This is the letter I isent to senior retired public servant in India:

I think you have met my mother during your Australian postings . Prior to her demise, she related to me how my grandparents were brought to Malaya from Tamil Nadu as indentured labourers in a rickety ship and for distributed to a rubber estate in one of the northern states of Malaysia to work as coolies. Of course the British Colonial Government quarantined and “cleansed” the shipment of labourers in the Andaman Island, like what they do to shipment of animals.. They were employed as regimented indentured workers, like the South Indian workers sent to sugar cane plantations in South Africa. My mother described these scenes to me, as it was told to her by her parents who were the real indentured workers from Gingee, Tamil Nadu. These poor Indians sent back periodically part of their meagre salary and created the wealth for Malaysia. The British expunged our birth rights born in Malaya for their expediency and enshrined the Indians in law to be discriminated and treated as second class citizens without equality in perpetuity. We are fighting for our human dignity and not to be treated as interlopers.

The real beneficiaries of the semi slave trade were, India (through foreign Exchange) The British Colonial Government, and of course Malaya, as Malaysia was known than. Now for the Indian politicians to label the HINDRAF representatives, if that is true, as “traitors” etc is treacherous and betrayal of my ancestors. It shows their garbage mentality. I dare say that I suspect money and bribery politics here for which some of these Indian politicians are well known for. The current Indian Minister for Railways is well known for his thugariness .You remember how this thug, as the Chief Minister of Bihar than, directed his senior police officers and goons to commandeer private properties for his daughters grand wedding. The politicians of the Central Government, probably the very ones who have rebuffed the HINDRAF representatives now , and the media just laughed off his antics, whereas in other countries he would been incarcerated for his criminality. I suppose one could not expect sympathy from politicians of such repulsive behaviour and mindset.

Perhaps the HINDRAF messengers should not have gone to this conference in India with expectations to receive a sympathetic hearing. Instead, as reported, they got a uncalled for scathing response. Perhaps they should have remained in the more enlightened Western Nations, where the values for human rights, anti-discrimination laws and compassion for the minorities are more reflective of a civilised nation, in spite of their historical past . I dare say, these Western Nations are more compassionate toward the woes of minorities.

I hope I have not burdened you with these messages Karthi, but for your understanding of Human rights and values of your past position as the Director General of Human Rights Commission in India.

As close friend of Sonia Ghandi of the Congress Party, I hope you would be in a position to convey these sentiments to her.

Best wishes

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