09-27-2007, 06:04 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Sep 26 2007, 04:12 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Sep 26 2007, 04:12 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sethu project: A strategic blunder by Col (retd) Anil Athale
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India has a history of committing strategic blunders in last 60 years! T.....
<b>The second possibility.... The denial of historicity of Ram seems to show that this is an attempt to woo back the vote bank that seemed to be drifting away due to Indo-US nuclear deal. In the second part we will deal with this deep-seated mindset of Secularist Taliban of India. </b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The part highlighted is a very distinct possiblity. The claims of Strategic security is pretty shallow given the fact current clowns at center are contemplating donating Siachen to TSP. It's all about vote back and kickbacks on the mega crore project.
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Several data points lead me to conclude that karunanidhi has played a bigger role than just the recent blashphemy; consider these:
1. a mega project such as this during his reign will ensure continued dole for the kazhagam members
2. even though in his eighties, he will think of this 'revenue stream' in the longer run because in his mind stalin will follow him as CM of TN, to enjoy the fruits
3. Someone can look this up ( I will try to if archives are available online) - karunanidhi said what the ASi affidavit said at least a full 3 weeks before the affidavit was filed - I read it in either dinakaran or dailythanthi or dinamalar the day after he said it (as it was reported). Those are the only 3 Tamizh sources I read. Everybody has known his views, but the words used (between his speech and the ASI report) were similar if not identical; that it is clear to me that it was at least partially drafted by him or someone like him.
This collusion was further confirmed when I later read that the ASI official is a friend of karunanidhi.
4. he may be a moodan but not a muttaal (somebody translate these words for the non-Tamizh speakers here. (I think it's the difference between a bullheaded person and a fool). He would have fully expected outcry from the 'brahmins' but calculated as follows:
a. veeramani (the chief of DK) has scored recently with the atheist crowd through the EVR statue in Srirangam
b. jayalalitha, not too long ago, sort of proved something in the Sankaracharya affair
These two not only emboldened the rascal but also put him in a position where he had to do something to show he was as good a atheist as veeramani is etc.
He forgot 3 things:
i) he hasn't learnt from his in-depth reading of Ramayana about "vinaasa kaale viparida buddhi'
ii) Sri Rama is not merely brahmin's god, not just Tamizh brahmin's god. The reaction he got was from the National Hindu pool. (He has done this mistake of thinking locally and underestimating before - about MGR when he the latter 1st started admk).
iii) The sciences in this case seem to be against cutting through the Setu anyway.
I hope Advani and co are amongst other things working on:
a. demanding any and all surveys done for this project and identifying the gaps
b. trying to acquire the details of communications (ah, the famous cell phones) between karunanidhi and the ASI guy, and perhaps baalu. Even if turns out that the ASI guy simply plagarised karunanidhi's statements from the press, that would be worth airing out
Finally is anyone credible collecting funds etc?
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India has a history of committing strategic blunders in last 60 years! T.....
<b>The second possibility.... The denial of historicity of Ram seems to show that this is an attempt to woo back the vote bank that seemed to be drifting away due to Indo-US nuclear deal. In the second part we will deal with this deep-seated mindset of Secularist Taliban of India. </b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The part highlighted is a very distinct possiblity. The claims of Strategic security is pretty shallow given the fact current clowns at center are contemplating donating Siachen to TSP. It's all about vote back and kickbacks on the mega crore project.
[right][snapback]73600[/snapback][/right]
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Several data points lead me to conclude that karunanidhi has played a bigger role than just the recent blashphemy; consider these:
1. a mega project such as this during his reign will ensure continued dole for the kazhagam members
2. even though in his eighties, he will think of this 'revenue stream' in the longer run because in his mind stalin will follow him as CM of TN, to enjoy the fruits
3. Someone can look this up ( I will try to if archives are available online) - karunanidhi said what the ASi affidavit said at least a full 3 weeks before the affidavit was filed - I read it in either dinakaran or dailythanthi or dinamalar the day after he said it (as it was reported). Those are the only 3 Tamizh sources I read. Everybody has known his views, but the words used (between his speech and the ASI report) were similar if not identical; that it is clear to me that it was at least partially drafted by him or someone like him.
This collusion was further confirmed when I later read that the ASI official is a friend of karunanidhi.
4. he may be a moodan but not a muttaal (somebody translate these words for the non-Tamizh speakers here. (I think it's the difference between a bullheaded person and a fool). He would have fully expected outcry from the 'brahmins' but calculated as follows:
a. veeramani (the chief of DK) has scored recently with the atheist crowd through the EVR statue in Srirangam
b. jayalalitha, not too long ago, sort of proved something in the Sankaracharya affair
These two not only emboldened the rascal but also put him in a position where he had to do something to show he was as good a atheist as veeramani is etc.
He forgot 3 things:
i) he hasn't learnt from his in-depth reading of Ramayana about "vinaasa kaale viparida buddhi'
ii) Sri Rama is not merely brahmin's god, not just Tamizh brahmin's god. The reaction he got was from the National Hindu pool. (He has done this mistake of thinking locally and underestimating before - about MGR when he the latter 1st started admk).
iii) The sciences in this case seem to be against cutting through the Setu anyway.
I hope Advani and co are amongst other things working on:
a. demanding any and all surveys done for this project and identifying the gaps
b. trying to acquire the details of communications (ah, the famous cell phones) between karunanidhi and the ASI guy, and perhaps baalu. Even if turns out that the ASI guy simply plagarised karunanidhi's statements from the press, that would be worth airing out
Finally is anyone credible collecting funds etc?