{"id":11044,"date":"2012-09-25T23:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2012-09-25T23:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:33:32","slug":"thileepan-fasting-in-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=11044","title":{"rendered":"Thileepan Fasting in Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TA92612A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TA92612A-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TA92612A\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11045\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Prof.Kopan Mahadeva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Rasiah Parthiban alias Thileepan Fasted unto Death 25 Years ago in Nallur)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>e passed away in full view of<br \/>\na hundred thousand or more<br \/>\npairs of tear-filled eyes,<br \/>\nFasting in steadfast defiance<br \/>\nof violence of seventy thousand<br \/>\nmisguided gun-toting guys,<br \/>\nConsuming not even water<br \/>\nfor eleven whole days, not just his rice,<br \/>\nBettering the Gandhian device<br \/>\nto recapture human liberty<br \/>\nthrough self-sacrifice.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHis nation had tried for forty years<br \/>\nnot once, not twice, not thrice<br \/>\nbut umpteen times to entice<br \/>\nthe oppressors with compromise plans, interim pacts, sensible advice,<br \/>\nbut all these were frozen like inert ice.<br \/>\nThileepan\u2019s was pacifism against vice,<br \/>\nwith arms withheld as a last resort,<br \/>\nas the ultimate face in the political dice.<\/p>\n<p>He exhaled national fire in slow breaths<br \/>\nand passed vigour and fierce velocity to Tamil cubs,<br \/>\nonce timid and shy as mice,<br \/>\nAnd now lives as the sinew and blood<br \/>\nof armies of pouncing tigers<br \/>\npursuing national pride and peace and a national paradise.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Courtesy: Hot Spring Oct&#8217;98)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton11044\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D11044&amp;text=Thileepan%20Fasting%20in%20Defiance&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Prof.Kopan Mahadeva (Rasiah Parthiban alias Thileepan Fasted unto Death 25 Years ago in Nallur) He passed away in full view of a hundred thousand or more pairs of tear-filled eyes, Fasting in steadfast defiance of violence of seventy thousand misguided gun-toting guys, Consuming not even water for eleven whole days, not just his rice, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=11044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Thileepan Fasting in Defiance&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}