convoy near Coimbatore"! Apparently, some members of the Periyar
Dravida Kazhagam attacked a convoy of Indian Army trucks, ostensibly
since that convoy was carrying weapons to help the Sri Lankan Army in
its current engagement with the LTTE.
Tamil chauvinism is one thing, but attacking an army convoy returning
from a training exercise on the pretext of showing support for the
LTTE is downright stupid for a variety of reasons, especially since
this comes just before the elections. First of all, the LTTE is a
banned organization in India, and have carried out a terrorist attack
on Indian soil. Supporting the LTTE is nothing but abetting and
aiding terrorists, who are clearly inimical to the interests of India,
and some of these idiots of the Periyar Dravida Kazhagam have
rightfully been detained.
The mentality, however, is not going to disappear overnight. We are
becoming a nation deeply divided by two different thought processes.
One calls for an all encompassing unification and sees that as an
automatic and natural progression to a globally significant India, and
the other calls for a divisive, conservative, dangerously insular
India, where "interests" of every single figment of political ego has
a place and can potentially hold the rest of us to ransom.
In a second shocker, AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa, has said that if
her party joins the government in the upcoming post election period,
and if she has the numbers, she will send the Indian Army out to
"carve out" a separate Eelam in Sri Lanka.
We remember the Indian Army going to Sri Lanka as a peacekeeping force
to prevent exactly this agenda of the LTTE. What Indian government is
going to agree to send the same army out to fight on the "other" side
this time? I thought JJ was a woman with some intelligence, but she
wants to join the march of the morons, gaining strength as we come
towards elections.
The most reassuring factor for all of us, who still put our country
before our chauvinistic leanings, is the average Tamilian being
sufficiently selfish and smart enough to ignore all the problems of
Sri Lankan Tamils. They are quite sympathetic with the Sri Lankan
government for taking the steps to crush the last throes of the LTTE,
and really, are tired of this militant nonsense. No, they will tell
you, we don't bloody care if there is a separate Eelam or not!
Tamil people are well entrenched in every walk of life in India, and
they don't want Hindi imposed on them. Beyond that, they do watch
some Hindi cinema, and love MS Dhoni as the captain of their IPL team.
No chauvinism anywhere there. If Dhoni called for a hundred thousand
Tamil people to come out and shout so he can win the IPL for them,
they would! It does appear that MS Dhoni is more powerful than all
the clowns in the Tamilnadu political fray.
After the elections, none of these "passionate" political porcupines
will be anywhere above ground. The Sri Lankan Tamil population will
go into a process of rebuilding their lives in post LTTE Sri Lanka,
aided by their own government and facing their own problems. Not ONE
politician from India will give as much as a rat's posterior about
them. Indians will go back to where we are best at - our own selfish,
coccooned lives, and it we won't care a rat's posterior about who's
come to power.
Such is India.
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