by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Women from nine villages and housing schemes in Mannar are perturbed over plans to set up a new Army camp in Tharavankottai. Representatives of Women’s rural development societies from the nine concerned villages met recently and drafted a petition in Tamil protesting the allocation of land along Tharavanlottai road for the purpose [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Current affairs category.
Temerity of EPDP leader before LLRC was due to armour of immunity given by years of impunity
by Chanakyan Hello Friends, The role and conduct of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) described once as “half democrats” by its leader Douglas Devananda came in for intense scrutiny by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. The LLRC report strongly recommended action by the Government against the EPDP and other groups of a similiar [...]
Tamil businessman who filed FR case against police abducted at Wellawatte by armed group in white van
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj State Terror in the form of the dreaded “white van goon squad” struck again in Colombo on Saturday February 11th 2012 when a Tamil businessman of Indian origin was abducted near his residence on Canal Bank Road, Wellawatte in the presence of his Sinhala wife and daughter. 42 year old Ramasamy Prabakaran [...]
Indo-Chinese tensions and the ‘mutiny’ causing regime change in Maldives
by D.B.S.Jeyaraj Hello Friends There has been a regime change in the Paradisian archipelago of Maldives. Recent events leading to such a change in the Maldives Islands have evoked great interest and concern in the corridors of power in Colombo. Sri Lanka is the closest neighbour to the Maldives and there existed a strong personal [...]
Madonna, M.I.A and the middle finger malfunction!
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Superbowl XLVI is over and the National Football League champions for 2011 are the New York Giants who beat New England Patriots 21 -17. The game played on Sunday February 5th 2012 at Lucas Oil stadium in Indianapolis,Indiana was televised live by NBC.I was one of the estimated 110 million who watched [...]
Return and re-settlement of displaced persons in the North: A TNA overview
Hello Friends The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has begun the commendable task of comiling and releasing informative reports on crucial issues affecting the people of the North and East. The latest in this series is one pertaining to the return and resettlement of displaced persons in the North. The preamble of the TNA report states [...]
The Sri Lankan connection of Swami Vivekananda
By Priyadarshi Dutta Hello Friends Narendranath Dutta known as Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsar and founded the Ramakrishna mission that performs commendable service in many parts of the world including Sri Lanka. Swami Vivekananda is a Bengali who was born in 1863 and passed away in 1902. He was greatly responsible [...]
South Asian Think Tank IPCS researcher critiques LLRC Report
Hello Friends, The Report released by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)has been receiving mixed responses. The latest critique that I read was from the South Asian Think tank – Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) in New Delhi ,India.It is written by an ICPS staff researcher J.Jeganaathan based in Delhi who is [...]
Sea Tiger commander Soosai’s wife Satyadevi speaks out
Hello Friends Thillaiambalam Sivanesan alias Soosai was the former commander and special commander of the naval division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) known as “Kadal Puligal” or Sea Tigers. This native of Polygandy in Vadamaratchy fought to the very end and died in Mulllivaaikkaal in Mullaitheevu district on May 17/18th 2009. Soosai born [...]
50th Anniversary of abortive coup d’etat conspiracy in January 1962
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Fifty years ago on Sunday January 28th 1962 the people of the Island nation known then as “Ceylon” were rocked by a special news bulletin in the afternoon on “Radio Ceylon” (Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation)that interrupted regular programming . The shocking announcement repeated ad nauseam by a male voice on Radio stated [...]
Irresponsible diaspora sections cause many problems in Jaffna
By Rajasingham Jayadevan Hello Friends Rajasingham Jayadevan is an accountant based in London, Britain. He has been and continues to e a political activist concerned about the future and well-being of Sri Lankans in general and Tamils in particular Pic courtesy of: A visit to the market in Jaffna ~ more pics-by By helpingmedia ~ [...]
Rowdyism at Rameswaram by Tamil Nadu ‘activist’ mob
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Rameswaram (Rameshwar)in the South of Tamil Nadu state in India is revered by Hindus all over the world as a place of tremendous religious significance.The Island town was the scene of an ugly rumpus on the tenth of this month when a well-known Sri Lankan Tamil businessman visiting for a religious purpose [...]
