BANS AND CANARDS
No longer is the domestic or global current affairs narrative line determined in publications originating in the countries that ran the Empire, or the capitals that play host to economic refugees.
This was clear when Indian readers seemed to overwhelmingly reject the narrative line in the London based Economist that determines Narenda Modi the BJP leader as being unsuitable to be the future Premier of his country of over a billion people.
Neither are Sri Lankans or those of the region impressed by the narrative line that terror fronting organizations have been banned and individuals been targeted for asset seizure and travel bans, due to a desire to show that there is an ongoing terrorism crisis that Sri Lanka has to deal with, in order to stave off UN Human Rights Council action!
The proscriptions of front organizations have been long in the offing, and the move is certainly aimed at stopping terrorism advocacy and staving off a possible future terrorist threat.
However, it is a proactive preventive measure and not one that's a defensive manoeuvre that these same terror apologists should crow about as a sign of their potency as terrorism advocates.
The need for terrorism prevention and a pro active national security policy that guards against the terror threat has been widely recognized in the region.
The article carried below is a testimony to that.
It is the situation that obtained before the recent proscription and the banning of LTTE fronts and LTTE advocates and point-men abroad, that was ludicrous.
The Fr. Emmanuels, the Suren Surenthirans, the Rudrakumarans and the Poobalapillais had a field day advocating a terror based, LTTE romanticizing ideology against the free people of Sri Lanka.
By Gazette now, this ludicrous terror advocacy from Western capitals will officially end, and the even more odious trend of Sri Lanka's elected parliamentarians such as the Sumanthirans and the Sambandans meeting its chief apparatchiks and openly being in cahoots with them will draw to a close.
The narratives on these developments can no longer be the fairytale versions decided on by the opinion makers with compromised interests.
Likewise the narrative on the BJP's Mr. Narendra Modi can no longer be decided a ocean's or continent's distance away in the lobby rooms of Western NGOs or in the editorial rooms of The Economist.
Modi, say the harrumphing sages of the above named periodical, is a man who encouraged sectarian violence and is therefore unsuited to become the next Premier of India.
Needless to say, the opinion polls seem to be definitely indicative of a Modi victory in the next few days, meaning that the Indians don't think these things should be decided for them by pundits and patrons from overseas.
What right does somebody in the boardroom of a publication thousands of miles away from any town in India have, to pontificate on the suitability of a man who has been exonerated by the appointed authority in India of any wrongdoing concerning the Gujarat riots?
Who are these people to be disdainful of the internal law enforcement, oversight and accountability processes of other countries?
This must be the same way in which those NGO and INGO sages and other interlocutors of the West decide that the internal processes in Sri Lanka are inadequate in ensuring accountability in this country.
The positive aspect in all of this is that counter narrative is there, and increasingly the counter narrative is asserting itself as in the Indian example.
The bogus narrative is just that; it's trumped up and often totally concocted, but its power is that very often it is pushed by powerful vested interests and bulldozed before the authentic narrative has time to put on its shoes.
But there are powerful articulators of the truth these days in the most unlikely of places. Swapan Dasgupta of the BJP for instance has been able to show that Mr Modi is ready for India and vice versa. Swapan is a BJP stalwart but he is also articulate and pugnacious when it's necessary. With the likes of him putting pen to paper, The Economist simply has no chance.
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