All these constituencies were from the Sinhalese themselves. Even within the ruling UNP party, prominent leaders like the then Prime Minister Premadasa and Lalith Athulathmudali opposed it.
The Southern terrorists (JVP) opposed it. The then opposition party (SLFP) opposed it. Rajiv Gandhi, his dumb advisors and the RAW misjudged the opposition to this accord from various constituencies of Sri Lanka. Here are my ‘anti-Cho’ arguments.įirst, as I have written previously in this site, the 1987 Accord fell through, not because of LTTE opposing the Indian army. Cho’s stock answer, was that the 1987 Accord of Rajiv Gandhi and Jayewardene was the manna for Sri Lankan Tamils, and Tigers spoilt it by attacking the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF), and Rajiv Gandhi had to die because of that.Įither Cho is completely ignorant of what happened in 1987-1990 in Sri Lanka, or he is pretending not to know the real facts. Invariably, one reader would ask him a question relating to the status of Sri Lankan Tamils. A notable component of this celebration event was Cho answering questions from Thuglak readers. Specifically, I watched the posted Youtube versions of 2008, 20. Lately, I have watched in Youtube a few of his January ‘anniversary’ celebration events on the establishment of his journal Thuglak. Cho’s knowledge on Eelam Tamil affairs is gibberish. Someone has to say it straight, and let it be me. But, Ustinov had class, which Cho is devoid of.
#Cho ramaswamy son movie#
To a limited extent, Cho’s career can be compared to that of London-born Peter Ustinov (1921-2004), a reputed stage and movie actor, author, humorist. That’s why my title says, ‘A Jack of All Trades and Master of One’. Even now, I do not deny the fact that he is a talented humorist. The two word caption is from an old popular song beginning with the same words ‘Ulahe Mayam – Vaazhve Mayam’ from the popular Devadass (1953) movie, where the alcoholic hero sings about what he sees in his mileau.īut, my appreciation of Cho (the political commentator) waned when he gained recognition as one of the Tamil Nadu journalists, who vigorously opposed the activities of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). An example is shown in the attached cartoon, where Cho is depicted as a sage on a pilgrimage with a stick and a sack, pouting ‘ Ulahe Mayam!. Cho would attack all politicians left to right, and then use a self-deprecating, loony and nonsensical quip (occasionally accompanied with a cartoon) as a punch line. One of the popular features of his magazine was the ‘question and answer’ column. He had developed a subtle style of pricking something serious – with self-deprecatory comments. When I was in Sri Lanka, I used to buy his Thuglak magazine at the newsstand for his brand of humor on Indira Gandhi, Karunanidhi and MGR. I was a fan of Cho (the humorist and quasi-journalist) during late 1970s and up to 1983. ‘Is Cho – a genius?’ should be a joke in its own merits! Lately, I have noticed in the net that Cho has been praised as ‘a genius’ among living Tamils by his acolytes – for his contributions to legal arena, drama, movies, journalism, social (and political) commentaries and humor. Cho also served one term as a nominated MP at the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) in Indian parliament from 1999 to 2005. On that occasion too (a commentary on fools, entitled ‘ Scholarship on Fools: Inspiration from Orrin Klapp and poet Kannadasan, May 9, 2005), it was merely mentioning him as an example of a ‘Comic Rogue’ one among the ten types of fools in Klapp’s classification. It is that of Srinivasan Ramaswamy (b 1934), aka Cho Ramaswamy from Chennai. In these 12 years, though I have chronicled the careers of quite a number of famous and infamous, popular and unpopular Tamilians from Eelam and Tamil Nadu, I never touched on one so far, except passingly on one occasion. Twelve years have passed since I began writing to the Sangam website. Reason 1: “ Intelligence agencies, armed forces and the Ministry of External Affairs, including myself told him (Rajiv Gandhi) that the initiatives being taken for signing the agreement were valid and practical….That the advice was wrong and the political judgement on which this advice was based was erroneous has to be acknowledged with the benefit of hindsight.” To disprove Cho’s repeated faulting of LTTE for the breakdown of Rajiv-Jayewardene Accord of 1987, I provide Dixit’s reasons why it failed. Cho’s knowledge on Eelam Tamil affairs is gibberish…
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