Tamil Circles
An actual Tamil circle, from Tamil Nadu, which is really quite cool
TamilNet sort of lost it when the war ended. TamilNet, if you’re unaware, was the LTTE mouthpiece then an anti-KP mouthpiece and now a chewed off rump LTTE mouthpiece. Occasionally (coincidentally moreso) they do mete out some news, but lately I read them more for entertainment value. I especially enjoy their ‘Features’ which are meandering exhortations to separatism and denunciations of the usual suspects. My favorite feature of the features is that major opinions are cited to ‘Tamil circles’ or sometimes just Tamils. For example – “Do they think it is easier to drive the people into corporate slavery by retaining the present conditions, Tamils wonder.” Most Tamils I know are not possessed of such a Borg mind but what do I know.
Another bit I enjoyed was that ‘Tamil circles’ is actually a sentient enough entity that it can speak in direct quotes:
“They are absolutely right since the development they mean is not even economic liberation of people,” responded Tamil circles.
I personally wish I had Tamil Circles phone number so I could get some quotes from him (her?). In seriousness, I think this features are just opinion columns, but the arrogance of presuming to speak for an entire race has gotten worse. There are a lot of Tamil circles that agree with TamilNet, but there are a lot that don’t, and it just reads as dumb if you’re not already drinking the Odiyal Kool Aid. Not persuasive, and TamilNet needs to persuade without bombs at its back.
In other news, KP’s old blog is now a health page. I suppose Ministry of Defence is keeping him in a spa.
Today on the 
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Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from 
I think Tamilnet forgot to add the word “jerk” after “Tamil circle”… but you’re so right about Tamilnet losing it. Most of their features sound like angry frothing-at-the-mouth rants by Tamil nationalists with pea brains.
Indi,
Surely you didn’t miss out on what non-LTTE circles consider the funniest Tamilnet posting of 2010?
Hordes of Genocidal Sinhala Monkeys Plague Resettled Eelam Families in Vanni
OK, the real story is here:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32363
Tamilnet.com or Tamilnet.tv? It’s now difficult to tell which provides real news and which provides manufactured Eelam news.
Ever since the LTTE was wiped out, Tamil extremists have been in a tailspin. They are a total embarassment. But in some ways it is satisfying to see them run around with their tails on fire.
It looks like Tamils are getting slapped left and right by Canadian newspapers… even the comments section gives them a bollocking:
We’ve been duped by the Tamils
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2010/08/21/15098871.html
Tamils playing us for fools
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/2010/08/20/15091486.html
I guess the world is waking up to the lies certain Tamil groups have been peddling.
Comments from Canadians at the CBC news section http://www.cbc.ca/news/ is not any different. Ever since the LTTE blocked the expressway on the Mothers Day, it has been downhill for for them.
I would be embarassed to be a Tamil in Canada at this time.
Indi, was it by mistake that you didn’t link the picture and the “An actual Tamil circle” text to the Flickr page?
it was by mistake, relinked above. Thank you for pointing out
… what is happening to Sarath Fonseka??? Does anybody know? Hmmmm…. hmmmm… frothing at the mouth … hhmmm … did you watch Gotha on BBC’s Hardtalk?
Hmmmm….
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