PKL. Saturday, 26th Aug.2006. The argument that Professor Udyongkar makes about the yawning gap between Singhalese Buddhist majority's perception of quest of Tamil separatism and their willingness to give them provincial autonomy within SriLankan state from Tamil 's violent assertion of Maximal autonomy amounting for a distinct nation-state in North-east is not easily reconcilable.Particularly, after continued war and violence dominating over last several decades.Muslim identity in southern districts is further twist. Rajiv Gandhi and Indian Army have been fooled into losing even goodwill of both Tamil and Singhalese masses by untimely intervention on entreaties of President Jayvardhane and Premdasas in late eighties, leading to murder of untimely killing of young Rajiv at Sriprimbadur in 1991 by the sucicide killer is the sombre reminder of risks of a hasty interference by Indians in the regional civil-wars based on belligerent ethnicities.India should try to keep of of such adventure for the present.D. Goel
