Friday, November 14, 2008

Srilankan Tamil issue and itslevel of significance to Tamil Nadu

The whole of tamil Nadu is fasting along with Kollywood personalities and politicians, all for the sake of the helpless Srilankan tamils, who are suffering out there in our neighbouring country. Our Chief Mininster is trying to eke out funds from whatever means possible. Some people from the film fraternity have gone to the extent of hailing Prabakaran, the leader of the banned outfit LTTE, and were jailed. The State government has already threatened the Congress to back off its suppport if it does not look into the Srinlankan issue seriously.
With all these happening around us, I still have a question lingering around my mind - Do we really need to do all these? Yes, We tamils may be humanitarian in all aspects, and when are neighbouring country is in trouble, we defenitely have a thing to worry about. But what is interesting is that we are ordering the Srilankan government to stop the war within their country.Wierd, isn,t it? Mr. Karunanidhi wants Rajapakse to obey his orders and befriend Prabhakaran and the tamils in their country. Srilanka has already remended us that it is their internal matter, and India or Tamil Nadu has no rights to interfere in it. The Centre has always been reluctant to talk about this issue with the Srilankan Govt. but the pressure from the DMK, which is an integral part of the Congress led govt. at the centre, was too much to ignore.
In the fast organised by the film fraternity Kamal Hassan made a valid point "We are worried that the tamil speaking people in Lanka are in trouble, but by all means they are Srilankans and not Indians. If there is a problem for people in UK, do the people in US gett worried because the y speak the same language?" And another interesting point is thst they have collected funds to send it over to the Tamils there. To whom will they handover the funds to? To rajapakse? Or Prabakan? These questions are best left unanswered.
So what does the Tamil Nadu government want from this issue? Why is so much importance is given to the problem in Lanka, when we ourselves have many issues to cope up with. There are problems like inadequate power, dwindling agricultural lands etc. to be addressed by the govt. That is why the CM is sitting up there in the St. George's fort. Before the Lankan crisis what had the CM been doing? He was almost non-existent, just showing up for filmy functions and audio releases and yes, he had also written the script for a film. He could have done this when he is at home, and he need not have become the CM to attend functions an write scripts. The Chennai Corporation has been doing so good that it overshadowed the shoddy performance of the State Govt. And now the Government is celebrating the achievements by them in the 2 years in power. This way, neither the State nor the country would move any where further.
But the problem is I am able to identify all the problems which prove to be the hinderancefor the State'e growth, but I do not have the resolutions with me, and I dont think anybody else wold have one. Lets all hope for the best to happen.

1 comment:

Ashok said...

john abraham its rocks machi.. Regarding the fund, CM handover that to red cross. The worst story is no one in tamilnadu(includes politicians,film industry etc.,) didnt talked about the solution for the issue.. they r on and on talking about the course and results of the war. am 100% agreed to ur post. LTTE ask for a seperate country from srilanka.. is it possible?? its something like kashmiris and even dravidian(kalainar and anna way back 1960s)asked for a seperate country in India itself. The best solution s too force prabakaran to go for non-violence and negotiate the srilankan govn to include few srilankan tamils in their government.. if kalainar and film industry works towards it.. tat would be more reasonable.