SLOGAN 1
அமெரிக்கன் கல்லூரி
எங்கள் கல்லூரி
அமெரிக்க இறையடியார்கள்
ஜம்ரோ வாஷ்பர்ன் மெஷினரிமார்கள்
எல்லோர்க்கும் வழங்கிய கல்லூரி - இது
மதுரை மக்களின் கல்லூரி
அனுமதியோம்! அனுமதியோம்!
இதை ஆசீரின் குடும்பத்தார்கள்
அபகரிக்க அனுமதியோம்
விற்றுத்தின்ன அனுமதியோம்
எங்கள் கல்லூரி சுதந்திரத்தை
என்றும் நாங்கள் மதித்திடுவோம்
உயிரைக் கொடுத்தும் காத்திடுவோம்!
It is difficult to translate the slogans exactly in English, without the loss of the spirit behind the slogans. Here, the writer ‘SCORPIUS’ has made an English translation attempt, giving importance to the spirit of the slogans, which kept alive the emotional state and tempo of the fight among faculty and non-teaching staff.
Our American College!
American College
Is our college (to you,me & everyone)
American theologists
Zumbro, Washburn missionaries
Gifted this college to all (mankind)
To the people of Madurai (belongs this college)
Will we allow Asir and his family
To sell this?
To gobble this?
Will we not honour her freedom?
For the college to live, we give our lives!
2 comments:
I am sure the souls of Washburn and Zumbro will be in peace, knowing that there are people to lay their lives for the college and to protect the college. The college had been a church independent college doing service to people of all castes and creeds, a vision these missionaries envisaged more than a century ago.
Let our prayers help Asir mend his ways, if not, let that help him take his journey to heavenly (hellish) abode soon.
I visited The American College a couple of weeks before. I felt like crying looking at the college. It is the college where I spent five years of my college life. The students now are sitting under the trees and also the faculties. I just looked at the place where I was standing. Below my foot were the broken pieces of car glass windows. I cant believe that some people who stepped into such a college can do anything like that. What can I do rather than to cry for it ? I prayed in the beautiful chapel that the problems be solved soon. I dont know how long it wil take and how many generations are going to get affected.
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