Good point: “It is a tragedy when such hegemonic imposition of culture is passed on as liberal sharing.”

BTW, I was wondering IF there is a physical MEMORIAL for the thousands of people who perished especially in the No Fire Zone ? I know there is a WAR memorial and a ‘museum’ 🙁 But that won’t help the relatives to ‘heal’…

Thanks.

Thank you: ”majority religious culture is imposed on religious minorities as THEIR culture in the name of unity”

Thanks for alerting us – made the change.

At a cursory level the arts indeed unite. However, at a deeper level, they also divide when the majority religious culture is imposed on religious minorities as THEIR culture in the name of unity as done by the Centre for Performing Arts and Fr. Saveri. It is a tragedy when such hegemonic imposition of culture is passed on as liberal sharing.

A better example of sharing is the passion play by Fr. Joe Mary, SJ in Batticaloa set to non-religious Eastern Province art forms (Kooththu) and enjoyed by all communities at the Batticaloa Esplanade without any theological compromise.