Tiger, tiger, burning bright

Sob, sob, the Hillgoat has found his footing in the neighbouring mountain. But a little bird tells me that it is the Tiger that drove away the goat to the neighbouring hill. While he wrestles with the Tiwari code, we wish him all the best. But I am little late with my update on the Tiger amidst us.
Today's news bulletin says that Velupillai Prabhakaran may be terminally ill. I wish the guy is dead before he can cause anymore harm to humanity. But there will be at least a colleague who will shed more than a tear for the LTTE terrorist.
And he shares my cubicle. I had known that he was a proud Tamilian but not someone who was so awestruck by a brutal terrorist. I knew that he believed that the Sri Lankan government was responsible for the tragic Tamil problem in that nation. But little did I realise that he may have been trying to hide his stripes.
On a fateful evening, I was talking with Mr Debater about the LTTE and how the organisation worked against Tamil interest in Sri Lanka. Suddenly, the Teacher, who was silently listening to my conversation, just got up, with a grim face, and walked out.
There was something alarming about the Teacher's mannerism. He looked annoyed and then it suddenly struck me that he was from Ramanathapuram.
When he returned a few minutes later, after his mandatory tryst with the cancer stick, I deliberately turned around the argument. I told Mr Debater: "But all this is one-sided, we don't know the truth...all we get to hear is from the media and it could be biased." "Exactly!!!!!" said the Teacher, even before I completed my sentence. "You see, Prabhakaran is a great leader, he is a visionary, he is respected by Tamilians in Sri Lanka..." He said everything praiseworthy, except that Prabhakaran is a Gandhian. "Tamilians don't have any other leader, you see..." "But LTTE has made sure that Tamilians don't have another leader, it eliminated them all," argued I. "All the others were into drug smuggling and gun-running." "But that's exactly what the LTTE is supposed to be doing and it even employs children and pregnant women for the purpose," I countered. "No! LTTE looks after the genuine interests of Tamils, the rest of them were racketeers," the Teacher said, now looking very agitated. "You mean to say even TULF leader Amritalingham was a racketeer," asked I. "But he was not a militant," said the Teacher. "Exactly, but he was a respected mainstream Tamil leader, an MP in the Sri Lankan parliament...so why was he killed by the LTTE," I asked. "No I am talking about militants," he evaded.
He then went on to add that the LTTE was actually serving the purpose of Tamils in Sri Lanka and that the media was unfair to it. "I have talked to several of the refugees who live in the refugee camps in Ramanathapuram..."
Suddenly it struck me that the Teacher had the same number of years of experience as Mr Debater and lost the same number of years preparing for the civil services examinations; but he was four years older than the Debater; so, where did he lose those four years? A chill went down my spine when it occurred to me that our man may be a Tiger on the prowl...What have I done? Will the Teacher teach me a dreadful lesson?
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