Another Irrelevant Proposal by Ravi Sundaralingam alias Kudambi Ravi of the LTTE

"Though Ravi proposes a meeting of all Tamil groups under the tutelage of veteran Tamil politician Dr M Karunanidhi, he hardly mentions the purpose of the meeting or what usefulness such a meeting would serve. The proposal is not a new idea and it has been around for last 30 years but never materialised and there is hardly any indication it would materialise now."

By Jagdish Rao, Hyderabad, India, (Guest Reporter for Lanka Guardian)

Though the main difference between India and Sri Lanka in terms of ethnic divide, as Ravi points out rightly, being, the existence of a race that lays claim for the entire island, not every thing is rosy with India or its internal politics as Ravi claims and India shares the common crisis of ideology and agenda of Barbarism as Sri Lanka1. If this was the case as Ravi claims, India would not have made the mess it made on the Sri Lankan issue. India was given all necessary support to find the solution to the problem. It had broad international baking for its intervention. But India’s efforts at finding a solution was half heated, sized with inner insecurity, lacked comprehension amateurish, short-sighted, if not outright opportunistic.

From Nehruvian times, Indian policy objectives towards Ceylon and Sri Lanka was achieved at the expense of rights of Tamil people. In spite of the temporary deviation during Indira Gandhi’s time and which went back to its normal course after her untimely death, thanks to the efforts of Brahmins like Jothindra Nath Dixit2, it was put on the track of earlier course of betrayal devoid of any moral foundation, which policy India continue to follow. The unfortunate death of Rajiv Gandhi came only as a blessing in disguise and this provided a moral shroud for what is otherwise an immoral course and tradition set and entrenched from which India’s policies and relationship with Sri Lanka has become inextricable.

Whether, there is any objective rational in the perception that a separate Tamileelam would lead to a separate Tamilnadu, this argument was successfully implanted in the Indian thinking, which subsequently made the Indian involvement detrimental to Tamil interests. Brahminism not only helped to foist this perception but also provided a cover it could hide its enmity and alienation for the Tamil interests. This Indian perception has guided India’s involvement in the Sri Lanka (See letters of correspondence between Rajiv Gandhi and JR Jayawardene in post IPKF withdrawal period to what extent Rajiv Gandhi was obsessed with this hypothetical perception), As a long as India’s perception is going to determined Brahmin fifth column, India can never engage in the Sri Lankan problem objectively or intervene on behalf of the Tamil people and establish justice as moral exigencies would dictate.

India will continue to be a handicapped nation in the Sri Lankan issue. Knowingly or unknowingly it has bought into the chauvinist agenda. As long as the important Brahmin layer, in spite of its parasitic existence, would view any independent assertion of Tamil will as inimical to its short term and long term existence, it would portray the same danger in relations to India. India’s long term programmes will be built at the expense of Tamil rights. The Sinhala race will continue to offer the Northeast to foreign interests until they can destroy the Tamil resistance and gain control of the Notheast but subsequently booting them after the the Tamil resistence has been destroyed. ( This will be a repeat of the British experience when they handed Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese Chauvinist rule but were subsequently booted out unceremoniously.) India has no option but to buy into this in order to ‘prevent others’.

If India cannot rediscover the moral high ground and cannot find a way to assert itself and effect the withdrawal of the Sinhalese forces from the Tamil homeland, recognise the just foundations of Tamileelam statehood but continue to depend on the reactionary apprehensions and limited comprehension of its Brahmin layer to understand and interpret the Sri Lankan issue and would wish to defend and build on the gains of corrupt diplomacy, India cannot be a cause for bringing permanent peace in Sri Lanka. It will be one of the many opportunistic international players for whom war against Tamil terrorism has become the comfortable route for foothold and launching pad for all vicious agendas in the Indian Ocean.

Though Ravi proposes a meeting of all Tamil groups under the tutelage of veteran Tamil politician Dr M Karunanidhi, he hardly mentions the purpose of the meeting or what usefulness such a meeting would serve. The proposal is not a new idea and it has been around for last 30 years but never materialised and there is hardly any indication it would materialise now. Ravi who was a basically a London operative having had no involvement on the Indian scene but has all of a sudden come up with a wonderful idea as if no one has thought about it earlier. Those of the EROS members who had experience in handling the Indian scene know well why this idea never progressed beyond being a just proposal.

The idea has been on the drawing board for so long and if has not become fossilised, it would hardly arose any enthusiasm among anyone of the Tamil groups let the alone LTTE. But muting such a proposal, it would been useful, if Ravi has found out what Karunanidhi can and cannot do under the present circumstances and what is available within the world of Indian opportunistic policy realm. The proposal is another production of the unrealistic world of Ravi Sunderalingham which even if it takes place would not serve any useful purpose.

1 The current Ram Sethu claim is a good exposition of this phenomen’s smouldering nature within India.

2 "Inter-state relations are not governed by the logic of morality. They were and they remain an amoral phenomenon.." Jyotindra Nath Dixit Indian Foreign Secretary in 1991/94 and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of India 2004/05, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka85- 89 A speaking in Switzerland, February 1998

Full Text of the proposal you can read on this link