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Obama’s ‘Diwali’ visit to Delhi:
Implications for Lanka
Except for the single piece by an Indian
columnist (a former senior civil servant), there is hardly any
mention, leave alone assessment, in the Sri Lankan newspapers, of a
portentous event with (at least) indirect implications for our
country and which has been discussed in publications and seminars
from Washington to Delhi, Islamabad, Tokyo and Djakarta. That is the
Deepavali visit of President Barack Obama to India followed by
Indonesia and Japan.
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The Morning Inspection - Malinda
IUSF was and is JVP’s cat’s paw
The JVP maintains the two outfits, IUSF and the
so-called Socialist Students’ Union as separate entities, but that’s
just eyewash:
Prof Gamini Samaranayake, whose doctoral work
was on the first JVP insurrection (1971), is of the view that ‘1971’
was a turning point in Sri Lanka’s political history. Samaranayake,
now the Chairman, University Grants Commission, argues that thanks
to that adventure, the weakness of the State was revealed and this
was a significant factor in steering Tamil politics away from
democratic discourse to armed struggle.
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Terrorism, justice and lasting peace
I quote it here, for I think it aptly describes
our current socio-political situation. For nearly 30 years we waged
a war against terrorism. That movement at its roots began with the
cause of Tamil Sri Lankans calling for dignity and honour. Yet, its
operations took a turn with a call for a separate state, with the
use of terror as the means for achieving that end.
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