I Am photo-story finalists | Facebook: Hello folks! I am (Elijah Hoole) a finalist in the I Am photo-story competition. If you find my photo-story interesting, you can vote for me by hitting the ‘like’ button. Check out the other interesting photo essays as well. Thanks.
I Am photo-story finalists | Facebook: Hello folks! I am (Elijah Hoole) a finalist in the I Am photo-story competition. If you find my photo-story interesting, you can vote for me by hitting the ‘like’ button. Check out the other interesting photo essays as well. Thanks.
1. I wonder what diaspora Tamils hoped to achieve by protesting in front of the Oval yesterday. I am in no position to comment on the intentions of the protesters. The point to note is that the protesters were well within their rights; if they were not, it is a matter for the London police to solve. I would however ...
Northern Provincial Council Election and the Future of Lankan Tamil Politics (via http://www.groundviews.org) This year promises to be a decisive one for Lankan Tamils. Events that take place this year will considerably determine the future trajectory of Tamil politics. It is only a beginning where the end of the LTTE’s totalitarianism gives the Tamils opportunity to evaluate their nationalist ...
Four years have passed since the end of the war. Indeed, the scenes from this year’s victory celebration event are still fresh in our minds. We are told that the country is free. But, little has changed for the ‘liberated’ people. One only has to travel via Omanthai (on A9) in public transport to understand what I mean. It was ...
“It is true that unless we learn to forget, life will turn into revenge seeking. Each of us will have nothing to nurse but a catalogue of wrongs done to a long line of ancestors. But civilization cannot be built on just forgetting. We must not only learn to forget, we must also not forget to learn. We must also ...
| In this excellent paper Mahmood Mamdani traces the political roots of terrorism. The writer lucidly demonstrates that it is, in fact, USA’s Cold War and post-Cold War policy of nurturing terrorist groups to counter USSR that laid the foundations for Islamic terrorism of the 21st Century. “The link between Islam and terrorism became a central media concern following September 11, resulting ...
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.
““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 ...
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 ...
