Comments on: The heartbeat of my country https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-heartbeat-of-my-country Journalism for Citizens Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: SAM https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-27084 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:30:12 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-27084 Must a poem always address the negatives of the subject? Can’t it be in that moment where one admires what is positive…

If we must, always, address the negative, in any subject, wouldn’t we be a bitter lot of people?

]]> By: killjulietinstead-lol https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-7539 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:10:30 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-7539 the imagery is the same as seen in tv videos of national anthems and Bathiya n Santhush songs. I wish people saw beyond the ordinary goviya-stilt fisherman image of our country.

that notwithstanding, funny how the heartbeat of your country doesn’t reach to the slums of colombo, the school-less in the streets, the shopowners of the east. shrug. people always find it easier to ignore the bitter, and romanticise the sweet when it comes to patriotism. but call me cynical.

i think what some of the people are saying here is that the sweet concord of the poem is in isolation of most of the discord and injustice that some people are suffering right now. feeling patriotic is what a lot of sinhala people do these days, not without reason, i guess, but still, to say that we have victored, when some have clearly not, is negligent and indulgent.

but i’m just nineteen, so i wouldn’t know.

]]> By: malinda seneviratne https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-7095 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:48:04 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-7095 and thanks manushi.

]]> By: malinda seneviratne https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-7093 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:37:08 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-7093 davidson panabokke,

perhaps my mistake was to send a poem i wrote to sanjana. the self-righteous arrogance of a lot of people who comment here astounds me, to be honest.

cheers
malinda

]]> By: Manushi https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-7092 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:36:22 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-7092 Malinda,

What a lovely poem. I love the imagery ! The third stanza is my favourite.

]]> By: davidson panabokke https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-6903 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:55:00 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-6903 ”I live in a country whose heartbeat sings to me
And perhaps others.
It gives me heart
It gives me life
And lets me breathe.
I am content.”

I am pleased for those outside the Northeast of the country.

]]> By: davidson panabokke https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-6902 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:31:31 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-6902 Malinda
How about a poem about those destroyed by the last sixty years?
Nice poem about the people who developed in the last sixty years.

]]> By: malinda seneviratne https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-6860 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:57:52 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-6860 dear ethnichybrid,

some like the poetry, some like the commentary. what to do?!

malinda

]]> By: Sesha https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-6859 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:50:48 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-6859 A man offers a magnificent poem and the responses are on everything but the inspirational work. It attracts venom spewed over and over by the eternally venomous. Sad!

]]> By: davidson panabokke https://groundviews.org/2009/06/01/the-heartbeat-of-my-country/#comment-6807 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:13:43 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1258#comment-6807 Is there any difference in the way the Tamils were treated by us in the three decades i.before the ‘BOYS’ were born, ii.while they have been around or iii.after they’re slaghtered.

After all we were disturbed by some blasts now and then but the Tamils have been living under the yoke of Sinhala chauvinism for six decades -the end is not in sight.

Killing Tamils in periodic pogroms was bad. Keeping IDPs starved of food, medicine and sanitation is worse. We’re getting better at oppressing others.

Saying LTTE was brutal the government is being much more brutal.

Any sense here?

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