Rock and Roll of Sri Lanka; PapareI would assume some here who watch Cricket have heard the Sri Lankan music at the Cricket matches. The Rock and Roll of Sri Lanka; Papare a mix of kavadi (old indigenous beats), African beats and the adoption of trumpets with gusto.Kavadi is age old music/tribal drums for dance that was a catharsis of ...
Do the Chinese have the same concept of friendship that we have? The Chinese, as individuals, have no friends. China, as a country, all the less so. I think the Chinese are not curious about how the barbarians govern themselves as long as they’re subordinate to China, economically and technologically. The Chinese are the least ideological people in the world ...
This blog post is long reply to a good friends questions.First: Productivity, Growth. That is a concept that is used by the rentier classes to maximize profits. Pay the least and and get the most. How, does that benefit the avg joe. Standard answer is cheaper goods, and you know that does not happen. Maybe the Chinese.(See Box Below)"in 1973 ...
A set of FB posts arranged oldest to newest. There is a thread connnecting dotsHouthi Drone/Missile attack on Saudi Arabia FB post on 2019/09/16The oil and gas conditioning plant in Abqaiq is the largest of the world. processes 6.8 million barrels of crude oil each day. More than two thirds of all Saudi oil and gas production runs through it. ...
First, my personal reasons, then the track record and finally the allegations.My personal reasonsI was back in SL in 2010 just as the war ended. Ended up living on the border of Wilpattu. It was also the de facto border between LTTE and Govt control. It was desolate, no economy for the locals. Three shops, one blackened with soot tea ...
There is accumulating circumstantial evidence that Epstein's millions are from some other source, likely a country. No, its not Russia, its the country that has been caught many times spying in the US. The fund that Epstein runs does not generate the income that funds the lavish lifestyle. Blackmail in itself too cannot generate Epstein's income. Is Epstein selling/getting ...
A couple of FB post in one place predicting if there is a war with Irana) Gold will sky rocket USD 1,700/oz and above is a high probability (USD 1,400 on June 20)b) Will Trigger a Financial Crash bigger than the 2008 becausePossibility of Oil pushing USD 100- USD 150That will trigger trillions in derivatives and the dominoes fall Gold ...
I have been out of touch with tech for over 8 years, being in the boondocks, so please chip in. If necessary will do updates to post from comments. (also here at Brown Pundits for comments)——————————————————————————— Trumps plans are pushing and hastening countries to be less dependent, even independent of US products. The Huawei ban seems to be game ...
Abstract: Is Sri Lanka (and similar small states) going to be the frontline between Islamic Caliphate versus Human Rights/Evangelical Christian Empire. Like Vietnam a proxy War between the goal of a Communist vs Capitalist World Empire.Post WW2, Evangelical Christianity (thru the US) and "Human Rights" (thru US and Europe) have been terrorizing the Mid East for over half a ...
Feb. 2018, Nizam Kariappar complains to Election Commission that Minister Rishard Bathiuddin’s allies had taken over Sainthamarruthu.A video showed motorcyclists riding through town beating up people. The elders responsible were asked by the Election Commission to let others contest freely. They agreed before us and shook hands. As a result, the SLMC fared slightly better than the extremists 24 April, ...
There were plenty of indications that some kind of incident was going to occur. Some Muslim Leaders/Politicians had warned the govt of possible terror attack, some even naming possible suspects*. The incidents or information were either ignored or worse perpetrators were released. *This is quite different from main stream Tamil politicians who kept shielding at minimum or encouraging the LTTE ...
Review by my uni batch mate, Sunil Koswatta Charles Allen has written two books onThe Buddha and the Sahibs and Ashoka—The Search for India’s Lost Emperor. The second book, written about a decade after the first one, is largely an expansion of the first. Both are the stories of the “Orientalists” who discovered India’s lost history, the lost Emperor ...
Life on the Outside: The Tamil Diaspora and Long Distance Nationalism by Øivind Fuglerud (1999). Not a review of the book, just excerpts. I found the book unbiased in my opinion. The first chapters are a background of how the separatist movement evolved. The latter chapters are on the dynamics of the Tamil Diaspora in Norway. The excerpts are from ...
How the Sadri dance of the Devadasis (temple prostitutes) became classical Bharatnatyam in 1935.Devadasis were girls (age 7-36) "dedicated" to worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life. The Devadasi were trained in music and dance, and a veneer of religion covers prostitution and the supply of concubines to wealthy men. The ...
“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist” Ananda Coomaraswamy, A pioneer historian of Indian Art and foremost interpreter of Indian culture to the West’.Ananda Coomaraswamy: The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon (1913) not really a review but excerpts from the book. Very readable and not just the ...
There have been a few comments with accusations of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan Govt. 65% Sri Lankan Tamils live in Sinhalese Majority areas..In comparison only 1% Sinhalese live in Tamil majority areas.The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora is 22% of the Sri Lankan Tamil PopulationLankan Tamils Living among Sinhalese65% of the Sri Lankan Tamils live in ...
I guess "Holocaust Deniers" all over the world.Just the excerpts from the reports during the period (Spanish American war of 1898).General Bell himself, who said “we estimated that we killed one-sixth of the population of the main island of Luzon—some 600,000 people.” (There is another Bell, George who also fought in the Philippines ). Also see Gore Vidals reply on ...
Recently saw a music video by Bi Kidude (Little Granny) from Zanzibar. I was struck by the similarities to Sri Lankan Kaffiringha or Manja music and old traditional music as in Panama Vannam and Yak Thovil.Bi Kidude (Little Granny)Fatma Baraka Khamis was Taarab singer from Zanzibar who was born around 1910. Bi Kidude won several awards including a WOMEX Award ...
Geopolitical Update: The Drums of War in he Middle EastThis is like watching hurricane track and hoping it wont hit you. a) Saudi Arabia (SA) is running out of money. Foreign reserves have fallen dramatically. Low oil prices have been a big problem b) Mohamed bin Salman (MbS) is doing a power grab. Made himself heir. Considered an unpopular move. ...
Another view of the Rohingya issue in Myanmar. Apparently the leader of the Rohingya Rebel group Ata Ullah possibly had training under the TalibanexcerptsWhile the ethnic conflict in Rankine state is very old, it has over the last years morphed into an Jihadist guerilla war financed and led from Saudi Arabia. The area is of geo-strategic interest:Pipelines from the western ...
