TEDxPollachi

Last Friday (17/05), a group of highly passionate individuals driven by great and novel ideas gathered to hear six such ideas and participate in an exciting discourse at TEDxPollachi.

Seen here are Mrs Shyamala Navaneethakrishnan, Chairman, Pollachi Municipality, inaugurating the second edition of TEDxPollachi, along with Mr P Karthikeyan, Managing Trustee and Correspondent and Mrs Priya Karthikeyan, Director of Academics Vidhya Vishwalaya CBSE School.

Ms Koshia, School Pupil Leader at Vidhya Vishwalaya CBSE School introduced TEDxPollachi before , Organiser of TEDxPollachi set the agenda for the evening.

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Talk by Raju Kandasamy: Tamil in the age of AI

Technology, as everyone agrees, is growing at a rapid pace. While this growth is largely welcome, we may need to double down on our efforts to preserve our cultural identities from being homogenised. Languages are an important source of cultural identity, and the linguistic diversity in the world is a shared heritage. How do we preserve and evolve the Tamil language for an age of AI?

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Talk by Bharathy Baskar: Time, a Dimension

Time is a dimension. As hard as it is to contemplate, this discovery is the result of a life’s work of Albert Einstein. While Einstein uses Physics and Mathematics to conclude and elucidate this truth, philosophy and literature, including in Tamil, support this truth and relate it with human experience.

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Performance: Sri Isai Sangamam - Nadhaswaram Artists, Led by Arul Mani

Sri Isai Sangamam is a Nadaswaram-Thavizh troupe, led by Arul Mani. Arul is the Vidwan of the Zamin Samathur Temple where he has played the Nadaswaram for about thirty years now. Following in the footsteps of his Grandfather and Father, he carries the legacy and artform of Nadhaswaram for a third generation.

Apart from performing at the temple, his troupe perform in various Utsavs and events around Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Thirty years on and he still continues to practise his art with the same energy and enthusiasm, because he considers it beyond mere duty. As he puts it, ‘It’s my identity. It’s what I hold dear to my heart. It’s what brings me happiness and it’s what I cherish the most – my God-given talent’.

At TEDxPollachi, the Nadaswaram-Thavizh artists led by Arul Mani will demonstrate the art form by performing four pieces, a mix of ‘Classical Keerthanais’, ‘Bhakti Songs’, Patriotic & Film.

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