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Before the debate gets heated again in the Parliament about the Nuclear Deal on the alleged breach of privilege of the August House by the Prime Minister of India; who won and who lost. I am quite convinced, neither India nor Pakistan, wins. The Nuclear Race has driven both the Countries in the guise of Civilian Nuclear Deal to a major competition and logically to a confrontation in the Sub-Continent. The craze for the technology has put both the Powers at the mercy of alien Powers, namely, China and U.S.A. to score political gains and enhance their commercial interests.In the process they have succeeded to some extent, in pitting arch rivals, once again, against one another. The Civil Society in both Countries, in larger interests of the Region, shall attempt to allay fears and mutual suspicion and cause easing of nuclear tension.Of course shortage of power has been a difficult situation affecting people in the globolised economies, yet the projection of the rulers and their arguments

what has been happening for three decades and more in the Island Nation appears to be an internal affair of a country for opinion givers in the media cannot be accepted as such. A close reading of the social and political history of the Country gives clear evidences of discrimination and relentless subjugation meted out to the Tamils in the System.The unquestionable suppression and oppression suffered at the hands of the Sinhala Majority by the Tamil Citizens within the Nation at various fronts and levels and the initiative taken internally and externally to resolve the tangle through mediation have evaded resolution of the conflict for years. The himalayan efforts taken in the past to solve the conflict by the T.U.L.F. through the democratic process sustained severe jolt and in fact received a raw deal at the hands of the Sinhala chauvinism.The Tamils patience for equality and equal opportunity also did not go well with the establishment. After exhausting the channels the Tamils had