The ‘post-LTTE’ misnomer
[Note from author: I had a piece in the web-magazine readers and trigger of much more discussion.] The term ‘post-LTTE’ is a misnomer; there will be no post-LTTE period in a political…
[Note from author: I had a piece in the web-magazine readers and trigger of much more discussion.] The term ‘post-LTTE’ is a misnomer; there will be no post-LTTE period in a political…
I recently interviewed Dr. Jehan Perera, Executive Director of the National Peace Council. Jehan is also a columnist for the in Colombo. He holds a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law…
It is clear, even amongst the most liberal of the western political academic circles that the end of the LTTE is now inevitable. Backed by the widow state of Sonia Gandhi and…
For anyone concerned with the plight of innocent civilians, the reports from the North are depressing. The latest ‘avalanche (!?) is yet to be fully screened, searched, scrubbed and bleached for any…
For over three decades, we have bombed and shot each other, split our tears and shed them only for ‘our own’, split our joys and celebrated as ‘their’ mothers, wives and children…
In the previous essays within this cluster I have dwelt on the dedication to cause displayed by the Tamil Tigers and identified various inspirations or conditioning factors: namely, the Cankam poetry, the…
On 24 April 2005 Dharmaratnam Sivaram, (‘Taraki’) editorial board member of the website Tamilnet, was found shot dead from gunshot wounds to the head several hours after four unidentified persons had abducted…
The emergence of the LTTE was an outgrowth from Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism. Tamil nationalism in its turn was an outgrowth from SL Tamil communitarianism in the centuries prior to 1949/50, the…
During the halcyon years of the LTTE, besides MÄvÄ«rar NÄl on 27 November, the Tigers conducted nine other mÄvÄ«rar or tiyaki ceremonies every year. These were, on the one hand, subjectively meaningful…
[I wrote this article in response to an “internet-project” initiated by the Sri Lankan journalist, Kusal Perera] Vasantha Raja 20 April 2009 In countries like Sri Lanka, capitalism did not evolve from feudalism.…
This set of essays on “LTTE and Tamil People” submitted to (Black Tigers) after – and this point has to be stressed — these forces had been generated by specific politico-military situations…
219 Tamils were rounded up in Gampaha town during dusk to dawn raids. They had no proper id cards and did not offer adequate reason to be living in the vicinity. Their…
: Special security camps, called ‘Government Comfort Centres’ are to be established in order to improve security for Government MPs, according to sources in the Defence sector. Due to fears of LTTE…
The Writer of Nazeeya Faarooq, in her article has seemingly probed into a billboard and attempted to develop an intellectual response to an innocent picture. It is good in one-way to develop…
We Sri Lankans have no excuse whatsoever. We have been forewarned. A piece by PC Vinoj Kumar in the latest issue of Tehelka magazine says that “while the Sri Lankan army claims…