We view the recent protests, hunger strikes and other such nonsense by Tamil film stars and other sections in Tamil Nadu on behalf of the Tamils in Sri Lanka as nothing more than a veiled effort and a ruse to give the terrorist outfit LTTE time to recoup their strength after their severe battering by the Sri Lankan army.

In this context, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake’s comments before the country’s Parliament on November 4 are worthy of reproduction:

If the people of India remember their past, they would feel the pressure exerted by LTTE terrorism. The LTTE killed a great Indian leader [former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi]. We believe any Indian citizen with feelings will not pardon the LTTE.

[C]ertain pro-LTTE elements in South India have engaged in various activities to boost the image of the LTTE. We think these are moves engaged in by certain elements due to a lack of understanding.

Source: PTI

We are waiting to hear of large-scale protests in Tamil Nadu by Rajinikanth et al seeking the capture of LTTE leader Prabhakaran.

But then that would require some spine, wouldn’t it.

Evidently even that kid Genelia is a bigger draw at the box office than Tamil film star and non-actor par excellence Ajith Kumar.

One of the worst Tamil movies in living memory, the Ultimate Kuppa Aegan featuring that most incompetent actor Ajith Kumar, has fared miserably at the U.K. box office.

To Ajith’s everlasting shame, Aegan had a lower average at the U.K. box office than even the Genelia-Jayam Ravi film Santosh Subramaniam. That nadir will be hard to match, even by Ajith’s disgraceful standards.

Look at the numbers below for how Aegan has fared at the U.K. box office compared to a few other Tamil movies in the opening weekend:

Source: UK Film Council

As the above numbers attest, Aegan’s performance in the U.K. is pathetic

The blogosphere is all atwitter about the record traffic at CNN.com on election day, November 4.

Here are the mindblowing numbers:

276 million page views, 27 million unique visitors, 4.9 million live streams and 6.7 million on-demand video streams.

Yes, you can count us among the 27 million unique visitors. Also, chalk up at least 100 page views to us.