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All About EBOLA
Courtesy of Arunachalam Sathananthan A Liberian health department burial team removes a suspected Ebola victim’s body in Monrovia — Getty Ebola is thought to have originated in fruit bats and to have been introduced into the human population through close … Continue reading →
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The Osama Bin Laden Killing in Graphic Detail. An American Way of Telling
Larry Pickering: “Obama avoids paying his Bin Laden Bill,” 20 October 2014, at http://pickeringpost.com/story/obama-avoids-paying-his-bin-laden-bill/3971A Alternative Title: “Who Shot Osama?” — “WE ALL did it” says the Navy Seal Shooter There is little sympathy for the Pakistani who fingered Osama Bin … Continue reading →
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Filed under accountability, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, atrocities, Islamic fundamentalism, landscape wondrous, life stories, martyrdom, military strategy, patriotism, performance, politIcal discourse, terrorism, the imaginary and the real, trauma, unusual people, vengeance, violence of language, wild life, world events & processes, zealotry
Into the Vanni and Jaffna of the 17th Century
Darshani Ratnawalli His name was Knox. Robert Knox. English. He was a prisoner in Lanka from 1660 to 1680. Finally he escaped from Kandy or more specifically from Rajasinha II, who claimed to be the sovereign overlord of the whole … Continue reading →
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Service to humankind: Venkateswaran father & son
I: N. Venkateswaran, 1900-1973 My Father N Venkateswaran was a graduate of St Thomas’ College in Kerala, a Jesuit institution & it was not surprising that he found his niche as a teacher in another Jesuit institution, St Aloysius’ College … Continue reading →
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Forbidden Fruits? Niromi de Soyza under Scrutiny
Michael Roberts, courtesy of http://www.groundviews.org, where the article appeared earlier under a slightly different title The literary world is now poised on the brink wondering if the Tamil Tigress (Allen & Unwin, 2011) is going to join Forbidden Love (Random House, … Continue reading →
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Filed under asylum-seekers, australian media, authoritarian regimes, cultural transmission, Eelam, gordon weiss, historical interpretation, indian armed forces, life stories, LTTE, martyrdom, military strategy, news fabrication, prabhakaran, Rajapaksa regime, Rajiv Gandhi, reconciliation, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, Tamil civilians, Tamil migration, Tamil Tiger fighters, terrorism, truth as casualty of war, world events & processes
A Foreign Tour Agent’s Balmy View of Sri Lanka
Keith Austin ** A little more than three years ago, Sri Lanka was a basket case, and had been for more than a quarter of a century, as civil war ravaged the country. Sri Lankan-born novelist Michael Ondaatje, in his … Continue reading →
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Step-by-Step moves forward creatively in Sri Lanka rebuilding shattered lives across the board
Step-By-Step Studio Images Mystery Painting Studios, like the Step-by-Step Studio in Colombo, are not primarily about “doing” something. They are about “being” something: being peace, being hope, being adaptable and dependable in situations that change rapidly and are far from … Continue reading →
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No Worries Machan! We have WIMAL on our side!
Namini Wijedasa, on “The Sri Lankan Hero” … in a Sandesa to GOD Dear God, These are terrible times. They say someone at the Central Bank mucked up the economy. There is a balance of payments crisis. Investment hasn’t taken … Continue reading →
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Kim Phuc recovers her poise from the scars of war …. as a Vietnamese Canadian
In this iconic June 8th 1972 photo, children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division … Continue reading →
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Dramatic mid-sea transfer ends freedom run
Amanda Hodge, on the SLNS Samudura courtesy of The Australian, 30 July 2012 28 failed ‘boat people’ are transferred from a French Tanker to a Lankna naval ship in mid-sea after their boat floundered – Pic courtesy of Amanda Hodge … Continue reading →
