Date: 08.01.2007
Let us see an interesting information on, one of the erstwhile chief ministers of the state of Tamil Nadu in India, Dr. C. N. Annadurai(15.09.1909 - 03.02.1969).
Dr. C. N. Annadurai, commonly referred to as Anna by Tamil speaking community, founded the most famous Dravidian party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK), in the year 1949. He served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1967 - 1969. He held M. A.(Hons.) in Economics. He was a multi-faceted personality. He was a politician, erudite, diplomat, playwright, short-story writer, stage artist and so on and so forth.
He was a great orator. I even feel like genuflecting before his eloquence. Let me now narrate the following interesting information on Dr. C. N. Annadurai. Once in Yale University, USA, the following question was posed to the silver-tongued personality by a native speaker of English:
Can you construct a sentence in English by using because three times in it?
The instantaneous response from Dr. C. N. Annadurai was:
No sentence ends in because, because, because is a conjunction
16 comments:
That was a good one, I didnt know about.
When anna was late for a election meeting, and peope were waiting for long,he gave this speech.
Mathaama Chittirai,
Maniyo Patharai,
Ungalai Thazhuvuvatho nithirai,
Marakkamal emakku iduvir Muthirai.
Hi,
I read your post about Kannadasan, the day you published it,but I love Anna and his talents and I had to comment.
I have already read most of the posts in your blog, will read your future posts, so keep posting about Tamil.
Also, my goal is to visit one new place per month and hence you can find atmost one travelogue per month in the ideal case, but even that doesnt happen many times :-)
I was planning to revive the habit of doing posts on the books I read,I will do that.
Hi,
This is Dennis. I am working on a project on the Dravidian Movement. Could I get the speeches made by Anna at Yale University in 1963. Also his speech in Rajya Sabha against the compulsory imposition of Hindi. You could kindly mail it to: dennissjesudasan@gmail.com. Thanks!
Regards,
Dennis
Hi,
Really its a nice site .Could you send me Anna's speech at Yale university.I feel it will useful for other to use the speech in elocution competition in schools.
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This is also a hearsay about Anna which made me admire anna.
Once, when he was asked to say 100 words without the letter 'D', he asked the questioner to count from one to hundred. when he reached ninetynine, anna asked him to stop and to add the word "stop"to the hundredth count.
When there was a debate, an opposition member sarcastically commented anna, remarking his ailment, (at that time he was suffering from cancer and was under treatment)and went to the extent of saying "Your days are counted" to which Anna retorted "But my steps are measured". That is the wit of Anna
to day 3 Feb 2011 is annan's 42 death anniversary
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Hello, im from argentina, i speak spanish, and i foun very interesting your blog, i feel most attracted to english, because my lenguaje is spanish,(sorry for the spellings, i'm still working on my writting)
Hola soy de argentina, hablo castellano(español), y encuentro tu blog muy interesatnte, a mi me gusta mas el ingles porque yo hablo español.Bueno, me gusto mucho tu blog y espero que entiendas mi comentario y que sigas aprendiendo porque siempre es bueno aprender. besoos!!
hi this is sheriff
i am very much interested in DR.C.N.Annadurai speech,if possible to get the anna's speech at YALE university pls mail me to the following address
laksheriff@gmail.com
thanks
i want c.n.a 'kottum mazhaile robinson poongavile' speech
please mail me anna speech collections..or let me know where can i get a CD?
mohanmech22@yahoo.com
hi this is divia of salem india
I am a lover of anna esp. his speeches in english and also in tamil.Regarding the speeches of anna in the yale univresity america i tried through friends for same but failed.but i heard through one doctor friend who was working as doctor in the yale hospital premises he told me that he saw an engraved matter in the yale university like the following and i quote
"THE LONGEST SENTENCE EVER SPOKEN BY A DIGNITARY IS NONE OTHER THAN C.N. ANNADURAI"
Hi Guys,
I heard many things about Anna through my loving Dad, too interesting reg.KOTTUM MAZHAILE how and where will I get it.pls help to hear his speech and before my birth this great personality been taken away by the Lord, may be wanted to hear his I feel.
thanx a lot
Thanjai Wellesley
Bangalore
devachariam@gmail.com
The speech delivered during convocation ceremony at Madurai University is even now published in the school books. Same lesson read by me some forty yrs ago. Anna is a greatman. It is our duty to show his greatness to the pupil of present generation. Hence forth I will give some quotes from him i.e. translated in Tamil. I too need the address from where I can have CDs of his speech.
Thanjai Kabilan
kabilanpillai@gmail.com.
The greatness of Anna is growing on me every day.I am simply astounded by the spectacular genuis,this man was.I have heard his tamil speech,simply magical,i am dying to hear his english speech,please let me know,from where i can procure this.Infact,very soon i want to get a b/w poster of Anna.Never was i so enamoured by any personality,as i am with,ANNA the great.bgsreedhhar@gmail.com Regards....BG sreedhhar
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