Who bleeds more for Eelam!?!

Tamil political leaders are at it again, a political one-upmanship as they weep, wail and bleed for their brethren in Tamil Eelam, all but, verbally.

Sri Lankan tamil issue can be to tamil politicians what kashmir is to their Pakistani counterparts, a political magical aphrodisiac. Till a month ago, the Eelam issue was not worth a single para page 5 mention in a tamil newspaper and suddenly everyone is talking about it and they all want to be the super-heroes saving the poor tamils of Eelam. It is a race to verbally bleed for Eelam, only verbal, so we can go endlessly.

CM Karunanidhi with his long selective memory has already gone to town talking of all those times he has wept for Tamils of Sri Lanka, Amma Jayalalitha has probably blamed the DMK for everything wrong yet again, Vaiko verbally wants to relive his Sri Lankan Tamil association when in one grandiose gesture he illegally went to Sri Lanka and came back with photos with Prabharakaran quite a long time ago.

Vaiko arrested for pro-LTTE remarks, slams Manmohan - Express India: "Vaiko said, 'if the need arises, I will be the first man to take up arms in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. I will gather youths all over the country for this purpose'."

The Sri Lankan issue is too complex politically and socially for Tamils. But, Tamilnadu of the early 90s and now is far different. Globalization has meant that we don't care for our own neighbours leave alone friend across the border. We are all running to make the daily global bread and the kin instinct that leads to instant protest is never more of an artificial posturing than now.

We are next to a war zone literally with one of the warring parties looking this way for support. This war is sustained today by the bitterness of memories of wounds now much more than the original issue for the war. It can do with an environment that can help heal the wounds and facilitate a healthy beginning. It does not need amplifying of the bitterness, certainly not posturing of a cheap kind that only vitiates the environment.

I wonder how many Tamil politicians have the courage to directly initiate a dialogue with the LTTE or the Sri Lankan government proposing peace. For that matter wonder whether Vaiko or anyone else ever offered to go to Sri Lankan government to negotiate for the Sri Lankan tamil. I don't know what kind of political ethos guides these supposed leaders that they cannot differentiate between a third rate tamil movie dialogue and responsible political speech. It is sad that the next generation political leadership too are getting sucked up into this habitual wailing.