Constanzo Giuseppe Beschi or Veeramamunivar is today a life size statue at Marina hardly noticed by a majority of pleasure-seekers who frequent the popular beach. He stands there gazing at the traffic along the Kamarajar Salai.
He should be sick of the new generation's preoccupation with the English language at the cost of their mother tongue. He should be anguished over how some political leaders make a living dividing people on linguistic lines...
Veeramamunivar- missionary of Tamil, taught us that with devotion we can easily cross the choppy seas of mastering a distant tongue.
(It was through friend Lenakumar when I was working in Tirunelveli that I came to know about this missionary).
ENDS.
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