Subramanian Swamy Quotes
National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
After the WWI Turkish massacre of Armenians and the casualties of WWII, large numbers of Armenians were outside of Armenia which was a part of the Soviet Union and many ethnic Russians were moved into Armenia thus dominating the country. The ethnic Armenians found themselves a minority in their own homeland,
This parochial and sectional point of view was held much more strongly by the South and to a great extent, still is. We are all conflicted by wanting and American culture (that can be adopted by the world in globalization) and also wanting local customs, cultures, norms, policies and thought patterns to exist. However, there is inevitable conflict between the two, so it is a constant American source of debate, ebb and flow.
See {640102} and {640101} for his view of what a nation is not.
Subramanian Swamy is an Indian politician, economist and statistician, who serves as a nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Before joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is known for his Hindu nationalist views. Swamy was a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Between 1994 and 1996, Swamy was Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade under former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. Swamy was a long-time member of the Janata Party, serving as its president until 2013 when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
