Chapter 3 contains a Tamil abstract of Mrs. Chapter 2 contains a Tamil abstract of his research paper, entitled, ‘Simple rhythmic poetry and Eelathu Mahakavi’.
Chapter 1 was Ilanthiraian’s essay on the events from Jan. I have a printed document in Tamil, published one month after conclusion of the Conference, from Chennai. As majority of the principals who organized this Conference had exited the scene now, and a few remaining ones have become octogenarians and are experiencing the ‘sunset’ of their lives, the onus of keeping the existing records for posterity had fallen on the shoulders of Tamil chroniclers like me. The sad event of January 10 th, 1974 in which nine Tamils lost their lives was one of the trend setting episodes which generated the Eelam Campaign of late 1970s among Tamil militant youth. The 40 th anniversary of the 4 th International Tamil Research Conference held in Jaffna (January 3-9) had passed by silently.
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