regards,

I vividly remember reading an article one one of the old LST reviews that had a copy of the page in a newspaper in the 1920’s or 30’s where the man himself argued that Ceylon be included as one of India’s states. This may have been early on in his career as a lawyer and may even have been a one off article. I went through these articles with a friend and it was about 3 years ago, so I’ll get back to you on this one with confirmation, but I can think of no other reason why i would have formed this impression.

Regards,

I asked around about this, and I doubt if this is true. Someone actually mentioned that SWRD was inspired by the council system in England, and when returning back wanted to introduce it to Sri Lanka. So some sort of devolution?

Then apparently a number of Sinhala nationalists accused him of selling out to India, and accused him of making Sri Lanka a state of India…or something along those lines….I am not quite sure what their logic was.

Thus, the logical chain solving all our problems is depressingly familiar:

1. Drink magic potion
2. Solve war
3. Avoid idiot post-war government
4. Achieve economic growth
5. Assemble a cricket team of rubber wristed Tamils and strong armed Sinhalese and slam the Aussies back to English jails.

Now where did I leave that bottle of potion?

What’s ur point. One language-one identity? what do u mean by that?

So, if u want to make a peace full world,then u would urge everybody in the world to speak singala?

Look at India. There are totally 22 recognized languages spoken by the people of different races. [check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India%5D

even though, there is an unity everywhere. A Tamil, can be a president, A sardar can be a prime minister, and upon everything, a foreigner can be the leader of the opposite party.

Can’t u remember the funds collected by the total population,when the kargil war commenced?

Just get inside India, when the cricket world cup commences.U could see the best example of unity in diversity.

Could u give me an answer to the question below?

What makes Indians to feel “Indian” even though they speak different languages.

“INDIA IS SHINING”

[one language-one identity] = utter scrap

Think something better.

Switzerland
Canada
Wales

which emphsises Niran’s point of for example america’s stability and prosperity being based on the American Dream and their constitutional values rather than a homogenous cultutral identity. Switzerland’s constitution has been looked at by Tamil national leaders in the past as a model.

Also, what gave you the impression that Tamils in the NorthEast hate you?

The all embracing Singaporean identity and the wealth of the Chinese in Malaysia have something to do with economic prosperity don’t they? Well, if you have a war seeking to enforce integration you don’t get prosperity, so those two models are out of the question. If you lived in Malaysia you’ll be able to tell the difference between the Ceylonese Tamils who went to Malaysia as civil servants and the Indian Tamils who went for cheap labour. The former are doing flourishingly well and occupy places of influence in many sectors of Malaysian public life. You may not had the opportunity to mingle with this lot but given your inability to distinguish between Ceylonese and Indian Tamils, why am I not surprised?

Also the American identity has nothing to do with the English language. It’s the prosperity and the American dream and their constitutional values. The Hispanics are growing at a rapid rate, they speak mostly Spanish and still consider themselves American. In any case, English may have helped, as it may have in SL. I noted that you used the word ‘culturally diverse’ and ‘homogeneous’
to describe Australia. Sounds like a contradiction. Doesn’t matter, spin out of it. The more important point is that immigration in Australia is a fairly recent phenomenon and we still don’t know how they will integrate. Europe’s having a hell of a problem so we’ll have to wait and see. You’re not going to get any tips as to how to beat the Tamils into submission from these examples though.

Could you provide some links with regard to the Anglican Church call for a moratorium on Muslim migration? Am interesested in this.

Also interested to know about Singapore preventing ethnic enclaves and ghettos. Would appreciate if you could provide some references.

Thanks.