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[Skyline]

One of Kerala's well know rationalist, Abraham T Kovoor took refuge in Sri Lanka to seek asylum for his sanity from the superstitious lot in my country

Despite a very brutal civil war, you guys are ranked as a middle income country in terms of human development indicators and income.

Still some way to go but on the right track

Yep, Sri Lanka is the only country which has ranked as "High" HDI rank in South Asian region. Maldives HDI is second in the region but they are the only country in the "upper middle income" country list, with in next 2 years we are shaking hands with Maldives by gaining the "upper middle income" country status.

 

[Gibbs]

Tamil sakkiliya is offensive word to address Indian Tamils/Dravidians.

The Arunthathiyar, (also known as the Sakkiliar or the Chakkiliyar), are one of the most marginalized social groups or castes from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Along with the Pallar and the Parayar, they form the largest Dalit group. The term "Arunthathiyar" is the more preferred and considerate name rather than "Chakkiliyar".


Sakkili as a derogatory term
Sakkili is a term used by certain Flame Warriors from Sri Lanka, partisan to the Sinhalese nationalistic cause in the current civil war to describe all Sri Lankan Tamils and has been noted by sociologists.

Arunthathiyar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Most Dravidians bought to the island by the Dutch in the 16th century as slave labor for tobacco plantations in the north ( note not the tea plantations Tamils bought by the Brits in the 18th) were from Dalit communities of now Tamil Nadu, Andra (Corromandel) and Kerala (Malabar).. Those people were discriminated by mainly ethnic Tamils in Jaffna and used for menial jobs like manual scavenging etc.. Hence the use of the term Sakkiliya's

Para Demala derived from the caste Parayars

 

[Marxist]

Realistically low ( I will be voting for him )

But Christians form almost 40% of the constituency and he already have had a meeting with church authority and BJP has some good strength in the dist .

Support of church and BJP vote bank can play in his favour .

Aranmula airport issue will also help BJP

 

[Jason bourne]

One More #NaMo TeaStall in Surat of Fayeem Ahmed...

 

[kurup]

Aranmula airport issue will also help BJP

It's not much of a issue in all Pathanamthitta but concentrated along Aranmula .

 

[INDIC]

Realistically low ( I will be voting for him )

But Christians form almost 40% of the constituency and he already have had a meeting with church authority and BJP has some good strength in the dist .

Support of church and BJP vote bank can play in his favour .

Kurup, what are chances for BJP in Kerala. Any probable alliance partner there.

 

[RPK]

Hmmm.... Will be very unfortunate for Tamilnadu if DMK does not get its act together. Alagiri has some support in Madurai region. He might not be able to come back to Power on his own, but can very well make sure that Stalin does not. Karuna is so old that he would say whatever Stalin would ask him to.

BTW who is No.2 in AIADMK..?

J.Jeyalalita

 

[kurup]

Kurup, what are chances for BJP in Kerala. Any probable alliance partner there.

Almost nill . 3 strong constituencies , but winning will be difficult .

Heard that Kerala congress may align with NDA after elections .

 

[Chronos]

Almost nill . 3 strong constituencies , but winning will be difficult .

Heard that Kerala congress may align with NDA after elections .

Is this a faction of the congress

 

[Skyline]

ok then what about uruma,permuna,udav??uruma from Tamil urumai permuna from peravai and udav from uthavi.

sakkili means .'toilet cleaner'.para means 'outsider' in all Indian languages.its derived from Sanskrit.

I don't understand the second word, permuna.

In every language there are some words which got mixed with their vocabulary, example we use Japanese word "Tsunami" as "Sunami" after the incident in 2004. but we also have Sinhala words to mention it as "muhuda goda galeema" or "Udam rala". Another example, "e-mail", you can see some use it "e-mail" in Sinhala script. But the correct Sinhala word is "Vidyuth Thapal". If you listen to Sinhalese when they speak, they use English words to describe some things but we can express that only using Sinhala words too. sometimes most common or easy to use word gets in our vocabulary.

 

[kurup]

Is this a faction of the congress

It is a political party and not a faction of congress , although they were earlier .

Kerala Congress is a recognized State political party in Kerala, India and the only regional party in the state.

The party was founded by K. M. George in October 1964 after a group of legislators decided to break from the Indian National Congress.


Here is the fun fact about them .... valarumthorum pilarum , pilarumthorum valarum


The Kerala Congress has suffered severe divisions and several factions (called groups) have emerged, all claiming the name 'Kerala Congress'. Factions included the parent under P. J. Joseph, Kerala Congress (Mani) under K. M. Mani, Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai) under R. Balakrishna Pillai, and Kerala Congress (Jacob) under Johnny Nellore. The group that had retained the official recognition by the Election Commission of India to the name is the one led by P. J. Joseph (which is informally called the Joseph group).

Few years back, P. C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party, which split from the Mani group, merged with the Joseph group. In October 2009, Kerala Congress (Secular) under P. C. George, which split from the Joseph group, merged with the Mani group. Kerala Congress (Socialist), which split from the Kerala Congress (Secular), merged with the Janata Dal (Secular).A section of the Indian Federal Democratic Party under M. P. George retains its own cadre. When the Joseph group merged with the Mani group , a faction under P. C. Thomas dissented and stayed under the LDF, forming the Kerala Congress (Anti-merger Group).

There was a move for a United Kerala Congress from Kerala Congress (Mani), Kerala Congress (Secular), Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai), and Kerala Congress (Jacob), but this was unsuccessful.


Kerala Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Marxist]

It's not much of a issue in all Pathanamthitta but concentrated along Aranmula .

This Aranmula Assembly seat is part of pa-thitta LS constituency ....i feel it will have some impact in election

 

[Roybot]

how many yesterday saw Rahul getting humiliated by arnab?

Lmao I did, I think Rahul was high on crack

 

[Chronos]

It is a political party and not a faction of congress , although they were earlier .

Kerala Congress is a recognized State political party in Kerala, India and the only regional party in the state.

The party was founded by K. M. George in October 1964 after a group of legislators decided to break from the Indian National Congress.


Here is the fun fact about them .... valarumthorum pilarum , pilarumthorum valarum


The Kerala Congress has suffered severe divisions and several factions (called groups) have emerged, all claiming the name 'Kerala Congress'. Factions included the parent under P. J. Joseph, Kerala Congress (Mani) under K. M. Mani, Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai) under R. Balakrishna Pillai, and Kerala Congress (Jacob) under Johnny Nellore. The group that had retained the official recognition by the Election Commission of India to the name is the one led by P. J. Joseph (which is informally called the Joseph group).

Few years back, P. C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party, which split from the Mani group, merged with the Joseph group. In October 2009, Kerala Congress (Secular) under P. C. George, which split from the Joseph group, merged with the Mani group. Kerala Congress (Socialist), which split from the Kerala Congress (Secular), merged with the Janata Dal (Secular).A section of the Indian Federal Democratic Party under M. P. George retains its own cadre. When the Joseph group merged with the Mani group , a faction under P. C. Thomas dissented and stayed under the LDF, forming the Kerala Congress (Anti-merger Group).

There was a move for a United Kerala Congress from Kerala Congress (Mani), Kerala Congress (Secular), Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai), and Kerala Congress (Jacob), but this was unsuccessful.


Kerala Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[kurup]

This Aranmula Assembly seat is part of pa-thitta LS constituency ....i feel it will have some impact in election

Yep , it is but IMO it will hardly have any impact in the current setup .

Aranmula is just 8-10km from where I live .

BJP can capitalise if they can make it an issue .

Ippo ulla samaram onnum pora ...... onnu nannayi kalakki marikkanam .