By M. A. Sumanthiran M.P. In October last year I submitted to Parliament a 30-page report on the situation in the North and the East. I did not criticize the mere presence of military bases. ‘Militarization’ is not so passive a word as to denote only the military’s existence in a given zone. Instead the [...]
Archive of entries posted on 19th August 2012
The V.K.Krishna Menon Insitute’s Personality of the Year Award to Canadian MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan
Although the International Community, despite continuing media exposure of the Sri Lankan government’s atrocities against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, appeases the Sri Lankan regime for economic and commercial reasons some highly influential European, US and Canadian Human Rights Organizations have refused to give respectability to one of the most reprehensible genocidal regimes in modern [...]
Sacred Kapilavastu Relics Being Brought from India for Veneration in Sri Lanka
During President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s State visit to India in June 2010, it was agreed that Sri Lanka and India will undertake joint activities to commemorate the 2600th Year of Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha. Following this agreement, President Rajapaksa wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting for the Sacred Kapilavastu Relics to be sent to Sri [...]
Sri Lanka to have Communications Satellite with Chinese Cooperation and Train Astronauts for Space Missions Too
By Shirajiv Sirimane Centuries ago, there was evidence to suggest that King Ravana of Sri Lanka used a wooden plane to fly across to India. However, since then, this amazing technology the Sri Lankans had was never heard of. During recent times, if someone said that Sri Lankans were to build an airplane, the world [...]
Ethnic Conflict and Tamil Poetry in Post-Colonial Sri Lanka
by Prof. M A Nuhman The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has had a direct impact on literary production in Tamil, comparatively greater than in the case of Sinhala. This is largely due to the fact that it has been the Tamil-speaking communities who were most directly and severely affected by the ethnic conflict throughout [...]
Alarmel Valli, TM Krishna and Unnikrishnan Successfully Interact with Students in Jaffna
By R.K.Radhakrishnan “At what point of your dance training can you develop a style of your own,” a student asked Bharatanatyam exponent Alarmel Valli at an interaction here on Friday. The elaborate answer’s crux was that timing depended on the person, ability, confidence, and creative impulse. “You will know when you are ready,” the dancer [...]
