I’m still trying to decide whether this is unmitigated brilliance or unmitigated cheapness. On the one hand, making your regional and linguistic rivals2<\/sup> do all the dirty work, and then making only the bare minimum changes so that your pet political cause is advertised instead should be applauded for its audacity. On the other hand, if you’re serious about your own nation state, resorting to such half measures is not the done thing. You should be whitewashing the first offending graffito and then writing your own. Especially because in this case the scraping hasn’t been done perfectly, and the ‘L’ of ‘Tamil’ is still visible, making the whole thing look like ‘Kannal Nation’. Which actually puts me in mind of ‘Kannalanae<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup>‘Kannada Types’, for the uninitiated. Oh, this is hilarious. A couple of months ago, when I first landed up in Bangalore, some bugger had been putting up Tamil nationalist graffiti all over Bangalore. The two main graffiti were ‘Read sacred Thirukural first and then Da Vinci Code’ and ‘India recognise Tamil Eelam – an Hindu country’. Nobody knew who the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlatans","category-public-policy-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-3T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Meme](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/128\/359571163_f69892b000.jpg?resize=450%2C338\")
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\n2<\/sup>The KT-Tam conflict is over too many issues to mention, but the most prominent ones are the distribution of Cauvery river water, the proper size of a coffee tumbler, whether Bangalore or Chennai is the quizzing capital of India3<\/sup>, and whether Rajnikanth is KT or Tam.
\n3<\/sup>In their hearts, the Tams know that it is Bangalore. Which is why they want to annex it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"