Trading on Tigers,the TN Style!

It is all happening now,folks!the hunter being hunted;the tiger has no place to hide,leave alone crouch,in its own territory in the Emerald Isle!Expected to provide "balm" to the deprived Tamils in their own land,the LTTE could provide nothing but the "bomb".The decade-old bloody war is nearing its logical conclusion---viz..the extinction of the Tiger community.All the right-thinking, apolitical Tamils,can now heave a sigh of relief,notwithstanding the problems faced by the common man in the embattled Tiger territory.

But what this blog aims to deal with, is not the plight of the toiling Tamils there or how the fleeing Tigers use these innocent civilians as shields,but of the way TN politicos are trading in the name of Tigers reiterating once again their brazen,farcical desire to fish in troubled waters taking the TN voters for granted.

We all believe that paper tigers don't roar.But in the rational TN polity,walking around in Tiger skin is still a popular pastime. These paper tigers cry aloud their shrill rhetoric that the Srilankan army should withdraw from the hunt--so that the Liberation Tigers are not just liberated but can live and kill happily thereafter.But thankfully,Srilanka is not India nor is Rajapakse a Manmohan Singh.The Island nation knows that tame India is not worthy of emulation when it comes to fighting terror and so it sees this as a fight to the finish stopping at nothing short of the annihilation of the Tiger population.It did not therefore,like India,"try to bring international pressure to make the LTTE mend its ways".

But let us look at what happens in the rationalist-ruled Tamilnadu.Everybody at the healm of affairs knows that India has no legal or moral authority to to ask Srilanka to stop its war on terror and thereby submit itself to the Tiger's gluttonous hunger for blood.Yet these politicos(described rightly as 'jokers' by the Srilankan army chief) boisterously cry from roof tops that the'genocide' should be stopped forthwith.

We Tamils boast of our priceless heritage saying that 'we were born much before the mud and stone were born!' . we are a peculiar race in more than one ways.We, according to these politicos should have more concern for the Srilankan Tamils than our compatriots say in Punjab or the North East or elsewhere.They very often conveniently suppress the difference between the Srilankan Tamil and the LTTE's bloody agenda.The LTTE has been mercilessly killing any other Tamil leader whom it sees as a threat to its authority and is forcing innocent, brain-washed youth to the war front.It never hesitates to use these very Tamils as shieldagainst the Srilankan army.Such an organisation deserves no human support leave alone the Tamils' support.

But that does not stop the 'thamasha'going on in the name of Srilankan Tamils issue.The man at the healm of the 'rationalist' govt. has perfected the art of bending the issue like Beckam.Double tongue is a favourite game here.These people can roar in support of LTTE here and toe the official line of non interference when reminded of article 356,after all they have the dubious distinction of having dumped their main ideal in the face of constitutional threat.

So,what all can these clowns do?Pass resolution after resolution in the assembly condemning the 'atrocities',incite students to boycott classes on the issue(which no studentwill refuse),give 'endless ultimatums' to the Centre,pen endless poetry shedding bloody tears for their brothers in the Island.One more thing and the most tragic of all this--ask all the MPs(including the 'family'MP) to promptly ' submit' their resignation letters to the CM only to be returned to them later!

Another leader,a 'champion of the cause of Dalits' would go on an indefenite fast in between meals and insruct his cadre to 'take care of govt.buses'!The physician-father of the cabinet minister vows to bring TN to a grinding halt if the 'genocide' does not stop.But as a journalist put it,it is good news as TN is in reverse gear and halting is better than the slide.How a 'frozen TN'will freeze the 'atrocity' in Srilanka is as baffling as the Dr's prescription!Though the 'amma' has been consistent in 'tiger-bashing' from the very beginning,the crouching tiger in her own backyard does not hide his love or lust for tigers,promising a grand agitation during the 2nd week of Feb,perhaps after the SL army sounds its victory bugle.The 'captain' and the 'supreme star' well, do not have time for all these,being busy running around trees with heroines half their age!

Amids all these comic scenes of the tragedy,good old Pranabda has atlast got his ticket to Srilanka confirmed and having no other option with both his central and state mentors in hospital,has to re-enact the farce of 'requesting' Rajapakse to protect the life and property of Tamils in the warring nation.

And the 'theatre of the absurd' continues to stage its plays in the TN arena!If not the common man,atleast the politicos should'live happily ever after'.