All funds sent to these organizations will be used for emergency assistance for victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in the NorthEast of Sri Lanka. Please mark your checks ‘NE Tsunami Relief.’ All are staffed by volunteers so there is no overhead taken out of the donations. All organizations are 501 (c) (3) charities registered… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Economy
Tsunami Death Toll Rises to 5000 in Sri Lanka
from TamilNet Around 5000 are dead in the Tsunami waves that hit northeastern and southern coast of Sri Lanka Sunday morning, Sri Lankan Defence Ministry sources told TamilNet. Government officials in the devastated eastern town Batticaloa said only about twenty five of more than thousand families in Navalady, a coastal suburb of Batticaloa, appear to have… Read more »
All the World’s a University
by Janadas Devan, The Straits Time, Singapore, December 2004 WHEN Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested by the British in 1942, he traipsed off to prison clutching, among other things, Plato’s Republic and Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (in the original French, of course). This Indian freedom fighter was nothing if not inward with high European culture. He… Read more »
Grace Learning Center
Improving Educational Standards in Sri Lanka In fall of 2004, VeAhavta began to plan a new program designed to improve the quality of education in Sri Lanka. While the on-going civil war has severely disrupted all aspects of life in Sri Lanka, perhaps the greatest impact has been upon the children. Children affected by the… Read more »
Helping Flood Victims
ALL THE HINDU TEMPLES IN LONDON ARE COLLECTING MONEY TO HELP THE FLOOD VICTIMS IN SRI LANKA. Sri Kanaga Thurkkai Amman Temple will be working with TRO in helping these flood victims. PLEASE READ: http://sooriyan.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1106&Itemid= http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13669 http://www.troonline.org/en/?menu=../en/news/mullai_191204 Thank you, S Karunalingam Chairman – Executive Committee Sri Kanaga Thurkkai Amman… Read more »
Rebuilding Mullaitivu
by Ranga Jayasuriya, The Sunday Observer, Colombo, December 12, 2004 Mullaitivu is rising from the ruins of intense fighting that lasted for over one and half decades and caused mass displacement. The Mullaitivu Maha Vidyalam, the district’s premier school reduced to rubble during the war has been rebuilt. The road to the coastal town via… Read more »
Sethusamuderam Project: Economic & Environmental Impact
Reasons for the Construction of the Canal and its Economic & Environmental Impact on Sri Lanka by Donald Jayantha Gnanakone, Los Angeles, December 2, 2004 The past three months has seen such a flurry of activity and controversy never seen before in Sri Lanka, since the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Pact by Rajiv Gandhi… Read more »
Hope Dawns in the Vanni
by Dr. Sam Muthuveloe, Sri Lanka, October 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/669.html “Thank you for coming to our remote village, to meet us and give us comfort through your medicines and the gift of spectacles,” said an old lady named Letchumi. It was dusk and as the sun was rapidly disappearing over the horizon and the gentle warm… Read more »
Plantation Tamils – The Oppressed People of Sri Lanka
By S. Makenthiran, B.A., FCCA, November 21, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/653.html Immigration in the nineteenth century In Sri Lanka live one of the most oppressed communities in the world. They are the plantation Tamils living in the central hill country. This unfortunate community has been treated like sub-humans by the successive Sinhalese governments that have been in… Read more »
Pirapaharan 2, Chapter 23: Manal Aru becomes Weli Oya
by T. Sabaratnam, November 5, 2004 (Volume 2) sangam.org/articles/view2/633.html On the Sly The Yan Oya settlement that would break the territorial contiguity of Tamil Eelam between Trincomalee and Mullaitivu districts was started on the sly. The planners of the project wanted to settle Sinhalese along the Yan Oya (river) which flows into the sea north… Read more »
Reclaiming the Rights of Cyclists
Press Briefing – Cyclone October 25, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/628.html In Sri Lanka there are approximately two million bicycles. However, the provision of infrastructure to cater the requirement of the cyclists is minimal. Apart from the lack of proper infrastructure facilities, the increase of motor vehicles is another factor that hinders the bicycle use. This sudden influx… Read more »
The Meaning of Empathy
A Summer With the Children of NorthEast Sri Lanka by Nimmi Gowrinathan, October 21, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/616.html The four Tamil Sri Lankan-Americans who ventured back to Yalpannam knew the story well. After all, it was only one generation that stood between them and the violence whose legacy left no Tamil family untouched. It had been passed… Read more »
Inventor of the Yellow Fever Vaccine and Jaffna
by National Library of Science’s Profiles in Science, Washington, DC, accessed October 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/614.html Wilbur Sawyer started college at the University of California, Berkeley. He transferred to Harvard University in his second year, and got his AB there in 1902. He attended Harvard Medical School, received his MD in 1906. In 1908, Sawyer returned to… Read more »
Basketball Tournament to Benefit NorthEast children
San Diego, October 30 Dear Friends, My name is Greg Buie, and I had an article posted on the Sangam website recently entitled “Inspiration and Hope: The Youth of Sri Lanka.” I would like to tell you about a charity event I am planning for the end of this month in San Diego, California. All… Read more »
Back to Basics for S.Lanka’s ‘Mine Sweepers’
By Simon Gardner sangam.org/articles/view2/579.html THADDUVANKODDY, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (Reuters) – In a remote sun-baked corner of northern Sri Lanka, farmers are pioneering an unlikely new weapon in the fight to clear hundreds of thousands of landmines strewn during two decades of civil war. Across a no man’s land littered with mines, small groups of Sri… Read more »
The Worst Weapon of Mass Destruction
Thinakural Editorial, Colombo, Sept. 22, 2004 Translation by M. Thiru sangam.org/articles/view2/573.html A Summit among world leaders to discuss World Hunger took place at the UN Headquarters last Monday (20/09/04), the day before the commencement of the United Nation’s 59th General Assembly session. More than 100 nations participated in this summit, of which more than 50… Read more »
Political Chaos in Sri Lanka
by V Gunaratnam, September 30, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/571.html There are new imperatives driving Sri Lankan politics at this time, as it struggles to move the peace process forward and around the corner. But it is difficult to make out anything, because the political scene is like a huge iceberg: only the tip is visible but there… Read more »
Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire
by Arundhati Roy August 24, 2004 Transcript of full speech by Arundhati Roy in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004. The editor and the Sangam do not agree with everything in this article, but it is a powerful alternative view, with a global persective not found in many other places. I’ve been asked to… Read more »
THO Healthcare Projects in Vanni
September 29, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/569.html and THOsummer2004.pdf (sangam.org) Several doctors from Australia worked in Vanni this past summer and describe their experiences within the framework of requirements for successful short term visits. THO summer 2004
Sri Lanka’s Economy in Shambles
by K. Mylvaganam, September 20, 2004 sangam.org/articles/view2/554.html There is no doubt that the economic situation of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has never been as low as it is now. To add fuel to the fire, the soaring of petroleum prices is affecting the Sri Lankan economy very hard. The price of crude oil… Read more »