“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. ...
““And what is the position of the Tamil Community? I want to repeat that our position is this. We are inhabitants of this country. We have lived here and a branch of the Tamil Community has lived here possibly longer than our brethren the Sinhalese. This is our home. We have as much right to claim to have permanent and ...
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.
The Ending: A Short Story: ambivalent-ambition: It felt like a dream, one that was slowly fading away. I kicked desperately at the ground till my back reached the stump of the wall that remained. A trail of blood remained in my wake. I leant back, hands still pressed against the flesh, blood streaming between my fingers. I had felt invincible,… Excellent
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 ...
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 ...
My verdict: ‘an incredible documentary!’ “This documentary tells a story of silent agony, trapped screams and repressed mourning. A story of women forced to deny their identity — who are trapped in between a government which sees them as “Tigers,” and a society whose norms they are no longer deemed worthy of.These women fought bravely alongside men as members of ...
| In Tamil films when two people are about to lock lips either of the two things occur: 1) an umbrella blocks the view, or 2) a train crosses just in time. And by the time the train is gone, kissing is done and the couple are holding hands in an awkward way.A viewer kept returning to the cinema for ...
Why do we forget?: tropicaltopix: In 2009, our nation was literally divided along political lines - the North (Vavuniya and up), a hideous blood bath, and the South where life goes on. We forgot it then, and we forget it now. Here is the post of an NGO worker who saw first hand what violence means. And even today, there ...
“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 ...
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I’m off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots I have traveller’s checks and pills for the trots! The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our vision global; Although we move with the better classes Our thoughts are always with ...
“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 ...
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