“All the world is my world, all
humanity is my fraternity”
Lovely! See the rain, the rain drew near!
Who spoke?
It was the little corn ear
High on the tip of the stalk.- Zuni Indian corn-grinding song
Silent tears fell down her dark cheeks in two rivulets as the woman prayed at the main
shrine inside the Sri Vigneswara Mamangeswaram Kovil in Batticaloa last week. Tears for
departed friends or family, either during the long years of the ethnic conflict or even
perhaps victims of the recent internecine LTTE conflict. I did not wish to intrude and ask
her for whom she was shedding tears, but it was symbolic of the pain and suffering of the
Tamil people in the Batticaloa region.
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The United National Party (UNP) legislator from Hambantota District, Sajith Premadasa says
the present UPFA government is 'making a total mess' of the country. He says the Marxists
especially were exhibiting their strengths in formulating slogans, making pronouncements
and participating in dramatic press briefings and added the JVPers have proved to be
totally inefficient, ineffective, incompetent and impotent in governance. "There is nothing
that we could expect from a government that has no coherent policy on anything," he told
The Sunday Leader in an interview. He also says the UNP embarked on a restructuring
programme to face the people at future elections keeping 'poverty alleviation' as its primary
concern.
hopes [EU Business]
European Union nations criticised Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels Monday for killing rivals
and recruiting child soldiers, appealing to the guerrillas not to undermine the Island's
Norwegian-led peace bid.
Top envoys from the Netherlands and Britain, together with the EU delegation chief here,
Wouter Wilton, urged the Tigers to settle their internal differences peacefully without
jeopardising the peace efforts.
Two Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province.
Gunmen opened fire on the two men as they drove past on a motorbike on Friday. A third
person was injured.
and the Tamil
national
struggle
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Reporters Without Borders called today on the Sri Lankan government to immediately
investigate the killing of newspaper journalist Kandasamy Iyer Balanadarajah, who has
been shot dead in Colombo, and to end the climate of lawlessness and impunity that has
targeted the country's media.
Once more it's festival time at Valankanni, the famous Marian shrine across the Palk
Straits on the scenic eastern coast of India.
Situated a midst scenic and serene surroundings lashed by the blue green waters of the
Bay of Bengal, against a beautiful and scintillating backdrop of fishing craft with their
immaculate white billowing sails about 350 kilometres south of Madras or Chennai,
Valankanni the Eastern Lourdes is a veritable focal point of pilgrimage in South East Asia.
In fact when I visited the city I was struck by the cosmopolitan crowd that thronged the
streets. They came from all parts of Asia. Some from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam,
Australia and even some from distant China.
THE 51ST National awards for best work in the field of cinema announced last week lifted
the spirits of the people of Tamil Nadu, the celluloid fraternity in particular. Vikram was
adjudged best actor for his performance in "Pithamagan." His portrait as the undertaker at
a burial ground was much talked about.
PLAUSIBILITY HAS no place in Gemini Film Circuit's "Vasool Raja MBBS" but that in no way
hampers its entertainment value. In fact, it aids it. The first half, in particular, is a racy
laugh riot, with its palatable share of sentiment.
voice will live
forever ...[The Hindu]
P.G. KRISHNAVENI,
more popularly known
as Jikki, the
nightingale of
yesteryear South
Indian Cinema, shall
sing no more. Now
caressing, now
appealing, now
cajoling, her
pleasantly melodious
voice was always
tantalising.
Some thoughts and comments on his work [Sunday Observer]
Once again, a collection of Ananda Coomaraswamy's writings has been published in the
United States and marks the anniversary of his birth in Colombo 127 years ago on August
22, 1877.
A magnificent set of three volumes - one of them a biography - was published many years
ago to mark his Centenary by the Bollingen Press of Princeton University.
The present volume, edited by his son, Dr. Rama Coomaraswamy, is called The Essential
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and contains selected extracts from his most important
writings.
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