Comments on: ‘Liberation’, means many things to many

by: Neo Nakeeran

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:58:28 +0000

Dear Dr. Rajasingham Narendran

Your article seems to be interesting read.

There are certain themes that are bit troubling.

1. Throughout your piece, you are using the term ‘We’ and that seems to point to only a very small fraction of Tamil population existed in Lanka before 1948; Jaffna borne, Saivite origin (both converts and non-converts to Christianity), English educated, so called elites (probably middle classes) who were employed as middle level government SERVANTS by the RAJ. Whatever the characterisation, description or the ideals you mentioned are only valid for the above group, and not to the other (about 90%) Tamil farmers and workers of different trades.

2. Your writings on ‘Aram’ are again interesting but I guess you should spend more time in understanding ‘Thirukural’ better, especially the ‘Arathupaal’. In our opinion probably a deep reading the basis of ‘Arasu’ in ‘Thirukural’ will be some time well spent.

3. Your attempts to classify the current stages of the politico-military struggle in simpleton terms lack deep analytical skills that one would expect from a person who is having a PhD and years of academic experience.

4. As an academic you will agree any output has to be analysed based on certain criteria - By Who, When, What, and Where (citation format).

5. When we use the above criterion your outputs lead to more troubling questions, especially the TIME factor when you began your public phase of political (?) writing.

We hope you would respond in a learned manner the concerns we have expressed about your article.

Best of wishes

Neo Nakeeran

by: Neo Nakeeran

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:56:48 +0000

Dear Sirs,

I submitted a comment on your article and it disappeared from from the comments link.

Is there any rules to submit coments.

Please let me know.

Neo

by: Roy

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:23:21 +0000

A cult has taken over. Its everywhere. Just yesterday
Akbar Bugti was matyred - justly or not ??

Lanka Sinhalese and Tamils cannot communicate
with or without ‘aids’ like mou or agreements or
even with mediators etc.

We have to go back to the ‘oral’ ,
AND acceptance
that our ancestors made decisions which we have
not fully understood even before the western tsunami(s) struck the island that ensured the
survival of the Jaffna - progeny.

There is still hope.

by: Thevan

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:59:37 +0000

It becomes necessary to undo the evil the sinhala leaders have done to the tamil community from the time independance from britishers were given to the island of the then ceylon. The sinhalese have cheated the tamil leaders who jointly fought for the freedom into believing that they will honour the freedom towards all communities as was enshrined into the soulbury constitution. But over the past the soulbury constitution has been slowly abandoned and the very rights of minorities are taken out by the constitutions that follwed and finally paved the way for a sinhala buddhist constitution that has made tamils second class citizens within the republican constitution. The various ahimsa protests of tamils was basically broken up with thuggery and assaults and killings. All the pacts were abrogated and torn away. What is the course now avilable for the tamils but to fight the genocidal sinhala regime till tamils could become free to have a self-rule within their own homelands wherein they have lived for thousands of years.If sinhalese who entered the island after the tamil nation why on earth should the tamils desert their rights and live as sub humans and slaves of sinhalese.