2.Sachi Sri Kantha writes from Japan - The Indo-LTTE War (1987-90) - An Anthology. Part 11: The Maldives Coup-plot by the PLOTE Mercenaries

2.Tamil Separatism in Tamil Nadu is a Dead Issue - Or is it? - P.C.Vinoj Kumar, Tehelka "...The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) dropped its demand for a separate Dravida nation almost half a century ago, in 1963. However, growing protests in Tamil Nadu against Indian military assistance to Colombo in its war against the LTTE have resurrected separatist rhetoric in mainstream politics... what is little-known to most people is that several Tamil nationalist groups are quietly working at the grassroots level to ultimately realising an independent Tamil state... According to information available to TEHELKA, there are at least 10 such groups active in the state.... They have a presence in almost all parts of the state, though their total number is estimated to be not more than 10,000." more

"..தனிமனிதர்களின் அரசியல் இலாபத்திற்காக, மனித நேயமின்றி தமிழின அழிப்பை மேற்கொண்ட சிங்கள பேரினவாத ஆதிக்க சக்திகளுக்கெதிராக முப்பது ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக அகிம்சை வழியில் பேச்சு வார்த்தைகள் மூலமாக தீர்வுகாண முற்பட்டு தோற்றுபோன நிலையில், வேறுவழியேயின்றி ஆயுதமேந்தும் நிலைக்கு தமிழ் மக்கள் தள்ளப்பட்டார்கள்... வாருங்கள் என்னோடு; விடுதலைக்கானம் இசைக்கும் வன்னிக்காட்டுக்குச் செல்வோம்.." more

Secretary to Chief Minister of Eastern Tamil Province shot dead "Kumaraswami Nandagoban, Private Secretary cum advisor to the Chief Minister of the Tamil-speaking Eastern Province, was shot dead ...in the outskirts of Colombo.. Pillayan is opposed by the Karuna faction of the ruling Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP). Karuna, who is now a member of the Sri Lankan parliament thanks to nomination by the ruling United Peoples� Freedom Alliance (UPFA), has been a trenchant critic of Pillayan�s demand for more autonomy for the Eastern Province. The tacit support enjoyed by Pillayan from India, has also been an issue with Karuna." more

சேரனின் இராவணேசன்: நாட்டிய நாடகம் - பராசக்தி சுந்தரலிங்கம் சிட்னி இரசிகர்களுக்கு இராவணேசன் கண்ணுக்கும், காதுக்கும், கருத்துக்கும் நல்ல விருந்து. நடன நிகழ்வு சிறப்பாக அமைந்ததோடு, நல்லதொரு நோக்கக்கத்திற்காகவும் அமைந்ததென்பது திருப்தியைத் தருகிறது. சேரன் போன்ற இளையோர் சமூக நோக்குடன் பல படைப்புகளை வழங்கிவருவது நிறைவைத் தருகிறது. more

together with Comment by tamilnation.org There is much that we agree with in that which Dr. Uyangoda says. Said that there are some matters on which we disagree. Dr.Uyangoda is right to point out that 'majoritarianism is completed when the political representatives of the minorities accept, with happiness and even in intense competition with each other, the condition of inequality.' But we believe he is wrong when he says that 'ethnic majoritarianism is not necessarily coercive'. Rule by a permanent ethnic majority is coercive. It is rule directed to enforce the 'consent' of the ruled to alien rule. And resistance to such alien rule comes with a price tag. Freedom is never free. Unsurprisingly not everybody is willing to pay the price - in word and in deed. And the people of Tamil Eelam are no different to those of other nations. Every people has its share of opportunists, profiteers, freeloaders and escapists..." more

""They call you 'Little Man', 'Common Man'; they say a new era has begun, the 'Era of the Common Man'.... You let men in power assume power 'for the Little Man'. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded.... I have never heard you complain: 'You promote me to be the future master of myself and the world, but you don't tell me how one is to be the master of oneself, and you don't tell me the mistakes in my thinking and my actions'...Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your 'liberators' are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: Only you yourself can be your liberator!.. This sentence makes me hesitate. I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate, because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth... My intellect tells me: 'Tell the truth at any cost.' The Little Man in me says: 'It is stupid to expose oneself to the little man, to put oneself at his mercy. The Little Man does not want to hear the truth about himself... He wants to become rich, or a party leader, or commander of a legion, or secretary of the society for the abolition of vice. But he does not want to assume responsibility for his work... He does not want the great responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man...." Listen, Little Man - Wilhelm Reich, 1948

"..What is it that liberal elites are celebrating exactly?.. Many of the liberal elite are excited about Obama's victory today because of the more palatable manner in which he will forward the elite's agenda... I understand people feeling uplifted by Obama's historic election win... But I wonder: is there something wrong with me? Must I insist on seeing the massive structural injustices in Obama's agenda?.. Many people I talk to are impatient with this line of thinking. They think it is pessimistic. They think I'll die young if I keep thinking such negative thoughts. They think I should un-furrow my brow and revel in this great American moment. They think it's okay to believe in Obama. One person said something exactly like that: 'Oh let me feel happy about this. It feels so good to have someone to believe in'. But wait. It's not that I don't have someone to believe in. I do. I believe in the power of movements. I believe in all of us.".." more

2. Looking Under the Hood of an Obama Administration - Joshua Frank

"..While the election of Barack Obama is a blow to George W. Bush-Republicanism and a gain for racial equality in this country, it is in many ways only a symbolic victory... Celebrating the end of the ugly Bush era is one thing. Celebrating the continuation of their policies with a different administration in the White House is quite another... Obama's key White House position will go to Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois... Emanuel, who supports the War on Terror, and expanding our presence in Afghanistan, worked hard to ensure that a Democratic House majority would not alter the course of US military objectives in the Middle East...Obama seems to be moving backwards to Clintontime...For significant change to happen, the kind that is needed in order to mend the wounds of the Bush years, we have to put down our Obama signs and force Congress and the new administration to end the wars in the Middle East, and push for regulating the financial industry while providing true universal health-care and economic safety-nets for all Americans. .." more

"I see Obama less as a black man than as a successful negotiator of identity margins. His ability to inhabit so many categories mirrors the African experience. For America to choose as its citizen in chief such a skillful straddler of global identities could not help but transform the nation's image, making it once again the screen upon which the hopes and ambitions of the world are projected." - Francis Nyamnjoh, Cameroonian novelist and social scientist, 5 November 2008

" (Obama's) election rivaled the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the day 101 years later when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There's never been a moment like this in our lifetime, ever... Obama is the postmodern race man. He can wear it, he can take it off, he can put it back on. It's just an aspect of his identity. .. People don't see him primarily as black. I think people see him primarily as an agent of change." Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard scholar of African-American history

1. நீலாம்பரி, தமிழ்நாடு "ஈழத்தமிழா, கவலை கொள்ளாதே, இன்று இல்லை, நாளை இல்லை, என்றாவது ஒரு நாள் இந்திய அரசுக்கு உன் உதவி தேவைப்படும். ஆம் இந்திய துணைக் கண்டத்தில் இலங்கையை பாகிஸ்தானும் சீனாவும் கை கோர்க்கும் நாள் வெகு தொலைவில் இல்லை. ஈழத்தமிழனின் அருமை இந்திய அரசுக்கு அன்று தெரியும். "

2.Tamil Nadu Actor Ajith Fans Association on Tamil Eelam

Revisited: Mamanithar D.Sivaram on The Folly of Eelam Punditry , May 2003

�Today it is clear beyond all reasonable doubt that India and the US-UK-Japan Bloc are trying to influence and manage Sri Lanka's peace process to promote and consolidate their respective strategic and economic interests...We already hear fools (and there are many of the educated variety among Tamils) declaring that we should swallow our pride and yield to the dictates of the world's sole super power, that the US would bomb the Vanni back to the stone age if the LTTE does not toe the line... Any foreign force can have its way in a country only if its people are divided, politically obfuscated and are irredeemably sunk in political stupor. The creeping intellectual/political barrenness... should be stopped without further delay. LTTE officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums and, instead, make every endeavour to stir the people's reason, intellectual curiosity, their sense of community, their imagination and their intellectual fervour. This is the only way forward to decisively break the vicious circle of political obfuscation by which our people are deeply but blissfully afflicted today. .." more

not so strange bedfellows, after all...

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Simple Simon - Keeping it Simple... " 'Strategic Partnership' or 'Evolving Entente' or 'Will India always March to the beat of its Own Drummer'? '"...Last April (2007), at a two-day workshop at the Indian Defense Studies Analysis (IDSA), a New Delhi-based think tank, discussions took place on emerging U.S.-Indian strategic relations. One Indian analyst pointed out that although Indians are eager to obtain U.S. technology� Indians worry that at a crucial time they might not be supplied with replacement parts if the relationship goes bad again.... A senior Indian military official delivering a luncheon address to the conference cautioned that Indo-U.S. relations .. can be better described as an 'evolving entente,' and argued that given its size, location, and ambitions, India will always march to the beat of its own drummer..." Geostrategic Import of the Coming Bay of Bengal Naval Exercise - Ramtanu Maitra, Executive Intelligence Review, 27 July 2007

மத்திய அரசைக் காப்பதா? இலங்கைத் தமிழ் மக்களைக் காப்பதா? - Janasakthi, Indian Communist Party Official Daily, Editorial, 30 October 2008 - "DMK கட்சியின் கோரிக்கை அல்ல மக்களின் வேண்டுகோள்... கருணை உள்ளம் கொண்டு, கண்ணீர் வடிப்போருக்கு உதவிட முற்படுவதைக் குறைகூறுவதே ஒரு பெருங்குற்றமாகும். ஆனால், இதற்குள் அரசியல் கேள்விகள் அடங்கியுள்ளன... இப்போது நன்கொடை வசூல், தானம் உதவி என்று தமிழக முதல்வர் தொடங்கி யிருக்கிறார். இவை எப்படி அங்கு போய்ச் சேரும்? யார் இதை அவதிப்பட்ட மக்களுக்கு வழங்குவது? மத்திய அரசு, இலங்கைக்குத் தொடர்ந்து ராணுவ உதவி செய்வதால், இலங்கைத் தமிழ் மக்களைக் கொன்று குவிக்கத் துணை புரியும், டில்லியிடம் மன்றாட மக்கள் தயாராக இல்லை... மத்திய அரசைக் காப்பதா? இலங்கைத் தமிழ் மக்களைக் காப்பதா? என்பதை முதல்வரின் முடிவுக்கே விட்டுவிடலாம்.." more

Colombo skyline lights up with anti aircraft fire after Tigers attack power station - fireworks display?

"Increasingly, the Fourth World (of Nations without States) is emerging as a new force in international politics because in the common defense of their nations, many indigenous peoples do not accept being mere subjects of international law and state sovereignty and trusteeship bureaucracies. Instead, they are organizing and exerting their own participation and policies as sovereign peoples and nations....

...The Third World has declared a geographic war on the Fourth World. This global conflict is assisted by First and Second World states.." Bernard Q Nietschmann quoted in Fourth World - Nations without a State - Nadesan Satyendra

தமிழ் வழி ஆங்கிலம் - H.K.Arun, Hongkong "எமது இனம் வெறுமனே அறிவாளிகள் என்று கூறிக்கொள்வதை விட, அறிவாளிகள் மத்தியில் அறிவாளிகளாகத் திகழ வேண்டும்."

Pranab Mukherjee and M.Karunanidhi & Family Enjoying the 'Human Chain' Joke on 26 October 2008 - நகைச்சுவை நாடகம்?