Celebrating the 300 years of the arrival of a Missionary

This may not be very unique to Tamilnadu - that we have to celebrate the arrival of a Westener in our coast, to law the foundation for prosletysing, setting up operations of conversion that would later day corrupt the state, its culture and language so much so that today it is impossible for Tamil people and the students of the language (particularly post-Dravidian rule) to recollect or even relate to the Bhakthi form of the language.

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : 300 years on, Ziegenbalg set to get his due

The Missionaries' singular contribution to Tamilnadu is the love of English and everything English (and thereby Western). From the fluency of the language that the tamils like to flaunt to their fanatical demand that English be the link language at the cost of relating to the larger national identity to the later day mindless activities of celebrating everythink that is English, or western for that matter, the Tamils have few equals as loyal followers in post-Colonial societies, certainly nowhere else in India.

It is only appropriate that the Dravidian Chief Minister is leading the celebration.