So, Obama won the Nobel peace prize.
I got nothing personal against Obama, but I am not sure if I should term this as joke of the year 2009 or not.
1) DMK fools are up to it again. These people will never improve… including their grand old man, who has given a new definition to ‘family politics’!
2) Our fellow citizens chew too much paan. There is even one called ‘Honeymoon special’ costing Rs.100 with ‘chittu kuruvi lehiyam’ (no clue on what it is actually, but claimed to be an aphrodisiac… ). *Quack warning*
3) There are too many ’swamijis’ around. Those who want to get cheated, get cheated.
4) Too much of ‘light’ pollution… its been some years since I had a clear view of starry sky at night.
5) Too many people dig their nose and fart in public. The look on their face when ‘discovered’ is, well… I will leave at that. Nasty.
நாட்டை பேரம் பேசி பங்கு போடறதே அசிங்கம். வெட்கம் மானம் சூடு சொரணை… ம்ம்ம் ஹ்ம்ம்
இந்த லக்ஷனதுல நொட்டநை வேற!
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3036324
One wonders how these Communists (no matter what their denomination is) came to be so hated around the world.
or Mutt and politics, or Mosque and politics… whatever. But this article shows how absurd our ’secular’ philosophy is.
One person has commented as follows:
I just got news from home that colleges in TN have been asked to close until Feb 08, 2009.
Reason? Support for Tamil people suffering in Sri Lanka. Absurd. Ridiculous.
The only good thing that comes out of such a decision is a whole lot of students who can really take a break from the drudgery of college working days are very happy.
Seriously… is it real concern for people who are suffering? Or is it veiled, subtle (or may be not so subtle!!) support for LTTE? The photo in this news clipping makes me think it is the latter.
Oh, I forgot to add…
From http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090130/jsp/nation/story_10460494.jsp
“Chennai, Jan. 29: A youth burnt himself to death today to protest the Centre’s alleged failure to save Sri Lankan Tamils, a day after Pranab Mukherjee returned from Colombo.
R. Muthukumaran, a 30-year-old DTP operator with a Tamil magazine run by PMK leader S. Ramadoss’s daughter, set himself ablaze at Shastri Bhavan, a complex of central government offices in the heart of Chennai. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his burns.”
You know what I think? This fellow, for all his admirable tamil spirit, was just plain DUMB. Who knows what indoctrination he was put through to come to such a stupid decision?
Get the hint between the bold parts? Me thinks so!
When it comes to politics, my friends, our politicians are no better than terrorists!
… my 100th post on the blog. Well… I never kept count of it, but just happened to notice it today.
Its been a really, really long time and two deleted blogs since I wrote anything really heavy… I mean, something which is sure to start fires in the pants of some people who might be reading this blog.
So. Here comes.
Anyone from TamilNadu would be very much aware of the current spate of hunger strikes and human chains… all being held “in support of the suffering Tamil people in Sri Lanka”.
Whats the deal? Seems like innocent “Tamilians” are caught in the war between the SriLankan Government forces and the LTTE. And I have seen the Tamil Actors’ guild call up a day of hunger strike, weep their tears, pledge money for assistance to the “Tamil Cause”. Blood relations, they call them. “Eminent” directors Ameer and Seeman were arrested a week or so before for speaking praises about “Annan (big brother)” Prabhakaran, the LTTE chief.
Karunanidhi, the chief minister of TamilNadu, is in a sad position. Neither can he vocally support LTTE, nor can he say publicly that LTTE is a terrorist organization. So, as brilliant he is, once the LTTE has been cornered in the north, he gave a loud call for ending the “genocide” against Tamils in Sri Lanka. And all of his “faithful dogs” (oh, the elected MPs, I mean) submitted token resignations in protest of the “genocide”.(I don’t even want to get in to describing the emotional drama put up by people like Vaiko of MDMK, Pazha. Nedumaran, Thirumavalavan, Ramadoss etc.)
A nice way to save the LTTE and at the same time score political points, no? Not to mention the distraction it provides from the current severe power crisis in TamilNadu, thanks to the inept skills of the Power Minister Arcot Veerasamy. (The funny part is he was very quick to put the blame on the previous Government run by Jayalalitha, saying that it had not done enough power schemes!!!)
So, where am I going with all these? I just have 2 points to make:
1) The war in Sri Lanka should not be stopped until Prabhakaran and his lieutenants have surrendered or are either captured/ killed. Much blood has been spilled on their account and leaving them free would guarantee another bloody decade. LTTE must disappear as a terrorist organization, completely, for peace to flourish in any place within Sri Lanka.
2) War is never fair. People will die, no matter the precautions taken. So, for all those idiots who wish to fan the much advertised flame of “Tamil” blood and whatnot, I say “Shut the f*** up!!”. No matter how much they cry, it is the internal issue of another sovereign country and you CANNOT dictate terms to them. Only thing you can do is to request them to end this war quickly and find a permanent solution. But making school children stand in heavy rain and blocking traffic for miles and miles makes you look stupid. (Oh and PLEASE don’t tell me that all the schools and colleges that participated in the human chain craziness did it voluntarily.)
To all those “Tamil” sentimantilists, I ask you these:
1) Do you justify LTTE’s methods and propaganda?
2) Will you send out your support only for another “Tamil” person? Why don’t you use your humanitarian concern and organize demonstrations and collect money in support for “humans” in places like Somalia… or support the democracy movement in Myanmar?
3) When you ask for Tamil Ealam for your “blood brothers and sisters”, do you also agree to the demands made by the militants from Pakistan who demand Kashmir for their “blood brothers and sisters”?
4) To the unscrupolous politicians… you people show too much emotion looking at the videos circulating around claiming how the Tamil people suffer in the war. Why now and why not before? This is a 30 or more year old problem… where were your emotions till now? Are you trying to save the innocent tamil people or the LTTE?
I have seen and heard so much crap the last few weeks, that my lips curl in disgust everytime I hear some politician fool speak about this issue.
Enough. May God save the innocent people.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068840
One man has replied in another web posting that being a tamilian he is very happy to see this action. I have one response to that idiot: Identify yourselves as humans first… and not with some pattern of sound waves.
So, Why not resign for the massacres in Somalia? Or Jammu and Kashmir?
Seems like we need to introduce a new term… Tamil Fundamentalism.
Seems like the old man of TamilNadu is celebrating his 85th birthday today.
I H-A-T-E it when about 200-odd police personnel cordon off an area and I need to get permission to enter a street to reach my own home!!
One constable and a sub-inspector bore the brunt of my ire early today morning when they tried to stop and question me. I did cooperate but when they said I need to wait until one of the “mamool” security men can identify me as a “regular”, I lost my temper.
Not that they are responsible for this havoc, but whoever came up with such ideas to put the common public at distress should be tonsured, “karumpulli sempulli” kuthified, paraded on a kazhuthai (donkey) and flayed in public!! Bloody idiots have the entire city dug up for banners and other nonsense…! And I almost caught my neck in an electrical wire hanging right in front of my gate… some other f’ing, bloody idiot has thought it is a good idea to light up the entire street when there are street lights all over the place!!
F’ing baboons!
What a waste of resources and time!
So now that the government has decreed that the pongal day that begins the month of “Thai” will be celebrated as the Tamil New Year, everyone will start doing so? Hardly!!
Only the “Kalaignar TV” channel’s news reporters will be able to find such celebrations. How? Anywhere people celebrate pongal, the idiots will showcase it as if the people are very happy about celebrating New Year!
How this is a contribution to the tamil community is beyond me… since people have been celebrating the first day of Chithirai month as the Tamil New Year without any issues for as long as I have know.
And the article claims “the Tamil scholars showered encomiums”. Who are the scholars? Surely Karuna’s cronies Duraimurugan and Jegatrakshagan don’t count in, do they?
“This, they said, was the renaissance period of Tamil language. “
Oh, oooh… aaahhh, wow! I can hardly breath. I can imagine Avvaiyar, Kambar, Thiruvalluvar etc. praising this old man from the heavens for his great act!
Stupid asses. Attention whoring at its finest, IMO.
Sharif’s nomination papers rejected
One day after I read this news, I find one more.
I don’t aspire to be PM again: Sharif
Sour Grapes?
Deve Gowda pulls the plug on BJP
Deve Gowda has proved himself to be a politician who has given in to nepotism. So, he and his family can now join the elite club with so many veteran (read: shameless) ‘political families’.
Oh and shame on the BJP too, for falling in to this crap. Its strange how greed for power can push people to unreasonable limits!
“You should not let these men (politician) to come out”
Call it judicial activism or whatever… its extremely nice to see remarks like the one made by the Honorable Judge in the above link.
Problem is, or rather the fact is, our VIPs are mostly pachyderms who will never feel shamed by such comments. Want proof of their shamelessness? Read this.
Update 1: Need more proof for the shamelessness that our politicians exhibit so exuberantly? READ THIS!
Ambedkar statue defiled. Tensions grip Bhopal
Hey, I have something to say to all those people who get angry because of their favorite leaders’ statue (not just Ambedkar’s) being defiled.
Please gather funds and build a watch tower near each statue. Appoint a watchman, a hunter with a gun and an umbrella holder. The watchman will be able to sound the alarm whenever someone gets within 10 ft of the statue. The hunter in the watchtower will be extremely useful to shoot down crows or some birds which poop on the statue. The umbrella man will be able to shelter the statue if it gets too hot or if it rains. This way, for each bloody statue, there will be at least 3 families that earn a living.
Kanimozhi rakes up the Dravidian-Aryan issue
I wonder if people like Kanimozhi will ever grow tired of the stale, putrid, overused anti-brahminical chants of ‘Periyarism’, a stupid brand of politics (read my other article related to this ‘ism’) and so-called reforms started over half a century ago. Its been so overused that one thinks if these people are just desperate and have no other ways of reacting to criticism. Get creative, IMO!
So much for a person who is projected as an intellectual and poetess. But can one expect anything better from (one of) the offspring of Karunanidhi?
The way Kanimozhi became a MP reminds me of a line from the song “Rani Maharani” in the film “Saraswathi Sabatham”. The line is “Yanai Maalai pottadhale ala vantha Rani”… translated that “The queen who came to power because she was garlanded by an elephant”. Funny how people could think of such situations while writing songs decades earlier.
Update:
Kanimozhi has written to the Editor of the New Indian Express saying that she never mentioned any of the names as the article portrays and expresses her dismay at the bad reporting. Yeah, right!
Maybe she tried to get the kind of attention her father gets when he thunders that he is a dravidian.
Poor woman! Sour grapes. 
Karunanidhi scores for the sheer display of political cunningness. So now, Ram, Jesus and Mohammed are all one and the same… that too because Rajinikanth had asked him to resolve the issue!
So, the rational chief minister will listen to only celebrities, but is deaf to voices of all others?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/18/pakistan.explosions/index.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/56740
Could it be just that this bombing was an isolated incident, carried out by one senseless fundamentalist? If anything, it has just added to the drama of the former prime minister’s return, at the cost of a hundred lives.
Update 1:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/19pak2.htm
““This was a terrible act of terrorism perpetrated by Muslims on Muslims. We are all Muslims and we should learn to live together,” said a bystander.“
So, if it had been a non-muslim who blew up the bomb, would they still try learn to live together? I feel sorry that so many innocent lives were lost, but this kinda attitude sucks!
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070027752&ch=9/30/2007%204:45:00%20PM
Finally! Lets the games begin!
One question to Karuna though – Define “evil forces”.
Perspective is always a fascinating thing, isn’t it?
Update 1: Well, I guess even the SC’s order to ban the bandh is not enough. No buses, shops and many organizations closed… so I guess Karuna gets one.
Update 2:
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070027836&ch=10/1/2007%2012:00:00%20PM
Ouch! That gotta hurt!
But you know how ‘resilient’ these ‘tamil guardians’ are. They fall face first in to mud and claim the mud did not stick to their mustaches.
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/26slid1.htm
Good interview.
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/220763.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200709242238.htm
For whatever its worth…
I strongly protest against this bandh that has been called for by the ruling party and its cronies in TamilNadu on Oct 01, 2007.
To me, this simply looks as an arrogant stunt to divert attention of people away from comments made by MK on Rama and the violence that ensued. And now he has begun the usual crap on ‘communal forces’ obstructing development.
“Karunanidhi also asserted that his remarks on Ram Setu will not cost the party its Hindu votes. getStoryCSSNew(); “
May be. But, Mr. MK, I won’t be too sure that this will be the same case for your comments on Rama.
I wish someone can file a PIL in SC and get a ban on this bandh!
Just saw this on rediff.
Edit: On second thoughts, I think this exit tax is a bad idea. It be much better if the politicians were subject to quarterly financial audits.
Routine whine: Whoever came up with the idea of offering free colour TVs when people don’t even have proper electricity connection and those who implemented this idea must be flogged in public. Putting the idea to work on an election win is one thing. Claiming it as an achievement and publicizing it… *spit*
Tamil world, Tamilian esteem, Tamilian values… a language has become the campaigning slogan for many ‘dravidian’ parties in this state. Sure, I like tamil for its depth and antiquity… but, I can never understand how some of the tamil ‘leaders’ think that propagating tamil would add boost to people’s esteem or value to someone’s life.
It is a well known fact that many of these ‘leaders’ openly support the LTTE movement (oh… LTTE guys are ‘freedom fighters’… not ‘terrorists’ to these leaders, BTW!) JUST because LTTE claims to be fighting for tamil speaking community in SriLanka. How they justify their reasons for such support is beyond me.
Here is something which I think as funny: Many of the tamilian leaders, without doubt, hold the ‘Thirukkural’ text in high esteem. And one of them is our own M.K, the hyped up rationalist. Did he start reading the book from back and leave out the very first verse written by Thiruvalluvar?
The wordings used by the Supreme Court in slapping a stay on the reservation for OBCs are pretty strong. And they are right… it happens only in India… that communities line-up for being labeled as “backward”. So much for self-respect and sense of identity!
India’s hall of shame… the likes of V.P Singh, Arjun Singh, Ramadoss, Karunanidhi (oh and the communist idiots too) were (too) quick to react. Seems like the Supreme Court just put a dampener on their hopes of winning the next elections!
And as predictable he is always, the old man of TamilNadu thinks this is a grave injustice to the ‘oppressed millions’ and calls for a total strike. Does it happen anywhere else in the world, that a ruling government calls for a bandh? I haven’t heard about it.
I believe that E.V. Ramaswamy and his breed of politicians have done more harm than good by propagating an ideology of hate in the garb of social justice. He and his current day followers have come to follow the steps of very same evils they were meant to fight in the first place, by having taken up the exact weapons they wanted to destroy… ‘caste’ and ‘class’. And thereby they lose any credibility in their proclamation for social justice.
I sometimes wonder why some people can be so famous as an intellectual and yet can be so stupid. I guess becoming famous makes them want to cling on to it no matter what, even if it means simply ceasing to think.
Mr. M. Karunanidhi is one. “Free color TVs for poor households”. Stupid. Enough said.
You cannot denounce one terrorist group for its attacks, saying you oppose terrorism… and support another group’s attack elsewhere, saying its a freedom struggle.Simple logic.
I find it hard to refute his logic.