{"id":4950,"date":"2009-05-26T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2009-05-26T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T08:16:49","slug":"tamil-youth-bell-club-raises-indian-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/05\/26\/tamil-youth-bell-club-raises-indian-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Youth Bell Club raises Indian issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/5\/26\/nation\/3978447&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">The issues are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 no announcement in Tamil at international airports around the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; television news readers had failed to promote Indian culture through their dressing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; deejays on radio channels, especially Thr. Raaga, were not fluent in Tamil<\/p>\n<p>In response, Dr S Subra said at the Tamil Bell function:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; agreed to bring the matter up to the Government, said television and radio channels should use proper Tamil in their programmes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the influence of Western media and culture among the community\u2019s youths had resulted in the lack of support for the community\u2019s own religious and cultural programmes, adding that Indian organisations should act to preserve the Tamil language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said the party had urged the Government to include religious studies as a subject in Tamil schools as a way of inculcating moral values in Indian schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issues are: &#8211;\u00a0 no announcement in Tamil at international airports around the country. &#8211; television news readers had failed to promote Indian culture through their dressing &#8211; deejays on radio channels, especially Thr. Raaga, were not fluent in Tamil In response, Dr S Subra said at the Tamil Bell function: &#8230; agreed to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,7],"tags":[158,278,225,302,20],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","category-tamil-schools","tag-media","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-religion","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}