THOUGHT NOTES

2008-03-25T03:31:00.001Z

Any further posts in this blog will be notified in my currently active blog suhasinirocks.blogspot.com

2008-03-06T22:31:00.001Z

News of racist murder not reported in British journals but from the deccan.com: (Click on the link below)

Man dies to protect teen son

London, March 6: A 50- year-old man of Pakistani origin was stabbed to death in a suburban park in Lancashire in UK as he tried to protect his teenage son from a gang of bullies, police said . Mohammed Raja Shafiq was beaten across the back of the head with an iron bar and then stabbed in the stomach on Tuesday.

Lancashire police has referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission after it emerged that they had been called by Shafiq before he went to help his son. When he arrived at the park in 15 minutes, the police were not present. A spokesman admitted that there had been “some concern” about the force’s failure to react. Shafiq was set upon after being called to Thompson Park by his son, Umar.

2008-03-04T03:02:00.002Z

Temple priests arrested for attacking police and preventing worship in Tamil:

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Unholy mess: Overzealous priests beat up policemen

2008-03-01T20:07:00.002Z

My heart-felt apologies for the publishing error in this post which made the letters look haphazard previously!

Birthday wishes and heartfelt greetings to "Thalapathy" M. K. Stalin - DMK Youth Wing Leader and Minister of Local Administrations in the Government of Tamil Nadu

2008-02-28T15:09:00.007Z

Click on the links below for news reports on war crimes in Palestine and Sri Lanka:

Four Palestinian children killed in IAF strike in northern Gaza By Yuval Azoulay and Avi Issascharof, Haaretz Correspondents and The Associated Press

8 civilians killed in SLA DPU attacks in Vanni

2008-02-26T17:35:00.003Z

War Crime: Tamil Civilian killings by the Sri Lankan army in Sri Lanka: (I am sorry this link was accidentally deleted due to my typographic oversight after it was posted earlier)

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8 civilians killed in SLAF bombardment in Poonakari, children among victims

2008-02-23T00:09:00.001Z

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Tiger rebels say Sri Lanka jets kill 8 civilians

2008-02-21T20:33:00.007Z

Condemning the bigotry of Shiv Sena, Bala Saheb and his ilk (or should I say "kin")?

My condemnation of Bal Thackery and his ilk for their opposition for the Indian Dravidian Bahujan and Dalit peoples' harvest and sun worship festival of "Chhat" pooja which is nothing but the variant of Pongal festival celebrated by Tamil speaking Indian Dravidian Bahujans and Dalits. Bal Thackeray, who was implicated with complicity in the anti-Muslim genocidal pogrom of 1992 by the Sri Krishna commission but enjoying impunity due to the inequity and corruption of the Indian political and judicial system, is warned not to drag Chennai and Tamils into his bigoted tirade against Indian Dravidian Bahujans and Dalits of North India! Chennai will be very proud to host Chhat festival and Lalu Yadav because it is a Indian Dravidian festival and NOT a Sanathanist Aryan festival like Diwali! I also condemn the hapless migrant workers from being made into a political pawn in the ethnic identity politics of Maharashtra! I support the legitimate claims for Marathi speaking Bahujans and Dalit peoples stake in employment opportunities in Mumbai, but it should come through a system of political discourse and legislative avenues giving for priority and affirmative action in employment to native residents of the state and not by violence against migrant workers and their fundamental rights as Indian citizens to work any where in India!

Let Balasaheb first oppose the evil and wily Chithbavan Brahmans and the RSS if he is a real self-respecting Maratha and an Indian Dravidian. He is just a Sanathanist Brahman Hindu fascist appeaser and mass murderer!

2008-02-16T15:42:00.000Z

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Activist couples' daughter goes missing:

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=23763

2008-02-16T11:12:00.003Z

Comment and analysis on prison deaths in Britain:

When I psychologically commented on the reasons for prisoners to possibly lose their minds in British prisons is the inhumane, psychologically oppressive and highly sinister design of British prison cells that leaves no room for fresh light and air through rilled front doors unlike their Indian and American counterparts, I was not saying that the recent spate of deaths at the Chelmsford prison or for that matter the very high rate of prisoners being killed in British prisons were all due to suicide, and I stand by my stand that most prison deaths in Britain are indeed killings fabricated as suicide by an indifferent and conniving establishment. Even the killing of Zahed Mubarek would have been passed off as suicide but for the fact that he shared a cell with another person! And the fact that the British media is yet to carry a report on the high spate of prisoners being found killed in Chelmsford prison (five in the past nine months) and the deaths customorily attributed to suicide by a rubber stamping medical and coroner establishment, shows how the lack of shame and prejudice is an enduringly entrenched phenomena in the incorrigibly racist British media establishment.

2008-02-16T02:19:00.005Z

My condemnation of Dr. Rama Doss for criticizing the DMK government on flimsy grounds:

Corrected Version 1

Clarification: My previous blog on Dr. Ramadoss titled "Throwing stones from glass houses" condemns Dr. Rama Doss for his unnecessary and unwarranted critique of the DMK Government on flimsy grounds of "police - criminal" nexus, and the anology of the "polluted Coovam river" was given to show that the police-criminal nexus is a socio-legal, systematic and institutional issue that existed from time immemorial due to a colonial police system which HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DMK GOVERNMENT! I am re-issuing this clarification because DMK supporters who are not used to my euphemism and anology laden writing in English should not misunderstand my previous blog!

2008-02-15T15:32:00.005Z

Correction and apologies: I had incorrectly failed to mention the exact number of one million signatures of Indian citizens obtained in a petition calling for Government of India to end military help to the Government of Sri Lanka that was mobilised by the Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam, and I incorrectly typed the numerals 100,000 that falsely implied that the number of signatures were just a hundred thousand! The inadvertent error is corrected herewith and I tender my apologies for my typographical over-sight!

2008-02-15T14:41:00.007Z

Corrected Version 3

Throwing stones from glass houses!

I state the following commentary with all due respect to Dr. Rama Doss as an individual and leader, and in the interest of addressing impunity from a platform of bipartisan human rights!

Won't a day pass peacefully for Dr. Rama Doss without partisan picking on the DMK Government on flimsy grounds?? His latest revelation and accusation aginst the DMK Government that there is a nexus between police and gangsters is like telling that the Coovam River is badly polluted because of the DMK Government which everybody knows exists from time immemorial! The fact is that the nexus between police and criminals exists to varying levels in all nations and in India it is more due to the colonial and un-reformed oppressive police system which has not been converted into a people friendly community policing system! And the police - criminal nexus is a socio-legal issue that has existed at all times irrespective of the party in power and Dr. Rama Doss should be clearly deluded to attribute it to the DMK! He will not be talking like this today if he and all of his party functionaries were arrested, imprisoned and prosecuted for the pillaging, raping, arson and murder they let loose on more than 500 Dalit villagers across the Chidambaram parliamentary constituency on parliament election day of 1999 in order to prevent Dalits from voting, (about which the Dalit Panthers Party is very silent today because the latter is not interested in addressing the issue of impunity for atrocities against Dalits any more with their new found love for the fake (but not true) Tamil nationalism of anti-Dalit caste bigots of varying hues and shades in India!!) The DMK is paying the price today (in terms of Dr. Rama Doss turning inimical towards the DMK) for illegally showing impunity to criminal elements of the PMK who unleashed the aforesaid atrocity in 1999, and the DMK administration in 1999 (and not today) should be equally faulted for treating PMK with kid-gloves and impunity for PMK cadres' unleashing the afore-described barbaric arson, violence, murder and sexual attacks across hundreds of Dalit villages across Chidambaram parliamentary constituency on the election day of 1999! Since the PMK party grew out of criminal indulgence in violence, and expects to be treated with impunity for the past atrocities they unleashed on an organised and huge scale against Dalits, they have no locus standi to wax and vane about any criminal behaviour condoned by state authorities! Let Dr. Rama Doss first tender an apology for the barbaric and organised pogrom his party-men unleashed on Dalits across Dalit villages of the Chidambaram constituency on parliament election day of 1999 and also hand over the culprits for prosecution, and then lecture his next word on issues related to crime and law & order! I request this from him with all respect to him as an individual and a leader, and in the interest of bipartisan human rights!

2008-02-15T14:01:00.003Z

Lack of culture and popular hate towards other cultures:

I never understood the debate on "multi-culturalism" in the UK. In any free and democratic country individuals and peoples should have the freedom to follow their own religious, cultural or ethnic values, dressing, marital and life choices and life style, and I never understood why the Government and media should even step in to debate this fundamental right unless they want to bully and brow-beat ethnic minority peoples and use the latter as fodder for their racist politics! When it is illegal to even debate the negatives of alternative sexual life styles like homosexuality because it could be construed as a crime, why is there a need for discussing inane cultural choices on dress, religion and marriage (some thing I never saw even in urban middle class USA where community journals would proudly display couples who had an aranged marriage from India instead of hatefully deriding their blissful marital life-style and choices like it happens in the shockingly open racism of British media!! This is may be because the land based culture of native English peoples was destroyed and the indigenous English converted into culture-less and tradition-less zombie workers for industrial and colonial capitalist cliques a few centuries ago, and are hence anti-pathic to any peoples who have a cultural and ethical component in their every day lives!! The problem with the English masses is not secularism, but they have been made to forget their real land based traditions, religion and cultural roots and hence have been taught to hate those of others by a racist media!

2008-02-15T04:16:00.002Z

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Judges condemn police lies after 9/11 attacks that ruined pilot's life

2008-02-15T01:37:00.003Z

Psychological oppression:

One of the reasons for prisoners to possibly lose their minds in British remand prisons is the inhumane, psychologically oppressive and highly sinister design of British cells that is completely covered up by walls on all sides apart from the behaviour of the members of the prison system itself, while Indian prison cells have all open but highly secure front doors with steel rods (a practice even in the United States) that allows free and fresh air and a sense of contact with the smell and sounds of outside world, which also allows conversations with other staff and prisoners! The British ruling classes are specialists in sly and sinister psychological oppression unlike the open and honest variety in other parts of the World! Even some of the claustrophobic architectural designs of council houses are aimed at causing depression and psychological illnesses in the minds of the mostly poor and coloured peoples who live in those houses in order to secure their marginalisation! And I have not even started to write about the judgmental, cultural and racist prejudice in the British psychiatric system compared with that of USA or any other part of the World, and my dissertative analysis of the industrial capitalist systems' need to modulate, label and control human thought and behaviour that impinges' on the capitalists' (or socialist states') material exigencies while the lack of a similar exigency in the semi-Bohemian and ruralist India enables the tolerance for a wide variety of human thought, mood, behaviour and personalities, (unlike the behavioural fundamentalism of psycho-social and behavioural norms in the West, as I have seen particularly in the UK), which believes in labelling every possible manifestation of human thought, mood and behaviour from the perspective of controlling and “managing” human societal and psycho-social behaviour from the perspective of preventing losses to the material factors of the state, as manifested in the para-legal system of human behavioural management called "psychiatry", the sinister aspects of which finds rapid expression in a quasi-totalitarian nanny state such as the UK than in the USA or even India!

2008-02-14T00:49:00.002Z

Corruption amongst British politicians:

The reports that most British elected legislators and politicians "employ" most members of their families in cushy jobs at the expense of the tax payer for jobs they mostly do not do, may have surprised those outside Britain who deludedly associate white skin with lack of corruption!

2008-02-14T00:44:00.002Z

Mainstream British media and its in shameless indfference (and condoning of) custodial killings (or "deaths") in British prisons (something even the Sanathanist Indian media will never do!!

The fact that the death in remand prison custody of Tamil teenager Vinith Kannadasan and also the fact that the issue of five prisoners dying within the span of nine months in Chelmsford prison has not been reported by any of the mainstream broad sheets and also the BBC, shows the inherently shameless racist and prejudiced priorities of British media which places more emphasis on sensationalism !

2008-02-14T00:33:00.003Z

Friend and her testimony:

I spoke to the girl-friend of the Tamil teenager who was found killed (allegedly by suicide) as a remand prisoner in Chelmsford prison the day before yesterday, and she revealed that DNA evidence and other evidence had put a huge question mark on the allegations made against her boy friend who was accused of "molestation" (or a similar crime), and that he was most probably innocent of the charges levelled against him, and that she spoke to him just two days ago and found him very optimistic and happy about being acquitted! She does not believe that he was in the frame of mind of some one who would kill himself!

2008-02-13T19:04:00.003Z

Indian prisons are safer than that of British prisons:

And to compare prison deaths in Chennai, India and the highly frequent killings of prisoners in British prisons allegedly and falsely attributed to suicide, I was wrong to have said that there were no custodial prisoner deaths in Chennai central prison in the past "five years" because the truth is that there HAS NEVER BEEN A DEATH IN CHENNAI CENTRAL PRISON OF ANY REMAND PRISONER OR PRISONER SERVING A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE. Most reports of custodial deaths in India arises from police precincts of the still un-reformed colonial police system where police officials indulge in the colonially condoned method of torture, and not in prisons! This does not include incidents of prison riots that may happen in some Indian prisons!

2008-02-13T18:37:00.010Z

The Acute Need For Shame In The Racist British Media:

The "popular" and broad-sheet British media's shameless silence over Chelmsford prison where five inmates have been killed (allegedly by suicide) within the last nine months shows the inherent institutional racism in British media establishment when the same media do not waste a second to rile against pigmented peoples coming to the shores of the UK or for their conservative sexual and reproductive choices because the latter people do not follow the shallow, self-destructive and callow attitudes towards sexual mores advocated by the popular Xenophobic media in the name of "assimilation"! In all probability I have to say that torture, and racist torture or racist murder without torture - of remand prisoners and prison inmates may indeed happen in British prisons, and the torture victims are possibly killed and their deaths fabricated as suicide by the culprits in uniform to escape Justice. Otherwise, there is no reason why 5 people would die in a strange and slow way of "strangulating" themselves (which is grossly misrepresented in the British media as "hanging"), in the same prison within 9 months, and three of them within the last two months!!

With the kind of psycho-social and institutional racist attitudes in Britain there is no need for a separate KKK movement! For example, British television recently featured a comedian called Roy Chubby Brown who specialises in telling very demeaning and dehumanising "Paki" jokes to his shamelessly bigoted audience who "cheer" it, and I am sure this man would be arrested if he peddled his wares in the USA, or if he had indulged in similar racist humour against Jewish peoples in the UK itself!

2008-02-13T15:19:00.016Z

Killing of a teenaged Tamil inmate (Vinith Kannadasan) in a British prison and the shamefully high rate of custodial deaths in Chelmsford prison that boasts of five killings in nine months (when the Chennai prison in India has none for the past five or more years)!! So much for human rights standards of a "developed" nation vis-a-vis a "developing" nation:

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Fifth prisoner found dead in nine months

Prison service criticised over racist murder

I was very upset by the "alleged" suicide of a young British raised Lankan Tamil teenager and a former chemists employee - in a remand prison cell yesterday (who was also the only son of my next door neighbour and a very loving Tamil woman), who was arrested by the police just a month ago on "allegations" of "molesting" another young Tamil woman in the streets of East Ham, but remained in remand without bail! I have every reason to suspect he could have been killed in prison and it is the "third" such custodial death in the Chelmsford prison since Christmas day (and the fifth in nine months) which is a high rate of custodial killing in a prison facility for a so called "developed" nation with human rights law and is much shamefully violative of human rights standards seen even in third world custodial conditions!! (For example, there are absolutely "no" suicides or killings (not a single one) in the Chennai remand prison or the central prison of Tamil Nadu for the past five years or more!! And the British media and police usually state that the prisoners "hung" themselves when there is no way one can do it in the kind of prison cell one sees in Britain! The usual suicidal person with a suicidal instinct to die in a split second is unlikely to slowly strangle and suffocate himself to death in a planned and slow manner as claimed by the clichéd explanation usually doled out by the British police and the media whenever someone is found dead in a prison cell, and this incredible description of a slow and self-inflicted strangulation is usually based on a clichéd claim that the "bed linen" was "ripped" off and used to pull the neck against a noose in a "sitting" position (because there is no way one can "hang" from a very high and rudderless ceiling in a British prison cell)!! The British media, police and prison services are quite shameless to have a prison in Britain that boasts of five deaths in a span of few months while the British foreign minister lectures the USA on Guantanamo Bay prisoners and fair trial! In my opinion, no one can beat the snobbish, stiff, pretentious and high brow British media and institutional establishment for their very sinister and unique form of racist and self-righteous hypocrisy!! I suspect that Vinith Kannadasan was probably killed and I was particularly upset by his death because he was my neighbour's son and I had spoken to him just a month ago!! He was also innocent of the charges levelled against him in all probability because he was just ending his job at his work-place when the alleged molestation of the young woman occurred (and the woman herself reportedly asserted that she did not "see the face" of her attacker!) The prison police officer told with no remorse that there are "no counsellors" employed at the prison service on call for prisoners to talk to while feeling distressed, and even the "single" prison psychiatrist is usually not available and cannot cater to the hundreds of prisoners at the Chelmsford prison!! My Indian readers will be surprised to know about the high number of custodial killings (and also reports of rape) in British prisons and some of these deaths are fabricated as "suicide", and many of these killings of Asian prison inmates are racially motivated as the killing of Zahed Mubarak in 2000.

Here is a news report on the death (or killing) of Vinith Kannadasan in a British prison yesterday morning (and the link can be clicked on):

Fifth prisoner found dead in nine months

THERE were calls for an investigation last night after a fifth inmate was found dead in an Essex prison. Vinith Kannathasan was found hanging in his cell at Chelmsford Prison just after 5am yesterday. Paramedics were called but the 18-year-old was pronounced dead at 5.20am. The teenager was the third prisoner to die at the jail since Christmas Day and the fifth to apparently commit suicide in the past nine months. The average number of deaths at the prison, which holds nearly 700 inmates, has been one each year and the sharp rise in deaths has led to calls for action. Simon Burns, MP for West Chelmsford, said even though more was being done to counsel and support vulnerable prisoners, the help did not seem to be working. He said: “Following my debate in the House of Commons, last Monday ,I had hoped that more was being done at Chelmsford Prison to reduce the likelihood of suicides and these two suicides in the last five weeks are deeply distressing and of grave concern.“I have been in touch with the responsible Minister, Maria Eagle MP, at the Ministry of Justice, and I will be having an urgent meeting with her next week to discuss the problem and what steps can be taken, as a matter of urgency, to try and reduce these tragedies.”Across the UK, there were 67 suicides by people in custody in 2006 but last year that figure rose to 92.Last month James Sullivan, 23, seemingly took his own life at Chelmsford. And last year Stewart Kight, 38, Simon Gregory, 36, and 18-year-old Sudanese national Joker Idris were all found dead. Prison governor Rob Davis told the EADT last month he took every death in custody at Chelmsford Prison “extremely seriously.” He said: “As with all prisons, there are a high proportion of very vulnerable individuals in the prison and staff continue to make strenuous efforts in this vital area of work in dealing with a challenging prison population.“Many more lives are saved than lost, thanks to good care and support from staff.“I remain committed to the support of vulnerable prisoners and will continue to work with my staff to prevent such tragic incidents.”A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Chelmsford prisoner Vinith Kannathasan was found hanging in his cell at 5.05am on Tuesday February 12. “Paramedics were called but he was pronounced him dead at 5.20am.“Our sympathies are with the family of Mr Kannathasan at this time. As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation".

Clarification:

I cannot assume or deny motives for the recent attack I suffered from some young Lankan Tamil staff members of a shop called "Seelan's" and I cannot pre-judge or deny that it was politically influenced and I did not intend to make or deny such an assumption, and I can only speculate on the reasons. The attack may have very well been a result of emotionally volatile and culturally prejudiced behaviour of young Tamil refugee men scarred of having lived in a conflict prone violence, which can be found in some refugee individuals of all races and ethnicities from conflict zones, or it could have been one of the reasons I speculated on in previous blogs but one may never know the true motive, given the fact my attackers were not arrested but I was prejudicially arrested by the police on expedient and prejudiced charges of assault when I was in fact provoked and shoved by a bunch of men to act in self-defence! I am stating this despite the possible charge and prosecution I may still face on the prejudiced charge of "common assault" slapped on me despite acting in self-defence! My identification of the ethnicity of my attackers and my subsequent socio-psychological critique of Eelam Tamil expatriate condition was not based on prejudice towards Eelam Tamils but only based on my interest in Eelam Tamil welfare by giving a constructive feed-back towards their expatriate conditions (aspects of which I may loathe in the interests of Eelam Tamil welfare and development but I have no hatred for any peoples whether they are Eelam Tamil or non-Tamil), and such a constructive critical social commentary does not affect my interest in bipartisan advocacy for the human rights, humanitarian rights, and conceptual but unequivocal bipartisan support for the armed and civilian struggle for the right to self-determination of Eelam Tamils in their nationally independent self-ruled homeland.

2008-02-13T14:47:00.002Z

I condemn the surveillance on Chirugaru:

I condemn the surveillance on Chirugaru by the Congress led Andhra Pradesh Government which is against all democratic norms and civil liberties and I condemn this anti-democratic and dictatorial measure of the YSR Government! And I feel that the recent opinion poll that was "engineered" to show that YSR is more popular than Chirugaru is a fabrication! Congress party in Andhra Pradesh is scared to its very bones about the political entry of Chirugaru, and hence I request the Mega star not to be intimidated by such cunning and totalitarian tactics! All his fans are totally behind him!!

2008-02-10T15:10:00.000Z

My best wishes for Dr. Kalaignar:

I wish Dr. Kalaignar a speedy recovery from his indisposition and wish him unending years of service for the ultimate liberation of the Indian Dravidian people in great health and vigour! The first thing I would want to do if and when I come down to India would be to meet him and embrace him, because he is my "Aasan" and inspiration politically, creatively, cinematically and literarily, and as a writer - leader, who leads through his ideas, writings and thoughts! I wish him a speedy recovery and I want to let him know that I love him! I wish he sends me his thoughts of support for my projects and vision to take my people further down the road of modernity, human rights, social equality and liberation from all forms of oppression! I wish he calls me or sends me an email! He will always be a man whom I respect as my inspiration and paternal figure, in my socio-political and creative evolution as a being!

2008-02-10T05:00:00.000Z

Swayam Krushi and the Eye:

I am sorry for the paucity in blogging because I am increasingly focusing and contemplating on issues concerning my personal welfare, financial, creative and career objectives.

News Reports state that Megastar Chiranjeevi would be starting a political party by the name of "Swayam Krushi" with the electoral symbol of the "eye", and if this report is true, I wish him all the best and submit my heart felt sincere greetings to him for unending years in the service of the Indian Dravidian people to further the latter's social and economic equality and human rights!!

Here are some news web links to Chiranjeevi related recent news that can be clicked on!!

Andhra News : Chiru and brothers under surveillance

Swayamkrushi is Chiranjeevi’s party

2008-02-09T19:07:00.001Z

Click on the link below from "Malayala Manorama":

Baba Amte Dead.

2008-02-09T10:18:00.001Z

Note: I stand by my recent comments regarding the oppressive experience I recently had with goons from a Lankan Tamil shop in East Ham called "Seelan's" who attacked me and then framed me to get me maliciously arrested even though I acted in self defence. I will keep the readers informed as developments in the case unfolds, since I am out on bail still facing a possible charge and prosecution.

2008-02-08T19:15:00.000Z

Rowan Williams and Muslim Civil Law in Britain:

I think what the Archbishop of Canterbury meant was to allow Muslims to practice their religion based civil law on marriage and inheritance matters, which the British always did when they ruled over Muslims in India, and a similar practice of Jewish civil law exists in Britain, and I fail to understand what this hullabaloo is all about, given the fact most of British law has medieval church origins.

2008-02-07T23:21:00.001Z

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Antony urged to end military support to Lanka

News Photo:

PDK party leaders "Viduthalai" Rajendran and "Kolathur" Mani meet the Union Minister of Defence and submit a memorandum signed by 1,000,000 (one million) signatures of Indian citizens calling for an end to the Government of India's military help to the Sri Lankan Government.

2008-02-07T23:20:00.000Z

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SFI volunteers take out procession

2008-02-07T22:58:00.000Z

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Forward Bloc calls for WB bandh

5 Forward Bloc men killed in firing

W Bengal crippled by Forward Bloc bandh

2008-02-07T05:23:00.001Z

Corrected Version 4 (The profuse typographical errors in the previous versions are regretted!!)

Political Pimps:

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Why Godse killed Gandhi
By Kanchan Gupta

The right wing RSS sympathising columnist Mr. Kanchan Gupta has condoned Mahatma Gandhi's murder in a dastardly misuse of freedom of speech and also implores readers to read books that justify Gandhi's assassination, in the column excerpted above!! In the spirit of freedom of speech, this Sanathanist columnist's advocacy to justify and condone the assassination of the father of the nation and his call to sympathise with the Mahatma's murderers should be tolerated! But it has to be pointed out that none of the inhumane, hypocritical and anti-Tamil swine in the Tamil Nadu Congress party such as Gnana Sekaran, Krishnasamy, Peter Alphonse, EVKS. Elangovan, et.al., who cry foul and seek to criminalise freedom of speech by calling for the arrest of anyone who speaks out for the legitimacy of the human rights and armed struggle of Eelam Tamils, is going to ask for the arrest of the likes of Kanchan Gupta for justifying Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and seeking sympathy for his assassins, while they selectively rile against the likes of Thiruma Valavan when the latter criticized the expedient misuse of Rajiv Gandhi' assassination to thwart freedom of speech and advocacy for Eelam struggle and human rights! And it has to be pointed out that the likes of Kanchan Gupta are not uncommon and one can find many such opinion and advocacy justifying Mahatma Gandhi's murder and glorification of the Mahatma's Hindu fascist Sanathanist assassins, even to the extent of enacting a stage play glorifying Nathuram Godse, but curiously the likes of hypocritical imbeciles such as Gnana Sekaran, Krishna Samy, EVKS. Elangavon, etc., keep their mouth shut and appease such brazen misuse of freedom of speech that justifies the assassination of the very father of the nation and glorifies his killers, when their appeasing lap-dog mentality works over-time to oppress simple freedom of speech in support of Eelam Tamil struggle and human rights, and to brazenly even threaten the dismissal of the DMK Government on the latter account?!! Why are they quiet when the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the very father of the nation and the Congress party, is justified and condoned in the name of freedom of speech?? The answer is simple and is as follows: there is no money or power to be gained by opposing those who justify and glorify the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, while by working overtime to show their anti-Tamil credentials by oppressing freedom of speech advocating Eelam struggle and human rights, these "Tamil" politicians of the Congress party in Tamil Nadu hope to wallow in power, wealth and patronage of their "Delhi" masters!! These unscrupulous political pimps of the Congress Party who betray even the father of the nation should be chucked out of Tamil Nadu state - lock, stock and barrel!!

No prizes for guessing what will happen if someone writes or speaks justifying the assassination of Rajeev Gandhi and glorifying his assassins just as the aforesaid columnist who had justified the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and glorified his assassins! In India, one can justify the murder of the father of the nation and glorify his assassins, in the name of freedom of speech, but not of anyone else in the name of political analysis!! Mind you, I am not justifying the assassination or assassins of Rajeev Gandhi, but pointing out the double standards that are applied with regards to freedom of speech!

2008-02-07T04:58:00.000Z

Racist barring of Indian and Commonwealth doctors from the NHS:

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From "The Times": NHS closes its doors to foreign doctors

The news headline is deceptive and misleading because the NHS does not close its doors to all foreign doctors, but only to non-white, non-Australian and non-EU doctors with pigmented skin from commonwealth countries such as India. The factor of preserving training posts for British doctors that is cited as a reason for this measure is a lame and invalid excuse, because the deluge of job applications from EU doctors and doctors from new EU nations from Eastern Europe will not be blocked by this measure, thus exposing the selectively racist premise of this measure!! If foreign doctors are to be barred from NHS training jobs to preserve the latter for British doctors, why only block commonwealth doctors from the NHS but not EU and Aussie doctors who need not even take the qualifying exams such as PLAB? This is simply a racist measure against Commonwealth doctors and the Governments of Commonwealth nations such as India should protest this measure with reciprocal measures against British commercial and trade interests! And the non-application of qualifying and licensure exams such as PLAB and English languuage tests on EU trained doctors (and particularly Eastern European EU doctors) while Commonwealth doctors are subjected to such stringent tests, is another example of such racist double standards!

2008-02-06T23:53:00.001Z

Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam party volunteers conduct a massive rally and demonstration in front of the Parliament of India protesting against the Government of India's military help to the Sri Lankan Government that has been unleashing disappearances, pogroms, atrocities and crimes against humanity against the Tamil populace using its military!!

2008-02-06T04:25:00.000Z

Click on the link below:

British Tamils mark Sri Lanka's '60 years of Oppression'

2008-02-06T04:22:00.000Z

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My fundamental nature:

People who have read my freewheeling, advocating and analytical opinion on various socio-political issues should not think I am some kind of a member of any political or ideological movement. Just like some people are hooked to video games, I am hooked to the hobby of blogging and writing on various issues, and issues related to politics and movies interests me most. I do not subscribe to any particular school of ideology but I am essentially a libertarian social democrat and draw on the ideas of Indian social thinkers Periyar and Ambedkar, and I am very interested in the welfare and liberation of Indian Dravidian peoples from the fraudulent construct of the Hindu label and Hindu law that divides them into various hierarchical castes and negates their independent Dravidian religious identities while fooling them into accepting this division and oppression by imposing the Hindu label on both the non-Sanathanist Indian Dravidians and (Vedic - Upanishadic) Sanathanist ("twice born") religionists (Brahmans, Kshatriyas and Vysya - Baniyas) when in theological and legal reality based on Hindu law all Indian Dravidian Bahujans (the so called "Shudras" or Backward Classes) Dalits and indigenous peoples are explicitly, theologically and legally banned from scriptural and sacramental membership of the racio-exclusivist (Vedic and Upanishadic) Sanathanist religion, while Sanathanists negate and co-opt the non-Sanathanist religious identities of Indian Dravidians through the blanket "Hindu" label and also monopolise priesthood in Dravidian religion temples in order to make the Indian Dravidians accept the divide and rule caste system unquestioningly by making them believe the lie that they share a theological religion with the Sanathanists when the legal and theological position is that they do not. Hence the need to abrogate the Hindu law and Hindu label (which is applied on "one and all" except Muslims, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, even though Indian Dravidians amongst these "one and all" are explicitly banned from scriptural and sacramental membership in the Sanatanist religion legally codified as Hinduism), and ban the term Hinduism, and give legal recognition to non-Sanathanist religions independent of the "Hindu label" (such as Saivism, various Dravidian rural, indigenous and folk schools of religions of Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples, Lingayatism, Dravidian Vaisnavism, Buddhism Sikhism, Jainism, Ayya Pathism, Madura Veeranism, Mei Vazhi religion), or any other rural, folk and indigenous codified or non-codified religion of non-Sanathanist Indian Dravidian Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples). Affirmative action for Bahujans (BCs), Dalits and indigenous peoples should be idependent of their religious belief and should be certainly independent of the "Hindu" label. My LLM dissertation on this subject which was written in 2004, can be accessed by clicking on the following web link, and may be a bit dated, given the refinement I have made on this subject since. http://iniyan.blogspot.com/2004_08_29_archive.html#109414611939698933

2008-02-06T02:14:00.000Z

Click on the link from "The Hindu" below:

Probe into Patan college gang rape
Manas Dasgupta

2008-02-05T03:49:00.000Z

Scenes of civil society advocacy of expatriate Eelam Tamils for Tamil Human Rights and Nationhood in Sri Lanka: Sweden, South Africa and Norway. Photos courtesy of www.puthinam.com

2008-02-04T19:02:00.000Z

My Unsolicited Opinion To Chirugaru: Former President Abdul Kalam is a closet BJP worhsipping Hindu fascist, appeaser of Sanathanist Brahman "twice born" racists of the RSS, and a namesake Muslim, and hence his advice will be against the interests of Indian Dravidian non-Sanathanist (and non-Brahman) Bahujans (BCs), Dalits and indigenous peoples. Hence do not heed anything he told you in the meeting you had with him last friday. This is my humble advice in the interests of Telegu speaking non-Sanathanist (non-Hindu) Indian Dravidian Bahujan (BC), Dalit and indigenous peoples.

2008-02-04T15:21:00.000Z

News Reports regarding Chirugaru's impending political foray:

Click on the web links below:

Fan ends life over Chiranjeevi’s indecision

BCs will support Chiranjeevi, on one condition

2008-02-04T14:32:00.000Z

My condemnation:

I unequivocally condemn the attack on Congress party functionary Jogiah's house just because he had praised Megastar Chiranjeevi and supported his entry into political activism! Chief Minister Raja Sekhar Reddy should take full responsibility for this dastardly attack on Jogiah's house and offer an apology (just as Chrugaru did when actor Rajasekar was allegedly attacked) and the Congress workers who indulged in the attack should be arrested and prosecuted properly (when the alleged attackers of Raja Sekar unilaterally and magnanimously surrendered to the police)!! If Chief Minister Raja Sekar Reddy does not act against the attackers of Jogiah by arresting and prosecuting them and also by tendering an apology to Mr. Jogiah, he would have shown that in fact it was he who was behind this attack on Jogiahgaru!

Click on the "Asian Age" link below:

Cong men attack Jogaiah’s house

Hyderabad, Feb. 3: Senior Congress leader V. Harirama Jogaiah’s Madhapur residence was attacked by a group of Congress workers on Sunday. Mr Jogaiah alleged that the attack was staged at the behest of the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. The MP, who has earned the ire of Dr Reddy’s loyalists for frequently praising the film actor Chiranjeevi who expects to launch a political party, and criticising the Chief Minister, said the assault was led by followers of the City Congress president, Mr D. Nagender.

2008-02-03T03:17:00.000Z

Scenes from the struggle of Dalit human rights:

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News report from Getty Images (not my writing):

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Activists from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) party shout anti government and anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slogans during a demonstration in New Delhi, on 03 September 2005, held to protest against an attack on Dalits in the northern state of Haryana. Some 50 Dalit homes had been burnt in the village of Gohana late 31 August, allegedly by the son of local area BJP leader after the killing of a youth in the area sparked tensions. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)

2008-02-03T02:05:00.000Z

Aussie racist louts throw egg at Muralitharan:

Aussie louts throw egg at Murali, teammates

2008-02-03T01:57:00.000Z

Media watch on Dalit human rights:

Click on the link below:

Dalit pushed into boiling oil, dies

2008-02-03T01:09:00.001Z

Anti-Tamil bigotry of "The Hindu":

I have no problem if "The Hindu" is anti-LTTE, but an objective analysis by any journalism student for a Masters thesis to establish that "The Hindu newspaper is against Tamil human rights and supportive of Sri Lankan Government's atrocities and violations against Tamils in its biased news reports, editorial analysis and columns" can be easily proved with qualitative analysis of secondary sources from the media, and I may even reccommend some friends studying media to take up such a thesis.

2008-02-02T14:44:00.001Z

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Civil society advocacy for Eelam Tamil human rights in India:

In Tamil there is a saying which goes "Thaan Adaavittalum Than Sadhai Aadum", (even if one doesn't care, ones' flesh and blood cares), and that is how I feel when I write about human rights issues concerning Indian Dravidians living all over South Asia, which also includes Eelam Tamils, (apart from the Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples all over India). Hence, even though I feel like giving myself a sabbatical on blogging about socio-political issues, I can't some times. Here is a photo report that shows volunteers of Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam collecting one million signatures in a petition calling for the Government of India to stop all military help to Government of Sri Lanka and its military that has been carrying on a covert campaign of genocide, disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes (such as the recent Sri Lankan military triggered blasts that killed scores of children and also civilians in different parts of the Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka). I wish most Eelam Tamils who are living cosily abroad without any such civil society activism or advocacy for the human rights of Eelam Tamils, motivate themselves to indulge in similar civil society advocacy for the human rights of Eelam Tamils (such as the one by Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam) in order to end the impunity enjoyed by the peretrators of genocide, pogroms and crimes against humanity suffered by Eelam Tamils and also to explain the legitimacy of the need for Tamil right to self-rule in their own nation and the struggle for the latter (which cannot be construed as any partisan brief or association for any particular proscribed or unproscribed militant faction or outfit)

2008-02-02T04:12:00.000Z

Condemnation:

I again place on record my condemnation for the provocative insults uttered by ADMK chief and former chief-minister Ms. Jaya Lalitha in the legislative assembly and the provocative behaviour of her party men!!

2008-02-01T16:19:00.001Z

I am temporarily suspending all my free wheeling socio-political blogging in this blog for the time being because I need to concentrate on more organised and not so free-wheeling issues and projects related to my person and profession.

2008-02-01T14:45:00.000Z

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Condemnation:

The unnecessary insults heaped on Professor Anblalagan and other DMK dignitaries in the legislative assembly by ADMK chief and former chief minister Jaya lalitha are unequivocally condemnable, and the bedlam that ensued from both sides could have been avoided if she had stuck to her critique of the particular issue she was expounding (such as her advocacy against unawful activities for proscribed organisations), and she should not have descended into subjective and insulting critique of individuals such as Professor Anbalagan while making her request to establish a legal panel of legal experts to look into the legal issue of freedom of speech and proscribed activity, which may actually be an intellectually interesting exercise, the conclusions of which may not support her views on freedom of speech. I state this with all due respect to her as woman and a lady in politics.

2008-02-01T14:05:00.000Z

Nes Watch on Sri Lanka: click on the links below:

Killings escalate in Thenmaraadchi, Jaffna

CPI concerned at Sri Lankan situation

(The latter news report and photo from "The Hindu")

2008-02-01T00:34:00.000Z

From "The Asian Age":

Nowhere to turn: Shamshad Begum, whose 18-year-old daughter was allegedly raped and murdered in her hostel recently, weeps in front of the Andhra Pradesh Human Right Commission chairman, Justice Subhashan Reddy, in Hyderabad on Thursday. (A photograph by Gandhi).

2008-02-01T00:07:00.000Z

I condemn the racist and anti-Dalit measure of the Manmohan Singh led central Government that denies educational aid to Dalit students in private professional institutions, and I thank Dr. Kalaignar for refusing to abide by this measure:

I strongly condemn the Government of India's recent rule that Dalit students should have attained 60% marks at the intermediate or higher secondary level to avail financial aid for tuition fees in professional institutions which is a racist and retrograde step by the Sanathanist racist clique in New Delhi under the Congress dispensation. Like in the UK, tuition fees should be universally waived up to undergraduate level and cheap student loans made available to cover fees on very low interest at the Masters and higher education level, (that would be payable after several years) and education at all levels be made universal, free, subsidised and accessible just as in the UK. I thank Dr. Kalaignar to refuse to bow to the centre's racist and anti-Dalit measure and I strongly condemn the Manmohan Singh Government for this measure!!

2008-01-31T15:51:00.000Z

Click on the link below:

News report : Bomb blast kills 4 civilians, injures 15 in Jaffna:

2008-01-31T13:53:00.000Z

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Shameless Anti-Indian Sanathanist racism:

The recent manipulative and Goebellsian media coverage and reports in the mainstream Sanathanist media (such as the Hindustan Times, Times of India, The Hindu, Daily Pioneer, etc.,) against the Sethu Canal project is because the project will empower Indian Dravidians. This is another example of the shameless bigotry indulged in by India's own media against a project empowering India's own people, but this is because (for the uninitiated), the Sanathanist "twice born" racist clique ruling India (and running the mainstream media) will not tolerate any empowerment of Indian Dravidians divided and ruled by the caste system, who are deluded into accepting their division, caste based exploitation and misery by a fabricated religious label imposed on both the apartheid clique and peoples thus divided and ruled. That is why the DMK led administration was bullied and anti-democratically unseated from power many times in the past by misusing article 356 when Sanathanist and pro-Sanathanist or Hindu fascist criminals against humanity who indulge in pogroms and atrocities continue to enjoy power as state chief ministers across India ! That is why the Sethu Canal project is opposed because it empowers the Indian Dravidians! That is why the DMK Government is bullied on the so called LTTE issue when the DMK administration has clearly stated that supporters of the latter who violate the unlawful activities prevention act will be penalised and arrested, when even a hapless and innocent doctor like me was arrested on false charges of "conspiracy to give medicine", but on the other hand Kashmiri separatist parties and leaders who have separatism as an open option in their party constitution are allowed to function and speak out freely! That is why bipartisan human rights advocates such as myself who speak for rights violations and atrocities suffered by Eelam Tamils (such as the ones suffered by Tamil civilians during Indian army or Sri Lankan army operations) and who offer a conceptual bipartisan support for the armed struggle for the latter's nationhood are derided as "LTTE associates" (when I have been a vocal bipartisan critique of the latter in equal measure), but on the other hand Kashmiri separatist political leaders who carry out rallies against atrocities of the Indian army in Kashmir (with good reason and evidence, I reckon), and who openly threaten separatism are not blemished or defamed as "associates of Hizbul Mujahideen or Lashkar-e-Toyeba" by the shamelessly bigoted Sanathanist media!!

2008-01-31T13:06:00.000Z

An image series Veterans of the Dravidian political
movement (DMK):

Veerapandi Arumugam, Minister of Agriculture, Tamil Nadu State, seen here administering polio drops for the polio eradication programme, and with a fellow cabinet minister of the DMK ruled Tamil Nadu, Ms. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan.

2008-01-31T05:57:00.000Z

Dr.Kalaignar establishes research centre for Tamil as a classical language at Chennai!

Photo: Dr. Kalaignar, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, in conversation with CPI (M) leader Ms. Brinda Karat.

2008-01-31T05:14:00.000Z

News Photo: PMK leader stages demo:

Pattali Makkal Katchi (Toiling Peoples' Party) leader Dr. Rama Doss who draws his demographic electoral constituency from the Vanniyar caste peoples, stages a demonstration in front of the Chennai High Court seeking greater representation of Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples in the higher judiciary. He also alluded to reforms in the selection process of judges (which I had blogged and profusely written about in my previous blog) by bringing in the U.S. style system of people directly electing judges for lower courts with legislature or parliament appointed judges for higher courts.

2008-01-31T04:53:00.000Z

Human Rights Watch in Sri Lanka:

Disappearances of Tamil men, women and children: a pogrom of covert genocide!

Click on the web link below:

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1223/65/

2008-01-30T18:26:00.000Z

War Crime by the Sri Lankan Army: 17 Tamil civilians, mostly children, who were killed by the Sri Lankan military's mine attack a day ago, are buried amongst scenes of extreme sorrow, in a church service!!

2008-01-30T12:39:00.000Z

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Speculating on the reasons for my recent attack and victimisation:

With regards to the recent attack I suffered at the hands of Lankan Tamil men and my prejudiced arrest as a result of my attackers’ malicious complaint and fabrication against my act of self defence, I can say that my victimisation could not have happened without a motive because the employees of this shop were known to treat me with respect and admiration for 6 years until two months ago, when the first incident that involved my ill treatment happened. There could be some reasons why I was victimised (and I am hypothetically speculating here). I had been extremely critical of a Tamil film that was released on Pongal day for various reasons well known to the readers of this blog. The producers of this film are London based Tamil businessmen of Sri Lankan origin who could have easily had a reason to be angry with me at the behest of (or along with) the director!! The second reason could be some of my views that called for an equitable enforcement of the law proscribing organisations by subjecting the rich and influential in the same and equitable manner for associating with the so called proscribed organisations while political and human rights activists are expediently and selectively oppressed for their freedom of speech or alleged humanitarian activity by selectively misusing laws proscribing organisations. Or it could have been some other view I wrote or some other reason. I am only speculating here, but one thing for sure is that something I wrote angered somebody.

2008-01-30T02:34:00.001Z

I condemn actor Rajasekar for his tasteless derision of Megastar Chiranjeevi:

Actor Chiranjeevi showed that he is a gentleman politician with great tolerance for freedom of speech, by apologising to actor Rajasekar whose convoy and family were allegedly attacked by Chirugaru's fans, because Rajasekhar criticised Chiruji for the latter's alleged "inexperience" in politics!

Rajasekar's convoy and family should not have been attacked, but at the same time Rajasekar was talking absolute crap when he said that he won't be joining Chirugaru's party because he is "inexperienced"!!

But let me ask Dr. Rajasekar, did NTR have any political experience before he floated the Telugu Desam party?

I condemn Dr. Rajasekar for his dishonest and tasteless attack on Chirugaru. Instead of commenting on one's capabilities and experience, he should be commenting on issues. And Dr. Raja Sekar mostly depends on actor Sai Kumar's dubbing, and when he can't even be a confident and experienced actor to dub his own dialogue, how can he have the temerity to denigrate Chiranjeevigaru's experience and capabilities as a budding politician!? In a democracy every citizen has the right to be a politician and the so called "experience" is nothing but a myth!

My advice to Rajasekar: First succeed in making people accept your voice as an actor so that you can claim to be an "experienced" actor with real "acting experience" (such as speaking your own dialogue), before you deride the experience of others in other fields!! Don't talk through your head and disrespectfully about others, because you neither have a complete acting experience nor political experience!

The attack on Rajasekar's convoy and his family was wrong and condemnable, but so was Rajasekar's tastless derision of Chiranjeevi!

The real reason for Rajasekar's disrespectful derision of Chiranjeevi is the "caste factor" and nothing else.

2008-01-30T02:31:00.000Z

To the Congress Party: The test for freedom of speech lies in tolerating views that are intolerable to you, and by this measure the Congress party has shown to be intolerant of freedom of speech. I state this as a bipartisan civil libetrarian and not as a partisan!!

2008-01-30T01:56:00.001Z

My stand:

Let me unequivocally state that I support the human rights, humanitarian rights and right to self determination of Eelam Tamils and the armed struggle for the latter conducted within the laws of war and human rights law, and this bipartisan and objective stand is not negated by my brash criticism of what I see as negative traits in the expatriate Eelam Tamil community, or for that matter my bitartisan criticism of any aspect of the Eelam Tamil condition. I reserve my right to be unsympathetically critical of what I see as negatives in the expatriate Eelam Tamil community or even the militancy, and I do this with the interest of furthering the goal of the resolution of the conflict in terms of redressal of Tamil aspirations for self rule in their national homeland and ensuring the welfare of the Tamil people suffering in Lanka who cannot afford to fly off to the West, unlike the expatriates!! It may be healthy to have somebody like me who will give unsympathetic critical feedback, in the larger interests of the Eelam Tamil people and their clamour for nationhood!

2008-01-29T20:40:00.000Z

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Note on my advocacy on the legal issues concerning proscribed organisations:

From an objective and bipartisan point of equitable application of the law, I had given my views concerning issues of freedom of speech and association involving proscribed organisations, which is to say that while the former (freedom of speech in support of proscribed organisation in the context of political discourse) is legal, the latter (association with proscribed organisations) is not! This is simply a view from an equitable legal and judicial point of view, and I am not for or against the proscription of any organisation, including the LTTE. I will have no cause to protest if the proscribed status on LTTE is lifted tomorrow, but I am only against the selective misuse of the law proscribing organisations to persecute and imprison activists' freedom of speech (like the man who found himself in jail for singing a song in praise of Eelam in the nineties), while the rich and powerful celebrities, actors, directors and politicians get away with open association and meetings with proscribed organisations!! I am for the equitable application of the law, if a law exists. If the law does not exist, (like for example if the LTTE was not proscribed), there will not be any need for such a debate and every one can be quite happy! But I am against selective and expedient application of the law, to victimise the weak and the powerless!

2008-01-29T20:24:00.000Z

Malayalam actor Bharat Gopi passes away:

He was a great talent (even though I disapproved of his confused justification for joining the Hindu fascist BJP). He was politically wrong and confused, but still a great actor.

2008-01-29T19:30:00.000Z

Request to Mr. Gnana Sekaran of the Congress Party: Please apply the law equitably and correctly

The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal leader is correct to defend the freedom of speech to support the human rights and nationhood of Eelam Tamils and the armed struggle of the latter (which has to invariably mention the LTTE), from the point of view law.

But since I am a bipartisan advocate for the equitable implementation of the law and human rights, I would say that the law is broken only when some one directly associates with members of an unlawful organisation, and NOT by expressing the freedom of speech to support the proscribed organisation.

But at the same time I have to mention and emphasize that partisans like the Congress party, DMK administration and the law enforcement officials are not taking action against individuals who directly met and associated with members and leaders of unlawful and proscribed organisations which was widely reported in the media, but are indulging in a fascist debate about criminalising freedom of speech.

My challenge to the leaders of the Congress party such as Gnana Sekaran: If you are really interested in enforcing the laws proscribing unlawful organisations you should be calling for the arrest of individuals, celebrities and politicians who met and associated with leaders of proscribed organisations (that included celluloid luminaries such as Barathi Raaja, Mahendran, Nizhalgal Ravi, etc., and also other politicians), BUT, he should not be calling for an inequitable, illegal and partisan application of the law to criminalise freedom of speech! He should ask for a just and equitable application of the law, and NOT for an illegal and fascist misuse of the law to selectively and illegally criminalise freedom of speech!!

2008-01-29T18:59:00.000Z

Scenes of activism from India:

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Activists of the All Indian United Muslim Front shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi, on 23 August 2004. The activists demanded for an amendment in article 341 of the constitution in order to re-include Muslims of Dalit descent in the Scheduled Caste (SC) category , who were ousted of SC reservation in 1950 on the grounds of religion. AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images

2008-01-29T18:54:00.000Z

Note: I stand by my comments regarding the oppressive experience I recently had with goons of Lankan Tamil background from a shop in East Ham called "Seelan's" who attacked me and then framed me to get me maliciously arrested even though I acted in self defence. I will keep the readers informed as developments in the case unfolds, since I am out on bail still facing a possible charge and prosecution.

2008-01-29T18:11:00.001Z

Thol. Thiruma Valavan defends freedom of speech, a crucial liberty:

Photo Essay: Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Party leader Thol. Thiruma Valavan takes out a huge rally and meeting in defence of freedom of speech to speak out for the human rights and the armed struggle of Eelam Tamils, in Chennai, India. From the point of view of upholding the right to free speech, the advocacy of Thol. Thirumavalavan was crucial and seminal. The attempt to misuse laws proscribing unlawful organisations to criminalise and oppress freedom of speech (when the same issue of freedom of speech is used to shed crocodile tears for Taslima Nasreen because she is a useful tool to deride Islam) should be resisted at all costs.

2008-01-29T17:00:00.000Z

Tamil Nadu Congress Party's illegal hypocrisy that seeks to criminalise freedom of speech is fascist:

If the leaders of the Tamil Nadu Congress party truly wanted a proper implementation of the law proscribing organisations, they would be calling for the arrest of individuals and organisations who openly associated with unlawful organisations, such as the celebrities, actors, directors and politicians I mentioned before (and I need not repeat their names)! But they are not calling for that, but they are illegally calling for arresting someone for exercising their freedom of speech, which is politically expedient!! It is not illegal to exercise one's freedom of speech to support the armed struggle of Eelam Tamils and also the main player in that struggle, namely the LTTE, within the discourse of such a support for the armed struggle of a peoples, since it comes under the gambit of freedom of speech, as affirmed by the Supreme Court of India!! But what is illegal is to associate with unlawful organisations, but the Congress party is not asking for action against an assorted number of directors and celebrities who openly associated with unlawful organisations, but are asking for criminalising the legal expression of freedom of speech, which is fascist!! The fact that both the Tamil Nadu Congress party and the state authorities are not asking for action against those who openly associated with unlawful organisations, but going down the fascist road of debating criminalising of freedom of speech, shows the regressive nature of the Indian political psyche, and in particular that of the Tamil Nadu Congress politicians!!

2008-01-29T14:35:00.000Z

Tamil writer Su. Samuthiram and his death:

The death of Tamil writer Su. Samuthiram in an accident a few years ago affected me, but what affected me more were some news reports that said that the authorities at the private hospital in Chennai (where he he was taken after his road accident) refused to give him the emergency medical care and delayed the medical treatment that cost his life, because the hospital authorities assumed that he or his family will not be able to pay for the treatment because of the dark black colour of his skin, (even though his family could have very well paid the fees and more)!! If this allegation is true, and if Su. Samuthiram died because some people associated poverty with skin colour (which is again no reason for denying humane medical treatment even if the hospital thought some one cannot pay), this shows the bigoted psyche in India that stigmatises, inferiorizes and devalues dark skin of the Indian Dravidians!

2008-01-29T14:28:00.000Z

Photo Essay Series: Scenes of the war ravaged and displaced Tamil populace!

2008-01-29T14:25:00.001Z

Kindly click on the links below:

SLA attacks bus carrying school children in Madu, 17 killed, 17 wounded

Tamil statehood? - By Bruce Fein - Washington Times

2008-01-29T04:51:00.000Z

Scenes from the history of India:

Nehru with one of his lady loves - Edwina Mountbatten!

2008-01-29T04:45:00.000Z

Scenes from the history of India: Nehru with the founder leaders of the non-aligned movement:

Prime Minister Pandit Nehru with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, President Nasser of Egypt, President Soekarno of Indonesia and President Tito of Yugoslavia at a meeting of Non-Aligned Nations, New York, October, 1960

2008-01-29T04:40:00.000Z

Scenes from the crimes against Tamil humanity in Sri Lanka: The Chencholai massacre of 61 school girls by the aerial bombing of their school by the Sri Lankan army:

2008-01-29T04:19:00.000Z

Scenes of Indian Dravidian Dalit suffering in India:

An Indian Dravidian Dalit man was shot and killed by the Haryana police during clashes between dalit protestors and the police. His body is shown in the photo as it lies on the road in Gohana in Haryana, on 28 August 2007. About 20 people, including eight policemen, were injured when dalit protesters clashed with the Haryana Police in this district where a dalit leader was shot dead on the night of 27 August 2007. AFP PHOTO/ STR (Photo credit : STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)

2008-01-29T03:18:00.000Z

Sinister experience:

The two most humiliating experiences that arose out of getting victimised and attacked recently, and then getting arrested despite my action in self defence and calling the cops due to the lies and fabrications of my assailants (of Lankan Tamil background), were - the three hours I spent in the lock up at the station, and of course the police taking routine samples of my body fluids for their big brother DNA library (which means that the powers that be can frame and falsely accuse me with any crime if they want to really screw me, since they now have my DNA with which they can create false evidential presence of my DNA any where!!) I will never forgive my assailants for making me undergo the most humiliating and scary experience of my life (at the hands of the police) with their violence and then their deviant behaviour of framing me!! This is not funny but extremely dangerous and sinister, and was extremely traumatising to me more than the attack itself!

I will take a leaf out of my fellow Eelam Tamils way of living abroad as I see in the UK, and just as they do, I will not write, say or advocate anything for the human rights, humanitarian rights and the armed struggle for Tamils in Lanka, since they themselves do not write, say or advocate anything activistically in this regard at an individual or civil society level, and focus only on money making, family, religion, astrology, Tamil movies and self centred pleasures, just as they do, and leave such advocacy to the militants and pro-militant media organs and websites, just as they do! Just as they do, one should just bother themselves with a namesake appearance in the annual meeting of the martyrs day of militants, and then pursue money and the joy of living to their heart's content!! I should do the same and stop my thankless and unrecognised activism for the human rights, humanitarian rights and conceptual support to the armed struggle of Eelam Tamils, and leave it all to the militants and their organs! Why should I indulge in unilateral media advocacy for the human rights and humanitarian rights for Eelam Tamils, and get into trouble, when Eelam Tamil individuals and civil society themselves do not bother to do anything in this regard, and are only concerned about money, religion, family and their self centred needs?

I am not joking when I said that even the advocating and activist mind of DMK supporting workers in a barber shop in Tamil Nadu is absent amongst Eelam Tamils and their civil society! Particularly, given the English education of the second generation, they can do much more, but they do not!

Even when six dozen children were killed in Chencholai, none of these Tamil shops or businesses distributed pamphlets or displayed posters to highlight the atrocity to white or non-Tamil customers! This was baffling to me, because even in Tamil Nadu the activism was in high voltage after that atrocity!

There are more individual and civil society advocates for Eelam Tamil human rights and humanitarian rights in Indian Tamil Nadu than amongst expatriate Tamils in the UK, where they are only a handful!! This is not an exaggeration!!

A lot of grocery stores and departmental stores are owned by Eelam Tamils and if they had wanted to, they could have displayed posters and also kept pamphlets in their shops for white customers to read about the legitimacy of the Tamil struggle, pogroms, crimes against humanity and oppression suffered by Tamils in Sri Lanka, so that they can lobby and create opinion in favour of Tamil rights and self rule in Lanka amongst white people. While Muslims display similar posters and distribute pamphlets about their religion and human rights in their shops, I have not seen a single Tamil shop distribute such advocacy pamphlets or display posters that will educate the non-Tamil people about the struggle and oppression suffered by the Tamils in Lanka. They display only posters regarding annual militant related meetings and (some times) militant related images, and ofcourse images concerning Tamil movies. Given the access to a large cross section of society who visit these shops, they can even distribute books about the 1983 pogrom free of cost to customers to educate them about Tamil suffering. But none of such advocacy or activism happens, and this is because, I suspect, the so called migrants from Sri Lanka don't really care whether they get a nation or not, and don't really care about being activists and advocates for the Tamil cause. Unlike Dalits, Palestinians, etc., not a single expatriate Eelam Tamil I had met is an individual activist or advocate for the human rights and struggle of Tamils, and some times I wonder why should I or similar Periyarists or Ambedkarites should indulge in activism for Eelam Tamil human rights and struggle, when Eelam Tamils living abroad themselves (as far as I see in the UK) do not care beyond their businesses or jobs, families, Tamil movies, temples, astrologers and similar mundane and material related selfish activities, and do not indulge in any kind of political or human rights advocacy or activism, whether they are educated or uneducated. In other words, any kind of political or rights related thought, action or advocacy does not even cross their mind, and they live and function as if they have no subjective stake in what is happening in Lanka, as if they are not Tamils from a political sense, except when it comes to the annual meetings concerning militants.

This is extremely baffling to me and can be only explained by the fact Eelam Tamils living abroad do not have an activist psyche and more importantly, do not have a subjective Tamil nationalistic psyche. Then I wonder, why should activists like me get into trouble for doing advocacy for Eelam Tamil rights, when individual Eelam Tamils themselves do nothing at the individual or civil society level in terms of activism and advocacy like they way me and other Ambedkarite or Periyarist activists do??

Before ordinary Indian Tamil civil society and individuals are asked to indulge in activism and advocacy for the Eelam Tamil cause, one would like to see the same from individuals and civil society of Eelam Tamils living abroad (as I see in the UK)!

2008-01-28T16:46:00.000Z

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Scenes of Indian Dravidian Dalit suffering in India:

A 16 year old teenaged Dalit woman initiated and exploited as a temple prostitute as part of the "Hindu" traditions with her illegitimate child. Temple prostitution known as "devadasi" system in general (or as "Jogini" in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka), is still prevalent in many parts of India except in Tamil Nadu where it was summarily wiped out due to the Dravidian "self-respect" movement! Unfortunately this barbaric tradition still continues in all most other parts of rural India, including Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Image courtesy: Amy Vitale / Getty Images.

Jogini System Still Plagues Rural India

ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA - AUGUST 23: Savithasan, 16 year-old (featured in the photo), rests with her second baby, Sai, in her mud hut in this photo taken on August 23, 2005 in Mehbubnagar, in Andhra Pradesh, India. She is a Jogini, or 'servant of god' and was married off to the local deity when she was 14 years old because she got pregnant after a man raped her and her family did not want her to live in shame. Instead they felt it was better for her to be named a jogini since she would not be able to marry any man with a child out of wedlock. She has become the property of the men in the village. On the night of her initiation, after reaching puberty, the joginis are offered to an upper caste village elder or landlord. As months and years go by, most of the men in the village end up exploiting these girls. Jogini, Mathamma, Basivi?in different regions of Andhra Pradesh they go by different names but they are all variations of a similar tradition of sexual exploitation of poor, illiterate Dalit women in the name of religion. The practice dates back some 2,000 years and is still deeply ingrained in the local Telangana culture. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)

2008-01-28T15:59:00.000Z

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The attack I suffered and my arrest for acting in self-defence:

Given my recent victimisation and physical attack at the hands of some hooligans of Lankan Tamil background, and the maliciously prejudiced and racist arrest I suffered despite acting in self defence, which was in turn caused and facilitated by the malicious lies and fabrications of my prejudiced and vile assailants, and the possibility of me still facing charges of “common assault” and a trial for acting in self defence to protect myself, I will be informing the readers on any further development on the issue, as and when it unfolds, because the matter is still sub-judice, and I will know what happens to it when my bail expires in the first week of March.

2008-01-28T00:51:00.000Z

Personalities from the history of India: Mahatma Jyotiba Phule

Mahatma Jyotiaba hailed from Maharashtra and was a fore-runner to Ambedkar and Periyar in peeling off many layers of Sanathanist Aryan racism and apartheid that masqueraded as a false and fraudulent religion to enslave, divide and rule the Indian Dravidians with the caste system, and whose fight has to be taken to the next stage by way of the reforms that seeks to defabricate and abrogate the Hindu label, as I oft repeat and reinforce in this blog and my other blogs.

2008-01-28T00:40:00.000Z

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The attack I suffered and my arrest for acting in self-defence:

Given my recent victimisation and physical attack at the hands of some hooligans of Lankan Tamil background, and the maliciously prejudiced and racist arrest I suffered despite acting in self defence, which was in turn caused and facilitated by the malicious lies and fabrications of the prejudiced and vile assailants of Lankan Tamil background, and the possibility of me still facing charges of “common assault” and a trial for acting in self defence to protect myself, I will be informing the readers on any further development on the issue, as and when it unfolds, because the matter is still sub-judice, and I will know what happens to it when my bail expires in the first week of March.

2008-01-27T13:30:00.003Z

Sri Lanka's mining of the maritime border with India by using under-water anti-personnel mines violates International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law:

The use of anti-personnel mines along inter-national borders prone to civilian traffic is prohibited under international law and humanitarian law, and is also inhumane and barbaric. Planting under-water mines arbitrarily along the maritime border of India and Sri Lanka (and no one will know where exactly they are planted) will only ensure that innocent civilians and fishermen will be killed while venturing into waters for fishing and sport. This is a view from a humanitarian and human rights point of view, and is not based on any partisan brief. If India allows the mining of the international maritme border with Sri Lanka, will India also "mine" its borders with Pakistan, China and Bangla Desh to prevent civilians from crossing over by posing them the threat of getting killed by mines?? Sri Lankan Government's decision to plant anti-personnel mines under water along Indian maritime borders is the most barbaric and inhumane measure that has been taken by any Government in recent times, and is aimed at curtailing civilian contact and commerce between the Tamil populace in Sri Lanka and India, and to kill the fishermen venturing into the sea than anything else!! This blatant inhumane measure should not be allowed by the Government of India, because if allowed it will set a precedent that will be a direct challenge to the territorial sovereignty of India, because arbitrarily mining international borders by one nation is a direct challenge to the borders of the other, unless and otherwise both nations take a joint operation to mine the borders together, because arbitrary planting of anti-personnel mines by one nation will only mean that the sanctity of the border can be arbitrarily violated and mines plantes whimsically and unilaterally by one nation at will even within Indian territorial waters! Hence, such a mining of international borders between India and Sri Lanka will be a violation and challenge to the unity and integrity of India, if allowed to be done unilaterally and without bilateral operation between the two countries!! And ofcourse India cannot be expected to kill its own Indian (Tamil) citizens and fisermen by mining its own borders at the behest of another nation which will be the most farcical thing any Government or state has done anywhere in the World! And if India does get into a "bilateral" arrangement to mine its borders with Sri Lanka the prejudice harboured by the ruling Sanathanist clique in India against the Indian citizens of Tamil Nadu will be there for all to see!!

This unilateral mining of the international maritime borders between India and Sri Lanka should be scrapped, and if not - all parties in Tamil Nadu should bring out a massive agitation against it!!

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Lanka should remove defence system in Palk strait: MDMK

Fishermen in Rameswaram to go on strike tomorrow

Sri Lankan Navy plants mines along marine border with India

Lanka's UWDS a 'naked agression' into India's sovereignty:

Nedumaran appeals political parties to support fishermen

2008-01-27T13:30:00.001Z

2008-01-27T12:06:00.000Z

Unusual and rare image of Babsaheb Dr. Ambedkar with his wife Dr. Sharda Kabir (Mai Ambedkar)!

2008-01-27T11:35:00.000Z

Note on Tamil script: The Tamil script from "Periyar Muzhakkam" journal source was cut and pasted, since I do not know Tamil typing. I get some pleasure posting a Tamil script since I cannot type it myself, due to inability to type in Tamil (though I can write and read it very well). Here is another editorial excerpt from "Viduthalai" which praises CPI (M) leader Prakash Karat for making the obsrevation that only the DMK party can offset an ADMK and BJP colaition along Hindu fascist lines.

பிரகாஷ் காரத் கருத்து சரியானது: இந்தியக் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மார்க்சிஸ்ட்)யின் அகில இந்திய பொதுச்செயலாளர் பிரகாஷ் காரத் தெரிவித்துள்ள ஒரு கருத்து மிகவும் சரியானது - தெளிவானதும்கூட!தமிழ்நாட்டில் மதவாதக் கூட்டான அ.தி.மு.க., - பா.ஜ.க., கூட்டை எதிர்த்துப் போராடும் வன்மை திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகக் கூட்டணிக்குத்தான் உள்ளது என்று மனதார தாம் நம்பிக்கை வைத்து இருப்பதாகக் கூறியுள்ளார்.நாட்டில் தோன்றியுள்ள மதவாத ஆபத்தைத் தடுத்து நிறுத்தவேண்டும் - ஏன், வீழ்த்தவேண்டும் என்று அறிவு நாணயத்துடன் எண்ணுகின்ற யாரும் இந்த முடிவுக்குத்தான் வரவேண்டும் - அதுதான் சாத்தியக்கூறும், எதார்த்தமும் ஆகும்.தமிழ்நாட்டைப் பொறுத்தவரையில் தந்தை பெரியார் அவர்களும், அவர்களால் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட இயக்கமும் நீண்ட நெடுங்காலப் பிரச்சாரம், போராட்டம், கருத்துருவாக்கம் முதலிய கடமை மிகுந்த பணிகளைச் செய்து வருவதால், மற்ற மாநிலங் களில் மதவாதம் வேர் பிடித்த நிலை இங்கு எட்டப்படவில்லை.தி.மு.க., என்பது அரசியல் கட்சியாகயிருந்தாலும் அக்கட்சியின் தலைவர் மானமிகு கலைஞர் அவர்கள், பலமுறை குறிப்பிட் டுள்ளதுபோல சமுதாயச் சீர்திருத்தக் கொள்கை உடைய அரசியல் கட்சியாகும்.இன்றைக்குத் தமிழ்நாட்டில் இருக்கக் கூடிய உயர்ஜாதி ஊடகங்கள் இதனைத் தெளிவாகத் தெரிந்து கொண்டு இருப்பதால், கலைஞர் அவர்களைக் குறி வைத்துத் தாக்கும் நிலையை அறிய முடிகிறது.அவர்கள் எந்த முயற்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டாலும், திராவிட இயக்கச் சித்தாந்த பலம் என்பது கலைஞருக்கும், தி.மு.க.,வுக்கும் இருக்கக் கூடிய பெரும் பலமாகும்.கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சிகளும் மதவாத எதிர்ப்பில் உறுதியாக இருக்கின்ற காரணத்தால், தமிழ்நாட்டில் தி.மு.க.வோடு அக்கட்சிகள் கூட்டுச் சேர்வது என்பது இயல்பானதாகும். தேர்தல் உடன்பாடு என்பதைவிட, கொள்கை சார்ந்த கூட்டணி என்பதுதான் மதிக்கத்தகுந்ததும் - நேர்மையானதுமாகும்.

2008-01-27T03:16:00.000Z

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Dozens are killed as Kenya erupts into violence once more

2008-01-27T03:12:00.000Z

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Palestinian radical founder dies

2008-01-27T03:06:00.000Z

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Bodies found in Sri Lanka forest

Pit of bodies discovered in Sri Lanka after rebel conflict

2008-01-27T02:57:00.000Z

An editorial from the latest edition of the journal "Periyar Muzhakkam" that interested me, since it condemns the Government of Kerala for refusing to allow a holiday for the festival of Pongal to Tamils living in predominantly Tamil populated areas of Kerala, while the Government of Tamil Nadu magnanimously awarded a holiday for the Keralite festival of Onam without any hesitation! I join in the condemnation of the Government of Kerala and its Marxist led Government for this blatant bigotry against Tamils living in Kerala:

தலையங்கம் : ஓணமும் - தமிழர் திருநாளும்!

கேரள மாநிலத்தில் - வயநாடு, இடுக்கி, கொல்லம், திருவனந்தபுரம் மாவட்டங்களில், 31 லட்சம் தமிழர்கள் வாழ்கிறார்கள். இது தவிர வேறு பல மாவட்டங்களிலும் தமிழர்கள் பரவலாக வாழ்கிறார்கள். ஆனாலும், தமிழர்கள் அதிகமாக வாழும், மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட மூன்று மாவட்டங்களிலாவது, ‘தமிழர் திருநாளான’ பொங்கலுக்கு அரசு விடுமுறையளிக்க வேண்டும் என்று, கேரளாவில் வாழும் தமிழர்கள், ‘கேரள மாநில தமிழ் பாதுகாப்பு இயக்கத்தின்’ சார்பில், மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி ஆட்சியிடம் நியாயமான கோரிக்கையை முன் வைத்தனர். ஆனால், “தேசிய இனங்களுக்கிடையே நல்லிணக்கம் வேண்டும்; ஏற்றத்தாழ்வுகள் காட்டக் கூடாது; இல்லையேல் இந்திய ஒருமைப்பாடு சிதறி விடும்” என்று தேசபக்தியோடு பேசி வரும் மார்க்சி°ட்டுகளில் ஆட்சி, கேரள வாழ் தமிழர்களின் நியாயமான கோரிக்கையை புறந்தள்ளிவிட்டது. அந்தப் பகுதிகளில் தமிழர்களின் வாக்குகளைப் பெற்று வெற்றி பெற்றுள்ள, மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி யின் சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர் கே.கே.திவா கரன் என்பவரே, மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட நான்கு மாவட்டங்களுக்கும் தமிழர் திருநாளுக்கு பொது விடுமுறை அளிக்க வேண்டும் என்று வற்புறுத்தியும், கேரள மார்க்சி°ட் கம்யூனி°ட் கட்சி அதை ஏற்க தயாராக இல்லை. கடந்த ஆண்டு தமிழ்நாட்டில் ஓணம் பண்டிக்கைக்கு, அரசு விடுமுறை அளிக்க வேண்டும் என்று தமிழ்நாட்டில் வாழும் மலையாளிகள் கோரிக்கை வைத்தவுடன், உடனே, தமிழக முதல்வர் கலைஞர் அதை ஏற்று கோவை, சென்னை, நீலகிரி, கன்யாகுமரி மாவட்டங்களுக்கு, அரசு பொது விடுமுறை அறிவித்தார். இத்தனைக்கும் சென்னை மாவட்டத்தில் மலையாளிகள் எண்ணிக்கை மிகவும் குறைவு. ஆனாலும், விடுமுறை அறிவிக்கப்பட்டது. இதற்கு மாற்றாக எந்த சனிக் கிழமையும் வேலை நாளாகவும் அறிவிக்கப்படவில்லை. ஆனால், கேரளாவின் மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம் யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி ஆட்சியோ, மூன்று மாவட்டங் களில் (வயனாடு, இடுக்கி, திருவனந்தபுரம், பாலக்காடு) நிபந்தனையுடன் கூடிய விடுமுறையை எடுத்துக் கொள்ளலாம் என்றும் (அதாவது, இதற்கு பதிலாக வேறு விடுமுறை நாளில் பணியாற்ற வேண்டும்), இதன் காரணமாக இம் மாவட்டங்களில் அலுவலகங்களோ, பள்ளிகளோ மூடப்படாது, பள்ளிகள் நடக்கும் என்றும் அறிவித்திருக் கிறது. முல்லைத் தீவு பிரச்னையானாலும், சேலம் ரயில் கோட்டப் பிரச்சினையானாலும், கேரள மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம் யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சிி, தமிழர்களின் நியாயமான உரிமைகளுக்கும், உணர்வுகளுக்கும் எதிராகவே ‘மலையாளி’ என்ற அதீத உணர்வோடு செயல்பட்டதை நாடு பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருந்தது.‘ஓணம்’ பண்டிகைக்கு தமிழக முதல்வர் விடுமுறை அறிவித்ததையும், அதற்காக மலையாளிகள், தமிழக முதல்வரை சந்தித்து, பாராட்டுகளை குவித்ததையும், தமிழ்நாட்டு மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம் யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி மகிழ்ச்சியுடன் வரவேற்று, செய்தி வெளியிட்டு பூரித்தது. ஆனால், கேரளாவில் தமிழர்களின் கலாச் சாரம் சார்ந்த கோரிக்கை நிராகரிக்கப்படும் போது, நீண்ட மவுனம் சாதிக்கிறது. மார்க் சியத்தில் ‘தேசிய இனப் புரிதலும்’ - அதன் வழியாக அவர்கள், கட்டிக் காக்கத் துடிக்கும் ‘ஒருமைப்பாட்டுக்கான’ வரையறையும் இது தானா, என்று கேட்கிறோம்.தமிழர்களின் உணர்வுகளையும், உரிமை களையும் தொடர்ந்து தடுத்து வரும் கேரள மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம் யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி ஆட்சியின் போக்கை, தமிழர்கள் சார்பில் வன்மையாகக் கண்டிக்கிறோம். தமிழர்கள் தொடர்ந்து ஏமாளிகளாகிவிடக் கூடாது என்பதையும் சுட்டிக் காட்டுகிறோம்.

2008-01-27T02:04:00.000Z

Christian Brando , son of Marlon Brando dies:

2008-01-26T15:21:00.000Z

Republic Day of India and my perennial message!

I salute the people's republic I was born into, and call upon my fellow citizens of India to make it a better and more workable republic for the people of India, by fundamentally working towards disomantling the caste system by abrogating the fraud of the Hindu label which divides and rules the non-Sanathanist Indian Dravidians via the caste system and negates their non-Sanathanist religious identities, along the reforms I have advocated in this blog, so that Indian Dravidian Bahujans (BCs), Dalits and indigenous peoples will be liberated and assert their power independently as a united proletariat, and prevent the Sanathanists' from highjacking the people's republic for their apartheid clique's power by fooling Indian Dravidians into believing the fraud that they share a non-existent religion (that exists only in a fraudulent label) with the Sanathanists!!

Hindu law should be scrapped and the Hindu label legally abrogated,

Secular civil law enacted for non-Sanathanists, and all Indian Dravidians who are not Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sanathanists and Parsis,

Legal recognition given to the non-Sanathanist religions and thoughts of conscience of Indian Dravidian Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples independent of the "Hindu" label, (including atheism),

Eventually all caste names should be abrogated and affirmative action given under broad labels of Indian Dravidian Bahujans (for BCs), Dalits (for SCs), Indigenous Peoples (for STs) and under the label (casteless) Indian Dravidians (for those off spring between Dalits and non-Dalits). But this measure should be done only after a socio-economic security net on par with western nations is enacted for all Indian Dravidian Bahujans, Dalits and indigenous peoples, by way of guarantees to housing, sanitation, education at all levels, health care at all levels, food and material (financial) security by way of cash doles or kind (just as in the west)!!

India urgently needs a social security system on par with the West along the above lines, without which unmitigated development will only lead to neo-colonialism and turning most Indians into beggars!

2008-01-26T15:04:00.000Z

Dr. Kalaignar and dignitaries viewing the parade on the republic day of India!!

2008-01-26T14:25:00.000Z

Corrected Version 2

Being derided, abused and attacked by my fellow Tamils (albeit from Lanka), with vicious vileness, violence and Talibanism (with apologies to the Taliban)!!

The following is only my socio-psychological observation on the expatriate Tamil community and my subjective views regarding the latter, and these views have nothing to do with my advocacy for the human rights, humanitarian rights and my conceptual bipartisan support for the armed struggle for Tamil self rule in Sri Lanka (within the laws of war and human rights), and my free-wheeling campaign to secure Justice for the past and enduring pogroms, atrocities, disappearances, crimes against humanity, displacement and conflict misery inflicted on the Tamils as a covert campaign of genocide as a bipartisan human rights advocate will always continue, but in a more toned down manner given my sense of humiliation and lack of dignified treatment at the hands of fellow Tamils !!

I have given a prelude to my socio-psychological assessment of the Eelam Tamil community I had encountered in the West, and my brief description of the events leading up to my latest attack at the hands of some Eelam Tamil men is in the last few paragraphs!

I have written earlier that I have had very negative subjective experiences with some members of the Eelam Tamil community and I find it very difficult to get along with some members of the latter socio-psychologically, and my advocacy for the Lankan Tamil human rights, humanitarian rights and armed struggle arises out of my sense of objectivity and solidarity with the human rights of the suffering (Tamil) people facing the onslaught of the state oppression and genocide as a bipartisan human rights advocate, and it has nothing to do with my subjective loyalty to any people or political or militant outfit. Many readers may have refused to believe this stand of mine, and seen me reductionally as some sort of an associate of Eelam Tamils and their militants due to their prejudice. The truth is that I am caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. On one side I have prejudiced elements in India who saw (and see) me as some sort of an associate of Tamil militants because they do not relate to my bipartisan advocacy for the human rights and armed struggle of Eelam Tamils (just as one does for Palestinians). And on the other end I suffer from the oppression of some members of the Eelam Tamil community and in general their indifference and prejudice who hardly respect, recognise or value me for the creative advocacy for their struggle and human rights as I had done in my own way, due to their de-intellectualised, uncreative and de-politicised political psyche that does not respect opinion givers and opinion creators, except for individuals with political power, wealth, celebrity and of course the militancy.

The truth is that I am not even an associate of Eelam Tamils (leaving alone the prospect of being an associate of their militants), but I write profusely and unilaterally on issues concerning the human rights, humanitarian rights, and support for the armed struggle of Tamils for a nation because of my extreme empathy with the suffering of Tamil people in the island and their legitimate need for self rule from a bipartisan perspective and nothing else!! But this does not make me blind to the negative socio-psychological traits amongst Eelam Tamils and their expatriate community, just as I comment on any other people.

But the most recent oppressive incident I suffered at the hands of some Lankan Tamil males has given me the opportunity to write a blog to put things in perspective.

People in India make reductionist conclusions on my freewheeling blogging and advocacy on Sri Lankan issues and think that I am some kind of an associate of Tamil Tigers. It is obvious that many in India think and feel this. This is painful because members of the Eelam Tamil community (of all hues), particularly the non-English speaking, violent, illiterate, culturally Talibanish and misogynistic males who form the bulk of the expatriate proletariat in East London, have been the source of many an oppressive, violent and distressful behaviour against me subjectively over the years and also because Eelam Tamils (of all hues) themselves do not know or care or value any of my writings, except for a very few.

Ever since 1997 I have been getting into serious trouble on account of Sri Lankan Tamils for no fault of my own and I am now quite fed up!! Despite my altruistic advocacy and blogging on human rights, humanitarian rights and armed struggle for Eelam Tamils in a most articulate and unselfish manner, I am hardly supported or even respected by Lankan Tamils while on the contrary subjected to their derision, while an assorted groups of celebrities and politicians who openly visit and associate with Tamil militants in India make a huge amount of money and enrich themselves in India with the law not even touching them!

An average Lankan Tamil is not a politically intellectualised animal as one sees in a rickshaw puller or even in a barber shop adorning DMK imagery in Tamil Nadu! Eelam Tamils can be divided into two categories. One is the non-Tamil speaking (or semi-Tamil speaking), rich, upper or middle class and educated ones who are mainly self-centred, career oriented, and who do not much care for advocacy for the human rights or the political or armed struggle of Lankan Tamils themselves (even to the extent of Periyarist and Ambedkarite activists in India, except for the retired geriatric types), while spending huge amounts of monies on temples, rituals, astrology, every day materialism and related skull-duggery! The other class is the uneducated, semi-literate, misogynistic, culturally Talibanish and lumpen Tamil men who make money through hard work or “para-legal” activities! All of them are devoid of any socio-political intent or psyche that is untypical of a people who are supposed to have a politically radicalised psyche, and this may be because any grass roots based political, social and civil society involvement in the struggle of Tamils is next to nil, particularly in the expatriate community even though there is no fear of oppression for political and rights advocacy because they do not live in Sri Lanka. Both these classes of peoples pursue materialism, material oriented de-intellectualised education, extreme religiosity, commercial Tamil movies, cultural Talibanism, etc., with great fervour, more than any urban villager in India!! All that they consider as political activity is their annual participation in militants’ related meetings or militant related contributions and nothing else!

Even the kind of freewheeling political and media advocacy and pamphleteering for Eelam Tamil rights indulged in by Periyarist and Ambedkarite individuals and organisations in India at an individual and community level is absent amongst the expatriate Tamil community!

Hence they are a de-intellectualised and de-politicised community with single minded indulgence in money gathering activities, worshipping the gold, religiosity and abject materialistic selfishness, without any indulgence in any kind of advocacy for human rights and humanitarian rights of the suffering Tamil people at an individual or grass roots level like Periyarist or Tamil nationalist activists in India (where even fan associations of stars are politically active and political pamphleteering is like having one’s breakfast), except for some marginal human rights organisations like the Tamil Information Centre, who are again doing a thankless job and seen with disdain by the larger community who are completely devoid of any political psyche or advocacy, which comes across as very strange to me, given the fact that in Tamil Nadu even a auto-rickshaw driver would be vociferous in advocating ideas, rights related struggle and political thoughts, individual pamphleteering and joining some political campaign!!

The complete lack of political thought and an advocacy oriented mind in an average individual expatriate Sri Lankan Tamil’s psyche (atleast from what I see in the UK) and in their grass roots community, both amongst the educated and the uneducated - baffles me!! This may be because military campaign is seen as the only political and advocacy activity, but the larger cause of explaining the legitimacy of the Tamil struggle to the international community, need for addressing impunity for genocide and crimes against humanity, and the legitimacy for Tamil self rule, which I do in a creative off the beaten track manner by engaging popular mass communication, political and advocacy methods is seen as unnecessary, which will strike as strange to a man from a country where a poor pavement dweller will have something to say and advocate politically! But an average Sri Lankan Tamil man or woman hardly speak anything in terms of political or rights advocacy as a part of their every day interaction or his human condition with the larger community, which will strike as strange to a Zionist, Palestinian or even a Dalit activist!

No Eelam Tamil has any clue to my silent and low profile advocacy and advocating effects of my writing on some opinion and decision makers who have been reading my blog and other writings in India and abroad (because they have a de-intellectualised psyche that respects only money, status, celebrity, political power or the armed struggle through the gun, and hence they neither appreciate the power and importance of opinion makers nor do they see a role of creative and off the beaten track communication for advocacy such as the one I do!! Reductionists in India who misunderstand my freewheeling blogging advocacy on various issues concerning Eelam / Sri Lankan situation and assume that I am some kind of an official blogger for Eelam issues and their militants, would be surprised to know that not only have I received little support from the Eelam community (of all hues and shades – for the above reasons and since they do not approve of independent advocacy for the rights and struggles of Tamils out of the militant approved organs), but on the contrary I have been in the receiving end of some of their bigotry, particularly from a peculiar kind of violent, dangerous, culturally Talibanish and sexist country brutes who loiter the streets and man the shops of East London. And I was very oppressively victimised by such men two days ago, as I explained previously.

This cultural Talibanism of these Lankan Tamil males is driven by a kind of vileness that has psycho-sexual roots associated with moral policing for similar but psycho-sexually racist reasons written in an earlier blog, but not entirely. The non-English speaking, rowdyish, illiterate, misogynistic and sexist types amongst young Eelam Tamil men who view inter-gender interactions with a narrow, hyper-sexualising and rural males’ perspective and intense psycho-sexual jealousy with their cultural Talibanism, have been oppressing me whenever I had the misfortune of living amidst them in East Ham and happened to have social conversation with a member of the opposite gender in public (due to their bigoted cultural Talibanism, ruralist psycho-sexual envy and resulting violence just like some roadside rowdy elements who bother inter-gender conversationalists in India), given my natural conversational, talkative and networking personality. I have suffered this whenever I had the misfortune of choosing to live in East Ham, a borough populated by Lankan Tamils predominantly and particularly known for violent Tamil gangs! These are guys who will take umbrage and become violent even if I say a polite “Vanakkam” even to their girl friends (despite my obvious lack of any subjective fancy towards them), and have a respectful sociable conversation and give out my business card in a sociable public situation, since such is their cultural Talibanism, narrow minded prejudice and psycho-sexual insecurity! In their sexism and male chauvinism they are worse than religious conservatives!

One of the reasons I came to the west is to be warm and conversational to all, but this triggers the regressive psyche of this particular kind of illiterate, brutish, sexist, psycho-sexually envious and culturally Talibanish and uncouth males’ prejudice which pounces on an inter-gender conversationalist at their midst, given their illiterate, ruralist and extreme misogyny. I can cite many instances of such experience from males of various backgrounds (as I wrote in an earlier blog) but the most recent one was the one I suffered in Sri Lankan Tamil shop called “Seelan’s”, a few weeks ago when the store’s manager humiliated me by abusing me and forcibly ushered me out of the shop by pushing me physically when I had done nothing wrong, after I had had been speaking to a friend I recognised from the University with whom I had a consensual conversation about my upstart counselling service and practice, a few weeks ago. I did not respond at that time and chose to remain silent and diplomatic because I did not want to pick up a conflict with a fellow Tamil. But then I had to register my protest because these people knew who I was and I realised that their reasons to offend and humiliate me should have been something else, because I have been coming to this shop for 6 years and their behaviour towards me changed only recently!! And I was wondering why!

I went to the same shop three days go to tell the guy what he did was wrong, and I simply told him that he had no right to touch me and that he had no right to interfere in a consensual conversation of other people, and I left the shop after I did that! But the manager and his colleagues came out and heckled me, shoved me and attacked me and when I responded in self defence, I was further attacked! When I called the cops, the shop keepers turned the tables against me by claiming that I attacked them and got witnesses to lie to the police, and the ever prejudiced police interpreted the situation and CTV images which essentially showed a scuffle in the favour of shop keepers and got a case of “common assault” foisted on me (when it was they who attacked me), and now I am out on bail awaiting trial for “common assault”!! Because this incident happened three days ago, I have been a bit perturbed, and now I have been very angered and hurt!!

The above is only my socio-psychological observation on the expatriate Tamil community and my subjective views regarding the latter, and these views have nothing to do with my advocacy for the human rights, humanitarian rights and my conceptual bipartisan support for the armed struggle for Tamil self rule in Sri Lanka (within the laws of war and human rights), and my free-wheeling campaign to secure Justice for the past and enduring pogroms, atrocities, disappearances, crimes against humanity, displacement and conflict misery inflicted on the Tamil as a covert campaign of genocide as a bipartisan human rights advocate will always continue!!

P.S. While I wrote about similar "racist Talibanism" of some white people, I have to empphasize I (incidentally) never suffered such Talibanism when I lived amongst the Muslim dominated Upton Park for one and a half years and when I lived in the Sikh populated Southall (and Ilford) for a year respectively, where I thought people were relatively more warmer and non-judgmental!! But I guess my latest victimisation at the hands of Lankan Tamil men should have had some other reason other than some kind of cultural Talibanism, because these guys and the shop know me for several years, and hence, I suspect that I was humilated and attacked for some other reason about which I cannot speculate!!

2008-01-26T05:18:00.000Z

Russell Crowe: Another prolific puncher and assaulter who gets turbulently and unilaterally violent without any need for self-defence (unlike in my case) but still never gets really prosecuted or convicted due to his celebrity status and colour of his skin!

Here are some news links to his past commissions of assaults and battery, and also racist behaviour:

Crowe's racist insult lead to punch-up

Russell Crowe Accused of Assault With Hotel Phone

2008-01-26T04:55:00.000Z

Congratulations to Ratan Tata for the "Nano" and a much deserved "Padma Vibhushan" award!!

My belated congratulations for Ratan Tata for his break-through people's car "Nano" that costs around £1,250!! The Padma Vibhushan award bestowed on him is well deserved, given his tireless and dynamic corporate leadership with an acute sense of social responsibility! I wish him a long life and unending vigour for many more years of active leadership in many aspects of Indian industry!! India and conscientious Indians are indeed proud of Ratan Tata!!

2008-01-26T04:48:00.000Z

Condemnation:

I join many other media mandarins in condemning the Government of India for the launching of the Israeli spy satellite and further launching of similar satellites which will only be used by Israel for its imperialistic and war mongering purposes to create conflict misery and destabilisation in the middle east! This only shows that the Indian system of democracy is heavily flawed, since a crucial foreign policy act was committed without any cabinet approval or parliamentary stamp!!

2008-01-26T04:17:00.000Z

My punch in self-defence and John Prescott's punch:

Play the above video to view John Prescott's punch because the one I delivered in self defence was similar!

The punch I landed on one of my assailants on self-defence was selectively and expediently used by the police to arrest me and charge me of "common assault" when the several punches and kicks that landed on me was not used by the police to arrest my attackers! I wonder what could be the reason for the one sided and partial action of the police!!??

Thinking of punches, I was immediately reminded of the punches John Prescott landed on a person who threw an egg at him on his campaign trail and I had to ask when Prescott was not arrested and charged for throwing a punch on someone who threw an egg (which could be described as disproportionate response), why was I arrested and charged for responding in self defence by landing a punch on my assailants who surrounded me, heckled me and shoved me, and also went on to attack me in a most vicious manner!!?? And why didn't the police never bother to listen to my version of the events and why they thought they cannot arrest my attackers despite the several blows and kicks I suffered, while I was arrested for the single punch I delivered in self defence?

My elaborate critical blog on the Talibanish and vicious retards (who happened to be of Eelam Tamil background) who attacked me will be posted later, along with what I exactly think about the regressive, Talibanish and de-cerebralised psycho-social attitudes of some people in the expatriate Eelam Tamil community later today or tomorrow, because I have to choose my words carefully!

As Periyar had displayed, one can love a people and still criticize them psycho-socially, and I don't think my advocacy for the human rights, humanitarian rights and conceptual support for the armed struggle of Eelam Tamils for self rule will be negated in any way by my critical observations on the psycho-social condition of the Eelam Tamils!!

2008-01-25T22:23:00.000Z

Click on the links below:

Sri Lanka probes mass grave

16 Bodies Found Dumped in Sri Lanka

Lanka should remove defence system in Palk strait: MDMK

2008-01-25T18:03:00.000Z

Corrected Version 1

Vile, vicious and violent Lankan Tamil males in East London – A prelude: (to be continued tomorrow)

I was attacked two days ago outside a Sri Lankan Tamil shop in East Ham called “Seelan’s Stores” by a bunch of hooliganish and lumpen young Lankan Tamil males and its shop keeper working in the shop, and when I called the cops, they attackers turned the table against me and claimed that I attacked them, produced false witnesses, and the ever prejudiced British police which is very eager to execute an arrest when allegations are made against coloured people (particularly against each other), when the same police never turned up when I was brutally attacked by racists at the Hammersmith tube station in 2003 despite waiting for them for many hours (and on other occasions when I was the victim), promptly arrested me based on the false allegations disregarding the fact (and by misinterpreting the CCTV images) that I was the one who called the cops when I was physically heckled, shoved and provoked, and forced to act in self defence, and I was the one who suffered the brutal attacks at the hands of these violent men, who also threw me to the ground and stomped me! I spent the morning of Jan 23 in the police station and have been bailed out, but I still face the possibility of being charged with “common assault” and facing a “trial” and a custodial sentence if my Lankan Tamil assailants from the above shop continue to “press charges” !! I had also given an elaborate complaint to the police that I was the victim who was primarily attacked by these ruffians, but for some strange reason the police were hell bent on arresting me in a very prejudiced and malicious manner by disregarding my complaint!! But this incident is the latest incident is a series of abusive, violent and oppressive experiences I had suffered at the hands of Lankan Tamil males in East Ham over the years. And I will be writing a more elaborate blog on the background of this incident and also on my related socio-psychological comments on the Lankan Tamil expatriate condition in London later tomorrow, which will show to readers that my passionate advocacy for the human rights, humanitarian rights and a conceptual support to the armed struggle for Lankan Tamils (within human rights and laws of war) hid my subjective disdain and hatred for the socio-psychological and societal experiences with the expatriate Eelam Tamil community (which was not allowed by me to affect my objective defence of the rights of the Tamils in Lanka suffering crimes against their humanity and genocide), given my sense of objectivity!!