Dr Sudath Gunasekara
Hon. Santosh Jha Esqr, Dr Sudhath Gunasekara
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, 21 Dharsana”,Gemunu Mawatha
Colombo. Mahanuwara
081 22 32744-071 1780449
The Need to change the overall Kautilyan policy of Mathsya nyaaya and the Panikkar strategies towards its neighbors, particularly Sri Lanka, if India is to be respected and accepted as a true friend by its SAARC neighbours, all of whom are fully independent sovereign nations.
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranayake and the President of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association. (1991-1994)
Dear Sir,
At the very outset I would like to request India, our big brother, to change the overall Kautilyan perception of Mathsya nyaaya and the Sardhar Panikkar policies towards its neighbors in the SAARC region forthwith, particularly Sri Lanka, firstly, its meddling with the migrant Malaba immigrants living in the North and Eastern coastal areas who were named Tamils in 1901 only, by the British Colonial government, having a domicile history of less than 350 years on this soil ( Pl see EELAM MYTH EXPOSED 2020, KNL Perera), Secondly, meddling with the 1.2 million south Indian state labour force, the descendants of the indentured South Indian coolie labour who were illegally given citizenship under the Rajiv /JR Accord imposed on us by force by the Indian Government, who are now claiming land rights in the central highlands saying that they have been here for 200 years under the bogus Nam 200 years” programme supported by India and the Western Colonial powers. These were the ancestral lands of the Kandyan Sinhalese and their temples, the sons of the soil from the inception of history taken over by force by the British under draconian laws after 1840 by killing all males over 16 years and causing the women to runaway to the Dry zone jungles.
The Indian Government claim that they are people of Indian origin and it consider them as it’s own citizens ad provide them with all the privileges such as housing, water supply, medical facilities, education, scholarships to Indian universities as if these people are already Indians although they live and subsist here.
This type of illegal, undiplomatic and unconventional practices on the part of the Indian Government should first end, as a prerequisite to heal the wounds it has already inflicted upon this country in the recent past, starting from the infamous Parippu invasion of Sri Lanka by Rajeev Gandhi in 1987”. This is a sine-qua-non to open a new chapter for an everlasting age of goodwill and friendship once again, between our two countries, as it had been flourishing at its peak during the Asokan period, 265–238 BC. that had its roots firmly taken in the days of The Gauthama Buddha, the Greatest human being India or any other country in the world had ever given to this world in 623 BC.
The Buddha has sanctified this Island by three visits during his life time, first to Mahiyhangana in 593 BC, then to Naagdeepa and Kelaniya and finally even at the last moment while lying on his death bed he had advised Sakka the King of Gods to protect prince Vijaya and his retinue of 700 followers as he had foreseen that his Sasana will last only on this Island for 5000 years after him.
There is also another reference to the origin of the Sinhala race. The DivYaavadhana a Sanskrit classic written about 2 centuries before Mahaavansa in the 5th century BC (the Great Chronicle of the Sinhala Nation) has said that it was the Lord Buddha who founded the Sinhala nation in his Bodhisatva time (an enlightened being” or “a being on the path to enlightenment)”. as a person called Sinhala” a son of a rich merchant from the region of the Indus civilization. Probably that may be the reason as to why he had paid such special attention to this country as stated before by visiting 3 times and making a special request to the Sakka to protect Prince Vijaya and his retinue. It also should be noted that this was the only country in the whole world where the Buddha had visited and made such a statement about the perpetuation of his dispensation.
In this great backdrop, I will be grateful to you to render your valuable advice as an eminent IFS luminary, to your government to treat this country as a free and independent sovereign state as much as the India is, as it had been from the inception of history.
However, I must clearly and honestly state here, that the enviable and brotherly good will and the cordial relationship existed between our two countries that was there in that distant past, starting in the classical days of Gautama the Buddha and Emperor Asoka and even much later during the days of Nehru – Bandaranayake period (1956-1977) are now gone for good, since the 1987 Rajiv invasion of Sri Lanka.
The infamous Rajiv/JR Accord of July 29.1987 that was forced on Sri Lanka at gun point, preceded by his shameless Parippu dropping by an Air invasion violating Sri Lankan territorial integrity, sovereignty and the independence, marks the worst invasion in its 2500-year history, as it affected the whole country against all previous foiled local South Indian invasions in history. starting in the 2nd century BC that were limited only to the northern parts of the Island. Even Rama’s invasion was confined to rescuing Sita from where she was said to have been kept in secret by Ravana only, but never had any effect on the whole country, other than Ravana’s death at the hands of Rama. But Rajeev’s invasion had an Island wide and far-reaching effect, declaring 1/3 of its sovereign territory, as the Tamil historical Homeland. That was a criminal travesty of the history of this 2500-year-old sovereign Sinhala Kingdom.
It is to be noted that even Tamilnadu with 8.39 Crores of Tamils that had been the true historical homeland of the Tamil race for millennia is not recognized as a historical Homeland of Tamils by India. Isn’t it crazy for India, therefore to have intimidated JR through Dixit at gun point and got him to accept 1/3rd of the of the traditional historical homeland of the Sinhala nation, as the Dream historical homeland of some 5 million South Indian Malabar immigrants brought here by the Dutch in the late 17th century and the British invaders until 1815 until they annexed the Kandyan Kingdom by the Kandyan Convention of march 2nd 1815 through the clever and cunning spying and maneuvering by John Doily.
The infamous Rajiv/J R Accord of 29th July 1987
1.It declared the North and East, of this country covering 1/3rd the area of this Island including and 2/3 of the coastal staring from Puttalama on the West to Kumana in the South Eastern corner of the Island, as the historical Homeland of the Tamil people who were brought in to this country only in the late 17th century (by Dutch) and by the British up to 1815, going by the fairytale of a Tamil country invented by Cleghorne minute to Governor North made in 1799 to win laurels of the British that was heavily supported by the American Wesleyan mission.
The Rajiv/JR Accord imposed on JR by force also merged the Northen and Eastern provinces and provided for the amalgamation of 2 or more provinces for less than 12 % of the migrant population of the country, probably with the idea of including the Central, Uva and Sabaragamuwa provinces and even few parts of the Southern province like Rakwana and Deniyaaya, where few Estate Tamils are resident. This is Panikkar theory in action in annexing the neibouring countries
2.DeclaringTamil also as an official Language in this country, (while it is not so, even in India where 8. 35b Crore Tamils live);
3 Granted citizenships to all Tamils in Sri Lanka, including even the illicit immigrants on the Street and villages as gypsies without fully adhering to the legal requirements regarding the registration of Citizens in any country.
4 The Accord was signed under pressure from India amid public protests all over the Island culminating with the national protest organized by the Opposition headed by the Leader of the Opposition Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranayaka in Petta Colombo where several participants were killed due to shooting by the armed forces on the orders of the Government.
It should be noted here that Three prominent Cabinet Ministers including the Prime Minister Premadasa, Lalith Athulathamudali and Gamani Jayasuriya Boycotted the occasion in protest.
5.Signing of the Accord was followed by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that ended the unitary character of the state, Sri Lanka that was there for 25 centuries and it laid the foundation for the division of the Island in to 9 semi-autonomous provincial Governments, thereby putting an end to the unitary state of Sri Lanka and (see below for more details)
I have identified the following main reasons as responsible for this sad and unfortunate situation.
1 Wrong attitudes and wrong policies of the Indian government towards this country, born out of fabricated information fed by Tamils in Tamilnadu, Sri Lanka and the so-called Tamil diaspora living all over the world.
2 Ignorance of the true history of this country and the history of Tamils living here and the invention of new and bogus theories.
3 Government of Indias dependence on the Tamilnadu votes to maintain political stability at the center.
4. the influence of the Colonial West
5. Ignorance or deliberate refusal on the part of the Indian Government to accept that Sinhalese are also of Indian origin who have come to this country 25 centuries before these Malaba people were brought here only in the late 17th through the 19th century by the Dutch and the British.
6. Utter disregard to accept the fact that Sri Lanka is a separate sovereign country that had never being a part of India at any time in istory7. Reluctance of India to accept this country is also an independent sovereign country of equal status although small in size.
8 Absence of patriotic and strong Sinhala political leadership who can convincingly put the record right and the weakness of the then Sri Lankan senile leadership
9 The big brother attitude of India and its reluctance to admit Sri Lanka as an independent sovereign State of a separate nation called the Sinhala nation for millennia in history.
10 Absence of patriotic Sinhala leaders who knows their own history and who have the courage to stand up against this type of Indian invasion and the incompetence of Sri Lanka politician to protect and defend their own motherland
11.The influence of Panikkar policy which India is perusing not realizing that will antagonize it’s all neighbors
EELAM concept a Western invention
It was the British colonial invaders who picked up the EELAM concept from South Indian Eelaamists and introduced this strategy in Sri Lanka with 3 main objectives
First,
To destroy the millennia old Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this island nation, to avenge the humiliating defeats they suffered in Sri Lanka from 1803 to 1848 at the hands of brave Sinhala patriots
Second,
To destroy the age old political and cultural good will that exist between two Asian twin brothers, India (the Elder) and Sri Lanka (the younger) and
Third,
To divide Sri Lanka in to two rival ethnic States, Sinhalese and Tamils (EELAM) eternally fighting against each other, as they have done all over the world.
Fourth with a hidden agenda to create a permanent Neocolonial political and strategic base in South Asia for the Westen neo colonial powers, to control the emerging Asia of the 21st century right at the center of the Indian Ocean and to stop the rise of China and India as great powers and also to stop Sri Lanka being developed as the hub of the emerging 21st century Asia.
The biggest threat to the independence of India,
Please remember, that it will be the biggest threat to the independence of India, once the age-old friend Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lanka state is no more.
In this backdrop, what I have proposed here, I think is the only way to defeat this Church backed Western neo-colonial global control strategy, harmful to both Sri Lanka and India
The first pre requisite of this master plan, I propose to defeat this vicious neocolonial game is to reinvent the age old, friendly and cordial relationship that was there between India and Sri Lanka as two independent and strong states by defeating the EELAM dream of the Kumari Kandam lobby of the Tamilnadu State and its Church allies in the neo-colonial West. It is extremely disastrous to both Sri Lanka and India as it will end up by balkanizing greater India and divide Sri Lanka also in to two separate ethnic States, eternally fighting each other. This is exactly what the Western neo-colonial world wants done. To destabilize India, Sri Lanka, and make Sri Lanka their hub to stop the emerging twenty first century world around the Indo Pacific Oceans. the QUAD that is called the Asian NATO is already actively engaged in this vicious game; by tactfully getting India and Japan to join this organization to set those two countries against other Asian countries. The chief and dominant members of the QUAD, USA and Australia, both of whom are Church backed powerful white colonial powers of colonial settlements of migrants from Europe who had established their white settlements by annihilating the native owners of those countries.
Building up of an independent and nonaligned India and Sri Lanka is a must to avoid this disaster.
The first step, rather the sine qua non in this long journey is to restore the age old friendly and strong relations between, India and Sri Lanka and create an Asian geopolitical heartland” based in Sri Lanka to realize the dream of the 21st century Asia. Sri Lanka’s geographical location on the globe at the center of the Indian Ocean, where all the world’s busiest naval and air routes meet, confirm the ancient Indian Puranic concept of Lanka as the center of the world (Bhuu madhYayei lankiiyathithi Lanka) becoming a reality in the 21st century. Its global location at the center of the world surrounded by the Indian Ocean extending from Africa in the west to Australia in the east and the Bay of Bengal in the north to Antarctica in the south, open all around to the world, with a long and rich Buddhist culture, makes Sri Lanka, a friend to all and enemy to none, the ideal global strategical heartland for this role.
With Sir Arthar Clerks prophesy in his Deep Range, that by 2050 all religions based on God centered Abrahamic teachings will disappear. Therefore, Buddhism will be the only religion that can inspire the human mind and heart” (Deep RANGE 1954) and Sri Lanka being the home and the head quarter of the Theravaadha Buddhism in the world, it is not surprising that the Church dominated Westen powers are determined to wipe out Sri Lanka from the world map to avoid this imminent disaster to them.
The close and strong millennia old relationship between Sri Lanka and India underscores this 21st century global geostrategic reality. The need to build up a mutually beneficial and closer and strong bondage between our two countries is therefore, a sine qua non to realize this dream Asia of the 21st century. The steal foundation for this Indo Sri Lanka relationship has to be based on the age-old classical and historical brotherhood that existed for millennia between our two countries. In order to realize this supreme goal, we have to build up the Indo-Sri Lanka connectivity based on the following background, described in detail below.
I don’t think for a moment, I need to elaborate to you, as a distinguished and a veteran officer of the IAS of your caliber, on the unique and close historical, political, the cultural and spiritual relationship that existed between our two countries from the time of Gautama the Buddha, the greatest human being ever given to this world by Bharath Desh. Lord Buddha ‘s first visit to this Island was in 588 BC, in the ninth month after he attained enlightenment, to Mahiyangana to settle a waring dispute between two native tribes Yakkas and Nagas. On the verge of his attaining Parinibbana, (543) he also selected Sri Lanka as the only land in which his Dhamma will last for 5000 years to come in its purest form, although Jambudviipa (Nepal(in India) was his beloved birth place and it is over 50 times the area of Sri Lanaka.
Lying on his Parirnibbana bed he requested Sakka the King of Gods at the great assembly of devas, to protect Prince Vijaya, an Aryan Sakya Prince from northern Bharath and his retinue of 700 who landed on the same day, Buddha attained Nibbana in Lanka Deepa in 543 BC. The same day, marks the Birthday of the Sinhala Buddhist nation on this Island. Thence forth this country had been named as the land of the Buddha and also the land of the Sinhala race.
It was Emperor Asoka, another great son of Bharatha who was acclaimed as the greatest Emperor the world had ever known, officially gifted the Buddha sasana to this country during the reign of his erstwhile friend King Devaanampiyatissa who was the King here at that time, at the beginning of the 4th century BC (307). Ever since the close political, religious, spiritual and cultural, ties between the two countries were made the stronger, by selecting his own son Mahinda and daughter Sangamittaa as the royal emissaries to bring the Budha’s noble message to this land of the Sinhala people, known as Lanka Deepa at that time. This close relationship between these two countries laid the foundation for a unique and unmatched human civilization on this resplendent Island. Such was the unique and remarkable level of the close relationship that existed between our two countries, from the time of Gauthama the Buddha.
This however was unfortunately marred later by the successive invasions by the South Indian non-Aryans, like Chola, Pandya and Maga from south India starting in the 2nd century BC, which culminated and ended up with the Kalinga Maga invasion in the 12th century. The Maga invasion left behind an indelible devastations done to the political , social, economic and the cultural landscape of this Island nation that resulted in the inevitable shifting of a glorious Sinhala Buddhist civilization in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Kingdoms of world reputation from the dry zone, the cradle of that great Sinhala Buddhist civilization, to the hill country and the South West of the Island, converting the Rajarata in to a vast expansion of sprawling jungle that remained neglected until its reopening began again only after the British took over the governance of the whole island after entering in to a friendly Convention agreed upon between two Kingdoms of equal status, with this country on 2nd of March 1815, that is the British Empire and the Kandyan Kingdom of Sinhale, being the only Kingdom that was not captured by war in the whole British Empire. The Convention referred to here was the Kandyan Convention.
Thereafter, the cunning and the uncivilized British, having made the Kandyan Convention almost dysfunctional by the famous Royal Proclamation No. 21st of Nov 1818 by Governor Brownrigg, started a period of callous, divisive and repressive 133-year-old exploitation and brutal regime in the whole British Empire, that has gone down in world history as one of the darkest periods, referring to which, John Davy surgeon to Governor Brown Wrigg had said
The history of British rule in Ceylon after the 1818 rebellion cannot be related without shame. None of the members of the leading families (all males over 16 years) in the Kandyan country have survived. Small pox and privation has destroyed those spared by the gun and the sword”.
Meanwhile, they started a large scale Colonial Settler Colonization” program in this country with poverty stricken Malabar cooly labour gangs from South India, first, in the Islands Northern and Eastern provinces created by them in 1833, that were under dense jungle almost uninhabited, except for few sporadic settlements of native Sinhalese around the neglected Tanks, after the mass exodus of the native Sinhalese to the South West and the hill country, following the Maga devastation in the 13th century AD.
The British colonial intruders got all these Malabar cooly labourers gazette in the Nort and East as Ceylon Tamils in 1901 by intrigue having appointing a Malabar man, Ponnambalan Arunachalam, a grandson of a Dutch toilet keeper, who was made the first Ceylon Civil Servant of their Choice, as the first Registrar General of this country. That was how those Malabar labourers became Ceylon Tamils overnight in 1901, who were made aristocratic with one stroke of a Malabar descendant Ponnambalan Arunaachalam, with the hidden intention of making them the rulers of this millennia old Sinhala Kingdom.
Second, the same British, started to inundate the central hill country with the second wave of Malaba slave coolies, with the opening up of the Central hill country for largescale Coffee in 1840 s and later Tea plantation in 1870s to settle and work on these lands that were originally owned by the natives Sinhalese from the dawn of history up to 1840. In the post 1840 period, the British imported an army of South Indian Malabar indentured cooly labor nearing 1.2 million and settled them on these newly opened up plantations that were covered with primeval forest from the dawn of history. This opened up a sad period of destruction of forests, land and the rivers of the geographical Heartland (HADABIMA) of this Island followed by a prolonged period of cruel exploitation of natural resources of mother Lanka together with the sweat and blood of the poverty stricken poor South Indian labour, to fill the coffers of England.
The native Sinhalese had come to this country 26 centuries before the Malabar coolies
It is very important to be noted here that the Sinhalese also had come to this country 26 centuries before the Malabar who were brought to this country by the Western colonial invaders after 1780s with the triple objectives of a) finding cheap labour for their projects, b) destroy Sri Lanka and finally c) to create a war base in South Asia for them to control emerging future Asia.
Ironically, these immigrants are the people who are now claiming a separate kingdom on this, land found, developed, civilization established and defended and protected against 18 South Indian invasions from the 2nd century BC to 13th century AD (ancestors of the same Malabars) and three western invasions from 1505 to 1948) by the native Kandyan Sinhalese.
The British left behind these people who were British citizens until then, as an army of stateless immigrant labour high and dry on this soil, leaving behind a bone of contention and an incurable chronic headache to this country, when they left the shores of the Island in 1948, after conferring the so-called fake Independence to this country, retaining all three cardinal requirements of an independent state, namely, Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers with them.
Although countries like Burma and Uganda chased out such Indian immigrant labour gangs from their lands immediately after independence, the Sri Lankan leaders, partly being a product of a rich Buddhist culture and partly as a brain washed compradors of the west did not resort to such inhuman acts, although neither those laborers nor the present day Indian politicians have ever appreciated the benevolence conferred upon this army of immigrant labour by the Sinhalese Buddhist of this country up to date.
Sad colonial legacies
This, briefly summarizes the tragedy imposed on this Island nation by the British when they left in 1948 leaving behind their vicious cycle of colonial exploitation with more ropes all around the neck of Mother Lanka keeping the colonial reins Fastly holding in their hands tied on to all techniques of state craft such as legislative, executive and judicial , and all branches of statecraft like internal governance, foreign affairs, the Islands security ,the import export economy, the language and the machinery of Public Administration, education while keeping the dependency trap tightly held in their own hands.
It is in this back drop of sad colonial legacies inherited by us, I decided to draw your kind attention to the three articles, already NKL Justice Perera has sent to you which I consider as authoritative master pieces on the artificially created Tamil Problem in Sri Lanka, that pose an intractable and also a big headache to both Sri Lanka and India due to the prevailing ignorance on this subject.
His book EELAM exposed, is a magnum opus on this subject, which no Tamil scholar or politician has challenge up to now. I have no doubt that his valuable contribution will help us to find a lasting solution to this decades old political impasse created by the crazy Tamil politicians
These important and authentic articles compiled by an eminent lawyer, L.K.N. PERERA ( LL.B Cey) Attorney at law, and a senior Judge, based on the results of a comprehensive and painstaking study carried out by him over a long period of time that has covered wider and authentic historical sources that includes valuable, impartial and irreputable and first hand historical information on this subject, by Portuguese, Dutch and British authors, deliberately overlooked even by some acclaimed Professors of history like K.M. De Silva, (brain washed products of the colonial education) for your information, so that you will get a realistic and a rational idea as to how you may address this Tamil” issue in Sri Lanka, impartially, as a true diplomat, in your future diplomatic dealings without getting misled by false propaganda by extremist Tamils, both here and abroad, specially South India who are quarrelling for a separate state and self-determination, for a dream Thamil State called EELAM ( which also means the Land of the Sinhalese) a term coined by South Indian Dravidayan people speaking Tamil language to call this land on this land of the Sinhala nation, who had been the sole hereditary owners of this country even before the historic times began, as has been clearly proved and established beyond all reasonable doubts by the Mahavamsa and accepted by all the renowned historians of the world over, except the EELAMIST of South India, Sri Lanka and the so-called Church backed Tamil Diaspora living in the Western World.
There is No Tamil nation in this country
May I add here that, how can there could be a Tamil nation here in Sri Lanka, with less than 350 years of white man’s immigrant labour domicile history, when there is no Tamil nation or an Independent Tamil Nation even in South India which is said to be the historical Homeland of the Tamil Nation, from prehistoric times where, over 7 million Tamils live at present.
I also don’t think I need to remind you, as a senior officer of the IAS, how Jawar Lal Nehru, the great Statesman of Barath dealt with them when they demanded secession in 1963. Nehru brought in legislation making it illegal to demand secession and introduced the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of India, banning secession to protect the territorial integrity of Bharath Desh, in spite of the fact that South India had been the traditional historical homeland of the Tamils from the inception of history. Although it is now dominated by the Western Church backed elements, trying to balkanize India. Hilary Clintons visit to Chennai in 2011 is speculated by many as a part of this strategy.
But the irony to be noted here is Tamils are not recognized as a nation even in India and nor are they given the status of a separate Independent and sovereign country with special privileges like a separate law similar to Thesavalamei law enjoyed by the Malabar community living in Sri LankaBut Rajiv got this too done through the same JR who signed the Indo Lanka Accord, by getting him to amend the Constitution of this country making Tamil also an official language in this country.
You can’t have two nations and two official languages in any country. Isn’t it a big constitutional tragedy that the 16th amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka in 1988 opened the doors for secession at the instigation of India whereas the 16th Amendment to the Indian Constitution by the same India in 1963 prohibited Tamil secession in India.
Even though Tamil Nadu is the Indias second largest State with a strong economy, the Tamils living there don’t ask for separation at present and even equal status or things such as the right for self-determination, equality, dignity and self-respect etc, as claimed by those who live here even though they are only Malabar immigrants brought here in the late 18th century and the early 19th century, by the Colonial Dutch and British, as slave labourers to work on their tobacco farms in a foreign country, the Jaffna peninsula and other activities such as toddy tapping and public works as colonial rulers did in all colonies acquired by them to facilitate their divide and rule policy.
Here in Sri Lanka on the other hand, the Tamils in the North and East who have less than 350 years of domicile history want a separate State with everything such as right for self-determination, equality, dignity and self-respect etc. It is the Tamilnadu based Western church backed Tamils in South India who want an EELAM in Sri Lanka. Their underlying strategy here is to first find a lounging pad outside India to capture Tamilnadu so that they can start balkanizing India from there, regardless of the 16th Amendment to the Indian Constitution.
It is a big tragedy the Indian politicians and bureaucrats don’t realize this danger under their own nose at home.
In this backdrop, my question, is why doesn’t the Malabar community living with more privileges here, than in India and the world over, demand the Indian Government to first accept them at home back in India as a nation and ask India to give them a separate State in Tamilnadu, before they declare war for a separate State in some on else’s country here? After all South India is the ‘de facto and de Jure’ traditional Homeland and the cradle of Tamils civilization in the world, who were supposed to have Migrated from Sudan through North Western India in prehistoric times.
Way back in 1799 in this country, when the Secretary to Governor North, Cleghorn addressed a brief note where he gave a dead rope to North to win his credentials as a Dutch captive , saying that Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it was called by them at that time consists of two nations as Tamils and Sinhalese, (even though when there were no Tamils at that time here, as they were named as Ceylon Tamils only in 1901 by Ponnambalan Arunachalam). Please note even Cleghorn here has referred to the Tamils as Malabar people and Sinhalese as the natives of this Island. He also went on to say that this country consists of two Districts (countries) the Tamil district or Tamil country starting from Puttalam through-Jaffna-Trinco-Batticaloa to Walawe Ganga in the South. And the Sinhalese the natives on the other hand owned the rest from Walawe to Puttalam and the interior. The poor Governor North had to depend entirely on this Dutch civil servant as he was only a novice to Sri Lanka at that time.
This was a criminal fabrication of the true history of this country on the part of Cleghorne that was known to the whole world as the Sinhala Kingdom, at least from 543 BC. The Sinhala Kingdom was one of the most ancient in the whole world, that stood in par with the then giants like China, India Greece, Rome and even Egypt. This was a criminal travesty of Sri Lanka history by Cleghorne and is nothing but mere pseudo intellectual bribery made to win the laurels of the new Governor for his survival as a captive of the British.
One more important point I would like to bring to your kind notice in this regard.
I do not know whether you have seen The Sinhalese and the Aryan Theory by Sivathiratnam published around 1970 in London, as a series of letters written by a Tamil Father to his Son” probably persuaded and funded by the colonial British who started this dirty game of dividing the land of the Sinhalese, in pursuance of their dirty divide and rule policy. As you know, the British Could never capture this Island nation by war unlike other countries, including India. Therefore, they had a very big issue to settle with the Sinhalese people, more so, with those who lived in the Kandyan kingdom who defeated them in three battles in 1803 and ,1818 and 1848 killing thousands of their men. These defeats have been described as the most humiliating defeats the British ever have had anywhere in the world. As such they were determined to chase out all Kandyan Sinhalese from the central hill country and flood the entire region with South Indian Tamils to take revenge from the Kandyan Sinhalese, as you probably know as an eminent Officer of the Indian Civil Service.
Finally, it was only on the shrewd and cunning John Doylies cleverness and intrigue that enabled them to annex the Kandyan Kingdom to the British empire in 1815. But please remember even that was done on equal terms as two sovereign Kingdoms, on the 2nd of March 1815 by a mutually agreed convention, where the conditions of the Buddhist clergy finally prevailed. I am proud as a Sinhalese to say that we were never defeated in war against the invaders as an Asian nation, in spite of their superior gun power. It was these Kandyan brave and patriotic men, women and the brave and learned Buddhist clergy like Wariyapola Sumangala and Kadahapola of the Asgiriya Chapter who prevented this Island nation being another America, Australia or New Zealand, that were completely routed and colonized by these invaders after total annihilation of the natives and finally naming those countries after their British sea pirates or some colonial criminals.
In this backdrop I hope you can play a very important role as a distinguished IAS officer at least in future in dealing with the Sri Lanka-Indian issues, to educate the Indian Government as a true Indian intellectual and an eminent civil servant hailing from the great Buddhist traditions as left behind by Lord Buddha, the Greatest human being and Teacher India had given to the world as H.G. Wells has once said, in the 6th century BC, and on the foundation of whose teachings this land and the Sinhala nation was built ever since 307 BC.
It is with the greatest adoration I mention here that it was another Great son of Bharath Dhesh, King Asoka the Great, the Greatest Emperor the world had ever known, gifted the Lord’s Buddha’s teachings that laid the eternal foundation for the Sinhala Buddhist civilization of this Island Nation in 307 BC, that will last for 5000 years, as the Lord Buddha had predicted. You can see how much these two Great sons of Jambudveepa, Lord Buddha and Emperor Asoka had loved this Island when Buddha had first chosen Lanka as the land where his dispensation will last for 5000 years to come and second Asoka sent both of his own Son and Daughter, by his first Queen Maharani Devi to establish Buddhism as the state religion in this Island to King Devanampiyatissa his erstwhile friend , who was the King ruling over this Island at that time. That was the kind of close relationship that prevailed between this country and the Northern Indian Ariyan civilization of the great Bharath Dhesh or Jambudweepa as it was known then.
South Indians like Cholas, Pandyans had always been sworn invaders and enemies of this Country
However, the South Indians like Cholas, Pandyans had always been sworn invaders and enemies of this Country from 2nd century BC. They had invaded this Island nation 17 times up to the 13th Century. Kalinga Maga invasion, devastated the entire Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa civilization and even the South Eastern part of the country. But it should be clearly noted that none of these south Indian invaders could capture the whole Kingdom of Sri Lanka. Every time they invaded, they had been defeated by the Sinhale Kings and chased out and all of them had to lick their wounds. Those who survived the war got integrated with the native Sinhalese.
The EELAM dream by Prabhakaran assisted by Rajeev Ghandhi’s government
The latest episode of this long chain of attempts to conquer this Island was the EELAM dream by Prabhakaran. He and the LTTE were heavily assisted by Rajeev Ghandhi’s government. Apart from the LTTE training camps in Tamilnadu India also provided such facilities all over India with heavy military and financial assistance for the LTTE to fight the Sri Lankan Army. As such India could never be trusted as a true friend of this country. It was on Rajeev’s open support and benevolence that Murderer Prabakaran got the courage and stamina to fight the brave Sinhalese who had never got defeated in war against any invader at any time in known history. Even in the period that followed the 1983 India never supported the Sri Lanka government. Meanwhile JR was able to increase the efficiency of the armed forces with assistance from China, Pakistan and Israel
Sri Lanka deeply wedded to Buddhist principles has never invaded another country like India.
I must also mention it here with pride that we as a Buddhist nation had never invaded another country and stayed there to capture new territory as Kautillyan has always advocated in Indian history. There were only two or three occasions where King Parakaramabahu the Great and Gajabahu had invaded South India, Burma and Siam, purely in retaliation against some wrongs they had done to our merchants. Apart from the bravery of our rulers coupled with that of the patriotic warriors, it was the blessings of the Triple Gem, Buddha, dhamma and Sangha that had protected this Island throughout history.
Prabhakaran killed Rajiv on Indian soil to take revenge for all the assistance he gave him to fight the Sri Lankan army
The whole world knows what happened at the end, to Rajeev, the benefactor of EELAM criminals, He was assassinated on his own motherland by Prabhakaran for all the help he extended to him including his own bullet proof jacket to continue the LTTE killings here just to appease the Tamilnadu electorate. The same thing will happen at the end, to anyone who tries to harm this land of the Buddha.
Finally, at the end justice prevailed over injustice and this Island nation, thrice Blessed and sanctified by the Lord Buddha, was again saved by Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2009, by defeating outright Prabhakaran and his killer outfit LTTE, known as the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world equipped with an army, a fleet of navy and even the air power openly supported by India and the Tamil diaspora the world over.
My request for you to advise the Indian Government
In this backdrop I would like you to advice the Indian politicians and the bureaucrats in particular as a veteran IAS officer to look at this Island nation as the younger brother and the best friend of Great Bharath Desh. Let them at least accept this country as the land of the Sinhala nation, as it had been so, from time immemorial and never a land of Tamils, although the South Indian Cholas and Magas have played hell here from the 2nd BC to 13 AD.
I would also like you and your government to refrain from entertaining mad ethnic lunatics like Vigneshwaran or any other ungrateful men like those of the slave trade leaders of the Thondaman clan who helped the White to tether South Indians in millions and who became rich Maharajas on the sweat and blood of those poor indentured labourers they used to be under the White exploiters. These so-called saviors of Estate Tamils made their riches here but worship Tamilnadu only (not India) like those who praise and worship the ocean after having drunk water from the well, to quench their thirst”.
In the same way, I would like to request you, to earnestly look at Indo-Lanka relationship from a pragmatic and realistic angle and not as a self-seeking and narrow-minded Indian politician or a bureaucrat of the same ilk. At the same time, I would also request you not to entertain the communal minded Sri Lankan Tamil politicians whether they come from the North, East, West or the Center and I would be thankful to you if you can ask them to settle their problems, if they have any, with the Sri Lankan government as they are only Sri Lankan citizens and not Indian citizens any more. Also, you must tell them that you are here only as the representative of the Govt of India and not as a representative of the Tamilnadu State or a representative of the Tamilnadu film idols like Vijekumar Chandrasekaram, who has publicly vouched to erase Sri Lanka from the map of the world. (Pl see Page 14 Aruna Sinhala Paper Sunday Nov 3rd) Meanwhile I also request you to advice the Modi Government firstly, to asks Vijekumar Chandrasekaram to tender an open apology to the people of this country for what he has already said and done ignoring international diplomatic norms and to stop this kind of aggressive talk and pro Tamilnadu policies at least in future. Meanwhile I must express my deepest regret that none the Parliament of this country had the guts to protest against his speech and request the Government of India to respond disowning such vituperative and insulting speech by one of its politicians.
One last word of warning about the global Tamil Forums aspiration for an Eelam on this soil, for your own safety.
I would like you to resist all Tamil attempts to create an EELAM in Sri Lanka, by which they mean a separate Tamil State on Sri Lanka soil, as the stepping stone for their World Eelam Empire whose Headquarters will be in Tamilnadu, that will finally control the whole of the Indian sub-continent. This movement will be the biggest threat for the survival of the Hindu Bharath Desh concept you people cherish so much. As such it is incumbent on the part of the Government of India not to support Tamils in Sri Lanka for a separate State as it will pave the way for EELAM headquarters in Tamilnadu which will function as the launching pad for the greater Eeelam in India, that will finally balkanize the subcontinent and draw the curtain on your cherished Mahabharata and Hindutva dream.
It is in this backdrop I request you to strongly advice your government, not to support these ungrateful Malabar people residents here not become a nuisance to the Government of this country and ask them to either integrate with the natives or go back to their historical Motherland in India, without trying to be a peg that is inimical to the long-standing friendship between our two countries, which is vital to maintain cordial and friendly relations between our two countries in future.
The EELAM Dream
The EELam concept is a dream of a South Indian Eelaamist, the founders of the Kumari Kandam concept. Their plan was first to create an EELAM in the North and East of Sri Lanka first (EELAM in fact means the land of the Sinhalese as coined by the South Indians to call it in medieval times). Then second, to capture whole of Sri Lanka and call it Tamil EELAM. Third, add Tamilnadu (the first step of balkanization of India supported by the Catholic West) which the Tamils consider as the historical home land of the Tamil Nation and then using it as the lounging pad to capture whole of Indian subcontinent as the greater EELAM to teach a lesson to Nehru and the Indian Government who proscribed separatism spearheaded by the Dravid Munnethra Kasagam movement, by the Anti-secession Amendment No.16 in 1963. Finally, to expand it to all other countries around the globe where Tamils are living, like Fiji and Malaysia and end up with the establishment of their dream World Federation of Greater Tamil EELAM including Mohenjodaro Harappa which they consider as their original center of Eelam in India, after migrating from Sudan. I have no doubt that you fully understand the greater danger of the Eelam Tiger concept paused to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of India.
It was a historical tragedy for the Indian politicians and mandarins like Dixit and Shivasankar Menan to support the cause of EELAM without realizing the greater danger that will befall on India.
It is a pity and a historical tragedy too, for the Indian politicians like Rajiv Ghandhi and mandarins like Dixit former Ambassador to Sri Lanka, the present Prime minister Modi and Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who is a strong patronizer of the cause of EELAM and supporter of the Sri Lankan Tamil Community, without knowing the greater implications of this vicious Eelam movement that is going to completely balkanized the Greater Bharat at the end, unless India takes timely action to arrest this tragedy without supporting Tamils living in Sri Lanka in forming a separate State.
Rajiv was assassinated y the LTTE Tamils
Rajiv was assassinated on 21st My 1991 as he did not accept my warning I posted to him in March 1991. I wrote that letter to PM Rajiv Ghandhi in mid-March 1991 about 2 months before he was assassinated on 21st. May 1991. I also had pleaded him not to support LTTE Tigers and also warned him that in the event of his refusal to do so, it will definitely lead to his own assassination very soon. That letter was sent under the Signature of the Most Venerable Mahanaayaka Thero of the Asgiriya Chapter Sri Paliipaana Chandaananda Thero, who was one of the two most powerful national Heads of this country. Two months later as I predicted Rajiv was Assassinated on his own motherland by an agent of Prabhakaran, to whose killer gang, Rajiv had given all support, including money and special military training for the LTTE killer cadre all over India. Finally he also presented even his own bullet proof security JACKET for him to survive, to destabilize the Sri Lankan government and achieve his dream of establishing a separate state in this country without knowing what Prabhakaran was planning to do in pursuit of his vicious move in establishing his World Greater Empire of the lost Tamil Eelam (something never existed on this earth) the day dream of the inventors of Kumari Kandan, the lost Lemuria a Dravidayan dream land, that is supposed to have existed billions of years ago according to them, their fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers and the uncles and nephews of this mad idea.
Finally, in this backdrop of such dangers to come, I suppose India will take appropriate measures to protect the disintegration and disappearance of India from the world map due to the subversive activities of the Greater World Eelam activists , I appeal to you as the Indian Ambassador to our country to refrain from paying any special attention to these Malabar Tamils living in Sri Lanka or supporting them in keeping with the highest traditions of diplomatic protocol. It is a tragedy that these eelaamists don’t know that the word EELAM was invented by the South Indians in days gone by to refer to this Island of the Sinhalese. In short precisely it means The Land of the Sinhalese.” Some of them also called it Seehalam, again meaning the Land of the Sinhalese.
Please adhere to the Geneva Convention
Also, I would like you to strictly adhere to the relevant provisions of the Geneva convention at least in future, keeping with the accepted diplomatic norms enshrined therein. We find that the Ambassadors of USA, UK and even Japan, having taken a lesson from you perhaps, also are now engaged in bilateral dealings directly with the Tamil and sometimes the Muslim community as well, violating the Geneva convention on diplomatic norms. I urge you to kindly refrain from these illegal and unconventional practices and treat this country as an independent sovereign country. That will open their eyes too, I hope.
I also request you as a seasoned officer of the IAS to please advise your government as well, that the current policy of your government of taking the side of the Tamil community living in this country and treating them as people of Indian origin and supporting them directly is unconventional, unethical, undiplomatic illegal too, when it comes to diplomatic ethics between two independent sovereign nations. I bring this to your notice as a person who loves his country just like his mother and also sadly as there is no government or a single politician or a single national leader like Mahatma Ghandi, or at Least Ranasingha Premadasain who declared David Gladstone Uk Ambassador a persona nongrata to this country, to tell those Ambassadors and their Governments to stop this kind of misbehavior or depart.
Furthermore, I also would like to bring to your kind notice following undiplomatic, unconventional and suspicious actions currently followed by your government in dealing with the Tamil Community living in this country that impinges seriously on the independence and sovereignty of this Island nation and that thereby creating a reasonable suspicion in the minds of the people of this country, that India is trying to consolidate its hold on this Island as well, as another State of India like what your country has already done in Bhutan and Nepal.
I would also like to highlight few more issues that have drawn our serios concern in this regard
1 Having three Consular Generals Offices in Jaffna, Kandy and Hambanthota as if the High Commission in Colombo is unable to cover this small Island of 25,332 sq miles.
2 Your preferential treatment to the Tamil and Malabar community resident in this country, completely ignoring that they are not citizens of your country and dealing directly with them bypassing the government of this country, by providing them with housing and many other social upliftment programmers like education,technical advice, scholarships to Tamils only, financial and political support.
4 You and your government also deal directly with Tamils instead of advising them that they have to settle all their grievances with the Government of this country so long as they remain as citizens of this country where they live and make their living.
5 You and your government also entertain Tamils living in this country to make representations against the government of this country ignoring all accepted international etiquettes and Diplomatic norms
The sum total of all these activities clearly shows a serios hidden agenda in India’s policy towards this country and also clear sings of territorial expansion behind Indian attitude and actions reminding us of the fate of Bhutan and Nepal.
Therefore, I earnestly request you to recommend the closure of the above three Consular Offices with immediate effect and stop all kind of direct dealings with all Tamils living here to better our relationships with India and also to advise the Indian government and politicians to give any preferential treatment to Tamils and treat them as full citizens of this country and stop all dealings with Tamils living here. In short, they are our citizens for all intent and purposes and definitely not yours. On the other hand, if you are so concerned about their wellbeing, very often more than those living in India, the best thing your government should do is to take all these Tamils back to India, allowing this country to deal with its own citizens.
I also would request you to perform your duties as the Indian Ambassador to Sri Lanka without going back to the days of Jyotindra Nath Dixit who behaved like the Indian viceroy in Sri Lanka during the times he was here.
And also, please request your government
6 To stop Illicit poaching by Tamilnadu fishermen in Sri Lanka waters, both in the Manar Bay and the eastern seas seriously affecting the livelihood of those fishermen living in the NWP, NP and the EP thereby violating all accepted international laws and basic human rights by violating our marine territory and robbing the livelihood of Sri Lankan fishermen.
7 To reprimand Indian citizens like Tamilnadu film idol Vijekumar Chandrasekaram, who has publicly vouched to erase Sri Lanka from the map of the world as if he can do it’ and all others of the ilk, to refrain from uttering such irresponsible and provocative statements that might lead to communal flaring up and displeasure towards India. Furthermore, we demand that he must tender an open apology to the government and the people of this country, for uttering such mischievous words and refrain from making such provocative activities impinging on the sovereignty of this country, at least in future. The dead silence on the part of Indian government on his provocative and uncivilized statement also amounts to Indian approval of his mad utterance.
8 Another very serious issue I note is the so-called mythological Ramayana Trail project which covers the whole of this Island like a huge fishing net thrown over this Island by India. That also should be stopped immediately as it amounts to a disguised Indian invasion programme like a lion wearing sheep’s clothes with an Indian expansionist political plan behind it.
Map showing the proposed Ramayana trail
Sri Lanka
It has been said that this programme is going to put up 21 New Rama Kovils all over the Island. (see above Map).
In my opinion this is even worse than Rajiv invasion 2087. I also request you to advise your government to drop this Indianization of Sri Lanka program immediately as well.
Therefore, I would like to request you, as the Ambassador of the Indian government for the need to convince the Indian Government to drop this mischievously fabricated Ramayan trail story and to treat Sri Lanka as a separate and independent sovereign country. Also please advise the Indian Government to stop forthwith all these undiplomatic tactics and interventions that amounts to naked Indian invasion of this Island nation, disregarding the Independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country.
Lastly, I strongly demand that India give up all these subversive invasive strategies on all its neihgbours and let sanity and civilized diplomacy prevails in the Indian Ocean region, in place of invasive, subversive and bullying politics. It is by this strategy only, India can be the ‘Big brother of South Asia’ and definitely not by pursuing the currant aggressive politics, advocated by Panikkar.
Furthermore, my most pertinent question is as to why India, which is 50 times the size of this small Island is using all these subversive tactics of territorial expansion to annex this Island[S1] ? Is it the dictates of Kautllya and Panikkar policies, as if the size of the country and the boiling problems at home are not enough or is it the Indian pregnancy craving that had been simmering from the days of Ramayana or is it petty jealousy born out of the unique global geopolitical, strategic, economic and natural resources advantages bestowed on this Island by nature and God due to its envious location at the center of the world, as the ancient Rishis have noted by saying Bhoo madhYayei ankiiyathithi Lankaa”when they tried to explain as to why this country was called Lanka.
I guess five reasons.
The first, is to satisfy the voters in Thamilnadua to net their votes. Second, to satisfy the communal separatist Tamil community in Sri Lanka. Third, to satisfy the global EELAAM lobby. Fourth, to satisfy the Colonial West to destroy the pristine Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this country for the reasons I have already stated above. Fifth to annex this resplendent and all important strategic, political and economic hub in the Indian Ocean to satisfy the never-ending Indian mentality of territorial expansion a dream yearning from the of Ramayana days.
But I would also like to remind you here that all Indian invasions starting from the days of mythical Ramayana narrative and ending with Rajiv Ghandhi’s arrogant, childish and unethical Parippu invasion in 1987 have failed up to date, and all attempts to capture this Island nation in history have ended up in disaster. Therefore, we have no doubt that the present-day Modi’s manuring will also end up with the same fate.
So, my Dear Santosh, finally, though it looks a bit undiplomatic, I am addressing this note to you, more at a personal level, as an elder brother of our own, and a retired senior member of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service and also as the Ex Secretary to PM Sirmavo Bandaaranaayaka, who is deeply concerned about the independence, freedom and sovereignty of our own country, in the same way you do regarding your own country.
I would like to remind you of the tragic consequences that befell on your Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandhi in 1991 May 21st at Sriperumbudur for ignoring the advice given to him by me in good faith, to hand off Sri Lanka, this Land of the Gautama Budhdha, lest he is assassinated by his friend Prabhaakaran. That letter was sent under the signature of the most Venerable Mahanaayaka Thero of the Asgiriya Chapter Ven Paliipaana Chandaanandha Thera, as his personal Secretary. Had your Prime Minister listened to what I had said in March 1991 in that letter, he would have perhaps lived up to date in good health.
Today I predict, definitely the same fate will befall on all those who support the Malabar community in this country who were named as Ceylon Tamils only in 1901 by Ponnambalan Arunachachalam at the instigation of the British against the Sinha Buddhists in this country, irrespective of whether they live in the North East or the Center of this Island. The Sinhalese, the undisputed Bhumiputhras of the Island nation, were the people who had lived here from the beginning of history or even before, running in to more than 50,000 years, as you know. But Malabars living in this country have less than 350 years history in Sri Lanka as had been proved by my erstwhile friend Mr. LKN Perera, an honest judicial officer turned a patriotic historian in his retirement. If you like and if you have the time to spare, to read his Magnum opus on this subject, EELAM EXPOSED 2020” I can ask him to present a copy to you.
So in this back drop, dear Ambassador, I would like to tender my sincere advice in all good faith to you, to advise your government to change its present pro Sri Lankan Tamil mentality and give up its expansionist agenda forth with, especially towards this country and open a new chapter in Indo Sri Lanka relationships, beginning from the year 2025 and try to treat all SARC members in particular and all Asian countries in general as friendly nations of one family, The Asian Family, as your real enemies are not in Asia but they are still in the West.
As a devoted and proud descendants of the Lion race, Sinhala Buddhists, we are ever prepared to forget all the unpleasant recent past on the part of India and let us open the new door to another Lord Buddha and Asoka era or at least another Sirima Bandaranayake- Indhira Ghandhi era in our diplomatic, economic and cultural relations, in keeping with the unforgettable and historic relationships we have had, starting from the time of Lord Buddha and Asoka The Great, that laid down the steal framework for the spiritual, political, economic, social and ethical foundation of the unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this Island nation.
Finally, I would like request you to please advise your leaders back at home, to follow the footsteps of those two Great Sons of early India, the Lord Buddha and Asoka the Great, only a land like India could have given to this world, in solving our present day problems facing our countries that is entangled in tangles, both inner and outer tangles, arising from lust, greed, hatred and ignorance, all of which are Fastly taking the whole world and humanity to total nemesis. We as Sinhalese Buddhists will follow the teachings of Lord Buddha and you pray your own gods for the dawn of a new and golden era of friendship, prosperity and peace once again between our two countries, that had been glittering jewels in this world from the dawn of human history on this earth.
My prescription for the for this dream is very simple.
1Stop treating the Malaba community in this country as people of Indian origin and advise them to consider this country as their motherland and give up their Indian mentality
2 Let them realize that this is, and ask them to settle all their problems with the Government of this country without running to you even for call of nature as they do now.as it had been from the inception of human history, the Land of the Sinhala Nation of the Lion race and they are only recent arrivals
3.Please stop all direct assistance given to them cease to treat them as your people.
4. Treat this country as a separate, free and independent Sovereign country and never as apart pf India Please remember, the two countries had been divided by the Palk straight by nature as two separate countries from the beginning of the present world. Please remember India and Sri Lanaka are entirely two different sovereign countries and two different Nations geographically separated by the Palk straight and we have never being a suzerainty of India at any time and we shall never be so in future either.
I would appreciate it very much, if you could, as the Ambassadors to that Great civilization Bharath Dhesh, representing your governments in this country, will seriously take my advice as a brother officer of a parallel Service and act in conformity with the Geneva convents and more so as a true son of that Great Bharath Buddhist tradition will advise your Government to refrain from meddling with the internal affairs of this country while you yourself adhere to the duties of an Ambassador of that Great nation, within the covenants of the internationally accepted Geneva convention on ambassadorial duties, of cause keeping with the noble traditions given to the world by Bhagawath Geethaa and Dhammapadha.
I hope and wish you will not disagree with me when I say that the Tamils in Sri Lanka enjoy more rights and privileges than those in their own historical and traditional Homeland in India or any other country in the world. As such why this big fuss and meddling over an artificial grievance, created by the self-seeking Tamil politicians living here and in Tamilnadu, backed by Indian politicians only to bag the Tamilnadu votes and the so-called Tamil Diaspora the world over for whom it is only a big business and finally the Church backed Western colonial elements and anti-Asian organizations like the newly found QUAD, duped as The South Asian NATO’” by critics.
All Tamils in this country as well as in India and the world over and countries who support the Tamils world over to protect their domestic political interests at Home specially like the governments of Canada, UK, USA, Norway and Sweeden and above all India should accept that;
First, Sri Lanka is the historical Home Land of the Sinhala Buddhist nation as it had been so at least from 543 BC and it was the Sinhala Buddhists who had found, developed and protected its unique culture and built up its civilization, defended its territorial integrity, sovereignty and freedom from the beginning of history and protected it against all foreign invasions from the 2nd century BC up to date from South India and from Western Colonial invasions from 1505 to 1815. Even in 1815 this was the only country in the world that was added to the British Empire by an agreement mutually agreed upon between two Kingdoms on equal status and Sri Lanka had gone down in history as the only such country that was not captured by the British by war. Second, this tiny piece of 25,332 Square miles is the only land on earth, the Sinhalese have to live in, as an independent and sovereign nation, on this earth whereas Tamils have their own Motherland in South India from where they were brought by their colonial masters and Muslim practically have homelands all over the world covering about 1/3 the total area of the globe.
Present day minorities, Malabars (presently called Tamils baptized so only in 1901) and Muslims who were confined to Beruwala in the SW littoral when the Portuguese came in 1505 are only immigrant minorities in this country. The first batch of Malabars who were confined to the North and Eastern littorals were brought in to the Island by the Dutch in late 18th century and thereafter by the British in the 19th century mainly as slave labour from South India to work on their projects and toddy tapping and partly as colonial settlers. Second wave, by the British in large scale to work on the newly opened up Coffee and Tea plantations in the central hill country who were given citizenship only in 1988 under the Rajiv/JR accord of 1987 that was imposed on this country at gun point by India by invading the country.
Talking about Muslims, there are two groups of Muslims in this country. That is those who came as traders from various Muslim countries in late 13th century and those who came from India later as marakkalas and Hambayas. Present day Muslims are the descendants of these people and who survived Portuguese massacre in 1505 and migrated to the Kandyan kingdom and who were accommodated as refugees by King Senarath of Kandy. He settled them in different parts of the country, the main settlement being the Panamapattuwa in the Eastern littorals.
Accordingly, both these communities are immigrant minorities only. None of them has a right to claim nationality or citizenship in this country unless they integrate with the native Sinhalese, the Bhumiputhras of this land, agreeing in writing to abide by the laws of the land, and agree to live in one undivided country called Sri Lanka as one nation. Those who got citizenship by an affidavit under Rajiv/JR Accord of 1987 don’t fall in to this category, because none of them are legitimate citizens as yet, as they have not been duly registered under the Sri Lanka Citizenship Act. Therefore, it is necessary that all issues have to be settled within the Sri Lankan legal framework.
This, in my opinion, is the only way to restore the lost sanity, good will and friendship among the native Sinhalese, immigrant Tamil and Muslim minorities and restore peace and prosperity once again on this Paradise Island. India or any other foreign country should not get involved in internal matters of this country. It should be left for Sri Lanka alone as an independent and sovereign country to decide its own destiny.
(We all Sri Lankans demand that India should immediately close down all these 3 peripheral consular generals offices,( Kandy Jaffna and Hambanthota) to clear our minds of a planned Indian invasion)
Meanwhile I would also like you to advice your government to engage in the following exemplary pursuits immediately, for Indias own safety.
1.If India wants to be the leader of Asia or at least of South Asia or a co-leader in Asia within a collective group like China, Russia, Japan, Thailand and Sri Lanka of the 21st Century Asian Continent. But India also has to be always exemplary and above board, going by the way it has handled the SAARC since 2014.
2. Finally In this backdrop we Sri Lankans want India to withdraw immediately from pursuing any matter arising from the Rajiv /JR Accord of 30th July 1987 as we Sri Lankans have decided to abolish it as it amounts to a complete travesty of the true history of this 25 centuries old written history of this island nation and it also pave the way for the division of this country in to two separate States one Sinhala and the other Tamil leading to the end of its territorial integrity as a Sinhala Buddhist Kingdom with a 2500 years of a glorious history. As you know since India has already unilaterally violated it several times, we have no legal bar in abolishing it with a 2/3 majority in Parliament. The other curse that has to be got rid of is the 13th Amendment under which provincial councils were set up and the mechanism on ground is already laid down to divide the country in to 9 independent States. It has already completely destroyed the centuries old district administration in the Island. Therefore the 13 A also has to be abolished if this country is to remain as a Sinhala Buddhist country any more.
2. Also, please advise your government to forget about the 7 Agreements entered in to between Modi and Anura on April 5th 2025. As the citizens of this country will not allow them to be legally valid as it has been already gone before the Courts.
Overall, I am compelled to conclude with this wish.
I pray for the dawn of a new era of goodwill, friendship, trust and mutual prosperity between our two countries in all fields like political, economic, social and cultural, under your able guidance as the current High Commissioner of India to its younger Brother Sri Lanka. If you do your duty, I have no doubt that the two of us will go down in history as the two architects of the dawn of a neo- Gauthama Buddha-Asoka era for both India and Sri Lanka’s diplomatic relations. Let us hope and pray that with the blessings of all Gods ruling over our two countries the dawn of this new era of peace, prosperity and goodwill be a reality before we close our eyes.
If this attempt also fails, we are planning to organize Island wide massive public protests to defeat this ongoing Indian conspiracy, to save our motherland with its 2500 + pristine and glorious Sinhala Buddhist civilization from Indian invasion in the 21st century.
I am confident that all other SAARC countries will also join Sri Lanka in this worthy mission of the dawn of a new political, economic, social, cultural and spiritual era to the whole world and to South East Asia in particular, with Indias land size and its massive population. (1.438 billion (2023).
I also would like to call upon India to initiate and summon an urgent meeting of the SAARC members to give a new lease of life and strength to the SAARC region since we did not meet after the Eighteenth SAARC Summit, was held in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2014, that is 11 years ago. As you know the blame for not holding it is on your part. The whole world knows why SAARC is dysfunctional at the moment. Therefore, it is the bounden duty of India to call an urgent meeting, so that it can play a dignified role in strengthening the position of the SAARC region, as the big brother of South East Asia in the coming years of the 21st century Indo-Pacific brave new world led by India -China alliance as predicted by Harward Scholar Professor Samuel Huntingdon in his Clash of Civilization and Martin Jacques in his When China Rules the world”
Please let me conclude this historic letter with the following quotation from Dhammapada.
Manasa che pudhutTeina- Bhasathi vaa -karothi vaa
Thatho nan dukka manveithi- chakkanva vahathopadan’
(If one speaks or act with an impure mind-Then that will always bring sorrow -as if the wheels that fallow the bulls two hindlegs} (yamaka vagga Dhammapada 1.1)
Manasaa che pasannena -Bhaasathi vaa karothivaa
Thatho nan suka manveithi -Chaayaava anapaayini”
If one speaks or act with a pure mind and good intention, then that will always bring good, as if one’s shadow also always follows him” (yamaka vagga Dhammapada 1:2)
Hope you will bear with me for taking your precious time by writing such a long letter to you.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Sudath Gunasekara
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