Ponnampalam

From 15 March, I am no longer active here because of doctor's orders. God willing I will be able to return at some time in the future.

सं गछध्वं सं वदध्वं सं वो मनांसि जानताम् ।

देवा भागं यथा पूर्वे संजानाना उपासते ॥

समानो मन्त्रः समितिः समानी समानं मनः सह चित्तमेषाम् ।

समानं मन्त्रमभि मण्त्रये वः समानेन वोहविषा जुहोमि ॥

समानी व आकूतिः समाना हर्दयानि वः ।

समानमस्तु वोमनो यथा वः सुसहासति ॥

Hi Ponnampalam. Welcome aboard. You might also want to contribute to the Tamil Wikipedia. Also, the following links may interest you.

-- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 06:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Read your message about fonts

The problem of rendering uyirmeyyezuththu inappropriately is there in Firefox browser. Can you try Internet Explorer? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 13:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure it'll work fine on wine. You may need to install Arial Unicode MS as well, which may be a pain. Currently, I edit using Firefox on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. I do see the same problem, but I'm kind of used to it. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 14:12, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Good editing on the LTTE article!

Just wanted to say that your cleanup of the article seems to head in the right direction - with some more we should be able to remove the "cleanup" tag. And as far as I can see your changes seems to be rather balanced, has not been too much of that on this page... So keep up the good work! :-) Ulflarsen 08:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, have read the Telo article, think its good if you use some of it in the LTTE article. Ulflarsen 13:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Good map added

The map with LTTE controlled areas looks fairly good, but I thought the GOSL had control of the Mannar-Vavuniya corridor. And I thought the LTTE had firm control of an area in the east more south, and closer to Trincomalee. But overall - very good.

One thing though, good if you could upload it on [Commons], so all language versions of Wikipedia could use it. I plan to insert it into the Norwegian language version about LTTE, and guess others would want to do the same. Ulflarsen 15:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Replying to your message

எலா பொன்னா

நான் தற்பொழுதுக்கு Norwayஇல் இருக்கேன். என் பேரறிஞர்பட்டத்து ஆய்வுக்கட்டுரை எழுதிமுடிக்கிரவரை என்னாலே இங்கெ எழுத முடியாது - ஓய்வு நேரம் துளிக்கூட இல்லை. இளவேனில் பருவத்துக்குமுன்பு சமைவு உருப்படாது, but plough on without me . Anyway, I'll upload the map to commons if you don't want to set up your own account.

I've no idea what to do about the Tamil unicode problem - it's equally a problem for me, and I assume for many in India and Sri Lanka. Maybe we can set up a script to automatically translate between TSCII and unicode encoding? It should be quite easy to soup one up using the Traditional / Simplified Chinese convertor they use on the Chinese Wikipedia. user:Sundar is the person to speak to about this.

நட்புடன்,

அரவிந்தன்

-- Arvind 22:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Voted to delete the redirect

Hi - did the vote, good you fix that. Whatever one mean of Prabhakaran I see no sense in that "title". Have done some reverts on the article during x-mas as there has been various edits that have tried to add biased stuff. If you manage to work through the rest we should soon be able to remove the tags I believe. Ulflarsen 18:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Think its ok to remove the tags

Hi - check the talk page on the LTTE article. I looked trough it, and also changed the info regarding the latest election. According to my sources, also in Jaffna, the people there did not wote due to fear for the threaths from the LTTE. Otherwise it seems good now - but suggest we may leave it for a day or two and see if anyone has serious objections to the article as it is. If you have any to add please write it on the talk page of the article as then others can see it. Good work! Ulflarsen 17:27, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Can you check out the article about the LTTE

Hi, I would be happy if you could check out the article about the LTTE. An anonymous user keeps on editing it in a way that I believe is POV, seems to me he is out to whitewash the LTTE. I have alerted the community but good if you also could have a look. I have tried to reason on the discussion page but the one who does the edits have not answered there. Ulflarsen 15:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to inform you that I was wondering if I should write yet another answer to the user Jonathan, and decided to let it be. He may just do a rewrite and then one will see what comes out of it, and it can always be rolled back. For my part, I think I have exhausted my knowledge, as I am certainly not an expert on the LTTE. Whether he is - and is a neutral one, remains to be seen. Regarding your contributions I found them more than helpful in making a useful, balanced article and I am glad you offered some of your time to this strange animal that Wikipedia surely is. Ulflarsen 20:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Replying to your message

People on Wiki don't know your background, Ponna. I'm sure he'd have spoken differently had he known. And as you well know, when we get dragged into political discussions especially on *this* topic, people unfortunately tend to aim for the head rather than the stump. Don't let it eat you. -- Arvind 17:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the map of LTTE controlled areas

Hi, the map is good, but I believe the LTTE controls a bigger piece of the coastal area towards Point Pedro. Can check that out if you disagree, but I believe there should be a rather straight separation line out to the sea from Pallai. Ulflarsen 19:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but...

I know, I know, but I really don't have the heart or the inclination to work on the Sri Lanka related topics here any more. கூபமண்டுகர்பொன்று அலப்புகின்றார்கள் இங்கே வந்திருக்கின்ற தாட்டன்மார், இலங்கையில் நடந்த துன்பியலான சம்பவங்களெல்லாம் நடந்தப்படியே. எப்போ தான் விளக்கம் வரும் நம் மக்களுக்கு? Sorry, old friend, but this really is getting a bit too much for me to take. -- Arvind 00:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Carnatic music

Hi, See this. If you walk away, it will only encourage the bullies. cheers Parthi ^{talk/contribs} 21:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I was the one who was nasty with you. Sorry for remarks made in ignorance. I had included information on Chaturdandi Prakasika on the page earlier. The idiot who has posted the above message is playing the devil in Carnatic Music article. He not only removed the information about it but also acts innocent. Ask him to get out of carnatic related articles if it has to contain any quality information.

Vanakkam

Thanks for your editing on Vatteluttu. Just like the classification of the Indo-Aryan scripts called Devanagari, there should be an overall classification or term for all the Dravidian circular styled scripts. Is there any way of finding out if there is such a term?

Wiki Raja 21:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

New Project

Hi there, There has been the introduction of a neutral project for Sri Lanka by a fair mediator, SebastianHelm, regarding the Sri Lanka Conflict and the attacks upon Tamils, Human rights etc etc, maybe you would be interested in joining? --Sharz 07:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Get well soon!

Thank you for your message on my Sri Lanka talk page. I wish you good health! — Sebastian 08:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

You said you have a great grand son... So, 'thatha' (sorry for the personal attack :)) take care and take rest. And please keep in mind that POV pushing by some mindless idiots in wikipedia is not going to change the reality. Praveen 16:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Tamilnet

Replied here Sarvagnya 20:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

All the best to you!

Thank you very much for the nice, encouraging message! You know, German is my mother tongue. If there's any way I can help you with your Böll project, let me know! — Sebastian 20:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Updated map of LTTE versus GoSL controlled areas

Hi, could you upload this map to Commons so it can be used on other languageversions, like nowiki? [1] - if you agree in using it? Best regards! Ulflarsen 20:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Happy new Year

Iniya Puthandu Nalvalthukkal! Praveen 14:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)