Tamil Chauvinism
By Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
(May 6, 2014, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) I write in response to the Lanka Guardian article 'Are Tamils a All Insurances?' by Professor Uyangoda, republished by Sri Lanka Guardian.
The article confirmed to me yet again that some Sinhalese have demonstrated that the claim of sovereignty would be legitimate only when we facilitate preservation of sovereignty of others who are a part of our system along the time based vertical line of hierarchy or along the lateral line of democracy through which we take the other as our equal opposition - so that the picture of our sovereignty is incomplete without the other. The latter is not easy when the 'other' side is seen to be far less than 50% of the whole. Tamils cannot claim nationhood without respecting Sinhalese as the 'other side' with Equal level of sovereignty as themselves. For better or for worse - we are in this together.
