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I wish to share my views of how the series Family Man Season-2 impacts the sentiments of the Tamils who feel deeply about what transpired in Sri lanka in 2009. If one recalls correctly, the documentary titled Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, directed by Callum Macrae was published in June, 2011 on Channel 4. It covered video evidences from the 2009 Genocide in Sri Lanka (which to this day is not getting recognized beyond ‘War Crimes’).
While the Sri Lankan government initially dismissed (as early as Aug, 2009) those video clips as fake they were later confirmed to be true by the media outlets. The documentary corroborated the video evidences from 2009 and provided much more detailed video evidences of the genocide of the Tamils.
People were stripped naked and executed. It doesn’t matter if it was a LTTE cadre or an innocent civilian. What happened to them is inhuman and will remain so. A rebel or a uniformed soldier killed in combat is a different thing. They both enter the theater armed and exchange fire and end up being killed by each other. However, one being caught alive, stripped naked, and executed from point blank distance is not part of any military SOP. It never was and it never will.
Sri Lankan soldiers played with the bodies of the Tamils, alive and dead. Women were paraded naked, made to sit and wait until it was their turn to be executed, all while the Sri Lankan soldiers had a gala time, laughing and taking turns to enjoy the game. Some were busy loading the bodies onto tractor-trailers.
Over 20000 Sri Lankan Tamils were reported missing after the final battle in May, 2009. To this day most of them remain ‘Lost/Displaced in War’. As of Jan, 2020, The Sri Lankan government said all those who are missing are DEAD. How did they confirm is something they alone can clarify. [News: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51184085]
Fast forward to now, we have Family Man Season-2 featuring Tamil rebels as the villain group. I stopped watching Season-1 when I realized the show was designed to establish a bias against Muslims. I presumed it is just my taste which is causing me that perception but now I realize I was wrong. Whoever is behind that show, in my opinion, have an ulterior motive of establishing a certain opinion where the Hindu sentiment supersedes everything else.
As a Tamil, I believe, representing Tamil rebels as villains is:
- Distorting the perception of LTTE and its efforts to liberate Sri Lankan Tamils
- Re-establishing the age-old theme of North-Indian being the protagonist and South-Indian being the antagonist (Recall Ramayana?)
- Forcing a recall of the genocide of Tamils through a fictional account at a time when the international community is yet to recognize the massacre as a genocide (commenting on a done and dusted issue could be tolerated to a certain extent even when not entirely accepted as portrayed in the fictional account)
I presume I have presented my view of what could be the general perception of Tamils who do not view Family Man 2 in positive light.
I would like to take this opportunity to place the following set of questions in front of my fellow Tamils (forgive me for the segregation but this is quite disturbing and I do not wish to include everyone):
- Do you, at least now, begin to notice that every anti-Tamil thought, word or deed has multiple Non-Tamil entities in the background?
- Do you, at least now, realize that many Tamils are deliberately supporting such anti-Tamil thoughts, words and deeds (in the name of fiction/entertainment)?
- Do you think, the same integrated India will tolerate me, decorating a Ram Statue with fried beef and then burning it down in the name of entertainment? (Let’s say the beef restaurant in the first floor catches fire in a thriller movie, and the tray full of burning beef gets thrown out of the window by the explosion and it lands on the newly constructed Ram statue outside, right across the street)
- Do you think, it is a random coincidence that the said South Indian actress is born to a Telugu father and a Malayalee mother (raised in Chennai btw)? Do you now at least, see the pattern of those from Non-Tamil backgrounds openly participating in anti-Tamil activities?
- Do you really believe, that Tamils can never know how to make a petrol bomb and that the safety of all those participating in anti-Tamil deeds (such as Family Man-2 for instance) is guaranteed for ever? (What evidence or scholarly facts do you have to confirm that?)
I truly believe, things will settle down and we will have an integrated society but it is going to take time and effort. It will include an unavoidable collateral and we all can easily be a part of it. The question we have to answer, really is:
To be or not to be?
Should you choose to follow me, I run this Tamil Podcast titled Pagutharivu Podcast, where we discuss deeply political topics that most people refrain from discussing in public domain:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx97NbvGoEqulrNzEkrHeWA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ivcTWawIRLXqhV6TbIZ1y
Best regards,
