Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 11 October 2011 OPEN LETTER ƒ”š‚ to Mr. Veerasingham Ananda Sangaree, MPƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Leader of the TULF and member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ Parliament of Sri Lanka, Sri Jayewardenapura, Sri Lanka Dear Ananda: Let me roll the days back for you […]

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Ira de Silva London, Ontario The Editor The Island Colombo, Sri Lanka ƒ”š‚  Dear Sir: ƒ”š‚  Reference the news item that three Tamil politicians are complaining to India that Sinhalese were moving to the north, the question is why,ƒ”š‚ if Sri Lanka is one country,ƒ”š‚ anyƒ”š‚ Sri Lankan can not move to any part of the country.ƒ”š‚  They […]

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Shenali Waduge Why & how is it that international laws & international bodies & international public figures paid to maintain peaceful co-existence keep silent while even endorsing repeated NATO bombings that have killed thousands of innocent men, women & children & destroyed public & private property in a show of supremacy & arrogance over the […]

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by Gam Vaesiya Ontario, Canada A news report published in the Zeenews of India states that three prominent TNA members have gone to “Big brother India” to complain that the “Sinhalese are moving into Tamil areas”. Let us examine this sentiment in some detail. Racially exclusive territorial separateness ( apartheid ) ? When the LTTE […]

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Media Release-Embassy of Sri Lanka Brussels Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the timing of the screening of the film “ƒ”¹…”Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ at the European Parliament ƒ”š‚ today ( 12 October 2011) was particularly sinister, coming on the eve of the presentation of the LLRC Report due […]

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By: Eric Margolis (The Nation, Pakistan) It’s awfully hard for the world’s greatest power to admit its high-tech military forces are being beaten in Afghanistan by a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen that we dismiss as “terrorists.” But that’s what’s happening in the “Graveyard of Empires.” Washington can’t and won’t admit it has blundered into […]

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PRESS RELEASE Nalanda Publishing Canada (416 487 2777) ISBN 978-0-9867198-0-6; US $ 14.95; Kindle $ 7.49 Distributed in Canada by A Different Booklist, Toronto <info@ adifferentbooklist.com>. Get it on Kindle. ƒ”š‚ https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B005RFUSBY “An extraordinary first novel by an accomplished poet, Untouchable Woman’s Odyssey offers a deeply insightful narrative of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Beneath the placid surface […]

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