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Dan Kadiragamar on "The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities"

Dan Kadiragamar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:12:26 +0100

My father tamil mother british I think tamil terrarist have a very unjust -stupid i would say demand...because these tamil terrarists are demanding a 35% of the country’s landmass and over 75% of its surrounding sea for a separate Tamil state. Constituting only 6.5% of the country’s population, over half of the country’s Tamils currently live amongst the majority Sinhalese.
Is tamil terrarist can this stuid and every tamil terrarist living in UK can stupid enough to stand for such funny demand! what do they smoke?

daveknutz on "Climate change's challenge to India"

daveknutz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:18:40 +0100

Millions of people around the world are being affected by climate change and global warming. Institutes like oxfam are trying to globally coordinate governments around the world into helping tackle this issue. Due to India's overcrowding more people are at risk from the ravages of disease and abnormal weather which is a direct consequence of global changes.

Vitamins on "Lahore to Peshawar: the trophy-target war"

Vitamins — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:03:14 +0100

Ya its done very bad in this war so much of persons are dead in this war, so much of bomb attacks are done and so more because of that the situation is very bad now..

rcshreeyan on "Poverty and activism: the heart of global civil society "

rcshreeyan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:38 +0100

rcshreeyan First thing is that we have still to learn what is democracy and how it should be run to remove all people related problems. We have took democracy in very simple way that people will vote to parties to form the governments and these world over governments would work to solve the people's problems installing the ministries & department to solve the multi complex problems of people.

The political system by which the governments are forming are very less power to do any benefit to common people. The democracy would be fruitful where the social system is also backing up the political system and the people also given the complete political rights from the constitutions not from the political parties. The democracy and the constitutions of the world & the social system if in future start working for the social people then all kind of poverty, hunger, voilence, hate, racism and other nagetive things happening in our world would be effectively controlled by the social & political system.

The present day world require the social system so that all people start working for the society as at present we all are working for the families. The political system is small and people should not be dreaming that capitalist party leadership which able to stand by the false populace promises can do any thing for the common people.

It all visible when democratic world governments work to support the capitalist lobbies side by side to provide social security to weaker sections. Taxes alone cann't solve the any nation internal economic problems, the social money is also require to give the society & the nation all kind of backup and security & ALL IT WILL COME WHEN PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT WOULD FORM BY USING THEIR POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVE RIGHT DIRECTLY THROUGH THE CONSTITUTIONAL PEOPLE'S COMMISSION PROVISION. In democracy no political party can distribute the representative right to special class to form the party rule. The world people needs people's government & social system to manage the social problems effectively and make our earth look filled with human values & mankind behaviour.

lenswarrior1 on "Pakistan: the road from hell"

lenswarrior1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:32:23 +0100

Pakistan seems like the next place US is going to take over. Seems like they are gearing up for it propaganda wise already.

tmorgan on "The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities"

tmorgan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:23:59 +0100

http://vannimission.org/2009/06/08/press-release-8th-june

We diaspora are not oblivious to the genuine good deeds that Sinhalese are doing to help IDPs, nor are we oblivious to the callous use of bombs against those same civilians or the pleasure some Sinhalese take from the sight of their defeated enemy. I hope no one views Sinhalese as an evil “race” since any geneticist can tell you Tamils & Sinhalese are the same race. Sinhalese may perhaps have more Bengalese genomic similarities than Sri Lankan Tamils but it’s a negligible difference.

Therefore Tamil Nadu is just as much a Sinhalese homeland as it is for Sri Lankan Tamils. Embrace your Dravidian heritage.

Give up this delusion that your languages Aryan derivation means you are Aryans, you're not!

Any real reconciliation attempt will be impossible due to the need for freedom of the press in Sri Lanka, freedom of speech, safety from white vans & para-military types, all are required before your local Tamils can even speak to what they want. We diaspora will have to speak for them in courts of law around the world, street corners, wherever… TAG you’re it!

tmorgan on "The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities"

tmorgan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:10:19 +0100

Sri Lanka ‘turns back’ Mercy Mission Ship - Rejects Tamil Diaspora Humanitarian Aid

http://vannimission.org/2009/06/08/press-release-8th-june

This is how DEFENCE.LK responds President of Sri Lanka's call for reconciliation?

Protecting them from access to humanitarian aid?
Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation?
I think not.

They are like an vindictive neighbor who goes to city hall to find every statute that can be used to make life hell for their Tamil neighbors.
What a bunch of petty & pathetic bureaucrats.

I see that http://defence.lk also picked up Mr. Luce's article for there web site.

Guess this means Jim Luce's got a green light for his retirement plans in Sri Lanka
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-luce/in-sri-lanka-the-basics-f_b_212286.html

The first legal record of ethnic cleansing of Sri Lankan Tamils:
According to Clause 3 of the Kandyan Convention of 2 March 1815, "... hereby declared enemies to the government and excluded and prohibited from entering those provinces on any pretense whatever, without a written permission for that purpose by the authority of the British Government, under the pains and penalties of martial law, which is hereby declared to be in force for that purpose; and all persons of the Malabar Caste [Tamils] now expelled from the said provinces, are under the same penalties, prohibited from returning, except with the permission before mention" as per the request of the Sinhalese chiefs who signed.

Numinda on "The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities"

Numinda — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:24:00 +0100

I also think MR Rajapakse will do the needful. Please disaminate your views among younger tamils who had never seen the right picture. Thank you again for seeing the picture clearly.

markwalters on "The "new violence" of Mumbai"

markwalters — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:22:34 +0100

In contrast to the socio-economic violence of working classes, this type of violence doesn't like getting it's hands dirty. The basis of this new global terror is
in the sanitization and de-politicization of violence. Mark Walters (Australia)

Md. Saifuddin Khalid on "Digital Bangladesh: virtual dreams, real lives"

Md. Saifuddin Khalid — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:49:45 +0100

As it is nicely noted and quoted above "An elusive project to transform Bangladesh needs an infusion of resources, leadership and village-centred development if it is to be made meaningful"-Digital City will not therefore bring any positive changes. While co-supervising and assisting M.Sc. students of computer science at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), through online studies I revealed that we do not even know how many government domains have already been registered. There are significant amount of sites which hardly have any content, let alone any. What is the point in asking each DC to have their site? What is the point in making all the basic information online, if such services cannot be availed by the target group? The first enthusiastic project that was initiated even before the declaration of AL manifesto, is the e-rajshahi project for a digital city. While 80% of the country is mostly agrarian, as even a child at school might refer, needs the concentration. The economy yet depends on agriculture, we need to give concentration there. Despite all the problems associated with the resource availability (power supply, literacy, tech. support, affordability etc.) I strongly believe that it is the right time to start. We are already at least 50 years behind the first team of the technology-implementation "digital group." With a mere 51% literacy rate, we might begin the journey,but technology reach might not require literary. People learn to count money without going to school or without having any interest in academics; learn to use cell phone, contact number and dial/send SMS without ever being to school!; might one day use an ATM card without being "literate." "Digital Bangladesh" is a dream, which will eventually come true. However, the absence of proper leadership is clear, which might be the root cause of failure of this goal/dream.
Yet! "Dream" always helped us to rebuild this nation. Let's give it a try.

Muskan iqbal on "Digital Bangladesh: virtual dreams, real lives"

Muskan iqbal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:10:19 +0100

we know democracy is important but it is also important to develop ourself.it should be main moto of bangladesh.

Ashraf Ahmed on "Digital Bangladesh: virtual dreams, real lives"

Ashraf Ahmed — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:41:05 +0100

Check out this link :
http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/30/oped.html

A good initiative to identify what is to be done to make "Digital Bangladesh".

syed salamah ali on "Pakistan and the “AfPak” strategy"

syed salamah ali — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:48:09 +0100

This oped piece is older than the events which have taken place during the past two weeks. The die has been cast. Pleasing America and India is an IMPOSSIBLE task. They never stop asking for more. The former is an Empire and India is an Empire in the making. With empires it always, "Our way or the highway" or in the words of the skull-and-bone retarded growth ex-Prez of America, "You are either with ush or againsht us", smirk added! I hope and pray Zardari and Kayani stick to what is in the best interests of Pakistan and not end up becoming 'disposable' like Karazai!

Not logged in on "The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities"

Not logged in — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:49:24 +0100

Simply a bitch

shashi kant pandey on "India: the promise of stability"

shashi kant pandey — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:43:32 +0100

election results 2009 as depicted by Tharoor represents the sympathetic version of the election outcomes favoring the Congress regaining the power at the center. One looks for exploring the complex dynamics of electoral political mobilization locally, regionally and nationally and whether results are (a) popular response to the quest for stability,(b) the response to the fulfillment of popular aspirations in terms of policy initiatives by the Congress in government, (c)failure of non-Congress parties to work out alternative mobilizational plank or foment any viable alternative governing coalition, (d)the popular rejection of the ethno/casteist/ communal and exclusivist class based mobilizational agenda of non-congress parties (e) an uninformed and a desperate preference by a relatively more insecure electorate looking for messiahs to rescue their life world from greater vulnerabilities (f) an outcome of the organization building combined with strategic electoral moves combined with indian electorate heavy reliance on undemocratic politics of Clan (Pariwarvad) completely endorsed by the Congress rank and file. outcomes also await analysis of the social forces which consist of the opposition to the hegemonic political narrative of liberalization and globalization etc and their attitude towards neo-liberal agenda of the Congress. it would be premature to attribute the success of the congress to some narrowed causation and celebrate.
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