{"id":105865,"date":"2020-08-25T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105865"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:25:03","slug":"mr-wigneswaran-observations-on-your-address-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/25\/mr-wigneswaran-observations-on-your-address-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wigneswaran! Observations on your address to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Mr. C.V.Wigneswaran
Leader, \u00a0TAMIL MAKKAL THERSIYA KUTTANI<\/strong>
Sri Lanka Parliament
Kotte
Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re: Observations\non your address to Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr.\nWigneswaran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was with\ngreat interest that I read your inaugural speech to Parliament, wanting to know\nwhat the new Tamil Political-Man on the Block had to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right off the\nbat one comment jarred my understanding of the Ceylon\/Sri Lanka History which\nwas mischievously interpreted differently from what I was taught at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oops! Where is\nthis Tamil Man coming from, who once upon a time, not too long ago was the\nChief Minister of the mainly ethnically cleansed Tamil Northern Province having\nkicked out the Sinhalese and Muslims who had lived there for generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your comment\nthat I start my felicitations honourable Speaker, hailing you in my\nmother tongue, the oldest living language in the world, and the language OF THE\nFIRST INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THIS COUNTRY and proceed in the link language.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, what crap\nwas that Wiggy?   It is not worth a barrel of stinking Jardi sitting on\nyour dining table for your dinner after a swig from a coconut shell cup of\nJaffna’s best toddy. That comment  prompted a\ncomment about you under my breath, This guy seems to be a bloody\nfool picking a fight with the legitimate indigenous peoples of Sri Lanka – the\nVeddhas.  These Tamils seem to be good at thinking that they are the\nblue-blooded tribe in Sri Lanka.   Shish! Wiggy…come down your\n high horse before you have a Humpty-Dumpty Fall soon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I checked on\nyour background of your schooling where you may have been taught this\nseparatist\u201d lie.  Was it at Valvettithurai Smugglers Vidyalayam<\/em><\/strong>,\nor was it at theVaddukoddai Maha Vidyalayam<\/em><\/strong>, or was it at Katheeja\nVidyalayam, all in the Northern Province.  <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Well,\nWiggy, you surprised me to know  that you were a product of Kurunegala\u2019s, Christ\nChurch College;<\/em><\/strong> Anuradhapura\u2019s Holy Family Convent<\/em><\/strong> and\nended up at Colombo\u2019s Royal College. <\/em><\/strong> I am sure that none of\nthese prestigious Colleges would have drummed into your skull that your tribe,\nthe Tamils, were the first indigenous peoples of Sri Lanka.  And you tell\nme that once upon a time in your life you were a Justice in the Supreme Court\nof Sri Lanka.   Smart, bright with a clinical legal mind. I am stymied to\nmy wits by you Wiggy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell me, Wiggy,\nwhat the heck did you have in your sambar with your thosai that morning for\nbreakfast,   before you went to parliament to deliver your historical\nspeech for your new Tamil political party.   Not good…Not kosher…not\n cricket…bloody awful Wiggy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Didn\u2019t anyone\ntell you during your schooling days that the Tamils were invaders once upon a\ntime… long…long…long time ago, but were kicked arse and chased them back\nto where they came from, running for their lives with their vetti pulled tight\nbetween their buttock cheeks so that they could run faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O! sure…sure,\n Wiggy, the South Indian military expeditions were constantly crossing\nover to Sri Lanka and wresting power in certain areas in the North of Sri Lanka\nfor short periods.  This frequent warfare would have strained the\nsocio-cultural connections between the Sinhalese and the Dravidians. \nIndian settlements in Lanka during this period were probably few, for they did\nnot exercise any political power.  Like in the first century B.C., a Tamil\nusurper, Elara, seized the Sri Lankan throne. The Tamil King Elara\u2019s ultimate\ndefeat, at the hands of the Sinhalese prince Duttugemunu, woo…woo..\u201d is\nregarded as an epic event in SriLanka\u2019s history, when these Elara- Tamils from\nover 18 mile-Strait of salt water ran after having got their butts kicked, and\nthe salt-water soaked and dripping from their gold and silver threaded\nVetties.  And that is a realty check for you.  And who for Pete\u2019s\nsake told you, and gave you the dead rope to hang yourself saying that you are\na member of the Tamil-tribe, of the First Indigenous peoples of Sri Lanka.\n  Haro…hara..what Tamil Blarney!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well it did\nhappen, Wiggy, and the Indigenous Coast-Veddas, Anuradhapura-Veddas, and\nBintenne-Veddas continued to live happily ever after as Hunter-gatherers. That\nis a reality check for you Wiggy.  Got it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiggi, you were\n10 years old at Royal and I was 13 years old at Nalanda getting excited about\nthe famous, BIG Gal Oya project, the innovation of the first Prime Minister of\nCeylon, Rt. Hon. D.S. Senanayake, after Independence in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a project\nbased on the 62 mile long Gal Oya river rising from the Badulla range in the\nCentral Province and dammed in 1949 for the welfare and prosperity of all Sri\nLankans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The repository\nof water after the damming now forms the lifeblood of the peasant  farmers\nof the historic region of Digamadulla.   Remember!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is the\nproblem that I see in your speech.  Prior to this Gal Oya project on\neither side of the Gal Oya river grew a relentless jungle. And the actual\ndenizens were not your Tamils, but were a few Veddhas and wild animals. \nIt was largely unoccupied land and the homeland of the elephant, the bear,\n the leopard, the monkey, the deer, the snakes, and the jackal.  So\nwhere the hell were your first indigenous Tamils to call it your\n\u2018homeland\u2019.  If they were there, where the hell were they hiding\nWiggy.  And all that is proof positive that you are a Humbug claiming that\nyour Tamil people were the first Indigenous people of the North and Eastern\nProvinces.  So let\u2019s cut out that rubbish Wiggy.  Stop trying to pull\nwool over my eyes. Sure you Tamils enjoyed 131 years being the privileged\nminority\u2019<\/em> during colonial rule, and we Sinhalese happened to be the\nwronged majority\u201d. That does not give you the right to claim that privilege\n of being the first indigenous people in the North-East of Sri\nLanka.  That is a load of bull…and a drumlin of pads of dried cow\ndung.  So let’s cut out that crap.  I hope you got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you\nindeed will be conferring with the Vedda Chief in Dambana, to claim your thesis\nof being the First Indigenous people in Sri Lanka, and that you want to usurp\nthat privilege for the historic records, I  suggest that you wash out that\nred target between your eyebrows, as it is a tempting spot to get at you if\n angered, with a stone from their stone-bow-catapult.  They are\nbrilliant stone-bow-catapult shooters.  The reason why I am warning you is\nWiggy,  I was in Dambana in January 2003 and met with Kenda, Veddha\nChief Tissaharmy\u2019s third grandson<\/em><\/strong>, an Olympic-brilliant\nstone-bow-catapult  shooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pointed to a\nleaf in a tall tree, and told me that he was going to bring it down with one\nstone.  Alright, let\u2019s see\u201d, I said. One pull of the bow he let loose the\nstone, and down came the leaf.  I clapped.\u201d  Have it, a gift from\nme\u201d he said and handed the catapult.  It is hanging on the wall in my den\nwith a label which says – Stone-bow- catapult used by Veddhas,\n(Indigenous people of Sri Lanka.  A gift from Kenda, 3rd Grandson of\nVeddha Chief Tissahamy. Veddha Village, Dambana, Sri Lanka. January 2003.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more\npretentious rubbish from you Wiggy, as it just doesn’t cut mustard with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good Luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shanthi…shanthi…shanthi.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka\nWeerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada Mr. C.V.WigneswaranLeader, \u00a0TAMIL MAKKAL THERSIYA KUTTANISri Lanka Parliament KotteSri Lanka. Re: Observations on your address to Parliament Dear Mr. Wigneswaran: It was with great interest that I read your inaugural speech to Parliament, wanting to know what the new Tamil Political-Man on the Block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}