Who Moved My Cheese?

The Closure of TamilNation.org

The caption for this article is borrowed from the current bestseller with the same title authored by Spencer Johnson M.D.

For those who don’t know about this book, it is a fable with four characters in it – two mice named “Sniff” and “Scurry” and two little people, the same size as the mice, named “Hem” and “Haw”. They lived in a maze, with the daily routine of looking for cheese for their sustenance. One day they found a bounty of cheese that would last a lifetime, at Cheese Station C. Now that they didn’t have to go looking for cheese every day, they settled down into a nice, comfortable routine.

One day when they arrived at Cheese Station C, they found all the cheese gone. The parable is about how the four characters dealt with the situation. Sniff and Scurry quickly moved on and succeeded, but Hem and Haw continued to hem and haw and failed.

We regret to report to our readers that TamilNation.org closed on 5 July 2001, after three spectacular years of presence in the worldwide web. With this closure our Cheese Station C too is gone.

For the seventy million Tamils scattered throughout the world, who found a growing togetherness in TamilNation.org, it was a sad day. The pleasure we derived from visiting this site is indescribable. The Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA wishes to thank Mr. Nadesan Satyendra who single-handedly gave us this delightful, breathtaking, superb, spectacular, brilliant… presence. We are grateful indeed for the pleasure while it lasted.

The parable “Who Moved My Cheese?” is about change. Change happens. The winners in the parable were the two mice who quickly moved with change, and moved on.