Today the 8th of March is the International Womens day. It is not now in the19th Century our greatest Tamil poet Makakavi Barathiyaar brought the womens liberation to the forefront of Indian society of that day.
His writings on womens liberation is still revered by the Tamil liteature world. On this day I am just Translating a small; portion of his work from one poem.
God who safeguards our world
Gave intelligence to women
Still there are some people with ignorance
suppressing the women as they are their servants
How can you see a beautiful scenery
if you hurt one of your two eyes ?
Why wont you see the fact , that the world
would get rid of differences only
If we let our women educate themselves
Bharathiyaar
Those days while the fight for the Independence of India was on going the society treated women as second class citizens. In this poem Barathi asks how we expect our country to be liberated from suppression while we suppress our women.
He was a wonderful poet but above all a wonderful human soul who always look every person as human being.
Long live Bharathi`s memories
Sakthi Sakthithasan
08.03.2013
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