User talk:Nakirar

Please read the link @ http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/23/stories/2008092355650600.htm It is dated 23rd November 2008. Please update, any update as follow up with proper reason, in the "Puthandu" wiki page, on heading "Legal challenges".

My opinion is that 1. Tamil month name may be retained as it is. But needs refinement on number of days. 2. Tamil year names (60 names) should be changed, as they are sanskrit words. 3. All Indian calenders adjusted their no. of days in year, as 365 1/4, after discovery. This is the reason, we have 32 or 33 days in a month. 4. Chinese calender is starting nearby Jan 15 to Jan 20. That is not reflection of Indian system. Somewhere, wiki page is not updated properly. Someone comparing chinese calender with Tamil calender. I do not know, why? 5. April is fool's month. Why should our TN new year starts in fool's month, traditionally? 6. One of the UK king declared April 1, as fool's day in the past. Because some section of the people were rejecting King's scientific changes to calender system. They might have influenced India calenders in olden days (or) Indian's also rejected to follow the same. Please update, if you know on this in wiki. 7. New calender can be accepted, only if it reflects Tamil culture. It should be done, based on scientific research by an expert committe.

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Whether the month names are Tamil or Sanskritized Tamil is not the point. It is popular usage that matters. What does the average farmer or fisherman in Tirunelveli or Ramnad call each Tamil month? That is what we reflect in this encyclopedia. Vaikasi or Maarkali is in popular usage in Tamil. The reason the Chinese calendar is compared with the Tamil calendar is the 60 year cycle of Jupiter/viyaazhan. This was not my edit. A much earlier and undoubtedly erudite editor had inserted that.

April is not quite a fools month. It is the 1st of April that is April Fools day. This is accordingly to contemporary English/American folklore. This is not a Tamil folklore. It is not Indian. It is irrelevant to those of us and our tradition which is far older than the Anglo-American. The Tamil calendar is likely as handed down over tradition as there are Tamils in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia and Singapore - all of whom need to be consulted if astronomical adjustments need to be made. No maverick judge in Madurai can decide for the 70 million Tamils worldwide.

The Tamil new year is in April. This influenced Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand to adopt the Tamil new year as their new year in centuries past. This is our cultural influence.

Kind regards

Nakirar (talk) 04:25, 9 November 2011 (UTC)