A Notice re a NEW BOOK on the negotiation of language and identity in a Tamil Saivite Temple in Australia by NILRUKSHI PERERA
Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking research draws attention to the journey of one migrant religious institution in an era of religious superdiversity.
Filed under accountability, art & allure bewitching, cultural transmission, economic processes, ethnicity, heritage, historical interpretation, Indian religions, landscape wondrous, life stories, meditations, modernity & modernization, performance, refugees, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, Tamil civilians, Tamil migration, tamil refugees, tolerance, travelogue, unusual people, welfare & philanthophy
Lucien Rajakarunanayake in An Article on 11th September 2014 entitled “Sandbags of Humans” in strategy to woo the West” …. with the highlighting being the present impositions of The Editor, Thuppahi
“I come across new evidence regularly in the midst of misinformation and dis-information that is a facet of the propaganda war that has been sharpening since the LTTE began to retreat in 2008. Since the volume of data is huge, a thorough investigation calls for assiduous work by a team which includes those who are culturally competent and able to discern manipulation.”
Filed under accountability, asylum-seekers, atrocities, authoritarian regimes, demography, disparagement, doctoring evidence, ethnicity, governance, historical interpretation, human rights, landscape wondrous, life stories, LTTE, military strategy, nationalism, patriotism, photography, politIcal discourse, power politics, prabhakaran, Rajapaksa regime, refugees, self-reflexivity, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, Tamil civilians, tamil refugees, Tamil Tiger fighters, the imaginary and the real, trauma, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, war crimes, war reportage, welfare & philanthophy, world events & processes
Cameron Stewart in The Australian, 24 August 2022, where the title reads “Holocaust Twin Phillip Maisel leaves behind a life of miracles,” .… with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
Just weeks ago, after he turned 100 with his twin sister Bella, holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel shared his secret of his miraculous life: “Just be positive,’ he said with a grin. “Always be positive.”
Filed under accountability, anti-racism, asylum-seekers, Australian culture, australian media, citizen journalism, cultural transmission, demography, disparagement, education, ethnicity, European history, heritage, historical interpretation, human rights, landscape wondrous, life stories, martyrdom, politIcal discourse, racism, refugees, self-reflexivity, tolerance, trauma, unusual people, war crimes, world events & processes, zealotry
The first time I met Salman Rushdie, the very idea of meeting Salman Rushdie was unimaginable. It was after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against him. Rushdie had disappeared from the face of the earth.
By refusing to subsist in living death they prescribed for him, the author stood up for life itself as the ordinary human birthright.
I went to a party in County Wicklow. Seeing him standing in the kitchen with a glass of wine was like meeting Lazarus.
Filed under accountability, anti-racism, art & allure bewitching, cultural transmission, education, ethnicity, historical interpretation, human rights, Islamic fundamentalism, landscape wondrous, life stories, literary achievements, meditations, Middle Eastern Politics, modernity & modernization, performance, political demonstrations, politIcal discourse, racism, refugees, self-reflexivity, trauma, unusual people
Earl Forbes, whose chosen title in The Ceylankan is “Ceylon/Sri Lanka to Australia: Arrivals and Survival”
Ceylonese/Sri Lankans have entered Australia for a variety of reasons during the past one and a half centuries. The far greater number of these arrivals occurred in the second half of the twentieth century and first two decades of the 21st century. Early arrivals go as far back as the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
Figure 3 Queensland sugarcane plantation workers. … [placed as frontispiece because of its striking character
Filed under accountability, Australian culture, australian media, authoritarian regimes, British colonialism, centre-periphery relations, cultural transmission, demography, discrimination, economic processes, ethnicity, governance, historical interpretation, human rights, island economy, landscape wondrous, legal issues, life stories, people smugglers, performance, politIcal discourse, population, power politics, racist thinking, refugees, self-reflexivity, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, Tamil migration, transport and communications, travelogue, unusual people, welfare & philanthophy, working class conditions, world events & processes
Allan Radcliffe, a review essay … 10 August 2022 — with highlighting here imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
A stage epic is a rare beast in Edinburgh, where audiences are accustomed to shows of one-hour tops in makeshift venues. Counting and Cracking is novelistic in its scope and ambition, featuring several storylines that sprawl over two continents and nearly half a century. Its three-and-a-half-hour running time goes by in a blink.
Filed under art & allure bewitching, Australian culture, British colonialism, communal relations, cultural transmission, discrimination, disparagement, economic processes, education, ethnicity, heritage, historical interpretation, life stories, literary achievements, modernity & modernization, performance, politIcal discourse, racist thinking, refugees, religiosity, self-reflexivity, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, Tamil civilians, Tamil migration, the imaginary and the real, tolerance, trauma, travelogue, unusual people, world events & processes
Cameron Stewart in Weekend Australian, 6-7 August 2022, where the title runs thus “Holocaust twins turning 100 are living proof miracles happen” …
Phillip Maisel says he has enjoyed two miracles in his life. The first was during the war when both he and his twin sister Bella survived the Nazi extermination camps of the Holocaust. The second was in Melbourne this week, when they both turned 100.
The twins as children in Poland before the war…. and now …The secret is staying positive’ … twins and Nazi extermination camp survivors Bella Hirshorn and Phillip Maisel get to celebrate their 100th birthday twice in Melbourne. Picture: Aaron Francis
Filed under accountability, anti-racism, atrocities, authoritarian regimes, communal relations, cultural transmission, economic processes, heritage, historical interpretation, Hitler, landscape wondrous, life stories, politIcal discourse, power politics, racism, refugees, self-reflexivity, the imaginary and the real, trauma, travelogue, unusual people, war reportage, world events & processes
Bernard Salt in THE AUSTRALIAN, 30/31 July 2022 where the title reads “Celebrating Our Migration Nation”
It is a single demographic metric that encapsulates modern Australia. It is often the subject of heated debate. It rises and falls over time, but generally over the longer term it has kept an upward trajectory. It is the proportion of the locally based population born overseas. It includes immigrants but it also includes foreign students, backpackers and so-called guest workers based here for 12 months or more.
Asian migrant children tuck into vegemite sandwiches.
Australian Sudanese Peter Bol of Team Australia competes in the Men’s 800m Final on day nine of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon this month. Picture: Hannah Peters/Getty Images for World Athletic
Filed under Australian culture, communal relations, cultural transmission, demography, economic processes, ethnicity, evolution of languages(s), governance, heritage, historical interpretation, landscape wondrous, language policies, life stories, modernity & modernization, patriotism, politIcal discourse, power politics, refugees, self-reflexivity, tolerance, travelogue, unusual people, world events & processes
Kapila Punchihewa, in Mawbima, July 22 2022, where the title runs thus: “The story of the running man Gotabaya unfolded. Exclusive”
President Gotabaya Rajapakse was elected with 69,lacks of the votes. He was only in office for 969 days before abruptly leaving the country last Monday afternoon, amidst massive public opposition he had to face. No one knew until that fateful Monday afternoon that he hAD left the country. Nobody even knew where the president was.
Filed under accountability, asylum-seekers, authoritarian regimes, centre-periphery relations, citizen journalism, disparagement, governance, Indian Ocean politics, landscape wondrous, life stories, politIcal discourse, power politics, Rajapaksa regime, refugees, security, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, the imaginary and the real, trauma, travelogue, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, vengeance, world events & processes
Michael Roberts
Through the first decade of the 21st century fishing trawlers attempted to breach the Australian borders with illegal migrants and this process continued even after Eelam War IV ended in May 2009 …. indeed, even receiving a boost because of the circumstances of considerable segments of the SL Tamil populace in Sri Lanka and in refugee camps in southern India.
In July 2012 I presented a BIBLIOGRAPHY on this topic in Thuppahi and I call attention to it here: …………. ………………………………………. http://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/a-flourishing-bibliographical-tree-tamil-migration-asylum-seekers-and-australia/
epa03396379 A young girl from a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers as they arrive at Bungus port, near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia 13 September 2012. At least 40 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka were transferred from Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra to the Immigration Detention Pekan Baru, Riau. Total number of migrants for 2012 is close to 10,000, with many of them Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians who have paid people-smugglers to ferry them from Indonesia to Australia. EPA/STRINGER
Filed under accountability, asylum-seekers, Australian culture, australian media, centre-periphery relations, communal relations, cultural transmission, demography, economic processes, ethnicity, historical interpretation, island economy, landscape wondrous, life stories, politIcal discourse, refugees, self-reflexivity, slanted reportage, sri lankan society, Tamil migration, tamil refugees, transport and communications, trauma, travelogue, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, welfare & philanthophy, working class conditions, world events & processes
thuppahi
