference in Coimbatore from June 24 to 27, but call it World Classical Tamil meet.
Mr Karunanidhi, who is 85, is not willing to wait too long for IATR approval and wants to end his public life with a flourish by holding a world Tamil meet, even if it is not an official one. Hence the decision to rename it as World Classical Tamil meet, the first of its kind since the Government of India accorded classical language status to Tamil thanks to persistent campaign by the DMK. ( Asiantribune)
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