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Debate on Bharatiyar Books in Madras Assembly (Post No.13,998)
Subrahmanya Bharati was a man on whose tongue the Goddess Saraswati can honestly be believed to have danced the dance of patriotism. If he had been born in any free country, why in any country of the world except India, the man would have been made the Poet Laureate of the country, would have been given honours and titles by a government which knows how to respond to the feelings of the people, and would have lived and died among the most honoured of the nation.
—S Satyamurthi in Madras Legislative Council, 1928
Late Satyamurthi was a great patriot and leader of the congress party in Madras. He was a fiery orator and contributed in no small measure to the cause of freedom in the south.
He was speaking on the no confidence motion against the then ministry headed by Raja of Panagal (year 1928). It was Satyamurthi’s maiden speech in the Madras Legislative Council. He championed the cause of the school children who were denied the inspiration of Bharathi’s songs.
Five years later in the same house , Satyamurthi returned to the theme when the police seized copies of Bharti’s songs. Speaking on an adjournment motion on the subject, Satyamurthi told the legislators about the literary genius of the fiery patriot Subramania Bharati.
Following are excerpts from the proceedings of the Madras Legislative Council (1928):
Mr President Sir, I beg leave to move the business of this House do stand adjourned to consider a matter of urgent public importance, namely, the resent action of City Police in entering upon and searching the premises of Hindi Prachar Sabha on the High Road, Triplicane, for copies of Bharati’s songs, and seizing nearly 2000 copies of the same.
…….. when I say that one wants no arguments to support vote of censure on the action of the Madras Government in having acquiesced in or directed the City Police to seize what will remain, in spite of the Madras Government’s activities, so long as Tamil Language lasts or a single Tamilian exists, as the most priceless and patriotic songs in that great language.
Sir Late Subrahmanya Bharati was a man on whose tongue the Goddess Saraswati can honestly be believed to have danced the dance of patriotism. If he had been born in any free country, why in any country of the world except India, the man would have been made the Poet Laureate of the country, would have been given honours and titles by a government which knows how to respond to the feelings of the people, and would have lived and died among the most honoured of the nation.
But, sir, being the slave country that we are, he had to live in exile in Pondicherry, enjoying the hospitality of the French Government, and die broken wreck, because he found no use for himself under the auspices of this Government. But, sir, martyrs and patriots before him have gone to the same fate. Subrahmanya Bharati lived and died a patriot. I wat to repeat, Mr President, that so long as the Tamil Language lasts you may confiscate , all the copies which exist, even as our sacred Vedas were handed down from generations to generation, for aeons, without a single piece of writing, by the memory of our ancient Hindu ancestors I have no doubt , that so long as a single Tamilian lives, these songs will remain the priceless heritage of the Tamil race.
From SUBRAMANIA BHARATI, PATRIOT AND POET, A.Memoir, P Mahadevan, Bharathi Tamil Sangham, Calcutta, 1970
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