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Identity crisis...Are you a Tamil ?

Are you a Tamil... then you are a terrorist...

First I will tell you a story.
There was a Srilankan Tamil in Colombo. He had a high post in Sinhalese government.
He is educated abroad and from wealthy family. He never felt that he is a Tamil. He stayed apart from Tamil politics. During the 1983 riot every Tamil family in Colombo was attacked. The Sinhalese mob had voter list in their hand. From voter list they found Tamil names and the address. They killed thousands and raped hundreds like this. Our highly educated pro-government guy was also attacked. He pleaded to the rioters that although he is Tamil he always worked with Sinhalese. The rioters did not listen. They stabbed him and molested his wife.

The moral of the story is even though you did not identify yourself as a Tamil, the enemies will consider you as a Tamil.

The moral is not just a moral. It is very real.

Do you know why the Srilanka navy shoots Indian fisherman?
Do you know why the Pakistan navy never shoot Indian fisherman?

So simple question. Yet you might not know the answer.

Sinhalese shoot you because they see you not as Indians. They see you as Tamilians. They see you as Tamilians helping the rebels.

Pakistan navy never shoot Indian fisher man, because Indian navy will shoot at Pakistan navy.
Yes of course, Indian navy never shoot Srilanka navy because they are friends, even though Indians...sorry Tamilians die.

Now say who you are. Tamilian or Indian. If you say that I am Indian, I bet you. Get in a boat and go for fishing with fisherman in Rameswaram, and yell in Sea that I am Indian...When Sinhalese navy comes go and say to them that you are an Indian. If you still think they will still hear you and let u go back to Tamilnadu alive.

Comments

Umesh Sakolkar said…
We indians need to get united first to resolve these kind of problems. We internally make divisions like andhra, tamil, kannada, malayali, hindi etc. we need to see beyond this, as we have one land which is bharath. no tamilian, no kannadadiga exists in bharath. we can deal with this dual mind. "Akhand Bharath" - United Bharath is the only solution for internal and external problems. How to achieve that is our generation thought, we can do it, let us think in this direction
Rajesh said…
This starts an age old good discussion...
I see farther than what you see...why stop with Akhand Bharath...unite whole world and make it as a single country... :-)
Akhand Bharath is not this generations thought. It is the thought of fundamentalistic RSS BJP propaganda.
If Akhand Bharath is India that includes Srilanka + Pakistan + Nepal + Burma + Afghanistan then
I will ask for Akhand Tamil nation that includes Srilanka + TamilNadu + Kerala + Karnataka + Indonesia
Both are very very big Jokes....which will dump a nation in to infinite chaos...
Secular and Diverse Bharath is this 21st generation thought.
India is able to exist as one nation because of proper power sharing between linguistic states.
It is really magic that still works because of equality between all ethnic groups.
Kannadiga, Tamilians, Andhrites and every ethnic group makes Bharath.
We are like European union...We are country of countries...
Unity in diversity is our slogan...
And finally coming to the blog... "Identity is not only what you say about as identity....it is also what other people identify with you"
This is a big topic.. if we get a chance we will speak out when we meet...
Thanks for posting a good comment...
Umesh Sakolkar said…
There was threat to bharath during chanakya time when alexander so called the great attacked. Since people were practicing our culture there was no impact to bharath. the problems started after gori. gazni attacks and moghals, recent english attacks on all aspects of life say political, social and spiritual etc, destabilized us. they induced all possible duality in us. So we want to live our own way lifestyle and heroic way, we need to start practiving our own way of life and akhand bharath concept is more relevent which will resolve trivial differences among us. we made the trivial things as big problems since we dont think at national level when appraching to a problem. My view is not uniting pakistan with us, we need to have a cultural uniting with akhand bharath. this does not harm us. We can discuss more on this. yes, we need to go into history and facts on this. lets have a discussion whenever we meet.
Rajesh said…
Culture of Moghals who attacked as is very superior and well developed than us. Muslim moghals were not Barbarians. They are empire builders. Before advent of Western powers, It is the Muslim Ottaman Empire ruled from Europe to China. They were well advanced in Maths, Science & Astronomy..(example ur algebra and conic equations are from them) You are mentioning that "our culture" is great and Moghals destabilized us. The truth is Hinduism itself has no stability. Hinduism is nothing but casteism. (you cannot realize it because we live in city culture and things are changing) Hinduism and it barbaric sanadhana dharma which killed scores of low caste people historically... It burnt wives as "sathi" when a husband is dead... Hinduism was reformed from its primitive form after the advent of European migrants... Islam was never reformed.. Its currently under reform (terrorism is an after effect) Islam originally is the greatest philosophy in living religions... actually it is a revolutionary religion when Mohammed Nabi started it...But local cultures submerged it in dark...

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