– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials on Wednesday raised concerns over the safety of its national players who would be taking part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 tournament starting next month following the recent spate of attacks against Sri Lankans in Tamil Nadu. […]
– By Shenali Waduge – Rajiv Gandhi was killed by Tamils with Tamilnadu’s leading politicians implicated in the cruel assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumapadur,Tamilnadu using a Tamil (LTTE) suicide bomber. These very same politicians are now without any qualms of conscience appealing to Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv, to condemn Sri Lanka for alleged […]
– By Walter Jayawardhana – If a resolution is passed by the Indian parliament accusing Sri Lanka army of war crimes or genocide on the lines proposed by DMK Supremo Karunanidhi because of his threat to leave government that could be considered black mail and a positive reaction to that could be a bad precedent […]
– By Walter Jayawardhana – The Times of India in a hard hitting editorial written on the threat of walk out by the Indian Central government’s coalition ally the DMK on the issue of alleged human rights violations by Sri Lanka questioned where it was slumbering when the violations were actually committed. […]
– By Walter Jayawardhana – In the main editorial that entitled, “The DMK can’t dictate the nation’s foreign policy” the Pioneer newspaper of New Delhi in no uncertain terms said that the party’s leader instead of doing something constructive to help the Sri Lankan Tamils has taken to grandstanding, marching his party out of the […]
– By Shenali Waduge – We are baffled. How can a country which has a population of 1.2BILLION people continue to fall at the feet of political parties passing the pillow of power between them in the state of Tamil Nadu which has a population of 72million Tamils which is just 6% of the entire […]
– By Shenali Waduge – Tamils in India want a Tamil homeland, Tamils in Malaysia are also voicing similar sentiments, the LTTE Diaspora and TNA in Sri Lanka want a Tamil homeland and probably with time Tamils in Canada and Tamils in the UK may also start joining in the chorus. […]
– By Walter Jayawardhana – The Hindu in an editorial protested extremist outfits without any popular base have started carrying out violent attacks on Sri Lankan students, offices and Buddhist monks. The editorial reiterated that the “the mindless violence of some of the fringe Tamil outfits is putting at risk India’s own moral authority to […]
– By Shenali Waduge – With the UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva currently taking place it is a perfect time to explore India’s end of the bargain vis a vis the plebiscite promised for Kashmir to decide its right to self-determination. Kashmir’s fate has been lying in the hands of India for over […]