After a brief silence, poets filled the air with their poems in praise of Singapore and its leadership.

They were hoping against the hope that Singapore would rejoin Malaysia. Tamil newspapers seemed to have believed that the separation from the federation was a miscommunication between brothers and would be resolved in course of time. Like all others Tamil community too was stunned and scared. The country still remembers, the legendary press conference wherein Mr.Lee Kuan Yew, a person of strong will and resolute, tearfully explained the reality of independence before the television cameras.

It was a moment of anguish and uncertainty. вЂњThree major initiatives that transformed the lives of Tamils lives,вЂќ according to Dr.A.Veeramani, are вЂњhousing, education, and the rapid pace of economic growthвЂќ I would list the following are some of the major milestones of transformation:ДЄs said earlier, when the new Singapore Republic was born, there was no fanfare, fireworks, frolic or feasts. Their determined work brought in many changes in the lives of many Singaporeans and Singaporean Tamils are no exception. The founding team, вЂњEnglish educated colonial bourgeoisieвЂќ as Mr.Lee Kuan Yew would describe, got into action investing their vision and commitment coupled with their intelligence and hard work. There were pressing вЂbread and butterвЂ™ issues - stabilising economy with no natural resources except a deep seaport and no hinterland, sustaining development, creating jobs, building new habitats, ensuring education for all, and defending the new found sovereignty from colonialism and communism demanding priority. But the challenges ahead were not merely cultural. Shocked, but undeterred, the founding fathers of modern Singapore, saw an opportunity in the crisis, an opportunity to build their dream nation state, a multi-racial, multi- lingual, multi-religious, tolerant society. Unlike many countries in Asia that fought bitterly, bloody in some cases, with their colonial rulers for their independence, Singapore became Republic at an unexpected moment of history, like a вЂbolt from blueвЂ™ on August 9, 1965. Yet, Journey of Tamil writing in Singapore is like travelling in a moving train, in a broad daylight, presenting you with a variety of landscapes, people and their postures (and unlike wandering in MRTs that surge through underground tunnels).It chugged off slowly after an initial dilemma but soon found its way in the seventies, settled with its pace in eighties and picked a swift momentum from 90s.Д¬onsidering the enormity of the subject, I have restricted my study to the fiction and poetry (which form a big chunk of Singapore Tamil literature) written /published between 19.Illustraions in this paper are from the works of writers who have won coveted literary awards either in Singapore or abroad. Since Kudirai Pandhya Lavani (1893), a folk-styled poem on horse racing in Singapore that describes the street scenes lively, Tamil writing in Singapore is buzzing with the portrayal of social actualities.With Singapore becoming a country and was in making of a modern nation in mid-sixties, Singapore literati became sensitive to new realitiesД«eing minority among the four races in Singapore and a majority among the Indian community, Tamils enjoy a paradoxical position, but it hardly spills over into their writing. Д«ut the pride of any literature does not rest on just being a pioneer, but on being alive to social realities. H E Mr Ong Teng Cheong, then the President of Singapore, launched the anthology, Journey: Words, Home and Nation -Anthology of Singapore Poetry (1984-1995) in the Poemnet, in October 1995. Singapore has the credit as the first in the world to launch on the internet the Poemnet, an anthology of poems in all four national languages of Singapore. First anthology of Tamil short stories Navarasa Katha Manjari, was published from Singapore in 1930.

Singai Vartamani, first Tamil newspaper of the Malay Peninsula appeared in Singapore in 1875. Paton Government Printer, in Singapore in 1872. First poetry collection of the region in Tamil, Munajattut tirattu was printed at J. Over a century, Singapore has to its credit many firsts in the Tamil literary sphere. Long before Tamil writing arrives at todayвЂ™s postmodern landscape, creative migrant voices could be heard from Singapore. вЂThe sparrow though small has all five organsвЂ™, goes a Chinese adage and nothing could be truer than this for Tamil writing in Singapore. As expressed in their works on social progression in the post-independent Singapore

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