Obituary: Velupillai Prabhakaran

There is an old indian proverb, transliterated here in tamil, it reads, “Amritham adhigam annalum, visham agum”, meaning that ‘Amrit’, the life giving potion discovered or created by the gods, can become posion if consumed in excess. Ironic it would seem, but very appropriate here. What started out as a fight for a good cause, [...]

SriLanka – solving the crisis

According to me the first step in solving the crisis that is affecting Sri Lanka today is – dissolving the LTTE, surrender and arrest of its leaders. LTTE was muddying up the waters, and causing problems for all parties involved in arriving at a solution to the problems of the tamil population. The tamil being [...]

Strike the LTTE

For the past few months, i have been closely watching the progress of the civil war in Sri Lanka. I was drawing immense pleasure from the fact that the LTTE, the terror organization that has been leading the battle against the Sri Lankan government, was being routed from bastion and being reduced to smaller and [...]

Patrolling the Blue Seas

The recent spate of piracy of the coast of Somalia was surely adding to the nuisance value, given that everyone would think that this is an easy problem to solve. However, given the reluctance of the different navies around the world, it is more than a simple case of sending a warship to shoo the [...]

The War in Iraq

In what seems to be quite a revelation, the US is slowly admitting that Iraq is not going well. The rumbling Rumsfeld made some comments on the sunday TV, the weekly morning talk show, where the spin of the week is addressed or launched. This comes at a time when yesterday’s attacks in Mosul killed [...]