Comments on: Some species are better extinct

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:44:11 +0000

socal, I understand that much. What interests me is that I have never heard of this before. I wonder if anyone else has.

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:02:29 +0000

[...] The casualty of this delinquency and lack of focus on Foreign Policy beyond the Nuclear Deal and Af-Pak Fak-Ap, is the diminished Indian Leadership in the sub-continent, the latest being the Sri Lankan crisis. [...]

By: socal

socal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:16:16 +0000

>>>What’s the story that Sanjay Gupta finds “too sordid to be told in a family newspaper”?

Going by the mention of a teenage bomber I assume he’s hinting at Premadasa’s penchant for Holy Father proclivities.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:42:40 +0000

What’s the story that Sanjay Gupta finds “too sordid to be told in a family newspaper”?

By: Nitin

Nitin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:59 +0000

Sanjeev,

It is repugnant to compare a terrorist organisation that kills its own people, as well as innocent non-combatants with those great folks you cite.

Perhaps your forget, or don’t know, what the LTTE did to other Sri Lankan Tamil leaders in Batticaloa in 1986. Since when was killing your own people a sign of worthiness?

By: Sanjeev J

Sanjeev J — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:30:55 +0000

Obliviously, I din’t include many … but my main focus was the army and its leaders …

Why didn’t YOU include Subhash Chandra Bose?

By: Oldtimer

Oldtimer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:02:24 +0000

SanjeevJ,

>>Shivaji, Rana Pratap, Lakshmibai, Rama, Krishna and Chanakya

Why didn’t you include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharalal Nehru and Sardar Patel also?

By: SanjeevJ

SanjeevJ — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:49:48 +0000

From what I have heard from people with first hand knowledge of Tamilian Hindus life in Sri Lanka, it is pretty terrible. They are very heavily discriminated by Singhalese and their is institutionalized racism. The situation for Tamil Hindus is same as the one in Malaysia.

In the midst of all that, LTTE was the only hope for Tamils. There is overwhelming support for LTTE among Tamilian Hindus.

I think saying that LTTE was stupid and doesn’t deserve our respect just because they chose for fight against a might army is to deny our heritage and belittle the contributions of thousands who fight and die for worthy causes. What would you then call people like Shivaji, Rana Pratap, Lakshmibai, Rama, Krishna and Chanakya among others who dared to fight against the deadliest enemy in the face of overwhelming odds? Would you put them in same category as LTTE because they chose to fight and lead the people knowing that some of them may die?

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:32:16 +0000

Anonymous,

Do you have the details of the TV programme? It’s nice to know an INI blog was cited.

We’ve restructured INI Signal into an INI community forum, where we feature invited guests and interested community bloggers to write. See The Broad Mind » It has all the Signal archives. So no, this has nothing to do with TV coverage or ‘trouble’.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:00:26 +0000

The signal.nationaliterest blog was quoted in a tv program on LTTE. The blog now says ‘forbidden’. Did you guys run into any trouble?