Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) 2066 Kings Grove Crescent. Ottawa. Ontario K1J 6G1 . Canada

20 January 2026

His Excellency Santosh Jha
Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka
36-38 Galle Road
Colombo 3
Sri Lanka

cc.Hon. Vijitha Herath,  Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka

Your Excellency:

I was surprised to read your New Delhi’s Christmas Fairy Tale of 2025 –…the bilateral defence pact with Sri Lanka has NO UNSTATED OBJECTIVES.” It prompted me to ask…’Mirror..mirror…on the wall, Who is the liar of them all?”

I don’t believe You Commissioner Santosh!  Since when did you all honestly” destroy the police-crowds-controlling bamboo Lathi-stick that you all used  like a Step-Mother’s whip to control Sri Lanka’s politicians in the 70s, 80s and 90s, to bring her on line as the other neighbouring countries when Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv’s commanding loud voices ordered –  S R I   L A N K A   

A T T E N T ION …Y O U   A R E  N O W  T H E   LA T E S T  COUNTRY IN  TH E  I N D O- C A B  A  L  O F  IND I A ‘ S  I N D R A  G A N D H I’S -M O N R O E   D O C T R I N E  C O U N T R I E S.

Right  HC Santosh?   

I would like you to consider studying my  well researched compendium of  India’s

Step-motherly treatment of your southern neighbour, Sri Lanka, which happened to be my Motherland, separated from your India by the 18 nautical miles of waters of Palk Strait washing over a sand bar of Miocene times.

To expose the bullish audacity of your India, who painted yourselves as lily-white having aided and abetted the Northern Sri Lankan separatist-Tamil terrorists for wanting their separate, racist Tamil State of Eelam,  were considered as good neighbours. While you all sent thousands of bare footed Sri Lankan- Tamil guerillas to 32 military camps in South India and  the foothills of the Himalayas to be trained as Kalashnikov carrying Tamil Tiger terrorists.  Who were sent back to Sri Lanka, in military fatigues and Jack boots , carrying Kalashnikovs like babies huddled in their arms, and festoons of live bullets around their necks to destabilize Sri Lanka after having trained them to terrorize Sri Lanka to destabilize that democratic island nation..

As you all would violate Sri Lanka’s sovereign- skies with your Operation Poomalai on June 5 1987.   When your Eagle Mission of 5 Antonov An-32 transport military Transport aircraft of No. 7 Squadron, escorted by Mirage 2000 jet fighters parachute-dropped 20-tons of food items for 8,700 Tamils in the Jaffna peninsula to apparently sustain them as you all told the world that they are being starved by the Sri Lankan Government.   What Tosh, High Commissioner Santosh.

So that is what our friendly neighbour did and watched thousands of Tamils  clawed on their knees to gather three grains of red lentils to boil in water to drink it as a soup..   Commissioner Santosh, you don’t seem to remember all this, white washing your disingenuous truths with your 2025 Fairy Tale.   Shish! Commissioner Santosh. Stop dishing out your sun-dried cakes of Holy-cow crappings from the streets of Tamil Nadu to Sri Lankans.

  Here’s what I had to say for the Canadians to understand the ethnic issue and your Indian’s crass fingering of our Sinhala-kavun pies.   Read my letters to editors of leading  national Canadian newspapers.    Consider  them as letters of Study 101s  for Indian and Sri Lankan  career Diplomats.

I took that role of an informer of the TRUTH to counter your Indian-FACTS, as follows, in letters to Editors of leading newspapers in Canada where I lived.

     1. Tamil problem is also India’s:  The Gazette, Montreal, July 22, 1985;

     2.  Indian move; The Ottawa Citizen, December 2, 1986;

     3.  Tamil bases (Indian High Commission Press Attache

   Shashi Tripathi strangely denies the existence of    Training camps, a sanctuary, and arms source in India for    Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists;The Ottawa Citizen,   December 19;1986;

     4.    India must wake up to realities,  SUN, May 2, 1987;

     5.    Destabilization of Sri Lanka poses threat to states In Indian Ocean region,  The Whig Standard, Kingston,  Ontario, May 4, 1987;

     6.    Lanka threat (You reported that the Indian Government…”) The Ottawa Citizen,  June 2, 1987;

     7. Sri Lanka assumes right to self defence. (Gandhi decries slaughter…”) The Toronto Star.  June 4, 1987;

     8.     Indian bullying, The Ottawa Citizen, June 24,, 1987;

     9.     Gerol right (Despite what India High Commission’s Sashi Tripathi said about

                 Ilya Gerol’s “Indian aggression glimmers behind the image of peacefulness….)

              The Ottawa Citizen,  July 23, 1987;

   10.     Indian Troops, The Ottawa Citizen,  April 7, 1988,

              And there are several hundreds of letters more, which will open your 

              eyes after an ‘Eye-wash’ with your Fairy Tales of your Love-in’s with your

              Southern neighbour, Sri Lanka.   Who always claim that India  is a loving friend 

              of Sri  Lanka?

              Your researcher can access my letters on India’s duplicity on her ‘Good 

               neighbour, Sri Lanka from Lankaweb Archives.”  HC Santosh Jha.   It will be 

               good-night  readings!

           .  Yes, of course,there have been certain symbiosis’ exercises  making an effort

               to be good neighbours…but never lie to the world that you Indians are

               Kid-gloved Goody-two shoes, when there have been times when you

               all voted against my Sri Lanka at UNHRC gatherings to tighten the

               lasso around her neck and choke her.  How dare you HC Santosh!

               Here’s proof –  India abstains yet again on UNHRC Resolution, opposed

               by Sri Lanka (October 6, 2022);

               India votes in favour of UNHRC Resolution censuring Sri Lanka, 

               (May 21, 2013).    Oops!  Are you really  a Sri Lanka friend?  That lie hurts!

               I will end this letter sharing an incident that happened  in June 1989 at 

              125 Reid Avenue, Colombo, Sri Lanka, the home of Hon. A.J. Ranasinghe,  

              Minister of Of Communication of President  Premadasa Government.

             THE INCIDENT –  on June 9, 1989

              That morning I had gone to Minister Ranasinghe’s residence  to pick

              up my new Sri Lankan passport which President Premadasa had 

              arranged before I left for Canada.  I had been appointed as the

              Deputy High Commissioner at the Ottawa Mission to take care 

              of Communications.  I had left my permanent position at Canada’s

              Federal Government as a Middle-Manager in Communications an 

              Officer of 20-years.  I had never worked in Sri Lanka.

              Minister Mohammad, the Cabinet Minister for Commerce was present

              and another person was there who I did not know.   Sita, AJ’s wife was 

              present.           

              A Sikh gentleman in a turban entered the house in a hurry, and he was

              introduced to me as a staff member of the Indian High Commission.

              President Premadasa was at Mahiyangama preparing to close the

              Gam Udawa Festival., where he was expecting about 5000 people

              in attendance.

              This Sikh guy surprised me.   He was probing AJR – asking him…

              Sir, is Lalith (Atulathmudali) going to be at the closing ceremony?

              Sir, is Gamini (Dissanayaka) going to be at the closing ceremony?.

              They were both Cabinet Ministers jockeying wanting to be appointed as

              as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

              The Sikh officer didn’t like me asking him, Why does it concern the

               Indian High Commission whether these two Cabinet Ministers 

               would be attending the closing ceremony of the Mahiyangana 

               Gam Udawa?”

                Notwithstanding this Sikh Officer’s probing continued

                Sir, my top man (Dixit) will be attending the ceremony.  Please

                ask President Premadasa, not to make any comment on the IPKF

               which will embarrass him”

                I butted in…”O , No…No….AJ, you are not going to do anything of

                that sort….His top man has a choice.  He can stay at home, if he

                cannot handle such a situation,   He should realize that your 

                Head-of-State, is not a puppet on a string, that his top man at the 

                Indian High Commission think that he is the Viceroy of Sri Lanka 

                and can manipulate  President Premadasa, your Head of State.”     

                Obviously annoyed, the Sikh got up from his chair, and started

                walking towards me in a threatening manner.   I got up. Within 

                seconds the Indian Sikh and I were standing eye to eye, nose to 

                nose, beard’s whisker to  whisker, shouting at each other.

                Ministers Ranasinghe and Mohamad, Sita and the visitor got up and

                retreated to the kitchen. Its wall of which  was separated from the

                dining room wall by a wood-trellis wall from where they could watch 

                what was going on.

                Our voices turned loud and ugly,  One puff from either of us would have

                dropped the Sikh and myself onto the cement floor rolling with our

                arms flaying.   It did  not happen.   After about five minutes of this 

                confrontation,   I do not remember what cooled us.  We backed off

                and each went to our chairs.   My blood was simmering inside me and  

                I am sure so was his too.

                My passport arrived.   Ransinghe sent me home at 35 Veluwana 

                Road in Dematagoda in his official car.  I was told by AJR, that your

                Sikh at the Indian High Commission had told him. These are

               the Krishna Menon types, who make our lives difficult”

               My response, High Commissioner Santosh Jha was, Tough tiddy!

               I couldn’t care two pebbles of the River Ganges, rolling down

               knocking each other silly on a stormy day.”.

              High Commissioner Santosh Jha, I will bet my last dollar that the 

              Indian High Commission in Canada found that Sri Lankan High 

              Commission in Canada was running a quality  Bullying  

              Indian-FairyTale Clipping Service on Sri Lanka, with my challenging 

              every unhealthy statement on my Motherland, Sri Lanka, in the 

              Print media.   Not one or two but several, not being a Wimp-diplomat”.

             Commissioner Santosh, here is the positive proof. 

             One weekday morning in 1992, Dr. Sharma of the Indian High

             Commission phoned me and invited me to join him  for lunch at the

             Chateau Laurie.

              While having lunch he tells me, Ashok, every time I open the Ottawa 

              Citizen, I found a letter from you for the High Commissioner 

               defending  some aspects of Sri Lanka.

              How do you manage to do it?   We can’t get even one letter in”.

              So I walked him through what I do and how to do it.   He appreciated 

              my honesty and willingness to help him.  He thanked me profusely. 

              I read his next draft of a letter for the Ottawa Citizen, which I noted

              had guidelines of my approach of letter writing to the print-media.

               It picked-up ink…and he was in letter-writing business to the media

               for the Indian High Commission in Ottawa with substantial success.

              With respect to you High Commissioner Santosh Jha your

             statement that the bilateral defence with Sri Lanka has no

             unstated Objectives’, coming from an Indian diplomat who used

effectively on Sri Lanka in mid-1987, your bullying’s best tools

             of fear, and Rajiv Gandhi

            useing the low flying Mirage 2000s over Sri Lanka , and had a 

            silver-shining  war ship parked outside the island  facing Sri 

            Lanka’s Colombo capital’s waters, to get that Indo-Lanka Accord

            signed.   I don’t trust your words.  They are good for the birds.  

            And Rajiv Gandhi boasted to the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist Tamil 

           Tigers… “I have given you more than what you asked for, in that 

           Accord”… as if giving  away his grandmother’s property.

              Well…you heard me, Commissioner Santosh Jha loud and clearly 

            as the screaming Indian Mirage 2000 Jet fighter planes that flew 

            over Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo.

           Warmly,

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)

Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner

(Director of Communications)

in Ottawa, Canada (June 1989 – June 1994);

former Head of Thematic Research, Canadian

National Museums Corporation, Ottawa, Canada

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