TN – a state? / Country? / World?

Finally our old good politician on his last few years on this miserable earth has got what he deserved. The Malaysian minister has asked him to “lay off” – a polite term for “Shut up and mind your business”! It has not been easy going for my fellow Tamil countrymen for the last few years or so as their government somehow with an uncanny nack, manages to lock their horns against their neighboring states, often giving the impression that they are looking for a separate country inside India or for a broader perspective – a separate world of their own. TN government has often dared to invade my state Kerala and host their flag in there and the latest turmoil is about the Mullapperiyar dam which is inside Kerala border and is given for lease. This is a dam which was build about a century before by the British people (if we had built it, it would’ve been down by now) and has crossed its service duration long back. It causes a constant threat to not less than few million lives in Kerala and TN somehow wanted to store more water in it which, is as good as letting off the safety pin of a grenade. Final word is that Kerala govt is going to build a new Dam adjacent to it… way to go comrades! It was not different in the case of Cauvery dispute as they fought with Karnataka government. The old man even wrote a poem on the killing of an LTTE militia leader forgetting that it was one of them who had killed the Indian prime minister Rajeev Gandhi. Scores of innocent people die in Srilanka every day due to this ethnic battle. After this it was his remarks on Lord Ram whom many Indians worship which irked a nation wide protest. Now, after all these he has poked his cute little nose in affairs of a different country itself – all for his fellow “Tamilians” I repeat – read it as Tamilians; not Indians. I really believe all these ethnic support drama is nothing but to cover up the internal issues in Tamilnadu itself. Ethnic issues are very sensitive and being an old fox, no one knows better than him on how to use it on ones advantage. Classic example of the level of degradation happening to Indian politics. At times I just wonder – did we do a mistake of adding TN to our country India post independence?