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Rajapaksa-inspires India?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Sorry for this late-night, incoherent post, I had to get it off my chest. Many of the mainstream media reports on Lalgarh (with pictures if you please) use the same terminology that Rajapakse used when he started his genocidal war on the Tamils (“flushing out the militants”, “clearing operation”, “liberated zones”, “deployments of companies” (not [...]

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Some poetry news in an otherwise impossible world

Posted in academics, activism, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What’s happening in the Vanni is becoming more atrocious by the day: we earlier mourned for the hundreds dead each day, now it is into the thousands. Reading any news simply sends me spiralling into depression. Wanted to sort of take stock of what is going on with my life. Blog posts here shall become [...]

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Zone of death and despair

Posted in Eelam liberation struggle, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, activism, depression, human rights, india, politics, racism, violence, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Colombo calls it a no-fire zone, but it could also be called a no-food zone, a no-care zone, even a no-safety zone, if the story of Prasad Siva­tharsany is anything to go by. Early last month, the pregnant 24-year-old was injured in army shelling. Twelve days later, on March 14, she gave birth to a [...]

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Students protests and the state’s repressive reaction

Posted in Eelam liberation struggle, Srilankan Tamil, academics, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2009 | 13 Comments »

On one hand it is the success of the students’ struggle against the genocide of Eelam Tamils that an indefinite closure of all colleges has been announced. My amma says it happened before only in 1965 during the anti-Hindi agitations, my friends say it could have taken place in ‘83 or ‘87 (again related to [...]

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martyr muthukumar

Posted in Chennai, Eelam liberation struggle, Srilankan Tamil, Tamil Tigers, activism, catharsis, culture, depression, india, media, personality, politics, suicide, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I went to Muthukumar’s funeral saturday, and though I paid my homage, I never had the courage to look at his face. It was not because I am against curiousity of any kind, it is just that, I couldn’t get the nerve. Since Thursday, I must have read his last letter at least ten times, [...]

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TAMILS AGAINST GENOCIDE Counsel Bruce Fein in Chennai

Posted in Chennai, Eelam liberation struggle, Srilankan Tamil, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, activism, culture, human rights, india, intellectuals, media, personality, politics, racism, violence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 25, 2009 | 15 Comments »

The Tamils Against Genocide Counsel Bruce Fein (ex-Deputy Associate Attorney General, USA) was in Chennai recently. We (mainly Dr.Ezhilan who runs Max Foundation and me and our friends) organized a meeting Friday where he addressed select members of the media, and some of the city’s intellectual crowd. Our aim was to get people here understand [...]

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Revisiting tragedies

Posted in hindutva, violence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »

My general euphoria went for a toss today. In some not-so-occasional fit of fun I had agreed to do the subtitling for a short-film taken by a close friend. In all earnestness, I had expected something light. What I got instead was something poignant and powerful. Parzania, anyone? Yes. Turns out that he has set [...]

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