[Can the wrong man in the wrong place act right by helping himself? Yes, he can if he serves a larger purpose benefiting others.]
Limerick crochetes: Once Tamil Promotion Director
[Can the wrong man in the wrong place act right by helping himself? Yes, he can if he serves a larger purpose benefiting others.]
Once Tamil Promotion Director
Excised wise Japanese co-founder
Called him names like rogue thief
Set himself up as Chief
All Dravidian Tamil Editor
He posed as the Royal Ancestor
Even of the Chola* Emperor
Slave-drove workers in fief
Used savants make belief
Such the Tamil Highness Publisher
He caged talents the Money-Maker
Poised as Conference Organiser
Preyed on Buddhist belief
On Chan and Zen mischief
To lard his own family bunker
Ideas he plucked from the Other
Made as if he put up with bother
Tamils to lead as Chief
No matter what the grief
None see his pen as plagiariser
All helpers rough-rode he the Miser
Shed them shorn one after the other
Damn not this common thief
Just his penchant for Chief
For Tamil knowledge made he Server
[* The Chola dynasty (among other South-Indian reigns) of the 10th to 12th centuries C.E. extended Tamil culture and civilization over the better part of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia without having recourse primarily to conquests and/or of maintaining colonies.]
Bonjour Monseigneur Don Ron! You have given me a headache - nay, migraine - trying to make out what you really mean by the "web" you cast to shroud your intentional "barbs".
I do hope you're not trying to belittle the Tamils (who, by the way, are also responsible for the dissemination of Buddhism - and Hinduism - all across the Asian eastern seaboard territories) for their acculturation of the Southeast Asian archipelago by your Trump analogy: they are not likely to take kindly to you, if that's the intentional thrust of your comments.
The Tamil in question in the limericks who was financially enabled by the Japanese co-founder - despite the usual bag-of-tricks he uses to entice savants to his fiefdom - managed somehow to construct a veritable storehouse of (Tamilian and Dravidian) knowledge, not, if I'm not mistaken, the case with Trump. The comparison stops there, I should think.
I served the man willingly in full knowledge of his aims until he went over-board with his "bag of tricks". If you were Tamil, you would know that Tamils are "users" in the main. If you stop letting yourself be used, you have had it: they'd ditch, backbite and scuttle you till you'd not know what really hit you! The eternal problem in the sub-continent is still caste-based, but I have to admit the Brahmins among the Tamils have made a more lasting contribution towards cultural and scientific advancement of their "congenčres" than members of other social denominations. Best. Wignesan
Your limericks certainly could have and probably did refer to how the Tamil culture was spread by the Chola dynasty from Sri Lanka throughout Southeast Asia.
But another alternative would be substituting Donald Trump for the Tamil Promotion Director. And, you have a very similar situation forming in the far reaches of the United States of America. Isn't that nice? No, not nice, but powerful, nonetheless.
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I do hope you're not trying to belittle the Tamils (who, by the way, are also responsible for the dissemination of Buddhism - and Hinduism - all across the Asian eastern seaboard territories) for their acculturation of the Southeast Asian archipelago by your Trump analogy: they are not likely to take kindly to you, if that's the intentional thrust of your comments.
The Tamil in question in the limericks who was financially enabled by the Japanese co-founder - despite the usual bag-of-tricks he uses to entice savants to his fiefdom - managed somehow to construct a veritable storehouse of (Tamilian and Dravidian) knowledge, not, if I'm not mistaken, the case with Trump. The comparison stops there, I should think.
I served the man willingly in full knowledge of his aims until he went over-board with his "bag of tricks". If you were Tamil, you would know that Tamils are "users" in the main. If you stop letting yourself be used, you have had it: they'd ditch, backbite and scuttle you till you'd not know what really hit you! The eternal problem in the sub-continent is still caste-based, but I have to admit the Brahmins among the Tamils have made a more lasting contribution towards cultural and scientific advancement of their "congenčres" than members of other social denominations. Best. Wignesan
But another alternative would be substituting Donald Trump for the Tamil Promotion Director. And, you have a very similar situation forming in the far reaches of the United States of America. Isn't that nice? No, not nice, but powerful, nonetheless.
Ron