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[h=1]சால்ட் கோட்டர்ஸ் சரித்திரம் (மெட்ராஸ் நல்ல மெட்ராஸ் 15)[/h][h=1]-தமிழ் மகன்[/h]

கொஞ்ச காலம் முன்பு வரை உப்பு என்பது மளிகைக் கடைக்கு வெளியே ஒரு கோணி மூட்டையில் கிடக்கும். கடையைச் சாத்திய பின்னும் அது கேட்பார் அற்று வெளியே கிடக்கும்.

19-ம் நூற்றாண்டில் உப்பு, பிரிட்டாஷாரின் வேலிக்குள் கைதியாகக் கிடந்தது. இந்தியாவுக்குக் நெடுக்காக வேலி அமைத்து கடற்கரையில் இருந்து எடுக்கப்படும் உப்பை, நாட்டுக்குள் செல்லவிடாமல் தடுத்தனர்.

இந்தியாவில் அன்று இருந்த சுமார் 25 கோடி பேருக்கும் தினமும் ஒரு ஸ்பூன் உப்பு என்று கணக்கிட்டாலும், தினமும் பல்லாயிரம் கணக்கான மூட்டை உப்பு மக்களுக்குத்தேவை. உப்பில்லா பண்டம் குப்பையிலே என்று பழக்கப்பட்ட மக்கள் எவ்வளவு கொடுத்தும் உப்பை வாங்குவார்கள் என முடிவெடுத்தது பிரிட்டீஷ் அரசாங்கம். சிந்து நதியில் இருந்து சென்னை வரை அமைக்கப்பட்டது நீண்டதொரு வேலி. அதைத் தாண்டி இந்தப் பக்கம் அந்தப் பக்கம் உப்பைக் கொண்டு செல்ல முடியாது. தனி ஒருவர் உப்புடன் இந்த வேலியை கடக்க வேண்டுமானால் உப்புக்கு வரி செலுத்த வேண்டும். அரசாங்கம் மட்டுமே உப்பைக் காய்ச்சலாம்.



மேலும் படிக்க https://www.vikatan.com/news/article.php?aid=47275

Courtesy: Vikatan

 

[swathi25]

Tracing Spencer Plaza, India's first mall


Chennai Times tracks the journey of Spencer Plaza,being India’s first mall to its relative obscurity today, and how the once-happening place is planning to reinvent itself... "Spencer Plaza ruled Chennai at one point of time. Weekends were chaotic..After all, it was India’s first mall. We used to shut down t ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

[naithru]

Salt was highly valued and its production was legally restricted in ancient times, so it was historically used as a method of trade and currency. The word “salad” also originated from “salt,” and began with the early Romans salting their leafy greens and vegetables.
History of Salt

 

[naithru]

Great Swathi ji do you have any links of Spencers twin towers of yesteryears?
And the lakes around chennai. Our forefathers had vision . If you had water in the lakes, water in the wells will automatically will improve. In those days the well catered for most of the tenents as Kilpauk water works is adequate as the well water was sweet enough to drink. We never carried bottled mineral water.
The rains of 2015 december was unprecedented, as chennai with apartments in lakes cannot withstand one inch leave alone ten inches.
Media thinks it only rained in.the only lake and not in other parts of chennai. When water was everywhere swelling of river water where it will go?
CAG believes the Media so also the public. Do you know every year mumbai receives more rains during SW Monsoon?

 

[naithru]

Oh Jeyakanthan a versatile writer!

 

[swathi25]

Great Swathi ji do you have any links of Spencers twin towers of yesteryears?

naithru Ji,

Thanks for your inputs.

I tried and failed to get the twin tower image of Spencer.

This was another image of Spencer with steam lorry.

The interesting image I enjoyed in the following link was that of 'Shell petrol bunk'.

The link provides more images of old Madras which are really treasure.

Read more at: https://www.frontline.in/cover-story/article6331271.ece

 

[swathi25]

The rains of 2015 december was unprecedented, as chennai with apartments in lakes cannot withstand one inch leave alone ten inches.
Media thinks it only rained in.the only lake and not in other parts of chennai. When water was everywhere swelling of river water where it will go?
CAG believes the Media so also the public. Do you know every year mumbai receives more rains during SW Monsoon?

naithru Ji,

To my knowledge, it was a convention that the Government used to convene a regular meeting before ‘on set’ of the North east monsoon attended by Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, DGP., Director of Fire Service, Commissioner of Corporation, etc and this is to discuss about the preparedness to meet the challenges to face the flood situation. Proceedings of the meeting also include rescue and relief measures, covering desilting the water bodies to ensure free flow water in the canals, arranging for rescue and life measures like alerting the volunteers who are trained in First aid and Rescue operation, stocking the necessary medicines as a precautionary measure, transport facilities like boats, etc and alerting the general public who are living at low lying areas giving them advance notice with sufficient time for shifting process.

You may please go through this thread for more information.
Link: https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=28957&highlight=Chennai+floods

 

[naithru]

Dear Swathi ji, yes true, But my contention was when chennai was unable to manage one inch of rain, what could be done for ten inches?
see this link

 

[swathi25]

naithru ji,

What for we do have Meteorological Department forecasting the whether ?...

 

[naithru]

naithru ji,

What for we do have Meteorological Department forecasting the whether ?...

29 November, another system developed and arrived over Tamil Nadu on 30 November, bringing additional rain and flooding. The system dropped 490 mm of rainfall at Tambaram in 24 hours starting 8:30 am on 1 December.
when it rains , it pours
490 MM. one and half feet. You can see for yourself if you google for it
noone can this much of down pour. When whole chennai was drowned. Leave alone government what will water managers will do?
water find its level. What will swelling rivers will do? When is everywhere. Opposition will never realise what is 490 MM when we cannot manage 25 MM which is one inch.
unprecedented I would say

 

[naithru]

You mean to say that we can manage an inch what will you do with one and half feet? Even Gods cannot help In Mumbai we have more rains than this . See in Karwar, when we there in the atomic plant, our shoe had one foot of mud below and it got stuck to shoes. It was like walking on stilts, we never see such rains
Thank God in chennai being littoral, weather is tolerable 25 and 35 deg C. In other places it is below zero, we are all frogs in the well

 

[swathi25]

You mean to say that we can manage an inch what will you do with one and half feet? Even Gods cannot help In Mumbai we have more rains than this . See in Karwar, when we there in the atomic plant, our shoe had one foot of mud below and it got stuck to shoes. It was like walking on stilts, we never see such rains
Thank God in chennai being littoral, weather is tolerable 25 and 35 deg C. In other places it is below zero, we are all frogs in the well

naithru Ji,

There are opinion by experts in the respective fields defining this situation as a 'Man made disaster'. (It is there in the link 'Chennai rains')

It is believed that some who are responsible to predict and to take effective precautionary measure to save the precious lives and properties have perhaps failed in their duty leaving the public to suffer.

Anyway past is past. It is my opinion that the Authorities concerned have their eyes opened and learnt lessons from this disaster at the cost of loss of few precious human lives.

Hope and pray that this don't recur.

 

[naithru]

naithru Ji,

There are opinion by experts in the respective fields defining this situation as a 'Man made disaster'. (It is there in the link 'Chennai rains')

Some who are responsible to predict and to take effective precautionary measure to save the precious lives and properties have perhaps failed in their duty leaving the public to suffer.

Anyway past is past. It is my opinion that the Authorities concerned have their eyes opened and learnt lessons from this disaster at the cost of loss of few precious human lives.

Hope and pray that this don't recur.

ok past is passed we hope , thanks

 

[naithru]

If you read wiki on chennai floods, CAG has revised man made disaster , I shall give you extracts from it. Latter is government
Though the unusually heavy rainfall in southern India during the winter of 2015 has been attributed to the 2014–16 El Niño event, in July 2018 the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) categorised the flooding across Tamil Nadu as a “man- made disaster," and held the government of Tamil Nadu responsible for the scale of the catastrophe, which the latter had termed a natural disaster.[SUP][[/SUP]

 

[swathi25]

If you read wiki on chennai floods, CAG has revised man made disaster , I shall give you extracts from it. Latter is government
Though the unusually heavy rainfall in southern India during the winter of 2015 has been attributed to the 2014–16 El Niño event, in July 2018 the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) categorised the flooding across Tamil Nadu as a “man- made disaster," and held the government of Tamil Nadu responsible for the scale of the catastrophe, which the latter had termed a natural disaster.[SUP][[/SUP]

naithru Ji,


What does this mean...?

There is no Emergency Action Plan...

And no lesson was learnt from this disaster.

You may please visit this link:

[h=1]CAG terms 2015 Chennai floods a man-made disaster, holds T.N. govt. responsible for the catastrophe[/h]

Murky business: Floods resulting from the indiscriminate discharge by the WRD. File Photo
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[h=2]Auditor’s report says indiscriminate discharge of water from Chembarambakkam lake burdened the Adyar river[/h]The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has been scathing in its criticism of the government’s handling of the Chennai floods of 2015, going so far as to categorise it as a “man- made disaster”. It has held the government of Tamil Nadu responsible for the scale of the catastrophe, which the latter had termed a “natural disaster”.

The CAG report, ‘Flood management and response in Chennai and its suburban areas’, was tabled by the AIADMK government on Monday.

Though the report was submitted to the government in March 2016, it was not tabled, and the opposition had raised the issue in the Assembly during the last budget session.

Tabled in the Assembly during the last day of the session, the report has found fault with the government on many counts, with the Water Resources Department (WRD) drawing the maximum flak.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/2015-floods-a-man-made-disaster-cag/article24374953.ece

 

[swathi25]

Survivors of Time: P.Orr & Sons — Timekeepers of Madras, since 1849

P.Orr and Sons building on Anna Salai. Photo: K. Pitchumani
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162 years and still ticking. Janane Venkatraman and Anusha Parthasarathy tell the story of city's oldest watchmakers

Sprawled over 6,000 sq ft, this building on Mount Road has automatic doors and LCD screens. But the winding staircases, old-fashioned ceiling fans and long corridors are reminiscent of its long historythat dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Two brothers, Peter and Alexander Orr, arrived in Madras in 1843 from Scotland. Alexander was a lawyer, while Peter was a watch and chronometer maker. After selling ice at four annas per pound, they joined the watchmakers, George Gordon & Co. They took over the business after the retirement of Gordon in 1849 and turned around the fortunes of the fledgling company until it became an institution in Madras.

The iconic building housing P. Orr and Sons was commissioned by Peter Orr in 1879. It was built by the then consulting architect to the Government of Madras, Robert Chisholm, in a mix of Indo-Saracenic and the Byzantine styles, characterised by its elegant archways and tall roofs. The three-faced clock tower which used to be connected to the Madras Observatory is still in perfect working condition.

Apart from watches, P. Orr and Sons had a flourishing business in gold, diamonds and silverware, especially known for their ‘Swami’ jewellery which was popular in the West. Diamonds had become one of its more lucrative business ventures by the late 1880s with an illustrious list of patrons that included the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Prince of Wales.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/features/f...epers-of-madras-since-1849/article2711862.ece

 

[swathi25]

Madras and Munro: tales behind the statue

With stirrups or not, this early 19th-century rider had truly earned his tripes as an administrator

Stray comments have often been heard on the appropriateness of the magnificent equestrian statue of Sir Thomas Munro looming over a major Chennai thoroughfare: why should a memorial for an East India Company official find pride of place in the city where the British colonisers had landed more than 375 years ago just a mile away as the crow flies?

In a previous instance, the statue of Colonel James George Smith Neil that stood on Mount Road, opposite Spencer and Company, in Madras was removed on November 22, 1937 when C. Rajagopalachari was Premier of Madras, after a decade-long satyagraha as part of the freedom movement. The colonel was responsible for the massacre of sepoys in Allahabad, Kanpur and Lucknow during the 1857 Revolt; he was hated as the ‘Butcher of Allahabad’. His bronze statue today stands in the Government Museum in Chennai.

But Thomas Munro, the enigmatic Governor of Madras (1761-1827) was no imperialist; on the other hand, he was one of the most popular British administrators in South India. His name is associated with the system of land revenue popularly known as the Ryotwari Settlement. It was considered favourable to the peasants.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op...ro-tales-behind-the-statue/article7099665.ece

 

[swathi25]

[h=1]A 175-year-old landmark…[/h]

Presidency College c.1900 Photo Arrangement
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Marking its 175th year in muted fashion this year is Presidency College, the oldest college in South India and the seed from which Madras University grew. But its early history has always left me with a question or two and I wonder whether some academic will shed some brighter light on those rather murky beginnings.

It was in March 1835 that the Government of India stated that “the object of Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and sciences among the natives of India.” It was an affirmation of Macaulay’s Minute on Education. But none of the Presidency governments knew quite what to do with this statement of policy. Of suggestions there was no shortage, but while Calcutta and Bombay did get around to action on some of these suggestions, Madras kept a debate going till there arrived a new Governor, Lord John Elphinstone, in 1838. To him George Norton, then the Advocate-General, and a few other eminent personalities presented a petition in November 1939 signed by 70,000 ‘native inhabitants’ seeking institutions of higher education.

Their petition read in part, “We see in the intellectual advancement of the people the true foundation of the nation’s prosperity… We descend from the oldest native subjects of the British Power in India, but we are the last who have been considered in the political endowments devoted to this liberal object…Where amongst us are the collegiate institutions which, founded for these generous objects, adorn the two sister presidencies?” The petition also promised that the citizenry would also gladly, “according to our means”, play a role in establishing such institutions if Government gave the lead.

A month later, Elphinstone responded positively with a proposal which is still what confuses me, even if it finally resulted in the birth of Presidency College. He proposed establishing a “collegiate institution, or a ‘University’” with two departments: A high school offering English Literature, a Regional language, Philosophy, and Science, to prepare students for the second department, the College, which would provide instruction in the higher branches of these subjects. A University Board, headed by Norton, was appointed in January 1840 to implement this proposal.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/features/m...lege-a-175yearold-landmark/article8399426.ece

 

[swathi25]

திருப்பதி குடை ஊர்வலமும், யானை கவுனியும்! (மெட்ராஸ் நல்ல மெட்ராஸ்-16)

-தமிழ் மகன்

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இந்தியாவில் வேறு எங்கும் நடக்காத ஒரு வைபவம் சென்னையில் நடந்து வருகிறது. வட சென்னையின் பிரதானமான விழா அது. தமிழ்நாட்டின் நாட்காட்டிகளை கிழிப்பவர்கள், செப்டம்பர் அல்லது அக்டோபர் மாதங்களில் 'திருப்பதி குடை ஊர்வலம்' என்று படித்திருக்கக் கூடும்.

திருப்பதி மலையில் உள்ள வெங்கடேசப் பெருமாள் கோயில் பிரம்மோத்சவத்தின் போது கோயில் உற்சவரை ஊர்வலமாக அழைத்துச் செல்வார்கள். அப்போது உற்சவருக்கு முன்னும், பின்னும் அலங்கரிக்கப்பட்ட குடைகள் எடுத்துச் செல்வார்கள்.

பட்டுத் துணி, மூங்கில், ஜரிகை, மின்னும் பொருட்கள் போன்றவற்றால், நகாசு வேலைப்பாடுகளுடன் சுமார் ஏழு அடி விட்டம், ஏழு அடி உயரத்துடனும் ஐந்து அல்லது ஆறு குடைகள் தயாரிப்பார்கள். சென்ன கேசவ பெருமாள் கோயிலில் இந்தப் பணி நடைபெறும்.

இவற்றை திருமலை ‌திரு‌ப்ப‌தி‌ வெங்கடேச பெருமாளுக்கு சமர்ப்‌பி‌க்க, சென்னையில் இருந்து சாலைகள் வழியே எடுத்துச் செல்லும் வைபவத்துக்குத்தான் திருப்பதி திருக்குடை ஊர்வலம் என்று பெயர்.


மேலும் படிக்க: https://www.vikatan.com/news/article.php?aid=47448

Courtesy: Vikatan

 

[swathi25]

[h=3]A unique ritual[/h]

THE ANNUAL Tirupathi Umbrella procession in Chennai, is an event of great importance. Every year, ten decorated temple umbrellas — two big and eight small — believed to symbolise Lord Venkateswara of Tirupathi, are taken in a procession for a fortnight in Chennai, and then finally to Tirupathi.

This happens before the annual Brahmotsavam of Lord Venkateswara in the Tamil month of Purattasi (September — October). The umbrellas are used on the day of Garudotsavam (fifth day of Brahmotsavam) during the grand procession of the Lord that night.

The ten umbrellas, fine pieces of art, are massive. The handle is made of teak wood and the collapsible parts of cane. The making of these umbrellas commences with a religious function (Anugurarpanam) on an auspicious day during the Tamil month of Adi (July-August). They are made in different places — the wooden and silk-lace work is done in Chennai and the cane/bamboo work at Kanchipuram. Brocade silk is used for the umbrella cover.

These are done traditionally, each work entrusted to a particular family, which they do as their hereditary right. It takes nearly a month
for the work to be completed before they are finally assembled in Chennai.

Another auspicious day is fixed in Avani (August-September) for the commencement of the procession from the Suncoovari house in George Town, the family house of one of the founders of the endowment.

The procession is inaugurated after a special puja.

The umbrellas are then taken on a procession daily (for about a fortnight) along the streets of different parts of the city, to the accompaniment of nagasvaram.

Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/09/10/stories/13101267.htm

 

[swathi25]

History, hope and the harbour

Aparna Karthikeyan navigates her way through Chennai Port watching cranes, ships, containers, lorries and a changing skyline

Chennai Port has always been an enigma to me, a collection of distant images — ships with smoky plumes; tall, slim cranes; enormous container-lorries. Early one Sunday morning, I finally walk into Chennai Port Trust; a foundation stone, laid on December 15, 1875, tells me that Prince of Wales Edward VII was here for the occasion that would change the way goods reached Chennai. For, before the harbour was completed, they were unloaded in Calcutta or Bombay and bought down by bullock-carts.

Two right turns through the drizzle brings us to the actual port; we enter through black-and-gold cast-iron gates. Spring Haven Road — named after Francis Spring, the Chairman of Port Trust in 1904, and the visionary behind much of the port’s development — takes us closer to the water. Furnishing passes, we enter the ‘prohibited area’; ahead, the sea is a stern grey mirroring the broody sky. Container lorries drive past; a railway line visually divides two worlds — Chennai city (its skyline a mix of ancient cupolas and modern, linear outlines) from the watery one, quivering with reflections of cranes and containers.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/features/f...story-hope-and-the-harbour/article3885165.ece

 

[swathi25]

How old is Madras Port?

- S.MUTHIAH

DAYS OF YORE Disembarkation
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The Madras Harbour, now calling itself the Chennai Port, is celebrating its 125th year, according to announcements by the Chennai Port Trust. The Port's history, however, has me wondering when exactly those beginnings were. It was the Madras Chamber of Commerce (now the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry), born 170 years ago (1836) on September 29, that first pressed for a harbour for Madras, though Warren Hastings did moot the thought in 1770. The earliest proposal the Chamber backed was by a French engineer in 1845, but nothing came of its endorsement. However, in 1861, a pier was built, but storms in June 1868 and May 1872 made it inoperative. The Chamber now kept pressing for a better harbour to be built and, finally, in 1876 work began on two L-shaped breakwaters that a `Mr. Parkes', who had built the Karachi Harbour, had suggested. The masonry breakwaters were almost complete in 1881 - presumably that is the anniversary being noted - when a November storm, one of the worst in Madras history, completely destroyed the work that had been done.

Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-pap...lus/how-old-is-madras-port/article3200182.ece

Courtesy : The Hindu

 

[naithru]

Madras and Munro: tales behind the statue

With stirrups or not, this early 19th-century rider had truly earned his tripes as an administrator

Stray comments have often been heard on the appropriateness of the magnificent equestrian statue of Sir Thomas Munro looming over a major Chennai thoroughfare: why should a memorial for an East India Company official find pride of place in the city where the British colonisers had landed more than 375 years ago just a mile away as the crow flies?

In a previous instance, the statue of Colonel James George Smith Neil that stood on Mount Road, opposite Spencer and Company, in Madras was removed on November 22, 1937 when C. Rajagopalachari was Premier of Madras, after a decade-long satyagraha as part of the freedom movement. The colonel was responsible for the massacre of sepoys in Allahabad, Kanpur and Lucknow during the 1857 Revolt; he was hated as the ‘Butcher of Allahabad’. His bronze statue today stands in the Government Museum in Chennai.

But Thomas Munro, the enigmatic Governor of Madras (1761-1827) was no imperialist; on the other hand, he was one of the most popular British administrators in South India. His name is associated with the system of land revenue popularly known as the Ryotwari Settlement. It was considered favourable to the peasants.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op...ro-tales-behind-the-statue/article7099665.ece

Super
you know there's was a joke about this statue, ha ha ha
one asked when he learnt about this statue, who is that who sits on Monroe
ha ha ha
and the horses legs when carved has a distinct meaning when it's legs are on firm ground, when the fore legs are on air etc.

 

[swathi25]

Super
you know there's was a joke about this statue, ha ha ha
one asked when he learnt about this statue, who is that who sits on Monroe
ha ha ha
and the horses legs when carved has a distinct meaning when it's legs are on firm ground, when the fore legs are on air etc.

naithru Ji,

I just stumbled upon this article which speaks about the myth behind the sculptor creating this statue without saddle and stirrups.


Behind the statue

- Sriram V.

It has been standing for 173 years, watching over the changing topography of Madras that is Chennai. It is the oldest statue standing in the open in our city. Legend has it that the sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey, upon realising that he had created an equestrian statue sans saddle or stirrups, committed suicide. But that is just a myth for Chantrey died of a heart disease. There are, however, several other interesting facts about this statue.

Though Munro died in 1827 and the sculptor was commissioned to execute the statue immediately thereafter, it was only in 1838 that it was completed and shipped. It was erected in 1839.


Read more at: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/behind-the-statue/article3956161.ece

 

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திருத்தணி படி உற்சவமும்... துரை முருகனும்! (மெட்ராஸ் நல்ல மெட்ராஸ்-17)

-தமிழ் மகன்


இந்தத் திருப்பதி குடை யாத்திரை ஏன் தொடங்கப்பட்டது என்பது கூட ஓர் சுவாரஸ்யமான ஆராய்ச்சியாக இருக்கலாம். ஏனென்றால் சென்னையை அடுத்த திருத்தணி கோயிலுக்கு அப்படி ஒரு கதை உண்டு' என்று கடந்த வாரத்தின் கடைசி பாரா முடிந்திருந்தது.

திருத்தணி கோயில் படிக்கட்டுகளுக்கும், சென்னைக்கும் ஒரு சம்பந்தம் உண்டு. அது ஆங்கில ஏகாதிபத்தியத்தோடு சற்றே தொடர்புடையது.

அதைத் தெரிந்துகொள்வதற்கு முன் துரை என்று தமிழில் ஒரு பெயர் உண்டு. அந்தப் பெயர் சங்க இலக்கியத்திலோ, பக்தி இலக்கியத்திலோ... வேறு தமிழ் கல்வெட்டுகளிலோ காணப்படாதது. அது வெள்ளையர்கள் இந்தியாவுக்கு வந்த பிறகு தோன்றிய பெயர் என்பது தெளிவு.

'ஐயா தொரைமாரே... !' என இன்றும் பதவியில் உயர்ந்தவர்களை அழைப்பதை சில முதியோர் பென்ஷன் வழங்கும் மையம் போன்ற இடங்களில் தள்ளாதவர்கள் வாயில் இருந்து கேட்க முடிகிறது.

சொல்லப்போனால் அது ப்ரெஞ்சுக்காரர்களின் பிரயோகம். டூயூரர் என்றால் 'கடைசி' என்று பொருள். லத்தின் மொழியிலும் கிட்டத்தட்ட இதே உச்சரிப்புடன் இதே அர்த்தம் வழங்கப்படுகிறது. பிரெஞ்சுக்காரர்கள், ஜெர்மானியர்கள் டூயூரர் என்பதைப் பெயராகவும் வைத்திருந்தார்கள்.

ஆல்பெர்ட் டூயூரர் என்று பெரிய ஓவியர் ஒருவர் ஜெர்மனியில் இருந்தார். குடும்பத்தில் கடைசி பையனை அப்படி
அழைப்பார்களோ... செல்லப் பெயரோ தெரியவில்லை. இந்த மானுடவியல் ஆய்வுகளை சற்றே தள்ளி வைத்துவிட்டு, டூயூரர் என்பது டுயூரை ஆகி, தமிழில் துரை என்று ஆனதை ஏற்றுக்கொள்ள வேண்டியிருக்கிறது.

மேலும் படிக்க: https://www.vikatan.com/news/article.php?aid=47739

Courtesy: Vikatan