Originally posted by sated buddha
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What I said is the fact shorn of all BS.
The Congress left your people to slaughter by the Sri Lankans for your people killing Rajiv Gandhi.
The other point you allude to is that the Sikhs became mainstream once more after the bloodletting of '84, but you guys are still the step children.
I don't know about that. I have MANY Sikh friends (we were 14 when it happened) who are still mightily cut up and feel that they never got justice.
What is your beef? Help us understand. As far as I know and can see, you are one of the richest most progressive and advancd states. With understandable water issues. Issues of ego about language (for nothing - you punch far above your weight in terms of numbers and representation at the Center). Issues of ego about ambitions of power at the center (join the club - we Maharshtrians are an equally aggrieved lot). And of course the issue of being abandoned by the rest of India (not just the north) when it came to Sri Lanka.
The Congress left your people to slaughter by the Sri Lankans for your people killing Rajiv Gandhi.
The other point you allude to is that the Sikhs became mainstream once more after the bloodletting of '84, but you guys are still the step children.
I don't know about that. I have MANY Sikh friends (we were 14 when it happened) who are still mightily cut up and feel that they never got justice.
What is your beef? Help us understand. As far as I know and can see, you are one of the richest most progressive and advancd states. With understandable water issues. Issues of ego about language (for nothing - you punch far above your weight in terms of numbers and representation at the Center). Issues of ego about ambitions of power at the center (join the club - we Maharshtrians are an equally aggrieved lot). And of course the issue of being abandoned by the rest of India (not just the north) when it came to Sri Lanka.
Ambitions in taking part in the center is only of the few leaders and how many tamilians do you see as IAS or IPS officers, heck bar one none of the present or past CM's of TN had been a tamil. It has mostly been Telugu(karunanidhi), Mallu(MGR) and Kannada(Jayalalitha ironically) . We are past the mentality of only we should rule ourselves. We just don't want to treated like dirt and if the government can't even do that then how do you want us to feel, all glee and proud being a dirt ? If a fisherman from Gujarat or a farm worker from Punjab is abducted by the Pakistani force what would you do ? but when its happening in Tamil nadu that too at the rate of an alarming number ( our fishermen are caught in the numbers of hundreds) the Indian government doesn't even speak to the SL to release them or have never ensured their safety. Can't your beloved Modi Ji do that if he wants to ? he is not isn't it. I like Modi but these make me think twice about him.
Also we had a beef when Indira Gandhi gave Kachchatheevu (the small island between India and Sri Lanka) which originally belonged to a Tamil royal family who allowed our fishermen to freely navigate , without even consulting us ? What do you think we should be doing, sit ideally. What if Tomorrow Modi gives about a 150 sqkm land to Chinese as a goodwill will you accept it ? obviously no ( I know Modi is not such type but giving you an example )
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Kachcha-thiva or Katchatheevu or Kachchativu (Tamil: கச்சத்தீவு) is a controversial uninhabited island administered by Sri Lanka. The island was originated because of oceanic eruption happened on 14th century, Rameshwaram also originated because of the same eruption. The island was originally owned by Ramanad Kingdom of Ramanathapuram district ( Tamilnadu ) before Indian independence. In 1974, India forcibly recognized the Sri Lankan ownership to the island on a conditional agreement. It has a Catholic shrine and has been declared as a sacred area by the government of Sri Lanka.
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