By Chackravarthy “One Mullivaikkal is enough. Don’t try to get 100 more.” Oh God the British never told the French ‘one Waterloo is enough. Don’t try to get 100 more’. What kind of a speech is this? Is this the tolerance Lord Buddha taught or his disciples learnt? A Tamilnadu newspaper in her editorial said, [...]
Archive of entries posted on 23rd June 2012
What stands out in the work of Lester James Peiris is his humanism
by Dr. Sarath Amunugama “Our ideals – moral, social and poetic – must be defended with intelligence as well as emotion: and also with intransigence” – Lindsay Anderson. I am grateful to the organizers of this event for inviting me to deliver the Lester James Pieris oration for 2012. I am particularly grateful because it [...]
Democracy, Development and Devolution was the Premadasa Plan to solve the Ethnic Problem
by B Sirisena Cooray (88th Birth Anniversary of Ranasinghe Premadasa was on June 23rd) The ethnic problem did not end with the war. The ethnic problem has to be resolved to make peace work and prevent the next war. Development, democracy and devolution: that was the Premadasa plan to resolve the ethnic problem. President Premadasa [...]
‘We Failed to find Solutions to Problems because we addressed issues by Ethnicity and not Nationality’
by S. Skandakumar Your Excellency, John Rankin, High Commissioner for Britain in Sri Lanka, Eminent Excellencies of the International Diplomatic Corps, distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, When Carlo your President invited me on behalf of his committee to this evening’s function, I said to him, “Carlo I am four years into retirement, I have spent it [...]
International Widows’ Day on June 22nd Commemorated at Nedunkerni for the First time in Sri Lanka
by Rajani Iqbal A group of war widows in the Nedunkerny region of the Wanni District celebrated the International Widows’ Day on 22nd June, 2012 at the conference hall of the Nedunkerny Pradesa Sabai. This meeting was organized by an NGO in collaboration with the relevant officers of the Divisional Secretary of Nedunkerny who had [...]
