INTRODUCING: MEGALA, OUR VERY OWN HOME-GROWN CELEBRITY
Megala is a gifted ninth-grader who is quite the lyricist. Her Tamil teacher thought that some of her poems were worthy of publication, and he helped her submit them to a local newspaper. One of these was selected and appeared in print last week.
A very rough translation, which she gave me on the spur of the moment:
Moon, brightly
shining
in the sky. One day
a full moon!
When our thoughts with our actions
shine,
there will always be a full moon.
The English translation is suspiciously shorter than the Tamil original, but you get the gist.
Megala is a gifted ninth-grader who is quite the lyricist. Her Tamil teacher thought that some of her poems were worthy of publication, and he helped her submit them to a local newspaper. One of these was selected and appeared in print last week.
A very rough translation, which she gave me on the spur of the moment:
Moon, brightly
shining
in the sky. One day
a full moon!
When our thoughts with our actions
shine,
there will always be a full moon.
The English translation is suspiciously shorter than the Tamil original, but you get the gist.
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