Rajani Kanth, Tamil Nadu And BJP
By S. Sivathasan -October 10, 2014
S. Sivathasan
Sea Change
Power is going a begging in Tamil Nadu with none to seize or to hold. Even as the political persona of the nation is being changed from Delhi, states have to move apace for their benefit and the good of India. A happening more dramatic for the nation is the welcome cataclysm in the economic front. Disinvestment at $10 billion, Japan’s pledge of aid at $ 30 billion, China’s at $ 20 billion and committed investments of $ 42 billion from US, indicate features of initial trends. To make way for developments in the offing, decks are being cleared of medieval lumber; legal and administrative. These are being done with great foresight, dynamism and persistence. Are states fully aware of the sea change that has started sweeping across a large nation? Are they gearing themselves for the challenges that are unprecedented? Is Tamil Nadu measuring up to a situation not of its own making but of Modi’s and of the new BJP government? Is Tamil Nadu political leadership sensitive about losing out if not properly oriented well in time? Read More Jayalalithaa – Vass – Nonis; Invisible Hands In The Judiciary
By Vishwamithra1984 -October 10, 2014
Robust And Independent Judiciary – Invisible Hand In Jayalalithaa’s Conviction
“The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing”. ~Caroline Kennedy
Extremists of both corners of the political spectrum, in India as well as in Sri Lanka, must still be celebrating the conviction of Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State in southern India. Jayalalithaa, while in power managed to rouse the base instincts of both Tamils in India and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. But moderates in the two neighboring nations must be equally enamored by the sheer audacity of a robust, vigorous and independent Judiciary without which no country, especially a democratic republic, could advance the cause of freedom, freedom of choice and liberty for all people.
Jayalalithaa
The politics of Jayalalithaa in particular and Tamil Nadu in general, has never been acceptable to the great majority in Sri Lanka. This is true whether one is Sinhalese, Tamil or Muslim. Utterly partisan and polarizing both in substance and execution of politicking, Tamil Nadu, the southernmost State in India has been a thorn in Sri Lanka’s politics since the early years of Ceylon’s nationhood in centuries after the Christian Era began and the battles and wars fought between Lanka and the Cholas and Pandyans of South India. History apart, the animosities, rivalries and plain emotions of enmity and hatred between a subject people, the Sinhalese and invading armies of a foreign country, South India, have contributed to a sense of suspicion between the two peoples, reaching a crescendo in 2009 in the total annihilation of a militant arm of the Tamils in the North led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) whose main foreign backer was the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in the State of Tamil Nadu in India. The mutual dependence that developed between the local Tamils and the State of Tamil Nadu ultimately worked for their mutual disadvantage, both politically and socially.Read More
