A Tribute to Mr. K Mylvaganam by Usha.

A Tribute to Mr. K Mylvaganam



Our dearest Aiyah,

News of your passing away has left my already disheartened and ‘numb’ self, yet more crippled and unable to function; a feeling of helplessness, a sense of powerlessness a paralysis has overcome me these days; your death at this time has brought home the gruesome reality and the gravity of the deep sense of enormous loss we all feel at this moment, making the pain that much more unbearable, as more and more of our people are slaughtered, maimed, tortured and incarcerated by a brutal regime and our hopes for Tamil Eelam lie shattered.

The voice that inspired us from Vanni is still.

Aiyah, you were the voice of hope, of victory and of good things to come; to an activist and a writer and to numerous others like me, for whom, you were like a mentor, a father figure, a guide, the fact that you too have gone, is like another deathblow.

Aiyah, by choosing to live with and serve the people of our beloved motherland, rather than enjoy the safety and comforts of an easy life in the West, you have by your actions shown to the rest of us, the man that you are.

Aiyah, we salute your dedication to duty and your profound commitment to the cause of Tamil Eelam.

I shall miss your most encouraging e-mails to me where you lovingly insisted on addressing me as Usha Amma.

You will no doubt continue to be a tower of strength to all yearning for a free and independent Tamil Eelam.

Yours affectionately,

Usha

(Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah)
Passing of K. Mylvaganam

We are sad to report the death of Mr. K. Mylvaganam, who had a long association with the Sangam website. Below is a tribute by one of his friends. -- Editorial Committee

Mr. K. Mylwaganam,who had been contributing many articles to Sangam.org during the last few years, with the very latest on August 28, 2008, passed away in his sleep in Puthukudiyirruppu hospital on 24-01-2009 all alone.

He leaves behind his wife, sons and daughters far away from home. Our sympathies to them.

Maybe, his heart could not take it anymore, the sufferings all around him in that hospital and outside.

Myl brought to us, his age group and everyone else, the nearness of our dear soil through his articles in Sangam.org.

Ex-partriating with his family to Europe in the seventies, he returned home to Kilinochchi after fulfilling his duties to his family.

We all love our land. We love it more because of the oppression and suppression. Given the choice and the chance, we would all be there. Myl did not wait for chance and choice, but he was there.

His good wife, too. Sadly, she could not be there at the time of his surreneder to the Almighty and not even to perform the last rites. She could only rush up to Vavuniya and not beyond.

Sufferings in so many different forms, like a tragic single melody being played in all the Tamil hearts.

An extract of his letter to his wife, perhaps the very last, is portrayed below to show the dedication with which he presented his articles to Sangam.org to enable us, too, to be there with our people in our homeland.

"War is blood spilling politics
Politics is war without blood" Mao-Tse-Tung

" and mine is bloodless war with my pen,my prayers and devotional songs" Mylwaganam 19-12-08

Dear Myl, in this, let the dead-bury-the-dead situation in our dear land, we are sure there was someone to perform the last rites and we are sure that you are still lingering there where your dear heart belongs. We thank you for all the detailed descriptive articles which you presented to us via Sangam.org and our deep sympathies once again to your daughters, sons and your dear wife.

Emmanuel Christopher


Published: February 16, 2009