tropicaltopix: Read the entire post here. robpinney: London, United Kingdom. May 18th, 2013. Tamil protesters gather around photographs of those killed during the Sri Lankan civil war. Thousands of Tamils march through central London to commemorate those killed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war and to call on Prime Minister David Cameron to boycott the Commonwealth ...
In stark contrast to the ‘victory celebration’ scenes in Colombo, in the North and the East Tamils lit candles and mourned their dead. Unsurprisingly, public assemblies were disturbed by the powers be. Yesterday, in Vavuniya, a stone laid in the memory of Tamil civilians who died during the final war was demolished by unknown thugs. There were many other incidents ...
elisebrown: Dario Mitidieri spent one year in Bombay photographing street children. The pictures tell their story There is so much shit to mend in the world.
Hello Praemordeo, I was born and raised in Sri Lanka - in Mannar, which is, incidentally, very close to India (32 km). I am still here, and plan to stay here. What I think of Sri Lanka … well, that is a tough question. The people are beautiful and friendly. The place is simply amazing (a Dutchman who lived in the country used ...
We Regret To Inform You That Your Condolences Cannot Be Accepted At This Time (via http://www.groundviews.org) We regret to inform you that your condolences cannot be accepted at this time. At present, both our pain and our hope defy that word, which has been offered and denied us, which we need and do not need, and which in any ...
Today, I am not celebrating; I have never and never will. This day is a black day. Today, I mourn; I mourn the collective pain, death, torture, trauma and suffering of all Lankans. Today, I remember, with a heavy heart, all those who perished. I am appalled at how this country is refusing to learn from her past. I see no victory. Nothing has changed. Today, worst of all, I see no hope.
~ It may be invisible But it is audible You will not see it But you will hear it It will speak to you In loud screams or in whispers ~
““His activities in the union were a stigma, in the eyes of the new authorities. First they watched him, then they hounded him; finally, they fired him. Without a job and without hope of finding another, he began to decline. Pale and wan, he shambled through nights of insomnia and days of humiliation. He had pounded at many doors, suffered ...
Under the shades Of our age old Mango tree With oxygen My poem takes flight
ericboydblog: Not every murder involves a corpse.
Chapter 1: Three Men, Three Missions Inspector Sethu Raviraman had many regrets. Foremost, he regretted that he was a police officer. He had already drained three cups of plain tea, and smoked as many cigarettes, in his bid to make sense of the evidence that was in front of him. The process of assembling evidence had taken his finest men ...
Clearly the government of Sri Lanka is now treating university education as a commodity, universities as corporate entities and the academic administrators of those universities (VCs, DVCs, Deans ect.) as business managers. The government expects only that university administrators fall in line with their agenda. To this end, the state expects university administrators to: 1. Ensure faculties that can be controlled at will ...
““The polite way of figuring out a girl’s age: Hey! You finished school in 2010 right?””
The day was still tender; the air cold, foul and unforgiving. For some reason the sun was hiding her face from the earth. Darkness ruled over the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. A small hut in Pottuvil stood decidedly facing east eagerly waiting for the arrival of dawn. Inside the hut Ruban lay on a termite-ridden mat. The mat offered ...
sciencesoup: The Quantum of Time If I ask you for the smallest unit of time you can possibly think of, you might suggest a second, or a millisecond, or a nanosecond if you’re clever. But while these units are small enough to measure everyday events, physicists have to deal with cosmological forces and events on incredibly tiny scales, so they ...
James M Tour Group » Evolution/Creation: “In the last few years I have seen a saddening progression at several institutions. I have witnessed unfair treatment upon scientists that do not accept macroevolutionary arguments and for their having signed the above-referenced statement regarding the examination of Darwinism.” - James M Tour, T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Rice ...
As I observed in one of my earlier posts ‘Ghosts from Our Past’ (1) a new wave of anti-minority tide is sweeping across Sri Lanka. This phenomenon is led by Buddhist monks, in the name of preserving Buddhism and the ‘chosen race’. I came across a YouTube video titled ‘Buddhist Extremism’.(2) The person who made the video, I am certain, is ...
““To Prabhakaran, who regards himself the ultimate glorious hero of the Eelam movement, any challenge to his monopoly of history is intolerable. No matter how many lives he must sacrifice to assert this self-given right: It is the core of his being.” - Sivaram, Sabalingam’s Assassination: A Bid for Monopoly over Annals of the Eelam Struggle (1994)” - http://www.island.lk/2005/09/17/features3.html ...
The State of the Free Education System in Sri Lanka: Confessions of a Disgruntled Student (via http://www.groundviews.org) Image courtesy The Nation I am one of the 243,876 lucky students who sat for the Advanced Level Examinations in 2011. It has been almost one-and-a-half-years since then, and I received my university registration form only yesterday (6 – 4 – 2012). ...
“Today’s words like ‘Progress’ and ‘Development’ have become interchangeable with economic ‘Reforms’, Deregulation and Privatization. ‘Freedom’ has come to mean ‘choice’. It has less to do with the human spirit than with different brands of deodorant. ‘Market’ no longer means a place where you go to buy provisions. The ‘Market’ is a de-territorialized space where faceless corporations do business, including ...
