Sri Lankans First

WE ARE SRI LANKANS FIRSTLet's Tread Lightly, Speak Softly.Let's respect the cultures of all our citizens in My Sri Lanka, Our Island. The defining statement of how, we Sri Lankans, i.e. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lankan Muslims, Burghers, Sri Lankan Chinese and other citizens ought to view ourselves, has now arrived from a most unlikely source: Muttiah Muralitharan. Muralitharan, by profession, isn't one of those so called intellectuals. He is a Sri Lankan Cricketer, a member of the 1996 World Champions. Most of all Murali, as he is adoringly called by the Sri Lankans, is a patriot, a son of the soil, a man worth his salt. Today...

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DON PERCY

23 April 2009 Mennon calls Gota [1] on his personal mobile phone Gota, the Tamil Nadu problem is hoting up. Things are very sensitive here OK, I’ll call you back Don Percy M. R.: Tell them to come tomorrow morning for breakfast The northerners speak briefly: southerners were laboring under the delusion their brethren were being massacred. Gota, Don Percy M. R. and Weere listen attentively Don : Even if you invade my country, I am not going to stop this. We are just a few weeks away from eliminating terrorism in this country. Don then reminds the neighbors of previous military intervention [2] and loss of two decades of  development. Mahinda...

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China’s Elder Brother: India

CHINA'S ELDER BROTHER: INDIA Marginal Comments by bunpeiris are followed up with gleanings Once upon a time India was a great land that made timeless contributions to the Heritage of the World that no other land, since then has ever matched up, far from exceeding: India was the birth place, cradle and home of sages, philosophers and scholars since time immemorial; India gave the world ultimate epic poems of Mahabharata and Ramayana [both of which refer to ancient Sri Lanka then called Lanka], which pushes the ‘The Iliad”, a cornerstone of the Western Cannon to the distant third in the world of literature; India gave birth to the most serene...

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