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TV: BBC Sitcom, Outnumbered
Here is a short clip from a primetime sitcom of the BBC1 where Tamil Tiger protests of last year got mentioned in the context of a white middle class British family. Although it was brief, I found it amusing
So to bring all you Sri’s back home upto speed Outnumbered is a British Comedy [...]
Hope for change? Beware of getting short changed
Change vs. picking sides
Hope is a word that means “bullshit” in the developing world. It has been overkilled by politicians whom we elected for all the wrong reasons. Hope, for me, is desire without a plan! I don’t actually believe that Gen. Sarath Fonseka is “believerble”? Or indeed he has the calibre to “change” anything [...]
Scenaio: coup’d Mahinda
Results are announced and the people are in premature jubilation. As they look to the horizon with their eyes lit with the prospect of “believable” change, it is not the firecrackers deafen their ears; but bullets. Bullets being sprayed at innocents resisting the orders to keep calm! But how can they?
Top 10 Reasons why I would have voted for MR
He won us the war, a war deemed un-winnable by everyone- was won outright! He deserves credit because he was the commander in chief at that time..
Despite mounting pressure he did not stop the war, and finished off a menace.
He is a career politician and not a novice. For Good or for worse he is [...]
Top 10 Reasons why I would have voted for SF
It’s time for a change. Time to break the downward spiral. Who Better than a patriot?
He almost lost his life in the war due to a suicide attack! I have no reason to think that he will squander up what [...]
The Legacy of the Raj; ill-aristocrats
Sri Lanka now a presidential representative democracy, used to be ruled under the commonwealth of Britain. During the British Raj, the established aristocrats were torn apart of their prominence, and was replaced by new era of pro-empire capitalistic feudalism. This was done partly due to the evangelical motives of the Raj and to balance out the rising influence of the independence movement which would eventually shake the very foundations of the ‘crown colony of Ceylon’ in 1948.
IT IS THE SOLDIER
It is the Soldier…
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is [...]
Opinion: Guantanomo vs. LTTE suspects
The USA has the right to defend itself(and i wholeheartedly support that!), but it is hypocritical of the US and the so-called international community to only recognise the US’s right to Defend it Self, but not the same right Sri Lanka is entitled to as a sovereign nation.
Project: Jaffna, the Ibiza of the Indian Ocean
Visiting Jaffna is like going back in time.. it’s almost feels as if time somehow stopped moving for this city. Yet it bears qualities of a premium holiday destination of the future. Make no mistake, it will need some government intervention in order for it to blossom; and I intend to add my two cents to the debate what these interventions could be