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^^ I concur. Even the higher secondary school kids at my place are taller than me and am shade under 6 feet. Including a few girls.

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I kind of like Pranab Mukherjee for all his faults as a congressman. Good to see him reach the highest post and adding dignity to the office

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The flymast over grey skies were quite menacing!

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I thought the floats were lot better than earlier, with low clearance. Ministers showing enthusiasm for their ministries were nice to watch

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The US press has this annoying habit of asking questions which are irrelevant to the occasion.

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Tuvaluan, the four points need to be pinned somewhere.

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Not sure if this was posted earlier. http://www.dailymirror.lk/61621/ay-visit-sl-in-march With a new government taking office in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may travel to Colombo in March. If he does go, it will be the first state visit by an Indian PM since Rajiv Gandhi's trip in 1987. ...

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You were rambling and did the nice thing by using your argument for driving home a point. Now I will be frank. Not sure what is your purpose in this thread other than displaying bigotry towards a state and it's people and using that as an excuse for foreign policy stupidity. You are trying to be mor...

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Actually it is a nice parallel. Since the kind of lopsided sekularitis that decimated Congress party. It applies to other countries as well. If a group perceives any discrimination, a new equilibrium point is *always* found.

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Right. And China is a foreign country as well. If Sinhalese would have felt discrimination is the best option for themselves they would have stuck with Rajapakse. Allegations of corruption notwithstanding. And the new government wouldn't be talking to India about repatriation. We should encourage th...

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^^ Exactly Tuvaluan. Once the genie is out of the bottle it can't be put back without a blowback to anyone touching it with a barge pole. Happened time and again. I guess folks need to read up on the SL history atleast around 1980s to understand the discrimination and it's aftermath.

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Am hopeful that the new dispensation would deal with the inequality of SL Tamils and the dramatis personae of the GoSL are way better than earlier one. That being said, things wouldn't 't be in status quo for a long time if the present second class treatment continues. What GoI does or doesn't would...

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You are right, the author presumes India can only offer carrots and not sticks if it comes to that. Maybe still in MMS mode? The fending off of external folks including UN would be a tough act to pull it off. BTW, where are the Biglunds and Smalgands? They used to buzz around the area and seem quiet...

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The local BJP leaders are not effective and the few effective ones mysteriously get bumped off. NaMo and AS can only do Hindi which is hated by the local populace. Very strange that hindi works in karnataka and andhra but not in TN. No one is saying barter anything but if you need to make a deal th...

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I am not saying there should be only one view as long as it is consistent and not colored by local politics. Thatha for his faults did help GoI by doing pointless drama which aided in his fall. Way better than WB. And Vaiko for all his politics did an honourable exit from the alliance when he could ...

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I don't have an opinion on citizenship issue since there is no demand for it. But if they are given citizenship they are free to move like any other citizen. On refugee status their movement is more restricted. There was a cry of diplomacy should not be hostage to the TN politics, which it wasn't wh...

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There is nothing like give and take in this situation. Are you suggesting TN elect BJP so that they give citizenship to SL Tamil?
There is too much conflating of unrelated topics. Since you brought up Eelam, are you worried that any closer ties would nudge people towards Eelam?

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^^ From what I've heard about the Mandapam camp for refugees, they are under strict monitoring. IIRC they can't even leave the camp for extra income by doing work.
The kids if refugees can't get scholarships.
The notion that they are angling for citizenship is misplaced.

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^^ Am wondering, how difficult it it for NaPak army and ISI to setup this local franchise of ISIS? With the Afghan spigot soon to be turned off, they would need a new avenue for jiziya. It is easier to setup the local chapter yourself than compete with an organic grown variety.
Just speculation onlee.

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Got that and it was a good wordplay.

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I agree that having a big country next to you can generate loathing among some people. But having a foreign policy around that is being afraid of one's own shadow. We could atleast start with a ferry service that can carry people and materials like the one between England and France. But if we are t...

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We do have bus and train services from even Pakistan. Am sure there are some road services from Nepal. What is wrong with having one with SL? Moreover they have better per capita indices if you are worried about illegal migration

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It is not always a zero sum game. Right now Chinese may have the upper hand but with the new government and proper diplomacy we can claw our way back. It is our geographical zone not China's.
Not all SL Tamil love India and not all Sinhalese hate us. No point throwing the towel especially now

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chetak, forget TN politics. What's wrong with having transport links with SL?

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matrimc wrote:Are we sure the boatswine are dead?

Glad to see this word before the thread closed

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/deep-focus/Why-Paris-is-even-more-shocking-than-Peshawar/articleshow/45839338.cms *snip* Applies to us as well. *snip* I am hoping the Varadarajan household has serious dinner table debates over this issue and this is not just a prescription for the West.

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^^ Nope, you got it right. I am assuming a mistranslation by nandakumar!
As you said, it could be due to a lack of an exact word for ambitious in Tamil.

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I think he meant ambitious/audacious thinking as opposed to greed.

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Sri Lanka would also have been better served if it were a state in the Indian Union or Indian confederation because it achieves the same ends and checks any social waves in favor any single community. Especially considering the fact that they have a poor track record in settling issues peacefully a...

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OK, what is the insinuation here, chackojoseph? Out with it. Are you saying that the SOP was not followed? Big deal. Are you implying something else? If so, say that openly. +1. If the idea is to create a stench around the incident without saying anything concrete to back up the assertion, then the...

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Sindhu nadhiyin misai nilavinilae is the start of the song. Amazing vision of interconnecting Indian subcontinent and trade

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True, there are great possibilities if it is played right! Glad we have a person of NaMo caliber at the right moment in time.

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Nice reset button, probably in decades.
High time GoI maintains direct contact with GoSL and avoid interlocutors like Vaiko or SuSwamy to interpret the relationship.
Wish there is a ferry service from India to SL and other easier access for both the countries.

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chackojoseph, Now since the soosai of the boat itself is questioned by you the assumption is another actor has done the deed, which includes the CG boat itself. Since you are worried that India could become Bakistan by such actions am assuming that the line of thought is CG could be in the wrong by ...

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saravana, why do you assign me with the credit of believing that it was not a terror boat. I speculated it might not be one, citing some circumstances; and govt speculated it is one, citing circumstances. Just because some vested interest in the forum shouted their loudest does not mean truth has b...

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chackojoseph, have you come across any piece of evidence that clearly preclude them being terrorists?
Suppose if there is not overwhelming proof for a terror boat, what is the endgame here in your opinion?

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SriLankan election website is pretty slow, has the Kandy results come out?

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Amber G, that is from a parody news website
http://www.fakingnews.firstpost.com/201 ... ear-party/
I had seen this before so I found it to be parody. Otherwise, easily believable as it is not much different from the articles.

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I am the most alert on brf about cheeni creeping takeover as composite national power. EastEuropeans make the Chinese look soft :shock: . Chinese may be a force in electronics and manufacturing, the EEs are making a mark on software. The ones I met were professional, matter of fact to the point of ...

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I don't know how one guy can double his productivity? Has it happened in the manufacturing jobs that went to China?

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