DISCLAIMER: This is my personal opinion, and this has no stake on anything that happens for the reader of this post. And..I am not part of any political or liberationist outfit..nor do I support or purport activism as a way of life....please understand....
ok....as the saying goes...a writer should be able to scribble on a variety of topics...this is definitely a *first* for me..
This is about the real life tiger Anton Stanislaus Balasingham...who is no more to grace the earth with his foot steps... this post is to just make people remember him for atleast the minutes they read about him....here....
Anton was a British National, who was a SriLankan by birth.
I am a tamil by geography..and this isnt a tamil-tamil bash that I am staging in blogger...this post is a tiny/small / petite tribute from a blogger who feels people need to know what the *real* Anton is all about..as much I know..
You might by now know that Anton Balasingham was a chief political activist and strategist behind the LTTE movement, whose tryst to get a free tamil eelam state is histroy....
Many people say that he was the one person who lent a lot of creditibility and respect to the LTTE as a movement, and the world looked up at this movement as a progressive liberation movement than opposed to a rebel group...
That way Anton Balasingham has done a great job of representing both sides of the war...and has always on record and action wanted a peaceful and negotiable end to the war..in the island nation...which sadly didn't materialze during his lifetime...I know for such a passionist...this would have been really hurting, but I would say he did his bit....and LTTE is looked at as a liberation group....and not as a terrorist outfit...they have their reasons atleast....
Anton was the brain child and strategist-in-chief for a lot of actions of the LTTE in the 1990s and 2000s..and helped transform the image of LTTE in the minds of the general public...and was a good oratorist and a rebel writer...capable of churning out inspiring speeches for its Leader-in-chief Velupillai Prabhakaran...
so lets salute the man fondly called *Bala Anna*, who was an inspirational face for a number of LTTE activists..and lets not forget..he was a visionary and a leader who needs to be saluted ....that is if you are sane ..and dont have a prejudice towards people and see people for what they are made of and not for what they are known as / for....
my 2 cents,
Rajesh
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
the realization
actually....me returning to this blog to post after quite some time....due to various reasons....but still I enjoy Blogger as much as I do a Chocolate-Chip Icecream.....:-)
no..no....that isn't the post about.....its about a mixed feel I have for the nation and its cricketing farternity......moreover, my blog readers wouldn't have noticed the cricket fan in me.....yeah..I am a great fan of the game.....but the last year and half....India's pathetic performance..never really inspired me to write on them....
but...now I have reasons to write about cricket though not in the most positive sign on earth!!!!....
Team India has just won its first ever test match victory in South Africa..in 4 tours ( 92, 96, 2001 and 2006)......Its a great achievement more so because of the manner the victory was achieved...they completely outplayed South Africa...
but if you keenly observe....the key players behind this victory were Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan....yeah....Sreesanth played his lifetime game...but apart from him...it has been the significant contributions from these four that I mentioned which changed the course of the game...whenever it looked like slipping SA's way....
This being a fact...consider this fact....*ironically* these four are doing a comeback into the Indian test team..courtesy Mr.Greg Chappell.....These were the four people whom greg wanted to be replaced with *young* blood.....and we have seen the disasterous results in the last year......and coincidentally...all the four have pulled their weight in this match to prove a point..hehe....
Initially I couldn't see light in the argument of my friend LNC...but I am getting to realize the folly Indian Cricket Administration have done...who knows who wants a back door entry into the team politics to ruin them????
let me not comment any further....its upto you to extrapolate these information and come to a conclusion whether we still need Greg Chappell..as a coach....
Reiterating my point.....Greg was keen and got all the four players who are experience personified - removed from the team on name of young blood to build a performing team...which we apparently failed miserably......
no..no....that isn't the post about.....its about a mixed feel I have for the nation and its cricketing farternity......moreover, my blog readers wouldn't have noticed the cricket fan in me.....yeah..I am a great fan of the game.....but the last year and half....India's pathetic performance..never really inspired me to write on them....
but...now I have reasons to write about cricket though not in the most positive sign on earth!!!!....
Team India has just won its first ever test match victory in South Africa..in 4 tours ( 92, 96, 2001 and 2006)......Its a great achievement more so because of the manner the victory was achieved...they completely outplayed South Africa...
but if you keenly observe....the key players behind this victory were Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan....yeah....Sreesanth played his lifetime game...but apart from him...it has been the significant contributions from these four that I mentioned which changed the course of the game...whenever it looked like slipping SA's way....
This being a fact...consider this fact....*ironically* these four are doing a comeback into the Indian test team..courtesy Mr.Greg Chappell.....These were the four people whom greg wanted to be replaced with *young* blood.....and we have seen the disasterous results in the last year......and coincidentally...all the four have pulled their weight in this match to prove a point..hehe....
Initially I couldn't see light in the argument of my friend LNC...but I am getting to realize the folly Indian Cricket Administration have done...who knows who wants a back door entry into the team politics to ruin them????
let me not comment any further....its upto you to extrapolate these information and come to a conclusion whether we still need Greg Chappell..as a coach....
Reiterating my point.....Greg was keen and got all the four players who are experience personified - removed from the team on name of young blood to build a performing team...which we apparently failed miserably......
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