{"id":106818,"date":"2020-09-20T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106818"},"modified":"2020-09-20T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T22:11:28","slug":"disce-aut-discede-vigi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/20\/disce-aut-discede-vigi\/","title":{"rendered":"Disce Aut Discede Vigi."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr.Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The rapacious speech MP\nVigneswaran , elaborated more there&nbsp;\nafter in the Colombo&nbsp; Telegraph\nachieves most is to stoke the dying embers of racial disharmony in Sri Lanka to\nraise its dangerous flames that , over three decade period of war saw over a\nhundred thousand dead and many times more injured and maimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The veracity of your claims\ncan be best assessed by the pictures below , that speaks more than words can,\ncomparing the oldest Tamil monument in Jaffna the Nallur Temple of 948 AD and\nthe Buddhist stupas in Jaffna&nbsp; from 300\nBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wellington4R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wellington4R.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wellington4R-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wellington4R-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NallurtempR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NallurtempR.jpg 706w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NallurtempR-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> T<strong>he Oldest Tamil Monument In Sri Lanka\u00a0 Nallur Temple Jaffna 948 AD <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Vigneswaran\u2019s arguments\ntake my mind back to the late fifties to a presentation by this same CV\nWigneswaran , lanky and in prominent black rimmed spectacles, for the Best\nSpeakers Prize&nbsp; at a contest in Royal\nCollege Colombo, where he simulated &nbsp;a\nclosing &nbsp;address to the Jury on behalf a\nclient accused of murder. My overriding memory of this presentation with all\nit\u2019s theatrics was the talent this, then&nbsp;\nsenior English debater&nbsp; at Royal\nCollege, to make a non&nbsp; existent case,\nsound so real. Today\u2019s performance of the esteemed Vigi&nbsp; is to me a clear demonstration that over\nsixty years a later, he has not lost any of this talent or theatrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst his theatrics in the\nfifties had no consequence, his present theatrics raises the frightening\nprospect of reigniting a dying flame of racial disharmony in Sri Lanka which &nbsp;his ancestors , the famed Arunachalam brothers\n, tried so hard to prevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Vigi has still not learnt\nthese lessons, may I kindly request him to&nbsp;\nfollow the moto of Royal college, Disce Aut Discede,&nbsp; learn or depart from Sri Lanka\u2019s political\nscene .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellington NZ 20.9.20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ The rapacious speech MP Vigneswaran , elaborated more there&nbsp; after in the Colombo&nbsp; Telegraph achieves most is to stoke the dying embers of racial disharmony in Sri Lanka to raise its dangerous flames that , over three decade period of war saw over a hundred thousand dead and many times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106818","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=106818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}