Yavarum Kelir”
humanity is my fraternity”
2005
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Methodist
College Camp
and Navalady
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Kadirgamar Umamaheswaran alias Muhunthan the Peoples Liberation
Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) leader had recognized the political
animal that was Sivaram in the mid - eighties itself. So he was entrusted a
task that involved a lot of clandestine activity in Southern Sri Lanka. SR's
Southern assignment was not gathering intelligence or planning destruction
but to identify, seek and build rapport with "nesasakthigal" (friendly forces)
in the South.
in endless cycle of violence
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The killing of "Taraki" Sivaram in Colombo was not an isolated event. It is
part of an endless cycle of violence that has been plaguing Batticaloa
Tamils. Though he was killed in Colombo Sivarams death is linked to the on
going Eastern violence caused by the Karuna revolt. Manifestations of
violence take different forms at different times in the East.. The latest is the
internecine warfare between the Karuna faction and the mainstream LTTE.
Again the hapless victims are the Tamils of Batticaloa - Amparai.
By Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
Dear Sinhalese,
I am addressing this letter to you – the Sinhala
people, directly, because your leaders of the past
did not and the present do not, have the capacity or
intention to resolve the Sinhala-Tamil and the
majority-minority problems in Sri Lanka. You are their
excuse! I am writing this letter firstly as a human
being, secondly as a Tamil and thirdly as a fellow Sri
Lankan. I am addressing this letter to you as a
people with a proud culture and heritage; a people who
are compassionate and decent; a people who are largely
Buddhist and practice a compassionate religion
grounded in the principles of dhamma and karma. I am
also addressing you as a people who are the closest to
me as a Tamil, in appearance, culture and beliefs.
By Dushiyanthini
Kanagasabapathipillai
Transcript
U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Lunstead
On Signing of Supplemental Spending
Measure and Tsunami Relief
American Center, Colombo.
13 May 200
The United States on Friday offered a moratorium on debt for one year to
tsunami hit Sri Lanka.
The selective politics of an assassination
Sunday Essay by Ajith Samaranayake
What do Sivaram's roots and trajectory tell us about ourselves and our
society. D. B. S. Jeyaraj in his characteristically well-researched piece tells
us that Siva's family had held considerable landholdings in Battocaloa, which
they had lost to the Land Reform.
The Siva I knew was like most of us a man of modest means struggling to
bring up a young family and a free-lance writer most of the time. He neither
boasted about his grandfather's membership of the State Council nor his
father's Cambridge education or for that matter his own work in the higher
echelons of PLOTE during those heady and dangerous days of struggle.
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over aid delay [BBC]
Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka have said any further delay in distributing aid to
tsunami-hit Tamil areas will have serious implications for peace moves.
They blamed President Kumaratunga for the hold-up in establishing a
so-called "joint mechanism" to share out aid.
Kaa Kaa Kaa
By C.S. Jeyaraman,
From Parasakthi
(1952) [MIOL]
"Will this peace last long?" askes 63 years old fish monger in Uppuvelli
Shanmugam Nadarajah.
"I come to Uppuvelli early in the morning to buy fish, and take it to the market
to sell. I am getting old, unable to work hard. But still I have to feed my
family" says 63 years old fish monger Shanmugam Nadarajah in Uppuvelli.
refusing to share national wealth - Taraki [Tamilnet]
Liberation Tigers' demand for an independent administrative arrangement
and funds to rehabilitate and rebuild the infrastructure of the Tamil
homeland is rooted on the fact that for the past 56 years the Sinhala Nation
has resolutely exercised its monopoly power on island's national wealth and
refused to accept Tamil's right to a fair share of the wealth, argues late
Dharmeratnam Sivaram, in a column which appeared in Virakesari of 21
November 2004. This feature provides an English translation.
M.I.A.: Rapper and Daughter of Revolution
The daughter of a Tamil revolutionary, Sri Lankan M.I.A. is now a rap
sensation in England. The 28-year-old is known as much for her music as
her life story. She combines the rhythms of global cultures with lyrics that
some say incite revolution. Critic Oliver Wang reviews her CD Arular.
Aishwarya Rai is getting global recognition as an actress.
Aishwarya Rai is getting global recognition as an actress.
She is certainly going places. From being a jury member at Cannes to being
on 60 Minutes, on the list of Time magazine's 100 young achievers and the
Oprah Winfrey show. Aishwarya Rai has moved from the domestic to the
global arena. Excerpts from an interview:
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The night of Chennai streets. ‘Small’ people sleeping under 80 feet cutout of
a film star’s gaze. The film star points a Magnum 44 at drivers of Mount
Road. A twin of him with plastic biceps, wrestle-mania makeup, 6 inch carved
blade and twisted look boasts a box office hit of this years’ Deepavali. While
high tech firms on Anna Salai with ultra blue neon signs portrays middle
class boom, hungry children fights for coconut pieces from a late night vow
at a roadside Ganesha temple. A sacred cow emerges from the chaos with
the biggest piece of the coconut. Survival of the living that makes no
difference in who fights for what.
Canada Welcomes New Students from Abroad [NPR Audio]
New Canadian immigration rules are designed to attract more foreign
students to Canada's colleges and universities. Educators in the U.S. say it's
the latest in a series of attempts by other countries to chip away at the
dominance of American higher education.
Twenty five years into her career, Shobana, the
dancer-actor with classical features, loves the freedom her
muse has given her
"I am not doing any films right now. I am busy with setting up my dance
school Kalarpana in Alwarpet," says actress and Bharatanatya danseuse
Shobana, almost expecting the same question from a gaggle of reporters. I
catch up with the rather indifferent star after she is done with her press
conference to promote a brand. Excerpts from the interview.
Have Bollywood and Tamil films taken over Malayalam cinema? While
Malayalam cinema is floundering at the summer box-office, it is the Hindi and
Tamil films that are doing good business in Kerala. The generation-next
audience in the State are growing up on a staple diet of Bollywood culture
and their idols are from Tamil cinema.
Self-confidence is Silambarasan's middle name. Understandable. At eight
he was a hero and at 23 he is a happening actor, writer and auteur! The
first came on a platter because he is filmmaker T. Rajendar's son but the
rest are achievements all his own. `Manmadhan' showed that beyond the
action, gimmickry, prance and romance on screen, is a thinking hero who
can conceive a suspenseful plot and narrate it with enough tempo
(Wariness made Simbu give the credit to A. J. Murugan in the titles) A chat
the with young man who talks with gusto about his next project, `Vallavan' ...
Ratnavelu has made a mark as a cinematographer in a short
span.
Eight hits in a row is no mean achievement. And cinematographer R.
Ratnavelu, Randy to friends, has accomplished just that. Barring his first film
"Aravindan," from the path-breaking "Sethu" every film including
"Bhagavathy," "Jayam," "Thirumalai," "Arya" in Telugu and "Paerazhagan"
have had a successful run. "Maayavi" is his recent project. The Coke
commercial that he shot with Vikram is drawing a lot of attention. Randy feels
that cinematographers in particular don't get their due in the media. "We are
not mere technicians cranking the camera mechanically and pushing off ...
Our job calls for imaginative use of colour, tone, lighting and angles," he
contends.
The Ponnai is said to have changed course, obeying
Nandi's command.
Innumerable are the temples for Lord Siva and 1,008 of them are famous.
One among them is the Sri Dhanumathyambal Samedha Sri
Vilvanatheeswarar Temple in Tiruvalam in Katpadi taluk, about 25 km from
Vellore.
This is also one of the 32 temples in Thondai Mandalam, which have been
sung by Tamil poets, Arunagirinadhar and Pattinathar.
Dr. S. MOHAN RAJ
ABISHEK could see the eight boys from his apartment balcony. Suresh, his
classmate in fifth standard, was reeling off the rules for the day. "Five overs
match. Both teams should field. No umpire. If you hit the compound wall of
Mantra apartments, it is a `four'. Hitting into balconies or into Bala's
compound is `out'."
"But Bala's was `six' last week," interrupted Chandru, Abishek's neighbour.
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driving darkness from earth circled by roaring waters. One is the flaming sun, single wheel bright
as lightning, the other is Tamil that has no like." — from the taNTiyalankârum [Berkeley Tamil]
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