Another pop culture trivia in addition to the ones you have about Tamil movies and the conflict: Mammootty plays an ex-IPKF man with PTSD in Kandukondain Kandukondain.
I grew up in Hyderabad with family in Bangalore, and I have fond memories of watching Tamil movies in theaters in Bangalore when I would visit for vacations.
> But why did the LTTE do it? Did they do it on their own steam? This is highly, highly unclear.
One of the reasons they did do it was because of wide spread perception of IPKF as evil. In fact LTTE had a compendium about IPKF called The Satanic Force, which among other things documents the rapes and atrocities by Indian troops: https://sangam.org/compilation-material-ipkf/
The IPKF were initially greeted as saviors in the Jaffna peninsula before the relationship between the Tamils in Sri Lanka and India soured shortly after the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987.
That's actually mentioned in the series (one of the suspects printed it). And I realized the importance of it when Raghothaman mentioned it in various interviews.
Lately I've seen a lot of rather alarming statements from the new Marathi chauvinism that has popped up for reasons I fail to comprehend, including but not limited to directly stating that marathi speakers should create their own separate country.
A lot of it is political stuff, a lot of it is funded by people with a vested interest in seeing india struggle with internal divisions. But it's causing real people with real concerns to start viewing their fellow citizen with suspicion which is horrible.
Another pop culture trivia in addition to the ones you have about Tamil movies and the conflict: Mammootty plays an ex-IPKF man with PTSD in Kandukondain Kandukondain.
I grew up in Hyderabad with family in Bangalore, and I have fond memories of watching Tamil movies in theaters in Bangalore when I would visit for vacations.
> But why did the LTTE do it? Did they do it on their own steam? This is highly, highly unclear.
One of the reasons they did do it was because of wide spread perception of IPKF as evil. In fact LTTE had a compendium about IPKF called The Satanic Force, which among other things documents the rapes and atrocities by Indian troops: https://sangam.org/compilation-material-ipkf/
The IPKF were initially greeted as saviors in the Jaffna peninsula before the relationship between the Tamils in Sri Lanka and India soured shortly after the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987.
That's actually mentioned in the series (one of the suspects printed it). And I realized the importance of it when Raghothaman mentioned it in various interviews.
Lately I've seen a lot of rather alarming statements from the new Marathi chauvinism that has popped up for reasons I fail to comprehend, including but not limited to directly stating that marathi speakers should create their own separate country.
A lot of it is political stuff, a lot of it is funded by people with a vested interest in seeing india struggle with internal divisions. But it's causing real people with real concerns to start viewing their fellow citizen with suspicion which is horrible.