Duty, Dignity, Discipline

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N. Ganesan

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Sep 21, 2022, 10:10:52 PM9/21/22
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N. Ganesan

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Sep 22, 2022, 10:50:13 AM9/22/22
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Prof. P. Kandaswamy wrote:
> She became Queen on treetop when she on an African safari
> Jim Corbett's book on treetop gives a wonderful description of the event

Thank you, Anna. Jim Corbett and Queen Elisabeth's story is interesting.

https://twitter.com/Paperclip_In/status/1568103173973475328
For the first time in history, a young girl climbed a tree one day as a Princess and descended from it the following day as a Queen. The eye witness who stood guard to her in the forest was from Nainital, India - Jim Corbett.

Jim Corbett, legendary British hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist and Elizabeth's bodyguard at Treetops, signed the hotel's register "For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess, and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience, she climbed down from the tree the next day a Queen— God bless her." https://www.nonfictionminute.org/the-nonfiction-minute/the-princess-who-went-up-a-tree-and-came-down-a-queen

How the well-read C. N. Annadurai, former CM, came up with கடமை, கண்ணியம், கட்டுப்பாடு is interesting. Duty, Dignity and Discipline is used often in America and in Europe from 19th century onwards: https://groups.google.com/g/vallamai/c/Llbr2P_-fNo

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/opinions/queen-elizabeth-prophecy-opinion-column-galant/index.html
The nation was saddened by the king's death in February 1952, reported Clifton Daniel in the New York Times, but saw the rise of Elizabeth as a good sign: "It is a tradition that Britain prospers and grows great whenever a queen reigns," as it had under the first Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1603. Daniel, who later became managing editor of the Times and the son-in-law of former President Harry Truman, observed that the new queen "was carefully trained from the age of ten for her regal duties."

"She is a calm and happy young woman who has a capacity for fun and who in her official life displays a rigid sense of duty and discipline and an appreciation for the dignity of her high office," wrote Daniel. "As a result of long training and serious application to her job she almost invariably does the right thing -- as rightness is understood in this country."

It is very possible CNA read one of these and rendered it into Tamil to tell the party cadres. MGR popularized the tagline.

N. Ganesan

Swaminathan Sankaran

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Sep 22, 2022, 1:34:14 PM9/22/22
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Many people of my generation would recall Jim Corbett with pleasure,
especially for his books:

The Man Eaters of Kumaon
The man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag.
My India.

( Titles subject to correction after somebody checks with Wikipedia!)

Sankaran

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