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racist politics of TN
by dhanuhka Hettiarachchi on Apr 03, 2008 10:30 AM   Permalink | Hide replies

What's suprising is the way Racist politics come to surface with no delay among Tamils. I understand the great heritage of Tamils and there evenly great diaspora, above all Tamils have been very tolarant and vibrant part of community where ever they lived (India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia etc.) but the TN politicians used racism and cultism to cover up there own back yard. They got the Sri Lanka issue all the time when they have an election, stangly all Indians will get effected by this TN's racism. recently they started in Malaysia, in future somewhere else. Tamils should thing as an integral part of the soceity they live, respect others. Which many of you don't see is in Port Blair in Andaman Islands. Bengalis, Ranchis, Malayali and Tamil and Telugus lived in Harmoney since 1950's but now Tamils started cultism there, refuse to use Hindi even though A&N is a union terrotory, Tamil shops with name boads only in Tamil and English. Tamil Sangam school refuse to teach Hindi. Tamil buissnessmen getting staff from TN while poor locals seeks for jobs. These are the ways they get to the nose of other communities when they react whole Tamil diaspora will go crazy. I strongly belive Tamils should change there attitude. I don't white wash Kannadiga's but when your in Bangalore you feel it's an Indian City not in Chennai, it's Tamil homelands capital not an Indian metropolis.

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by shivkumar srini on Apr 03, 2008 10:34 AM   Permalink
You ask any Hindi bhayya residing in chennai!
Even if they dont speak his language tamilians are most couteous outsiders are more safe here than any other place in india|

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by Abdul Salam on Apr 03, 2008 11:17 AM   Permalink
First of all there are very few Hindi speaking people in Chennai compared to any other city in India. You mean your people are courteous if they do not speak their language. That is not courteous but that is called rude or ungracious. Please remember that TN is the only state in India which does not teach Hindi our national language as a compulsory subject.

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by Net worm on Apr 03, 2008 11:33 AM   Permalink
You cannot insist Chinese to Talk English. If they are not talking English they will loose the global opportunities. It is similar situation to TN also. You need not worry abt their Employment problems.
You have to see whether the people are good and kind. Yes they are. If possible, change your mindset. Dont talk the language barrier always!

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by Anand Raj on Apr 03, 2008 11:44 AM   Permalink
You cannot insist the people to learn what is not necessary for them. There are so many states that dont even consider Hindi as subject not only TN. CHECK YOUR FACTS RIGHT

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by subramani sampath on Apr 03, 2008 12:41 PM   Permalink
BOSS we need to maintain our culture.

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by Net worm on Apr 03, 2008 11:29 AM   Permalink
Bcos If you start speaking Hindi then they will also get the same mentality as you have! ;-)
Let them be calm and cool.

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  RE:racist politics of TN
by murugananthan bakthasingh on Apr 03, 2008 01:03 PM   Permalink
Tamils are not Racist and most of the South Indians are also not Racist as compared to North Indians. North Indians are
the people who are the biggest Racist in India. Most of you other than Tamilians talk about Malaysia and Sri Lanka - Fine.
You just cannot compare situations Sri Lanka and Malaysia with this issue. In Sri Lanka Tamilians were raped and killed by
sinhalese and you want Tamilians to keep quiet - bullshit. I think may be you can keep quiet but not us. If you think that
retaliating when some one takes away your freedom, rapes you mom & wife & children, kills your family is a wrong thing to do,
then we will do that wrong thing till we die no matter even if our fellow Indians do not like or approve it.
In Malaysia also the Britishers tooks us against most of our wishes before Independance and now the Malaysians are not giving
us equal status in every walk of life and you want us to keep quiet. Sorry my Friends they are also citizens of that
countries and worked and played a major role in the development of 2 Nations and they have every right fight for their rights.

But where do North Indians stand in India. Maharastra - North Indians were beaten in streets and their shops were smashed
and one poor guy was killed also. And almost entire North- East(Mizoram, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland etc.,) are against North
Indians and atleatst one North Indian is killed by them every month. When a North Indian is attacked & killed in other states
for the same

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by murugananthan bakthasingh on Apr 03, 2008 01:04 PM   Permalink
reason as Tamilians do in Karnataka, you condem that act and even say the people who did that are not Indians
and you even demand them to be hanged to death. Great thought hypocrites. And my Dear North Indians, this is just a statrt
and this will continue and will intensify in the coming years. So before telling us you better start adopting to local regional
culture if you are not in North India. Especially in Karnataka's case, my Dear Kannadigas during 90's itself they routed most
of the developed & developing Tamilians out of Bengalooru and next will be your turn North Indians.

Hindi - National Language. Natinal Language doesn't mean that is is mandatory for all Indians to learn. Because some Hindi
speaking poliicians made Hindi as our National language that doesn't mean that every one should accept that. This is a Democratic
country my friends and every one has the right to learn what he wants. If some one wants to learn Hindi in India
no one can stop him. Even in Tamil Nadu Hindi is taught in all the schools(even in some Tamil medium schools) as a subject
and they have no restriction from attanding that subject. Most of th e Tamilians do not want o learn Hindia because they love
their Mother toungue.In Tamil Nadu it all started when Hindi was made a compulsory subject. That is the time the Dravidian parties
took out huge protests to ban that order passed by Indian Government. All Indians have the right to learn what he wants and in a democratic country n

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by murugananthan bakthasingh on Apr 03, 2008 01:05 PM   Permalink
no one
should not be told what he should learn. If the Dravidian parties did not protest at that time then Tamil Nadu also would
have been in the same situation now as other states where you have to compromise your own Mother Toungue for our National
Language Hindi. During that protests also not even a single North Indian was killed. We just fought to protect our Mother
toungue and we have the right to do that. If you think that is wrong then we will do the wrong thing till our last breathe.

Also stop lecturing us all the time to learn Hindi. When you are not in North India and when you do not want to learn local
regional language the what rights do you have to tell us to learn your Mother toungue. We do not have any problem
with Hindi speaking population(we do have a huge Tamil speaking Shah Rukh Khan base here) but we do hav a problem with
North Indian who wants o impose their Mother toungue out here.

My Dear Veera Kannadigas - I worked in Bangalore for bout 3.5 yrs. Actually Tamilians are not the biggest threat to you land
or your language. It is the North Indians who are the biggest threat to you guys. Le me give you an example - how many North
Indians speak Kannada or even want to speak Kannada in your office or in ntire Karnataka? If you ask them they most of them
don't even consider Kannada as a language. There are very few North Indians who can speak Kannada but there will be only
less than 500 North Indians who can write Kannada in entire Beng

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by murugananthan bakthasingh on Apr 03, 2008 01:06 PM   Permalink
Bengalooru. But the Tamilians are the people next to Veera
Kannadigas who can speak/write Kannada in Karnataka. Now itself it looks like there are more Hindi speaking than Kannada
speaking population in Bengaloou and in the coming years it will be cleary visible. I am not saying this to incite any
Kannada feeling or to develop hatred towards North Indians but I am just simply reflecting most of the North Indians
attitude of demanding other Indians to learn their Mother toungue.

Moral of the story - I am not saying that Tamilians are the greatest people and most peace loving in the entire India but
I am just saying we love our language very much and we will not compromise our Mother toungur for any language or any government.
So My Dear Veera Kannadiga Kanmani's and all other fellow Indians in my point of view North Indians are the most Racist
people in India and first they should learn to respect regioanl feelings before talking about their Mother toungue then only
all this reginal factions will be solved.



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by Square Drive on Apr 03, 2008 10:55 AM   Permalink
Thanks for the compliment..tamilans are great, hard working and peace loving people....your message shows how much you are corrupted. How ever you have been collecting so many details all in the negative angle...which cause dishormeny among the indian multi lingual.
society
PRAY GOD TO GET WELL SOON

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