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building bridges: A group of teacher trainees in Tamil from the Southern Regional Langauge Centre of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, on a visit to Madurai MADURAI: “Language can be used as an effective medium to thrash out all differences between Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka…” B.A. Kanthi spoke sense when she aired her desire to see both the ethnic communities united. When asked to write her name, she wrote it in Tamil without any difficulty. For this lecturer from Ruhuna National College of Education in Galle (Sri Lanka), the first and foremost thing in life is to bring the two different language-speaking communities together. “I wanted to learn Tamil, so that I can teach Sinhala better to my Tamil students and Tamil to Sinhala students. I will act as a bridge to bring them together,” she promised in broken Tamil. The Lankan was here as part of a group of 24 trainees from the Mysore-based Southern Regional Language Centre of Central Institute of Indian Languages which visited the Temple City to get first hand information about the culture, tradition and customs of Tamils. There were school teachers from Manipur, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Kerala. For most of them, learning Tamil was not an easy task. But then their dedication and commitment towards learning a new language helped them to stay on to acquire a workable knowledge in Tamil. S. Sundarabalu, programme coordinator, said that the 10-month diploma programmes in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu languages at the centre were conducted to foster national integration and create national unity through languages. “Every year we get a good number of students from Manipur for Tamil. After six months of learning, the participants are taken for a 15-day education tour to the states, where the languages are spoken. The tour includes a village visit, meeting Collectors and important personalities, visiting educational institutions and other places of historical and cultural importance. These trainees are expected to teach these languages in the schools from where they are deputed.” K. Pasumpon, Assistant Director, Department of Tamil Development, who organised their programme in Madurai, explained the salient features of Tamil language and culture to the visiting trainees and took them to nearby Karupayoorani village.
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