Peace and justice: a timely reminder
9 years, 9 months ago

Peace and justice: a timely reminder

The Hindu  

In September 2014 a group of academicians and activists in Sri Lanka came together to remember their colleague Rajani Thiranagama who had been killed in Jaffna in 1989 by the LTTE. In April this year, when Rajani’s colleague Rajan Hoole was about to launch his book ‘Palmyra Fallen: From Rajani to war’s end’ and tried holding a discussion around it, a similar response came from the University of Jaffna, where Rajani was heading the Anatomy department until she was gunned down, yet again bringing to focus the concern many share about the lack of space in the University. One, just like ‘Broken Palmyra’ — in which he, along with Rajani Thiranagama and two other members of the University Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna documented atrocities committed by the LTTE, the Sri Lankan state and the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990 — this book probes many events leading to and occurring during the conflict, focusing more on the period after 1989. The book tries to cover a whole lot of ground — from the role of other Tamil militant groups to important developments in Sri Lanka’s broader political history, the rise and fall of the Left, at times evoking western philosophers as he reflects on such developments. Some portions like the one where Rajan Hoole — a mathematician — gives a detailed formula explaining the rise and fall in the population of Indian origin Tamils employed in tea estates in Sri Lanka’s Central Province are a bit tedious to process immediately, but overall, ‘Palmyrah Fallen’ is brilliant resource material for anyone researching Sri Lanka’s past or present.

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ABP News  

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CNN  

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Al Jazeera  

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The Hindu  

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The Independent  

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Live Mint  

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Al Jazeera  

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Firstpost  

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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India TV News  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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8 years, 10 months ago

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ABC  

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9 years, 5 months ago

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The Hindu  

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9 years, 11 months ago

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Live Mint  

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9 years, 11 months ago

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The Hindu  

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10 years, 2 months ago

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The Hindu  

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11 years ago

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The Hindu  

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11 years ago

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The Hindu  

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Sri Lanka only fought LTTE not Tamils: Rajapaksa
11 years ago

Sri Lanka only fought LTTE not Tamils: Rajapaksa

The Hindu  

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Accountability in focus
11 years ago

Accountability in focus

The Hindu  

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Rajapaksa seeks more time to address Tamil issue
11 years, 2 months ago

Rajapaksa seeks more time to address Tamil issue

The Hindu  

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Tamils in Jaffna want army occupation to end
11 years, 4 months ago

Tamils in Jaffna want army occupation to end

Firstpost  

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Island Blues: The end of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war promised better than this
11 years, 7 months ago

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The Independent  

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Rights, liberties threatened in Sri Lanka, says rights body
11 years, 10 months ago

Rights, liberties threatened in Sri Lanka, says rights body

India TV News  

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With fair-weather friends like these …
12 years ago

With fair-weather friends like these …

The Hindu  

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Tamil protests in Mumbai, Chennai and Coimbatore over Sri Lankan war crimes
12 years ago

Tamil protests in Mumbai, Chennai and Coimbatore over Sri Lankan war crimes

India TV News  

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Lawyers march in Delhi, demand support for Tamils in Sri Lanka
12 years ago

Lawyers march in Delhi, demand support for Tamils in Sri Lanka

India TV News  

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Mindless solidarity
12 years ago

Mindless solidarity

The Hindu  

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Political reconciliation must for calm in Sri Lanka: PM
12 years ago

Political reconciliation must for calm in Sri Lanka: PM

India TV News  

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“Tamil women forced to marry Sri Lankan army personnel”
12 years, 3 months ago

“Tamil women forced to marry Sri Lankan army personnel”

The Hindu  

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Sri Lanka keeps watch on Vaiko's protest
12 years, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka keeps watch on Vaiko's protest

Hindustan Times  

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Dealing with Sri Lanka
13 years ago

Dealing with Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

India faces a crucial decision-making moment at the United Nations Human Rights Council on the U.S.- As for the “feelings” of the political parties in Tamil Nadu, it should be clear by now that for them, the Sri Lankan Tamil issue is an opportunity for cynical one-upmanship, and nothing more. After creating a furore over the war in Sri Lanka …

Time for tough love
13 years ago

Time for tough love

Hindustan Times  

The dog-eat-dog world rarely offers convergence between opposing goals of promoting human values and national interests. Unfortunately, across South Asia, we have been allowing regimes in Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to replay variations of this same song: ‘Pamper me or else I land in China’s lap’. India is not benefiting from the status quo, which is a unitary …

Sri Lanka against itself
13 years ago

Sri Lanka against itself

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka is engaged in an all-out effort to stave off a resolution against it at the ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at Geneva. Among other recommendations, the report, tabled in the Sri Lankan parliament last year, asked the government to “ascertain, more fully the circumstances” of five incidents in which civilians were killed during the …

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