World Tamil conference starts in Coimbatore
Coimbatore: Oscar winner A RRahman's music and film maker Rajiv Menon's visual effects will travel on the massive LCD screens mounted on trucks across Coimbatore city - it's part of the display which will mark the start of the world Tamil conference.
The conference is being organised a little over a year after the LTTE was defeated in Sri Lanka and critics had taken on Karunanidhi for not doing enough to save the Sri Lankan Tamils. Some observers point out that the main theme of the conference is less for the language and more to establish the DMK chief as the champion of Tamil cause ahead of the assembly elections. Meanwhile, the opposition AIADMK has boycotted the conference and claims the first aim of the DMK should be to make Tamil the functional language in the Madras High Court. Others have questioned spending over Rs 400 crore of exchequer money in the name of language.
But the DMK remains undeterred and hopes to make this the grandest Tamil conference in recent times.
Language has often played out an emotive role in Dravidian politics - Coimbatore and the western region of the state are seen as Jayalalithaa's strong holds and the DMK hopes the Tamil conference will galvanise the party towards the crucial assembly elections schedule for 2011.
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