The times of India in its Chennai edition dated March 18 reported about attack on a Buddhist monk in Thanjavur. The title was ” Eelam hooligans find little support”
According to The webster’s dictionary the word hooligan means a ruffian or hoodlum. Ruffian means a lawless person or brutal bully. Hoodlum means a a thug or gangster.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hooligan
Thesaurus in the above link also calls it a “rowdy”
Our concern is why such a word is combined with a word Eelam by Times of India. It could have been described in some other phrases. We suspect that the media including Times of India and the Hindu are hands in hand with Sri Lanka and Rajapakse to defame the Eelam struggle in derogatory words.
No doubt the attack on Buddhist monk has been condemned by many in Tamil nadu. It is totally unacceptable especially in a land where Buddhism was born and practiced.
The politics of words is always a tool in the hands of propaganda machinery and the person or group which handle such words and phrases themselves expose their own mind.
The Indian media which kept a deceitful silence on the genocide of Tamils in 2009 is incapable of exposing the war crimes. All the evidences have been gathered by Non indian media. The UK media is more merciful towards Eelam Tamils than Indian media.
According to Tamil inscription of 1′st century BC the Eelam refers the whole of Sri Lankan island. Another old name Serendip also refers island of Sei Lanak. Seren is derived from Cheran , the name of ancient Tamil Kingdom which is the present day Kerala.The Ezhavas are even now a community with origins in the region of India presently known as Kerala according to Wikipedia.
At present the word Eelam denotes the north and East of of Sri Lankan island which is claimed as homeland of Sri Lanka Tamils.
The Hindu news paper which has never tried to hide its inclination and friendship towards Rajapakse and Sri Lanka devoted a quarter of front page with a title” Sri Lankan monk assaulted” on 17 March. What a concern for humanity and law and order! They never care about lakhs of Tamils killed and are concerned only when a Sri Lanka Sinhalese monk is roughed up. Some stray incidents are highlighted. Bigger events are hidden. Great journalistic ethics.
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mathanprasath k
March 23, 2013
My intension is telling to kill the animal named Rajapakshe ………..Silly guys are feeling for the attacked one monk, consider how many of our sisters,brothers and innocent childrens are killed in sri lanka………………My blood pressure is increasing like anything while watching the video released by CHANNEL4……..I’M SURE THAT ANIMAL RAJAPAKSHE WILL BE KILLED BY ANOTHER BIRTH OF PRABHAKARAN …………..
A. Balasubramanyam
March 21, 2013
India does not want to antagonise Sri Lanka just for the reason that Sri Lanka should not get into the fold of China and Pakistan and cornered by these three countries and get isolated and become vulnarable to security of India.
Ganesan
March 22, 2013
Are you not tired of this rhetoric ? Do you think China and Pakistant are waiting for us to get close to SL ? :) You are very funny. Besides that, would you, as a person wait and watch for the police to arrive when your neighbour is being raped, especially if it is your sister or daughter ?
Karthiyayini
March 21, 2013
Such audacity by a popular daily!
Indian English media as usual turned a blind eye just when the student protests broke out in TN. They woke up from their purported slumber to give coverage only after the protests swelled to unexpected proportions – anyone who keeps a close watch on the media can say it..
Where is the question of ethics for our esteemed media houses???
No way…