Category Archives: gender norms
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Filed under female empowerment, gender norms, governance, growth pole, heritage, landscape wondrous, life stories, performance, photography, power sharing, psychological urges, pulling the leg, rehabilitation, Responsibility to Protect or R2P, taking the piss, terrorism, the imaginary and the real, tolerance, wikileaks
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan: Recent Essays from a Man from Point Pedro, 2011-15
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan
Elusive Economic Peace Dividend: all that glitters is not gold
Abstract: This research paper compares and contrasts the post-civil war economic development in the conflict-affected Eastern and Northern Provinces and the Southern and Western Provinces in Sri Lanka. In spite of high economic growth in the conflict-affected provinces, employment generation has been very low; unemployment rates and poverty are very high. Moreover, the ruling party (at the time of the first draft of this paper in June 2014) has lost significant share of its vote received in the recent provincial elections (2012–2014) compared to its share of votes at the provincial elections in the immediate aftermath of the civil war (2008–2010) indicating that the economic growth at national and provincial levels has not filtered down to the households. Continue reading
Filed under economic processes, female empowerment, gender norms, historical interpretation, island economy, life stories, modernity & modernization, politIcal discourse, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, social justice, sri lankan society, teaching profession, unusual people, welfare & philanthophy, world events & processes
Open Ports! The Boat People Australia wants
A Flourishing Bibliographical Tree: Tamil Migration, Asylum-Seekers and Australia
Alex Kuhendrarajah of Merak notoriety –courtesy of Australian courtesy of aus.com.au Continue reading
July 1, 2015 · 10:02 am
Former Tigresses and their Sufferings in the North Today: More Comments
Tamil Tigress fighters
Tigresses in “My daughter the terrorist” — a film by Beate Arnestad
NOTE: these images 9and those below) serve to set the preceding context and are NOT aspects depicted in the documentary HAUNTED TIGRESSES. Michael Roberts
MY STEPS … Michael Roberts
STEP I: in May 2013 the anonymous collective known as the SOCIAL ARCHITECTS ( a collective whose work has featured before in Groundviews) carried out investigative research with video camera and ethnographic work and composed a documentary film with the title “Haunted Tigresses” which described the pressures and oppression encountered by a handful of former female fighters from the LTTE who were living in the Tamil areas of the north and/or east. See the results in https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nSSv9Kk3tkI
STEP II: I sent this documentary to several friends who had engaged in research and/or social service in the Tamil regions and asked them to pen their comments on the work. Five responded and their thoughts have been available on web since 9 October 2014 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nSSv9Kk3tkI Continue reading
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Torture ‘Clinics’ in UK as Pathway to Asylum?
Exposure of Nandani’s Act in BBC Documentary hosted by Frances Harrison in 2013
This exposure is the work of an anonymous hand/or set of hands just as some of the reportage and footage in the BBC documentary is pseudonymous. Readers should first absorb the BBC video located at the end of this stunning news item after skimming through the item itself; then perhaps re-read the details in this report. ALSO SEE http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24849699
WITNESS’S ACCOUNTS ON SRI LANKA ASYLUM SEEKERS By Dead and Missing Person’s Parents Front …. http://www.eyesrilanka.com/2014/10/07/witnesss-accounts-on-sri-lanka-asylum-seekers/
NANDANI ‘RAPE’ STORY WINS HER ASYLUM IN UK
Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War, a BBC Documentary presented by Frances Harrison, fulfilled every criteria of an attention-grabbing piece of fiction. Unfortunately, the story that emerges is very much a piece of fiction as evidence will expose not only the story of Nandani but a dangerous racket taking place in the UK manipulating the innocent asylum seekers to live in Western nations. The version we present is no fiction but it will alarm and shock readers making them wonder if such actions can take place in the UK under the eyes of democracy, rule of law and equal justice. It will establish a link that would require British authorities arrest the evil minds involved in the asylum racket making money out of a desire to want to live in a First World Nation. We do not blame Nandani. There are thousands of females like Nandani who have fallen prey to the advice given simply because they either want to join their husbands or to just tell their family back home that they are earning dollars and pounds. Continue reading
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Indian Cab Driver meets Fabulous Oz
Many of us in Aussieland have been exposed to the ubiquitous presence of Indian cab drivers in the capital cities and doubtless appreciated their contribution to the development of multi-cultural Australia. This little “EPISODE” in composition, with its Peter Sellars flavour, will certainly add to our sense of joy.
* A drunken woman, stark naked, jumped into a taxi at Fortitude Valley in Brisbane.
* The Indian driver opened his eyes wide and stared at the woman. He made no attempt to start the Cab.
* “What’s wrong with you Luv, haven’t you ever seen a naked woman before?”
* “I’ll not be staring at you lady, I am telling you, that would not be proper, where I am coming from…”
* “Well, if you’re not bloody staring at me Luvie, what are you doing then?”
* “Well, I am looking and looking, and I am thinking and thinking to myself, where is this lady keeping the money to be paying me?!”
Jean Arasanayagam: Poet, Author, Activist
Sarah Hannan, in the Sunday Leader, 7 July 2013
“We’ll all become spinners of endless sagas which we read in the silence of our eternal loneliness. We inhabit the world of exile, which lies within the Babylon of ourselves” – Jean Arasanayagam. Dr. Jean Arasanayagam – is a renowned poet and author who has contributed immensely towards the English Literature circuit in Sri Lanka for over four decades. Having written poetry, prose and short stories in English she is celebrated by literati around the world and was recently honoured with a doctorate in letters by the Bowdoin College, USA. Joining In Conversation Dr. Arasanayagam shares her life as a person of letters and art. Having been a voice for the people who silently suffered the hardships of war, the writer asked her, what changes she sees in the society three years into peace and reconciliation under one flag. Continue reading
