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Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan emphasised that we were astatine a captious juncture wherever studying past was indispensable to forestall it from being obscured by fabricated narratives and idiosyncratic versions of the truth.
Speaking astatine a nationalist league connected the ‘Culture and Traditions of The Pandya Country: Gleaned from Archaeological Implications’ at Fatima College here, he observed that we were living successful a unusual epoch wherever the foundational structures of republicanism and antiauthoritarian governmental civilization are deteriorating globally.
He warned against disruptors who promised to revolutionise governance but ultimately proved to beryllium mediocre administrators, leaving a way of organization demolition successful their wake.
The disruptions are often rooted in authoritarianism, which relies connected 2 halfway strategies - suppressing autarkic thought and cultivating uninformed citizenry that is easy manipulated, helium noted.
In this climate, the Minister asserted that a multidimensional survey of past is much captious than ever. He cautioned that if society remained unaware of its past and allowed itself to beryllium misled by modern reinventions of truth designed to acceptable circumstantial agendas, it would face a profound and lasting damage.
He highlighted that the Tamil Nadu government’s important backing implicit the past 5 years had yielded ground-breaking archaeological discoveries.
These findings person shifted the humanities communicative from fable to proven subject similar precocious municipality planning, concern and economical sophistication.
“Excavations person unearthed grounds of blase municipality settlements dating backmost to the 6th period BCE. These sites uncover highly developed civic infrastructure, including shared resources specified as advanced communal wells and h2o tanks, and structured systems for nationalist assets management,” helium said.
He elaborate circumstantial grounds from sites like Keeladi that proved the beingness of an organised, industrious nine 2,500 years ago where pottery shards featuring inscriptions dating backmost 2 and a fractional millennia were found.
Also, grounds of past factories and workshops dedicated to specialised crafts specified arsenic dyeing, weaving, and bead-making, archaeobotanical remains that corroborate a dual-economic strategy rooted successful some precocious agriculture and pastoralism was recovered done the efforts, helium pointed out.
He noted that portion the past of the Pandya dynasty was antecedently reconstructed solely through early Sangam literature, the caller excavations person transcended these texts.
The carnal grounds present reveals a Tamil past that is acold much expansive, complex, and culturally affluent than antecedently understood, presenting a scientifically backed heritage to the planetary stage.
To guarantee these archaeological findings scope a planetary audience, the authorities had invested heavy in establishing world-class museums successful locations like Keeladi and Porunai, helium said.
He also noted that nether his enactment astatine the IT department, the Tamil Virtual Academy has taken connected a captious relation successful preserving Tamil heritage.
While the academy antecedently focused chiefly on digitising books, periodicals and poetry, it has precocious expanded its archives to see maps, multimedia content, videos, and assorted integer artifacts. This broadening of scope has led to a melodramatic summation successful nationalist engagement, with the platform’s usership increasing from 1.5 crore to astir 17.5 crore visits, helium said.
Fatima College Principal M. Fatima Mary delivered the inaugural code and Head and Assistant Professor of History J. Saral Evangelin welcomed the gathering.
