“All the world is my world, all
humanity is my fraternity”
City and they will say: here buildings fell, and here a nation rose."
- George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, At the Republican National
Convention, NYC, Sep 3, 2004
running out" [LTTE Peace Secretariat]
In a letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Mr. S.P. Tamilselvan,
Head of the Political Wing cautioned that the patience of the Tamil people and their
leadership is also running out and there is a general fear and suspicion that the
SLA is in fact engaged in ceasefire violations with a view to provocate the LTTE
and thereby leading to disruption of the entire peace process.
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The LTTE firmly expects a positive and constructive response from the
Government to recommence peace talks. This they expect this time round through
Norwegian special envoy Erik Solheim who arrives in the island tomorrow.
Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) leader and Parliamentarian Arumugan
Thondaman said nobody could tell him where to go and where not to go. Referring
to the media reports that he went to Hyderabad, India, last week to revise
multi-million dollar deal with an IT Company. Thondaman said he visits Chennai
every week to be with his family. "Whether I go to Hyderabad or elsewhere, is a
personal matter," he said.
Sri Lanka's president has endorsed a crackdown on pyramid schemes, promising
legislation to ban them outright.
[Sunday Observer]
Speculation on the portfolio to CWC leader Arumugam Thondaman, LTTE's stand
on Thondaman's unconditional support to the government, the meeting between
President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe
and TNA's request to India to show more concern in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict were
the highlights in Tamil dailies last week.
"We are perturbed by the absence of any signs or efforts for strengthening peace.
Instead we only see increasing violence in all parts of Sri Lanka. We have
assembled here to pray for peace," said Rev.Rayappu Joseph, Bishop of Mannar,
addressing the youth, at the conclusion of a youth conference in Vavuniya
Saturday, sources said.
OUT OF the blue, just when we need him most, the former United States President,
Bill Clinton, is in hospital having undergone a heart bypass surgery. A significant
arterial blockage was discovered, possibly caused by too many cheeseburgers and
fries in his earlier life. But why would the blockage start to play up now, when he has
switched to the low-carbohydrate South Beach Diet, is jogging regularly, and has
retired? Could retirement have anything to do with it?
PARTHIBAN THINKS differently. And he does not for a moment allow you to forget it
in Bioscope Film Framers' "Kudaikkul Mazhai," (A) conceived, crafted, (he prefers
these expressions to the story, screenplay, direction tag) acted and produced by
Parthiban himself.
Nasser is just back after a 28-day stint for "Nothing But Life," an English film made in
the U. S., with an Indian cast and a Hollywood crew. You catch up with the actor to
get a first hand account of the experience but in the couple of hours you talk to him,
he dwells with candour on many other matters too — from money and fame to his
slips and disappointments.
In Tamil cinema the only two stars who received national awards were Kamal Hassan
and MGR (M.G. Ramachandran). Surprisingly, the late Sivaji Ganesan never got it.
The winner of this year's national award is Vikram for his role as a gravedigger in the
Tamil film Pithamagan.
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