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Temples vandalised as TMC Government showers concessions upon minorities

Temples vandalised, Hindus under siege in BengalAmidst tensions over attempts to encroach land belonging to a temple in Balagarh, Hooghly, West Bengal, prohibitory orders under Section 144 have been imposed, even as the mainstream media abides by an informal diktat to black out the news.



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The inevitable collapse of Saradha, a chit fund company that operated out of Kolkata, has left thousands of small investors distraught and angry. Their savings, which came from hard-earned wages barely enough to keep body and soul together, have disappeared along with the dreams that were peddled by the frauds who operated the scam. It is understandable that they should demand compensation. It is equally understandable that cynical politicians, who never miss an opportunity to tap into popular disquiet, should be seen to be sympathising with those who have lost their savings. The mud-slinging between the Trinamool Congress, which is in power in West Bengal, and the Opposition, namely the CPI(M) and the Congress, with each hurling accusations at the other, does not come as a surprise either.

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Talk BackManmohan Singh and Prabhakaran – a comparison

By V N Seetharam

Prabhakaran – the LTTE supremo was once considered as the most dreaded terrorist who had advocated for his cadre, and simultaneously buried the legitimate struggle and hope of the Tamils of Sri Lanka in his battle against the Island nation.

Prabhakaran's stubbornness, his barbaric attitude and refusal to ever see a reason while whipping up ethnic hatred towards a majority Sinhala population who are by and large a decent and peace loving community had increasingly isolated him from a sizable number of Sinhalese who felt the Tamils should be treated on par with the rest. He had repeatedly attacked and killed unarmed Sinhalese and even mounted an attack on their holiest places of worship, including Anuradhapura and Kandy where the sacred tooth of the Buddha is kept.

Through his funding of money to chauvinistic separatist Tamil Groups in Tamil Nadu earned through drugs and smuggling of arms as well as extortion from Tamils in the Island by terrorising them with his well-knit network.

Immediately after the ethnic riots in Sri Lanka in 1983, Indira Gandhi tried her best to work out lasting peace and honourable solutions to the ethnic problem by deputing one of our best diplomats the late

G.Parthasarathy who had drafted possibly the best deal the Tamils could ever hope for and agreed to and ratified by the then hawkish President J R Jayawadene and his recalcitrant cabinet members too.

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