10 MILNER BUSINESS COURT, SUITE 210, TORONTO, ONTARIO, M1B 3C6 Tel: 416-321-1100 Fax: 416-321-1107 www. galaw.ca Monsoon Journal A parfait media publication VOL 5 ISSUE 3 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon welcomes more economic Immigrants this year 18 By Siva Sivapragasam Each year, Citizenship and Immigration Canada sets out a ’s Disturbing... Canada is adjusting it's immi- plan for immigration target. The gration policies for 2010 to wel- target for this year is between come more immigrants in the 240,000 - 265,000 new immi- economic category for this year. grants. The country is hoping to The thinking behind this theo- achieve more immigrants in the ry, according to Immigration economic category. To be eligible 21 Minister Jason Kenney, is to put to apply as a federal skilled work- even greater emphasis on eco- er, applicants must have a job Harishnam in Brampton... nomic recovery and further offer, or they must have experi- reduce the federal skilled worker ence in one of the 29 in-demand backlog. As the country recovers occupations. The Immigration from the recession, increasing Minister is also paying attention Parliamentary Secretary to the on Monday, August 9th to discuss economic immigration will ensure to the investor immigrant catego- Minister of Citizenship and recent changes to immigration 26 employers have the workers they ry as Canada needs more Immigration will be the key-note legislation with special emphasis need to supplement labour sup- investor immigrants. speaker at a roundtable discus- on the role of immigration con- Eagle Glen... ply. Meanwhile, Mr. Rick Dykstra, sion to be held in Richmond Hill sultants.

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IImmigrationmmigration SpecialistsSpecialists forfor CanadaCanada andand USAUSA 2 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 3 4 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Monsoon Journal From the Publisher’s Desk ... Printing the Winds of Change around us All lands home, all men kin. September 8 Celebrates International Literacy Day By: Krishni Loganathan tions such as UNICEF and the reason to escape the conditions Quality and Accountability Office) "When one is in the stage of BA (Hons) United Nations to build schools for which he/she face everyday, but the testing, which is the provincial affluence one should eat after children to go to, and to send teach- country will continue to suffer eco- agency that designs these tests. feeding the poor" Almost 4 billion people across ers and resources in order to edu- nomically and creatively once all of Later in grade 6 the EQAO test - Avvaiyar, Peerless poetess of the globe are classified as being lit- cate these children. these educated individuals disap- is done again. In grade 10 the Ancient erate. But what exactly does it Even the grown men and pear. Literacy test is given to students in mean to be literate. The simple women are taught how to read and It is a shame that out of a world order to complete their high school Managing Editor & Publisher answer is the ability to read and write so they too can teach their population of almost 7 trillion peo- certificate. All of these measures are Logan Velumailum write. The United Nations own children these same skills. ple only 4 billion of them are able to taken in order to ensure that the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Teaching children from a very early read and write. Increased interna- students are keeping up with the Editorial & Marketing Consultant Organization (UNESCO) defines lit- age is vital to the country's well tional efforts are needed to reach an standards across the globe and can Siva Sivapragasam eracy as the - being. entire literate population. As impos- achieve a competitive edge with "ability to identify, under- As more children become edu- sible as that sounds, the more steps their international counterparts. Promotion Co-ordinator stand, interpret, create, com- cated this knowledge transfers into taken into reaching this goal, the As school resumes in Senthi Senthivel municate, compute and use the country's advantage. However more likely this goal will seem September, let us celebrate the 4 printed and written materials as poorer conditions continue in achievable. billion people that are literate and Layout Design associated with varying con- these third world countries, these Canada is claimed to have a be thankful that many of us had the Santosh Kumar K.A texts. Literacy involves a con- educated children migrate to other 99% literacy rate, however there opportunity to receive free educa- tinuum of learning in enabling countries where conditions and are many factors to take into con- tion and the opportunity for higher Graphics Consultant individuals to achieve their opportunities are improved. sideration including the various data learning, while the remaining popu- Gnane B. Gnanendran goals, to develop their knowl- Once the child is old enough collection methods that vary from lation were denied and unable to edge and potential, and to par- and capable of leaving the poor each country and self reported data receive either. Marketing & Communication ticipate fully in their communi- country the transfer of knowledge is that also varies into the actual Let us come up with ways to Thusyanthy Indrakumaran ty and wider society." no longer advantageous in their amount of literate people living in help the remaining that are not, and So why isn't the whole global home country resulting in a brain Canada. The educational system help in any way we can. From tutor- Contributing Columnists population literate? It seems simple drain. The main strategy is to keep that Canada has put into place has ing a child, to donating to these Anand. J enough to accomplish, but much of these educated individuals in the created children to become excel- international organizations, or even Abizar Badani the illiterate population comes from country, in order to revitalize the lent performers. donating new or used books to the Arun Senathirajah the third world countries, which are country into a stable and secure In Ontario specifically testing is less fortunate. It doesn't matter Ayktah Grover unable to afford to learn how to place where people desire to done as early as Grade 3 to test the what your role is, we can all help in Devadas Chelvam read and write. Strong efforts are remain. child's reading, writing and mathe- some small way. Dr. Fonseka made from international organiza- Although the child has every matic skills in the EQAO (Education Prof. Ghai, Saran Harish . G K.T. Kumaran Krishni. L Kumar Punithavel US Government Support Creates Mithura Anandarajah Nate. V Parthipan Kugadason (PK) 10,000 jobs in Northern Sri Lanka Raymond Rajabalan The U.S. Agency for English skills development train- Rudy Ruthran International Development ing centers in each of the five dis- Shiyam. L (USAID)/Colombo, the develop- tricts in the Northern Province.. Sri Krishnan. S ment office of the U.S. Embassy, Courses in Business Process Subramaniam Kanthaswamy has recently forged four new busi- Outsourcing, Enterprise Java, and Circulation Co-ordinator ness alliances with Sri Lankan pri- English Language Skills will be S.S. Mathavan vate companies, under USAID's offered at no charge to over 3,000 Killy Sivarajah Public/Private Alliance (PPA) under- and unemployed students Program. These partnerships are who will then participate in on- Disclaimer: expected to create 10,000 full- the-job training schemes with pri- Opinions and Interpretations appearing in the newspaper are time jobs in northern Sri Lanka. vate firms. those of the writers and need Construction Alliance Northern Garment Alliance not be necessarily of An alliance between USAID USAID is establishing another Monsoon Journal and a Sri Lankan construction PPA with a major garment manu- consortium will establish seven facturer to expand its operations To place community and non profit organization news mobile training centers for con- to northern Sri Lanka. This submit by email to: struction craftsmen in the alliance is expected to initially [email protected] Northern Province. Training will be employ 750 full-time staff and Tel: 416-358-3235 provided to 5,000 persons over a market its finished apparel to period of six months including such firms as Tommy Hilfiger, Polo ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: No contents three months of on-the-job train- Ralph Lauren, Columbia in Monsoon Journal may be printed without the written consent of the ing. Sportswear, Next, Tesco, and Publisher. Jaffna Garment Alliance Burberry. Emphasis will be placed The views and opinions expressed in USAID has established anoth- on supporting widows, single the articles in Monsoon Journal are er PPA with a leading garment mothers, and families with dis- In April, USAID launched five total investment of approximately those of the authors and do not nec- textile firm in Jaffna which manu- abled members. new alliances in Northern and Rs.4 billion in the construction, essarily reflect those of the Publisher. Eastern Sri Lanka, including aqua- business process outsourcing, and While all efforts have been made to factures and exports denim tex- USAID Mission Director ensure accuracy Monsoon Journal is tiles to U.S. clients including Rebecca Cohn said, "The U.S. culture, horticulture, logistics, and apparel manufacturing sectors. not responsible for any errors or Levi's, Jones , J.C. Agency for International garment partnerships. I am confi- omissions in the contents. Advertisers Penny, Tema, and Charles Development/Sri Lanka is proud dent these new alliances together (The American people, are responsible for the contents in Voegele. This alliance will create to announce these new public pri- with the previously established through the U.S. Agency for the Advertisements and all liabilities 1,800 full-time jobs over three vate alliances. We are committed alliances will be significant cata- International Development, for their claimers. years. to helping conflict-affected com- lysts to spur development in the have provided development Monsoon Journal Business Process munities return to normalcy North." and humanitarian assistance These four alliances are all in developing countries Circulation Outsourcing (BPO) Alliance through the creation of sustain- To help fill workforce gaps in able jobs and increased business with Sri Lankan private compa- worldwide for nearly 50 Toronto(GTA), Scarborough, BPO and IT, USAID is teaming opportunities. USAID strongly nies. USAID's investment of about years. Since 1956, USAID/Sri Markham, Mississauga, Brampton, with leading BPO and IT/English believes that the private sector is Rs.1.1 billion is generating an Lanka has invested nearly Pickering, Ajax, Vaughan, Waterloo. language training companies to the most important engine for additional Rs.2.9 billion invest- Rs.230 billion to benefit all “Source for Multi Ethnic Exposure” establish professional IT and economic growth. ment from the private sector for a the people of Sri Lanka). Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Canada Newsline 5 MAKE PARLIAMENT WORK TO AVOID UNNECESSARY ELECTION: PRIME MINISTER

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Strahl succeeds Mr. Baird as Stephen Harper says making Minister of Transport, Infrastru- noted that "John Duncan's solid Parliament work is essential if cture and Communities. work as Parliamentary Secretary Canada is to avoid an unneces- · The Honourable John to the Minister of Indian Affairs sary election that would jeopard- Duncan, of British Columbia, and Northern Development ize our economic recovery. enters the Cabinet by succeeding makes him a natural choice for "The economy remains the Mr. Strahl as Minister of Indian this important role, allowing him number one priority of Canadians Affairs and Northern Develop- to continue to build on the impor- and of our Government," said the ment, Federal Interlocutor for tant work that Chuck Strahl and Prime Minister. "An unnecessary Métis and Non-Status Indians and our Government have done in this election is the last thing that Minister of the Canadian Northern area." Canadians need, that the econo- Economic Development Agency. The Prime Minister paid trib- my needs, at this time." "Minister Strahl will take on ute to the former Government To advance the objective of his new responsibilities with the House Leader, the Honourable Jay making Parliament work, the "Canadians need Parliament secured passage of the landmark same dedication and hard work Hill. Earlier this summer Mr. Hill Prime Minister today announced to work so that Canada's Federal Accountability Act, served that he's shown in his previous announced that he will not stand the appointment of one of his Economic Action Plan is not inter- as Minister of the Environment, portfolios," said the Prime as a candidate at the next gener- most experienced, senior rupted," said the Prime Minister. and most recently, oversaw the Minister. His immediate priority is al election following 17 years of Ministers to the position of Leader "We want to do our part and to implementation of infrastructure the ongoing implementation of elected service to his constituents of the Government in the House work cooperatively with all oppo- stimulus, a vital part of Canada's the infrastructure stimulus com- and Canadians. of Commons. The Honourable sition parties to put the economy Economic Action Plan. ponent of Canada's Economic Mr. Baird was recently named John Baird has a mandate to work first." Others changes made as part Action Plan. "Parliamentarian of the Year," an cooperatively with the other par- This crucial role is the latest of of today's fine-tuning of the In announcing the appoint- award decided by votes of MPs ties and make Parliament func- many in which Minister Baird has Cabinet are as follows: ment of the newest member of and Senators from all parties. tion. served with distinction. He · The Honourable Chuck his Cabinet, the Prime Minister Ontario Offers Aid to Pakistan Flooding Victims Pickering Town McGuinty Government Makes "The bonds between Pakistan After causing huge destruction Donation To Red Cross And Red and Ontario are strong. in the northwest, floodwaters Crescent Particularly in this time of tragedy, have moved southward and sub- Centre The McGuinty government I join not only with Ontario's merged villages and some urban "Monsoon Journal" is now available at the announced on Friday, Aug 6th Pakistani community but with all centres in Punjab and Sindh Pickering Town Centre at the following store: that it is donating $200,000 to the Ontarians in sending our thoughts province. Red Cross and Red Crescent and prayers to the people of Authorities are using approxi- Smokers Corner Societies to aid victims of the Pakistan. I know this donation will mately 30 boats to help the evac- Large selection of Phone Cards (Sri Lankan & flooding in Pakistan. help provide care to the victims of uation of 500,000 people living The United Nations reports the floods and help ensure their along the river banks and have Indian at Low Rates, Also that this is Pakistan's worst flood- basic needs are met." set up 400 relief camps. Specializing in Magazines, Newspapers, ing in nearly a century. It has now - Dr. Eric Hoskins Premier Dalton McGuinty visit- Cigars, Pipes, Tobacco affected more than four million Minister of Citizenship and ed Punjab province during a 2007 people and left at least 1,600 Immigration trade mission to and Phone: 905 839 1322 dead. QUICK FACTS Pakistan. Keeping Young Drivers Safe McGuinty Government Reminds Drivers of New Rules Ontario's new zero blood alco- Penalties include: hol level for drivers 21 years of 30-day licence suspension for age and under comes into effect the first instance effective August 1st. 90-day licence suspension for On August 1st, novice drivers the second instance of any age and all drivers 21 and Further instances can lead to under must have zero blood alco- a cancellation of the licence and hol level when driving: other penalties. An immediate 24-hour licence These changes are part of the suspension Road Safety Act 2009 and will A further 30-day licence sus- keep drivers safe on Ontario pension on conviction roads. Up to $500 in fines "Young drivers between the Novice drivers in the ages of 19 and 21 are most at risk almost one-and-a-half times as Graduated Licensing System are and we are doing what we can to likely to be involved in drinking already required to maintain a keep them safe." and driving fatal and injury crash- zero blood alcohol level while - Kathleen Wynne es. driving. These drivers will face Minister of Transportation In Ontario, 235 drivers age 21 tougher penalties if they violate QUICK FACTS and under were killed in drinking the conditions of their license or if The peak ages of drinking and and driving collisions in the latest they are convicted of any driving collisions are 19, 20 and 10-year period for which statistics Highway Traffic Act offences that 21. are available. carry four or more demerit points. Drivers aged 19 to 21 are 6 Monsoon Newsline AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Rights of on boat need to be respected

abuses have a right to an individ- and other critics. Sri Lankans sus- ual hearing on the reasons why pected, even if wrongly, of being they fled - a right recently reaf- LTTE supporters have been rou- firmed by Parliament. In respect- tinely imprisoned and tortured," The Canadian Council for ing this right we take a stand said Alex Neve, Secretary Refugees, Amnesty International against the persecutors and the General, Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Tamil human rights violators." Canada. Congress in a press release on In recently published guide- "It is disturbing to hear some July 28th has called on Canadians lines on Sri Lankan refugee public comments that seem to fol- to be mindful of the need to hon- claims, the UN Refugee Agency low this lead by labelling Tamil our international human rights notes that groups potentially at asylum seekers as "terrorists" obligations, in responding to the risk of persecution in Sri Lanka before they have even had a Tamils believed to be on board a include journalists, human rights chance to tell their story. Wanda Yamamoto boat approaching North America. activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual Canadian and international law "Over the years Canada has and transgender (LGBT) individu- requires that refugees have rity, including of course any LTTE Congress. "We can only imagine saved the lives of thousands of als and persons suspected of hav- access to individual and unbiased members who fit these cate- that the people on board must Tamils fleeing persecution, by ing links with the LTTE (Tamil determination of their claim to gories. Such persons are ineligible have been very desperate to providing access to a fair and Tigers). need protection." for refugee status and may be undertake such a dangerous voy- independent refugee system," "Amnesty International has Canadian law also provides for removed from Canada. age. We hope that our fellow said Wanda Yamamoto, CCR extensively documented the use the identification of individuals "Taking to the seas in a boat Canadians will listen sympatheti- President. "Whether they arrive by the Sri Lankan government of who have committed serious like this is very risky," said David cally to their stories and will sup- by plane, foot or boat, people anti-terrorism laws to silence human rights violations or who Poopalapillai, National port the government's fair appli- seeking refuge from human rights human rights activists, journalists, represent a risk to Canadian secu- Spokesperson, Canadian Tamil cation of the law." Tamil American Peace Initiative Responds to Sec. Blake's Trip to Sri Lanka The Tamil American Peace emphasized its lack of investiga- tigations; the EU has rescinded the Sri Lankan Government has into war crimes," said. Dr. Initiative (TAPI) commends US tory jurisdiction. Additionally, he Sri Lanka's trade preferences made clear that this new commis- Arulanantham. "Reconciliation is Assistant Secretary of State for claimed that the panel was because of human rights abuses; sion will not investigate war difficult without a full airing of the South and Central Asian Affairs formed only to support the Sri Japan has pledged full support for crimes, and its proceedings will truth. Stability, peace and recon- Robert Blake for urging the Sri Lankan Government's Lessons the UN panel; and the US not be public. ciliation depend on it." Lankan government to make Learnt and Reconciliation Ambassador to the UN Susan TAPI is appreciative of About TAPI: greater efforts towards reconcilia- Commission - an assertion that Rice, has expressed approval for Secretary Blake's continued The Tamil American Peace tion and democracy during his could undercut the United investigations." engagement with Sri Lanka. Yet Initiative was formed by a group recent trip to Sri Lanka. 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2620 Eglinton Ave East, Suite 201 Scarborough, ON. M1K 2S3 Tel: 416.266.6154, Fax: 416.266.4677 + Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Canada Newsline 7 Prime Minister Stephen Harper AUGUST 9TH FORUM ON TAMIL ASYLUM issued the following statement to mark National Peacekeepers' Day SEEKERS OF CARGO SHIP MV SUN SEA on Sunday, August 8th. As reports of another boat ments made by the same sources tions, and politicians on the "Canadian families enjoy a containing Tamil refugees spread, with regards to the 76 Tamil asy- Canadian response to these freedom, stability and security so does the hysteria around their lum seekers who arrived on the refugees. We will also have on envied throughout the world. Yet admissibility, and the means by Ocean Lady in October 2009 were hand asylum seekers from the with that freedom comes respon- maintain what is often a fragile which they arrive in Canada. investigated by Canadian authori- Ocean Lady who arrived in sibility and Canada has consis- peace. Sparked by Sri Lankan govern- ties, and no evidence found to October 2009 and members of tently answered the call to help "Danger comes with the terri- ment sources, and its intelligence that effect. the community who themselves those in countries where conflict tory and today we also pay special apparatus, these innuendos effec- The Canadian government were refugees. tribute to the over 200 Canadians tively seek to discredit the would response to the arrival of the DATE: Monday, August 9th, 2010 STATEMENT BY THE be refugees of their rights to a fair Ocean Lady in October 2009 TIME: 6 pm to 9 pm hearing, before they arrive offers some insight as to how it LOCATION: Hart House - ashore. This time around, there is may respond to this migrant ship: Music Room, University of PRIME MINISTER OF increasing pressure from Sri following due process, assessing Toronto, Lankan sources to intercept the each case individually, accepting 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON CANADA ship. valid cases and rejecting anyone For media inquiries, please threatens stability and peace. who have made the ultimate sac- As an example, such sources who is seen as a threat to contact: Today, we pay special tribute to rifice on peacekeeping missions have suggested that our govern- Canadian security. David Poopalapillai, david@ those Canadians who have served over the past 62 years. ment send it's military to "thwart The canadiantamil congress. ca or as peacekeepers. "The nature of peacekeeping threats to Canada", with the is organizing an urgent forum to Manjula Selvarajah, manju "For over 60 years, Canada continues to change and increas- implication that the boatload of directly address this issue and dis- las@canadianta milcongress. ca. has sent members of the ingly requires robust and multi- refugees are a threat to Canada cuss Canada's role in protecting For general inquiries, please Canadian Forces, civilians and faceted capabilities. However, we with little regard for the validity of refugees. In particular, we will reach the Canadian Tamil police officers to act as peace- can be sure that Canadian peace- individual cases. Similar state- hear from Canadian organiza- Congress at 416.240.0078. keepers in some of the world's keepers will continue working to most volatile conflict zones, make the world a better place by including the , the promoting freedom, human Canadians Respond to Flood Crisis in Pakistan Balkans, Africa and Haiti, to name rights, and the rule of law. TORONTO - Beginning of Toronto. "It is very encouraging cation tablets which will accompa- a few. "On National Peacekeeper's August, members of the Canadian to see members of the Canadian ny members of the GlobalMedic Today, these brave Canadians Day, I am proud to recognize the Pakistani community helped Pakistani community so deeply Rapid Response Team to the continue to put their lives at risk ongoing work of Canadian peace- GlobalMedic's Rapid Response involved in helping those who affected area in Pakistan. on a daily basis as they work in keepers as they promote these Team volunteers load emergency have lost everything." "This is a humanitarian crisis." challenging circumstances to noble objectives." aid equipment bound for the vic- GlobalMedic provides emer- said Toronto entrepreneur Aftab tims of the devastating floods in gency relief to those affected by Rizvi. "GlobalMedic is doing a Prime Minister Stephen Harper northwestern Pakistan. natural disasters and complex wonderful job. Those affected by "Once again, Canadians and emergencies and empower the this disaster are in desperate meets singer Michael Bublé at GlobalMedic are answering the emergency response capacity of need of these supplies." call to help people who are suffer- organizations and communities in Scotiabank Place. ing in another part of the world. the developing world by providing "This is the first step to help This is what Canadians do." said technological equipment and the victims of the flood." said Mr. Karygiannis. "It is an embar- training. GlobalMedic strives to Andy Merchant, President of the rassment that the Harper govern- deliver the maximum amount of Canada-Pakistan Business ment sits on its hands and only aid with the minimum operating Council. "Those who have lost offers condolences." cost. GlobalMedic has recently their loved ones, their homes and The floods, a result of the tor- responded to disasters in Haiti, their livelihoods will need help to rential rains which began on July Chile, Indonesia, Somalia, China re-establish their lives." 22, 2010, have washed out roads, and Pakistan. "Our prayers are with those destroyed homes and businesses; "In light of the worst flooding who have lost so much in these killed an over 1,400 hundred peo- in Pakistan on record, GlobalMedic floods." said Samir Dossal, ple; and affected over 3.2 million is responding to the crisis by Director of the Canada-Pakistan people, 1.4 million of whom are deploying water purification Business Council. "The magni- children. The monsoon season in assets and oral rehydration tude of this disaster is still Pakistan has only just begun and sachets to the most affected unknown. It will take the support more rain is predicted in the com- areas." said Heather McCarten, of the Diaspora and the interna- ing days. Logistics Officer for Global Medic. tional community to assist those "Pakistan faces a huge "We are dedicated to providing who are suffering." humanitarian challenge. We look assistance to victims of this disas- GlobalMedic expects to deploy to the international community for ter." the Rapid Response Team and Ontario plan, which supports job ference." assistance in this time of need." Volunteers assisted the equipment soon. creation and enhances the pro- - Perry Davidson said Consul Imran Ali of the GlobalMedic crate mobile water grams and services, including Executive Director Pakistan Consulate General in purification units and water purifi- education, health care and skills of Furniture Bank training, that Ontarians value. QUICK FACTS Putting More Money In Families' Hands "These Sales Tax Credit pay- Ontario is providing a total of McGuinty Government is in addition to the existing feder- on the first personal income tax ments are designed to put more $11.8 billion over three years in Begins Ontario Sales Tax al GST credit. bracket, benefiting 93 per cent of money back into the pockets of direct payments and permanent Credit Payments Ontario has modernized an income tax payers as of January Ontario families as part of our personal tax relief to help About 3.1 million Ontario fam- outdated, 50-year-old tax system. 1, 2010. comprehensive tax plan. But the Ontarians adjust to the HST. ilies and individuals will soon ben- Ontario's tax plan includes perma- Ontario Sales Tax Transition most important benefit will be a Ontario now has the lowest efit from Ontario Sales Tax Credit nent income tax cuts for families Benefit payments, providing up to stronger economy and more income tax rate of all provinces on payments. and businesses, the new perma- $1,000 to most families or up to jobs." the first $37,106 of taxable Starting from early August, nent Ontario Sales Tax Credit and $300 for most single people. - John Wilkinson income. eligible low- to middle-income the implementation of the About 83 per cent of con- Minister of Revenue A study by taxation expert Ontarians will receive the first of Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). sumer spending will see no "We are very pleased to be Jack Mintz estimated that quarterly payments that will pro- The tax plan also benefits change in tax as a result of the providing help to those who need Ontario's tax plan, together with vide them with up to $260 annu- Ontarians by providing: HST. This tax package is a key it the most. For those who use our other recent tax changes, will help ally for each adult and child. This A permanent income tax cut component of the five-year Open services the Ontario Sales Tax create almost 600,000 net new Credit will make a noticeable dif- jobs over the next decade. 8 Monsoon Health AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Dizziness Following Injury to the Head *Adapted with permission from Multi-Health Systems & Dr. J. Douglas Salmon, Jr. from Rehabilitation Education and Coping Pamphlet Series By: Dr. J. Douglas Salmon, Jr.

Dizziness is a common symp- tom following injury to the head, and after many other injuries and illnesses (including neck and back injury). Some people describe dizziness as a feeling of imbal- ance, lightheadedness, drunken- ness, blurriness or as a turning sensation. Dizziness can last sec- onds to hours. Some people also describe these bouts as "a funny feeling", or like "going crazy." For many people the feeling of dizzi- ness can be so hard to control that it may cause difficulties when they try to climb, bend, or move around. This can cause a lot of frustration, anxiety, worry, fear or depression. There are several reasons why you may feel dizzy. Examination by an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist may help you to find out whether your dizziness is caused by damage to the inner/middle ear, the connections between the ear and the brain, or by other causes (e.g., over- breathing, changes in blood pres- sure, being out of shape). Very rarely is damage to the brain the cause of dizziness following mild head injury, but this is a possible cause, especially if a more serious injury occurs. If the ENT specialist is unable to find the particular cause for your dizziness, then it is possible that the dizziness is related to up with them. Instead, a combi- skipping, hopping from one foot the walls may be used for support " Practice deep relaxation bruising of muscles and soft tis- nation of physical activity, balance to the other, using a mini- tram- when needed. exercises (20-30 minutes per day) sue on the back of the head and exercises, and relaxation exercis- poline, or balancing on a slightly " Carefully stretch and exer- so that you will be prepared to neck. These muscles help to es are often used to overcome raised platform. Be sure to cise your neck and shoulders and use these techniques during a quickly turn the head, balance the these symptoms. The following remove any sharp or hard objects "roll" your head around to reduce dizzy spell head on the body, and help us to are suggestions of things you around you when doing any exer- stress in the area and to produce Remain as active as possible keep the body from falling over might do when you have a spell of cise where you may fall over. small dizzy spells which you can to help reduce the dizzy spells when we are leaning or looking in dizziness, and things you can do Standing in the corner of a room practice getting over. Eventually, and learn to cope with them more a certain direction. Therefore, to cope with and reduce dizziness while balancing on one leg at a dizzy reactions often will diminish quickly. when these muscles are bruised, over time. You should apply these time may help prevent injury as or disappear. the person's "sense of balance" techniques only after consultation and "view of the world" may be with your family physician and/or affected, creating imbalance, con- dizziness (ENT) specialist fusion, or a sense that things seem "fuzzy". The individual also What To Do When You may have trouble judging dis- Have a Spell of Dizziness tances or speeds with his or her 1. Try to sit down and rest eyes, which may feel like a type of for a little while. dizziness. 2. Use a relaxation tech- None of the typical causes of nique, e.g., controlled breathing, dizziness following injury are like- thinking about a relaxing image, ly to worsen over time, nor are or self- reassuring statement like they dangerous or life threatening "I'll be O.K., it'll be over soon" in and of themselves. Although a etc., to allow yourself to fully relax person with dizziness may want and regain control. to rest so that he or she can avoid 3. Get up slowly when you triggering a dizzy spell, in fact, are ready, then go on with your unless the dizziness is caused by activities. anxiety or "over-breathing" Things You Can Do To (hyperventilation), rest or inactiv- Relieve Dizziness Over Time ity will usually either worsen the " Practice various balance symptoms or increase the length exercises such as: walking "heel of time that the person has to put to toe", balancing on one foot, Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Newsline 9 Sri Lanka's Premier Tamil Daily "Virakesari" - Celebrating 80 Years of Publication… Siva Sivapragasam portrayed as the voice of the thinking of a Cabinet Minister dur- into the minds of the readers and Tamils in Sri Lanka. Tamils all over ing the Srimavo Bandaranaike thereby created a sense of feeling Sri Lanka's premier and Sri Lanka considered the regime. The then Managing among it's thousands of readers largest circulated Tamil newspa- "Virakesari" as an independent, Director Late Krishnamurthi and that the paper can always be per "Virakesari" celebrates it's non-biased publication reflecting the Advertising Manager depended for truth and it was the eightieth year of publication this the thoughts and aspirations of Sivapragasam withstood the chal- newspaper of the Tamil communi- month. the entire Tamil community in Sri lenge for months and eventually ty. The newspaper began it's Lanka. the Government came back to the Today, "Virakesari" has spread publication in August 1930 as a It was therefore no surprise "Virakesari" requesting them to it's wings with about 12 publica- result of a request from Mahatma that the newspaper has the high- continue with the Government tions to it's credit and has made Gandhi when he visited Sri Lanka est circulation in Colombo, Jaffna, advertisements, obviously use of the modern information and wished that a newspaper in Batticaloa and the upcountry. because Advertisements in other technology to the maximum to go Tamil should be published to voice Although the newspaper had it's publications did not give them the online with an epaper, video-con- the opinions of the Tamils of ups and downs throughout it's desired results. tent, music juke-box and updated

Indian origin. The " Virakesari" long-history, "Virakesari" never The success of the news as events take place. They Mr. Kumar Nadesan - Managing which was founded by succumbed to pressure or intimi- "Virakesari" can be attributed to have also opened many Branches Director of Express Newspapers Peri.Subramaniam Chettiyar ini- dation from those in power. The the voicing of the opinions of the in important towns. Much of this Ltd., Publishers of "Virakesari" tially began as a voice of the writer vividly recalls an incident community fearlessly and report- credit should go to the vibrancy of modern techniques of information Indian Tamils gradually found when Government advertise- ing news without twists and the present Managing Director technology to the maximum and favour with the Tamils in other ments were suspended for the turns. The independence and Mr.Kumar Nadesan who with the taking "Virakesari" to higher areas of Sri Lanka and came to be "Virakesari" due to the puerile veracity of the content went deep help of the staff is utilizing the heights. K.M.Mathew, Doyen of independent UN-established panel looking into war crimes dur- Indian Journalism & Chief ing the 2009 conflict, through to Remember the Tamils being held in camps and Editor of "Malayalam continued restrictions on media Victims of and activists in the country, the Manorama" passes away current situation and outlook is Press Release by Canadian events of Black July, thousands of troubling". Media Doyen and a Chief Tamil Congress fortunate Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka Recently, UN Secretary- Editor of "Malayalam Manorama'', On July 23, 2010, Tamil were welcomed by compassionate General Ban Ki-Moon's decision to one of India's largest circulated Canadians marked the 27th Canadians and the Government of probe into alleged war crimes was Newspapers passed away recent- anniversary of Black July, a dark Canada, providing them with safe met with unruly protests in Sri ly at the ripe age of 93. period in the history of Tamils, in refuge in their time of need. Over Lanka organized and led by a Sri Indian Prime Minister remembrance of the victims. the years, in part to thank Lankan Cabinet minister; these Manmohan Singh & Sonia Gandhi, Black July references the July Canada, Tamil Canadians have unsafe working conditions President of the Congress Party 1983 riots in which Sri Lankan established successful businesses, prompted Moon to recall UN's called on the bereaved family and anti-Tamil pogroms claimed thou- donated their time and money to envoy to Sri Lanka. Furthermore, conveyed their condolences. sands of lives, as mobs, with vot- several worthy causes and con- the Sri Lankan government plans ing lists and weapons in hand, tributed in many other valuable A graduate in Economics from about 50 publications to it's cred- to setup permanent garrisons in identified, disgraced and killed ways. As an example, in 2009, the Christian College, Madras, it and he proved that a regional northern Sri Lanka, where the Tamils while state authorities Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) Mathew joined the "Malayalam newspaper can cross the million Tamil majority reside, while near- stood by. Surviving Tamils of the and the Canadian Tamil Manorama"as Managing Editor mark in circulation. ly 60,000 IDPs have been in pogroms also lost their livelihoods Community, through their giving, and General Manager in Mathew was also a former camps for over a year. as their homes and businesses became the the largest communi- 1954.Under his stewardship Chairman of the Press Trust of Commemoration events were burned and looted. ty blood donation group across included a documentary at "Malayalam Manorama" emerged India and the recipient of the "I look at my family, my life Canada. Scarborough Civic Centre by three as one of the foremost and largest prestigious Padma Bhushan now, and am especially grateful to "While 27 years have passed young Toronto directors on the circulated newspapers in India. Award and a host of other hon- Canada for welcoming us here." since the pogroms of Back July, wounds left behind on six Tamil Despite the popularity of the ours. His wife who predeceased says Raj Thavaratnasingham, a Tamil Canadians remain seriously Canadians, a play from the paper, Mathew was a simple per- him was also an author of twen- Tamil Canadian Black July sur- concerned about the situation in Asylum Theatre group illustrating son who always maintained a low ty books. profile. The media group has vivor, "We were looking for peace Sri Lanka.", says David the parallels between the haunt- and safety, to build our lives back Poopalapillai, National ing survivor experiences of Black HNB recognized as the 'Best Bank again, and Canada opened its Spokesperson for the Canadian July to recent events in Sri Lanka, arms." Tamil Congress. "From the Sri and archived photographs and in Sri Lanka' by Euromoney Following the disheartening Lankan government restricting an articles on Black July. Hatton National Bank (HNB) earnings of Rs. 5.9 billion ($52 focus on enhancing shareholder All the awards have one cen- was recognized as the "Best Bank million) for the full year 2009, up value are the cornerstones of our tral theme - they recognise insti- in Sri Lanka" by the international 24% year on year, on income of great achievement". tutions and individuals that Euromoney finance magazine for Rs. 39.4 billion. Since 1992 Euromoney, the demonstrate leadership, innova- the second consecutive time at Commenting on the accolade world's leading financial markets tion, and momentum in the mar- the Euromoney Awards for Mr. Rajendra Theagarajah magazine, has singled out the kets in which they excel. Excellence 2010 Dinner held last Managing Director/CEO of HNB outstanding institutions in At the recently concluded week in London. stated that "it is truly an honour finance. awards ceremony Credit Suisse Recognizing HNB as the Best to be adjudged the Best Bank in Over the years, the Awards for was adjudged the best global Bank in Sri Lanka, Euromoney Sri Lanka by the prestigious Excellence have evolved with the bank while Deutsche Bank was stated that crucial to Sri Lanka's Mr Rajendra Theagarajah, Euromoney finance magazine for markets they cover. They now awarded as the best global invest- Managing Director/CEO, HNB the second consecutive time. Our incorporate 25 global awards for ment bank. Vikram Pandit, the economic future is a solid banking receiving the award. system, and no lender has proved strong commitment towards banking and capital markets; and Chief Executive Officer of itself more capable over the past the privately run Colombo-based delivering an unparalleled service awards for the best banks and Citigroup was recognized as the year than Hatton National Bank. lender, which recently celebrated to the customers, consistent securities houses in almost 100 Euromoney's first banker of the Euromoney further stated that its 120th birthday, posted pre-tax growth recorded and continuous countries around the world. year. 10 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal

MORTGAGE SPECIALISTS Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 11 12 Monsoon Events AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Lakshini Kanthagnany' s Music Arangetram

coming carnatic musicians in was well received by the audience Kadam and Moorsingh. The per- recital and did well in rendering Canada for their interest, talent for her presentation of the differ- formance was further heightened them at her performance. and training in Carnatic Music, ent hymns and songs accompany- by her rendering of the traditional Selvi Lakshini is a student of Popular Indian Carnatic music when he addressed the audience ing to the different Ragas and Lalgudi Jayaraman's Thillana. the well-known Carnatic Musician maestro and Chennai Sivan Fine recently at the Music Arangetram Thaaalams. Her performance was Lakshini has selected some popu- Parasakthi Vinayagadevarajah. Academy Arts Music Director of Selvi Lakshini Kanthagnani held further enhanced by the melodi- lar melodies of Saint Tyagaraja Seen here are some pictures Paapanaasa Sivam Ashok Ramani at the Armenian Centre. ous accompaniment of those who Swamigal, Paapanasa Sivam and taken at the Arangetram… paid a glowing tribute to the up- Lakshini's music Arangetram played the Violin, Kancheera, Suthaananda Bharathiyar for her Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 13

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Guest presenter Mr. Vince President Ken Kirupa, Vice President Sritharan Bonavota from TD Canada Shamala Kumar, Small Business Adviser answering to Thurairajah and Former President Chamber President Ken Trust is making his questions from the audience as Guest presenter from TD Kana Gnanachandran Kirupa addressing presentation standing next to her

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Lakshmi Vijanderan, who is of San Ramon, California. Lakshmi is the daughter of Sri Lankan origin and presently a Lakshmi is a disciple of Smt. Vijay Vijanderan and Anandhi resident in California held her Jayanthi Sridharan who is the Vijanderan of California. Vijay and Bharathanatya Arangetram which Artistic Director of the Anandhi were originally in Sri is a solo classical Dance debut, in Bharathakala Kutiram. The guests Lanka, moved over to Hong Kong California recently. Lakshmi's per- who attended the performance and later migrated to U.S. formance was held on at the San were entertained to dinner after Seen here are some pictures Ramon Performing Arts Theatre in the Arangetram. of the Arangetram. 16 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Newsline 17 CPIM favours all-party MPs Amnesty says Sri delegation to Sri Lanka Lanka emergency Tamil Nadu unit of CPI (M) on Only an elected member can Aug 5th favoured an all-party MPs understand the aspirations of the delegation to visit Sri Lanka for people better,'' Rangarajan said. assessing the progress of rehabil- Prime Minster Manmohan Singh, rule must end itation of internally displaced at the insistence of Tamil Nadu by IRIN News However, Rajiva Wijesinha, a Tamils, saying elected members Chief Minister M karunanidhi, had NEW YORK, 4 August 2010 member of parliament, defended could understand the people's anounced that a senior official of (IRIN) - The decades-long civil the state of emergency, saying aspirations better. the Ministry of External Affairs war in Sri Lanka ended more than the government had maintained CPI-M was not against the would be deputed to the island a year ago, but emergency pow- such measures since its defeat of Centre's decision to send a special nation to assess the progress of ers are still in place, sending the the Tigers in May 2009 because of envoy but was of the view that restoration of normal life in the wrong message, Amnesty the concern that former cadres only an elected member could Tamil dominated northern and International says. might "reactivate" with support understand the aspirations of the eastern parts of the country after "With the Sri Lankan military's from abroad. people better, state unit secretary the end of the war against LTTE. defeat of the LTTE [Liberation Wijesinha said that while G Ramakrishnan and Rajya Sabha Ramakrishnan said that India Tigers of Tamil ] as a mili- Amnesty's accusations were member T K Rangarajan told should also use its diplomatic ties tary force there were high hopes unwarranted, he recognized room reporters in Chennai. with Colombo to ensure that the and every reason to expect a for improvement. "We are aware ''There is a difference in the Tamils still lodged in camps were loosening of some of the highly that torture and other violations approach (towards the issue) resettled in their places of origin restrictive laws and abusive prac- do occur, which is why we are try- between an officer and an MP. at the earliest. tices that had characterized life in ing to improve training for the Sri Lanka for the past years," Sam police, as was done consistently Zarifi, Asia-Pacific director for with the army." according to government figures. Upcoming Events: Amnesty International, told IRIN Expectations for reconciliation Both sides are accused of human by email from London. and rehabilitation are strong since rights abuses. Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon - Join Team "Match "Unfortunately that has yet to fighting ended. Muki" - Sunday, September 26th, 2010 materialize. The Sri Lankan government A three-member panel set up 14th Annual Possible Dream Gala, April 10th, 2011 - "Continued reliance [on emer- has set up a truth and reconcilia- by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- Riviera Parque gency regulations] when there is tion commission to investigate moon to look into human rights 4th International Come To Your Senses Conference, no longer evidence of an emer- events in the final years of the accountability issues during the October 19th - 23rd 2011 gency... sends a message to Sri civil war, from February 2002 to final stages of the civil war should Lankan citizens that the state May 2009. Tens of thousands of begin work in August, amid criti- Finding Human Treasures Beyond Disabilities does not respect the rule of law," people are estimated to have died cism from the government. ...since 1979. Zarifi said. since the conflict began in 1983, Million dollar advice from #1 Advisor

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Withdraw wartime emer- say that meaningful progress on human rights defenders. gency legislation and make a pub- reconciliation in Sri Lanka is still * Ongoing detention of an lic commitment to uphold the desperately needed. They estimated 8,000 suspected ex- human rights of all citizens of Sri describe the international combatants without charge or Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu Martti Ahtisaari Lanka, including minorities. response to Sri Lanka's worrying access to legal representation, 2. Allow immediate ICRC approach to human rights, good their families or independent access to the estimated 8,000 governance and accountability as monitors. people detained on suspicion of a 'deafening global silence' that * The government's failure to being ex-combatants. may encourage other states to act withdraw wartime emergency 3. Co-operate with the UN in a similar way. laws more than a year after the Secretary-General's panel of The Elders have been follow- end of the conflict with the LTTE. experts on accountability, includ- ing events in Sri Lanka closely * Lack of action by the gov- ing granting visas if requested. since the last months of the civil ernment to address the political 4. Ensure that any prosecu- war between government forces marginalisation of ethnic minori- tions are based on evidence and and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil ties that was at the root of Sri Lakhdar Brahimi Mary Robinson not political expediency; cease Lanka's thirty years of war. political interference in the work Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. They have say the weak international reac- World in their common stand * Unacceptable behaviour of the judiciary. contacted the government of Sri tion to Sri Lanka's actions may against colonial domination, vio- towards the United Nations - 5. Allow domestic and interna- Lanka and officials around the erode respect for the rule of law lent repression and denial of including a siege by demonstra- tional NGOs and media to carry world to express their concerns and human rights worldwide. human rights. All those friends of out their work in Sri Lanka with- about alleged violations of inter- tors of UN offices in Colombo, led Kofi Annan, former UN Sri Lanka are duty-bound today to out harassment, intimidation or national humanitarian law and the by a Cabinet Minister - following Secretary-General said: help this country consolidate the UN Secretary-General's undue restrictions. need for actions that promote "There has been a deafening peace and ensure that the causes appointment of a panel of experts 6. Begin a meaningful process sustainable peace and reconcilia- global silence in response to Sri of its terrible 30-year civil war are to advise him on accountability of consultation with people in the tion in the country. The Elders Lanka's actions, especially from not allowed to lay the foundations issues relating to alleged viola- north and east of the country on have noted some positive change its most influential friends. The for another conflict. tions of international human land issues and economic devel- since the end of the war, including international community cannot "Speaking out is neither rights and humanitarian law com- opment as well as constitutional greater economic activity in the be selective in its approach to unfriendly to the people of Sri mitted by both sides during the reforms to address long-standing north, and the return of some upholding the rule of law and Lanka, nor an interference in the final stages of the conflict in Sri political marginalisation of ethnic 260,000 displaced people to their respect for human rights. internal affairs of its government. Lanka. minorities. home districts. Impunity anywhere is a threat to Quite the opposite: it is a strong Archbishop Desmond 7. Ensure the security of However, these signs of international peace and security manifestation of support for jus- Tutu, chair of The Elders said: United Nations operations and progress are tainted by intoler- everywhere." tice, peace and progress for all personnel. ance of debate or dissent and a "The government of Sri Lanka Martti Ahtisaari, former the people of Sri Lanka." About The Elders culture of impunity that protects needs to show a much greater President of Finland and Mary Robinson, former The Elders are an independ- those close to the government. commitment to achieving mean- international mediator said: Irish President and former ingful reconciliation. The ongoing ent group of global leaders, The Elders now believe that the "Countries operating outside UN High Commissioner for persecution and disappearances brought together by Nelson Sri Lankan government's domes- international norms watch each Human Rights said: of human rights activists, journal- Mandela in 2007, who offer their tic conduct, as well as its recent other carefully. They will be taking "The EU's suspension of Sri ists and government opponents is collective influence and experi- unacceptable treatment of the courage from Sri Lanka's appar- Lanka's GSP Plus scheme is the truly terrifying. ence to support peace- building, United Nations in Sri Lanka war- ent success at avoiding interna- right approach, but it's not "Unfortunately, previous inter- help address major causes of rants a firm, public response from tional reproach. This is a worry for enough. Sustained pressure is nal commissions have done little human suffering and promote the its most influential friends - par- all those who want to see more necessary, not only to protect to reveal the truth behind human shared interests of humanity. ticularly China, India, Japan and democracy, greater respect for human rights in Sri Lanka, but to rights abuses. It is doubtful that The Elders are Martti the United States as well as the human rights and less violence in protect the rights of people every- the President's 'Lessons Learned Ahtisaari, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, non-aligned group of countries. the world." where. It is not just governments Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Brundtland, Only the European Union has and Reconciliation Commission' Lakhdar Brahimi, former who can help improve the situa- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, taken any direct action by sus- will help Sri Lankans to work Algerian Foreign Minister and tion - anyone doing business in Jimmy Carter, Graça Machel, Mary pending Sri Lanka's preferential towards lasting peace and recon- former UN envoy said: Sri Lanka or going there on holi- ciliation." Robinson and Desmond Tutu trading access (GSP Plus scheme) "Sri Lanka has played a key day should also try to make choic- Other members of The Elders (Chair). Nelson Mandela and for its failure to respect its inter- role among countries of the Third es that will help all its citizens to a Aung San Suu Kyi are honorary more equitable and prosperous Elders. 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Reacting to claims ing to their villages but they still been settled in their own homes Premachandran claimed that per cent of the villagers are farm- that the government had acquired lack the ability to put up their own yet," he said. He claimed that part lands had been given to business- ers. He said they needed more civilians' land, Resettlement homes or at least renovate their of the lands had been acquired by man to set up hotels and other water pumps, fertilizer and seed Minister Milroy Fernando said he damaged houses, reports Chris the state for various projects and projects in the Murikandi area. He paddy. "We have to expedite the would visit Kilinochchi on August Kamalendran in the civilians had been told that they said the displaced peopled had construction of houses as the 16 and 17 to resolve such prob- SundayTimes.lk: would receive alternative places. not been able to engage in farm- monsoon rains will start soon," he lems.= Most of them are living in This has, however, denied them ing, though they had been 'reset- said. Most schools have also been temporary homes, in makeshift the chance to rebuild their lives. tled' a few months ago. Meanwhile, in the adjoining damaged and children are attend- camps or in government buildings "Though the government has The area also lacks agricultur- Mullaitivu district, the ongoing ing classes under the shade of in the Kilinochchchi district from assured that they will expedite al equipment. Mr Kethishwaran, mine-clearing operations had trees. where more than 162,000 people were displaced. Latest statistics Reports Indicate High Malnutrition Rates throughout Northeast Sri Lanka compiled by the District Secretariat of Kilinochchi reveals by International Medical (50%) than among girls (42%). 1%, it is not at all surprising that 51% respectively. Trincomalee that 94,644 have returned to their Health Organization newslet- This difference between the gen- the study revealed that a lack of stands at 45%, Ampara at 44%, villages. ter, July, 2010 ders contrasts dramatically with maternal education is strongly and Jaffna at 43%, making Jaffna Each family receives Rs Echoing the findings of the malnutrition pattern in the associated with these lower lev- the best amongst the districts 50,000 in two instalments to humanitarian organizations, Sri rest of the country, where malnu- els of malnutrition. within the Northern and Eastern rebuild homes, but the villagers Lankan media has been recently trition rates amongst boys and The child malnutrition rate provinces. claim the money is not enough to reporting on the very high levels girls are very much similar. amongst those with uneducated IMHO is proud to have spon- construct new houses. They also of malnutrition in the Northeast. The data also demonstrates mothers is 63%. 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about the current situation in Sri groups in recent months. The shared with those who attended Nalam Kappom 2010: Lanka and to see & hear first- Irupalai Village Association gener- what these needs are and gave hand how the people are in great ously gave a donation to IMHO specific information/data about Toronto, Ottawa, & Montreal need of our help. The audience Canada at the Toronto Nalam each area of need. In total, This May & June 2010, IMHO Jaffna, Kalmunai, and Valaichenai. was also given the opportunity to Kappom event in the amount of around $20,000 was collected Canada held its annual Nalam IMHO has been working with ask questions to the 4 doctors $1,000. The donations was hand- from these 3 Nalam Kappom Kappom events to raise aware- these doctors on various projects and IMHO members. Through ed over to Dr. Lambotharan, events from those who dropped ness and funds for the betterment throughout the Northeast over these interactions, people were IMHO Canada President in to donate. These funds will of the many lives deeply affected the last several years. Perhaps better able to understand the In addition to the guest support various efforts, including by the conflict in Sri Lanka. most notably, IMHO funded the essential needs of the people speakers, there was a very dedi- amputee rehab, mental health, Starting on May 29th and 30th, in-patient psychiatric unit in back in Sri Lanka. cated group of IMHO volunteer maternal nutrition, and much IMHO Canada representatives Vavuniya, which later served IMHO Canada is very pleased high school youth, who created more. Thanks to all who attend- spoke to groups in both Montreal many IDPs at a very crucial time. to have the support of several vil- displays of all IMHO's projects ed, donated, volunteered, and & Ottawa for the first time. There IMHO was the first group to sup- lage associations and other small (past and ongoing). They also participated!! has been a great deal of enthusi- port psychiatric mobile clinics asm from those who attended around the villages as well. The 4 these events, and many have visiting doctors presented about signed up as monthly contribu- the past and current projects, and tors. IMHO Canada intends to highlighted the projects done in hold events in both locations in partnership with IMHO. They also the future as well. touched on the current basic The following weekend, IMHO medical needs of the IDPS who Canada conducted the Nalam are now being resettled in various

Dr. Lambotharan Dr. Raguraj

Kappom event in Toronto. At all 3 areas. of these events in Toronto, Also joining us for the event Ottawa, & Montreal, our featured was Dr. Rajam Theventhiran, a guests were 4 visiting physicians psychiatrist working in New York from Sri Lanka who played a crit- and current IMHO (USA) ical role in providing health & Treasurer. She recently returned medical services to the people of from Sri Lanka where she was the Northeast during the war able to visit most of the IMHO time. These doctors are currently projects undertaken since the attending a course at McGill organization's inception in 2004. University in Montreal to study A documentary showing the med- post-traumatic stress disorder ical needs of the people at pres- (PTSD), thanks in-part to support ent was also shown. Three other from IMHO. The purpose of this doctors from the U.S.-Dr. Raguraj training is to improve their knowl- (IMHO International Board edge and skills in caring for President), Dr. Thambipillai patients who have been deeply (IMHO International Board affected by the war, family loss, Secretary), and Dr. Angelo-also and other physical & mental hard- came for the event. ship. These doctors are currently This event provided an oppor- serving patients in Vavuniya, tunity for those in Canada to learn 22 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal

in the violence are well -known. Some of those involved are still in Horror of a pogrom: politics and holding high office. What happened in July 1983 was not a spontaneous riot but a Remembering "Black July" 1983 planned pogrom. A "Pogrom" is defined as a form of violent riot , a mob attack, either approved or by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Thursday 28th the day that Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent condoned by government or mili- then Foreign minister P. tary authorities, directed against The tragic history of post - Narasimmha Rao as her special a particular group, whether eth- independence Sri Lanka records emissary to Colombo. nic, religious, or other, and char- that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have Friday 29th, saw Colombo and acterized by killings and destruc- been subjected to mass -scale suburbs being terrified by the tion of their homes, businesses, mob violence in the years 1956, rumour that the Tigers had come property and religious centers. 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The to town. The afternoon of that The word pogrom is of anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 fateful "Koti Dawasa" (tiger day) Russian origin and means "to was the most terrible and horrible saw the goon squads massacring destroy, to wreak havoc, to of them all. It remains etched in Tamils again after being "sure" demolish violently" in the lan- memory even after 27 years. that no tigers were in town. guage. Pogrom became common- Twenty - seven years ago on 30th and 31st July saw the ly used in English after a large- the night of 23rd of July, mem- violence diminish gradually. By scale wave of anti-Jewish riots bers of the Liberation Tigers of August the violence had ceased swept through south-western (LTTE) ambushed an as International opinion and pres- Imperial Russia encompassing army patrol at the Post Box junc- sure compelled the J.R. present-day Ukraine and Poland tion area in Thirunelvely in Jaffna Jayawardene regime to "nor- from 1881-1884. Later more and killed 13 soldiers. Troops malise" the situation. bloodier waves of pogroms broke went bersek in Jaffna in the hours It is noteworthy that the out from 1903-1906, leaving that followed and shot dead 51 nature of anti - Tamil violence was thousands of Jews dead and innocent civilians in the Jaffna transformed after July 83. wounded. Peninsula including 7 passengers Incidents of massive mob vio- What happened in July 1983 in a minivan at Manipay. lence ceased although isolated was that there was a pre-planned Some hours later on the sporadic incidents did occur but conspiracy to launch a wide- Sunday that followed members of were quickly crushed by the "Hooliganism in Colombo-Attacks on Tamil Satyagrahis, spread attack against Tamil life, the Sri Lankan Navy ran riot in authorities. Times UK, June 6, 1956 limb and property on a massive Trincomalee burning down Tamil It has been often said that the under the aegis of war. If July 83 were core groups at different scale. All it required was a power- houses and also forcibly relocat- mob violence of 1983 has not was a week long episode the war locations that planned and exe- ful incident to be the provocative ing Tamil refugees. been repeated which indicates was constant and continuous vic- cuted it. pretext to justify such an attack. In Colombo the powers that that the "Sinhala people" who timising and displacing the Tamil As is the case in mob violence The Thirunelvely attack by the be decided to publish, broadcast perpetrated those acts have people in their historical habitat. these core groups were joined by LTTE killing 13 soldiers provided and televise the news about 13 learnt their lessons. There are There is however a flaw in others.These groups had absolute such an excuse of being the flash- soldiers being killed by the Tigers many references to the "tolerance attributing the dark events of impunity and had the protection while blacking out reprisals by the and greatness of the Sinhala peo- Black July 83 to the Sinhala peo- of important members of the armed forces. ple in not enacting another July ple on the whole. It is correct that United National Party (UNP) In an even more inflammatory 1983? in this discourse. the perpetrators were Sinhala and Government then in power. move it was decided to stage a What should have been the the victims Tamils. But it was by The mobs had lists of Tamil mass funeral for the dead soldiers "norm" is being depicted as the no means a mass uprising of the owned houses and businesses. at Kanatte. The situation took a "exception". Some strongly entire Sinhala race against Tamils. They also knew the details of If that had happened no Tamil ownership. Wherever premises would have been left to tell the were owned by Sinhalese, only tale furniture and goods belonging to The majority of the Sinhala Tamil tenants were destroyed and people were horrified at what set on fire. The buildings were not happened and were helpless burnt or damaged. onlookers while a minority of their Many of the mobs were led by ethnicity unleashed havoc in the functionaries of the UNP trade name of their race and country. union Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya Tamil youth stripped naked near The mobs on a burning spree (JSS). Several UNP municipal and Borella bus stand P. Narasimmha Rao went in search of fuel chanting urban councillors were involved. the slogan "Rata Jathiya Bera Many prominent supporters and point of tension. violent turn and mobs began emphasise that "Black July 83? ganna, Petrol Thel Tikkak dhen- strong - arm men of cabinet min- It is also noteworthy that vio- moving in the direction of Borella will never ever happen again. Not na" (To save the race and country isters were involved. The Police lence against Tamils had preced- and Thimbirigasaya. all Tamil victims of that violent give a little petrol and oil) were ordered by UNP politicians ed July 83 in Vavuniya, Tamil homes and businesses spree are convinced and many do It is possible that a section of not to arrest the violent elements. Trincomalee and the University at were attacked and set on fire.As have apprehensions of a repeat the people who were non -partic- In most instances the large Peradeniya. July 83 in that sense the Esala full moon shone bright- performance. ipants may have been supportive groups of thugs and goondas was a grand finale or culmination ly from a not so cloudy sky, clouds The main if not the only rea- of the anti - Tamil violence and were transported in Government of an on -going process. of smoke from burning Tamil son for the absence of large-scale sanctioned it by their silence. But owned Transport board vehicles One of the best books that establishments spiralled upwards. mob violence after 1983 was the the majority of the Sinhala people or in vehicles owned by semi-govt came out in the aftermath of the The following Monday 25th escalation of the war . Anti - Tamil were against what happened corporations. Even food parcels July 83 violence was "Sri Lanka" saw anti-Tamil violence spreading violence was institutionalised and then. It cannot be forgotten that and liquor were distributed sys- The Holocaust and After". It was like wildfire. The plantation Tamil legitimised as an integral compo- a large number of Sinhalese pro- tematically to these elements. written by an unknown author Patriarch Saumiyamoorthy nent of the war. With the pre- tected and saved Tamils often at When some decent UNP lead- L.Piyadasa. It was known that Thondaman known for his pithy dominantly Sinhala armed forces great personal risk. ers like Shelton Ranarajah and L.Piyadasa was a pseudonym. comments later described the vio- engaging in full - scale war there The second and more impor- Renuka Herath Ranasinghe got Who then was L.Piyadasa? I per- lence that followed Poya on was no need for lesser forces to tant point to note is that the July goons locked up by the Police in sonally thought it was Regi Sunday as - "Sunday Sil, Monday act on their own. 1983 violence was not sponta- Kandy and Nuwara - Eliya respec- Siriwardene. I asked him about Kill". Also the events of July 83 neous in its entirety. It was basi- tively their release was secured this later but Regi denied he was The violence went on for paled into insignificance as inci- cally an organized act. Several by Cyril Mathew and Gamini the author. three days peaking on Wedne- dents of a more terrible nature persons may have engaged in the Dissanayake. The role of Cyril The mystery about this sday 27th and ebbing on proliferated in the North and East violence on their own but there Mathew and his political lackeys remarkable book was cleared up Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Feature 23 for me when the well - known the newspapers until the riots days in July as a dark period in India also encouraged the writer, reseracher and Social began. It was a series of deliber- their life. The extent to which the training and arming of Tamil activist C.R.Hensman passed ate acts, executed in accordance Tamils were diminished in that youths. Thousands of youngsters away. I had read some of with a concerted plan, conceived month made them call it "Black flocked to the different militant Hensman's books and had met and organized well in advance". July". The Tamil people were at a movements. him in the eighties on a few occa- Black July 83 saw over 4000 nadir of despondency. Thanks to the 6th amendment sions in Colombo at the Tamils and a few Muslims mistak- When writing about "Black the Tamil Parliamentarians of the Black July 83 was a watershed International Centre for Ethnic en for Tamils being killed. July" one is conscious of the neg- Tamil United Liberation Front also in the contemporary history of the Studies, Marga Institute and Thousands were injured. Some of ative connotations in using the kept away thereby losing their Island. Black July 83 aroused the Centre for Society and Religion.It the injured were killed in hospi- colour "black" to describe some- seats. conscience of many Sinhala peo- was after his demise that tals. There were over 200,000 thing bad and evil and the colour The political leadership began ple. Indeed it cannot be forgotten Hensman's daughter Rohini displaced persons as a result. white for pure and good. In this passing slowly and surely into the that a great deal of Tamils informed me that her father was 130,000 were housed in age of "political Correctness" militant youth hands. The econo- escaped danger only because of L.Piyadasa. makeshift refugee camps. More these usages have been chal- my of Sri Lankan was affected the courageous protection I re-read the book recently badly. The good name of the extended by their Sinhala friends. and was once again impressed by country was sullied irreparably. There were well meaning its coherent analysis and well - One of the lamentable fea- efforts by several persons to articulated facts. L.Piyadasa or CR tures of that Pogrom was the make amends and reach out to Hensman describes the July 1983 abominable response of JRJ and Tamils.Notable among which violence as a pogrom and makes senior ministers on Television. Not were the initiatives taken by the a solid case against the JR even one word was uttered in Anglican Bishop of Kurunegala. Jayewardena regime for it. The sympathy for the victims of the Rt. Rev. Lakshman introductory paragraph in the violence. Wickremasinghe and Methodist book encapsulates July 83 per- JR indirectly blamed the Church President Rev. Soma fectly. Sinhala people and said it was a Perera. Here it is - natural reaction. Instead of reach- But as time progressed the Shops, Banks, Offices and ing out to the victimised Tamil ruling elite was able to prosecute Restaurants in the Capital's people the President announced the war against the Tamils further. crowded City Centre and Main that legislation would be brought Anti-Tamil violence became legit- Streets being burnt while the to forbid secessionism imized and institutionalised as a Police look on. Thousands of State minister Anandatissa de military effort. The brutalisation houses ransacked and burnt, Alwis spoke about a hidden hand, of the war as well as some of the sometimes with women and chil- a foreign hand being responsible. reprehensibly inhuman acts by dren inside. Goon squads batter- He said there was a conspiracy to the Tamil militant groups helped ing passengers to death in trains provoke clashes between the reduce the moral superiority of and on station platforms and, Sinhalese and Tamils, the the Tamil cause and predicament. without hindrance, publicly burn- Sinhalese and Muslims and Gradually the pangs of ing men and women to death on Buddhists and Christians. remorse and guilt felt by Sinhala the streets! Remand prisoners Lands and Mahaweli develop- public opinion about July 83 and political detainees in the ment minister warned Tamils that country's top prison being massa- Displacement in the aftermath of "Black July" cred. The armed forces joining in and sometimes organizing this than 2500 business enterprises lenged and debunked as insidious pogrom against members of Sri ranging from factories to petty vestiges of racism. Wittingly and Lanka's two Sri Lankan minority boutiques were damaged or unwittingly these usages keep communities. The nation's destroyed. The number of houses promoting racist stereotypes of President and top ranking cabinet and dwellings damaged or colour. members publicly justifying the destroyed is not fullyestimated. Nevertheless it is difficult to pogrom!" The rationale behind the Tamil adopt such a politically correct It is clear therefore that in homeland demand was demon- stance in the Sri Lankan context spite of the attempts to ratio- strated once again. While it was as the description "Black July" has nalise the July 1983 anti-Tamil emphasised that Sri Lanka pervaded national consciousness. violence as a "Sinhala backlash to belongs to all her people and no Avoiding such reference would be 13 Soldiers being killed by Tamil community could claim exclusive particularly impossible in writing Tigers" evidence uncovered dur- rights to any part of the country , about the developments of July ing the past years have proved July 1983 resulted in the Tamils 1983. conclusively that "Black July" being cruelly denied existence in "Black July" also denoted a 1983 was a definite Pogrom and the Southern provinces. decisive shift in the politics of the May 1958: A Tamil passenger was taken out of the vehicle and beaten up ~ Photo courtesy: Victor Ivan not a spontaneous reaction of the The victimised Tamils were Island. The bulk of the people Sinhalese. sent to the North and East for affected in the violence were it would require 14 hours for became lesser and lesser. Notwithstanding the efforts of safety thus proving the necessity Tamils living outside the Northern Indian troops to come and rescue Furthermore an insidious then President Jayawardene to for a safe haven in the North and and Eastern Provinces. With their them but the Sinhalese could campaign resulted in changing tarnish the Sinhala people as East. This is what impelled oppo- hopes of living peacefully amidst destroy them in 14 minutes if and undermining the significance being collectively responsible for sition leader Appapillai the Sinhala people being blasted they wanted to. of Black July 83. This campaign this carnage, respected observers Amirthalingam to state that the their future seemed bleak. Trade minister Lalith was two fold. Firstly the scope as such as Paul Sieghart of the uppermost issues for Tamils then Two trends started. One Athulathmudali was sorry that well as the original implication of International Commission of were the "security of our people" group of Tamils started relocating people had to queue up again for Black July was altered. Jurists exposed the real state of and "integrity of our homeland". to the North and East. Another essentials as a result of the vio- The past years have seen July affairs. The same Amirthalingam was group migrated abroad mainly as lence. Finance minister Ronnie de being depicted as "Black" not for As Sieghart himself points out asked by the Ven.Walpola Rahula refugees. As the War escalated, Mel gave a lecture in history the 1983 anti Tamil Pogrom but in his report (Sri Lanka: A Thero at the all-party conference expanded and enveloped the about Sena and Guttiga. for all the "bad" things that hap- Mounting Tragedy of Errors) what problems were faced by the North and East Tamil People start- Cyril Mathew the industrious pened in July. "Clearly this (July 1983 attack) Tamils in Sri Lanka. Amirtha- ed moving out of the Island in minister of anti - Tamil affairs The list was endless ranging was no spontaneous upsurge of lingam responded sorrowfully even greater numbers. raised the Indian bogey and saw from the 1987 Indo-Lanka accord communal hatred among the "How can you ask this question The July 1983 pogrom saw an alien hand behind the conspir- to all acts of violence in July. Thus Sinhala people - nor was it as has even after July 1983?? more than a hundred thousand acy that led to the July 83 vio- July was made to be "black" been suggested in some quarters, The mass scale deaths, people fleeing to India as lence. His cabinet colleague because of the large number of a popular response to the killing destruction, displacement, depri- refugees thereby providing that Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman violent incidents that occurred in of 13 soldiers in an ambush the vation and despair suffered by the Country with the necessary locus refuted it and said elements that month. previous day by Tamil Tigers, Tamils both Sri Lankan and Indian standi to intervene politically in inside or close to the govt were which was not even reported in made them characterise those Sri Lankan affairs. responsible. Contd. in Next Page... 24 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal sigh of relief was released. With people in particular and the the spectre of Black July behind it minorities in general are being pil- the nation strode boldly and con- loried as "aliens" and "visitors". fidently forward until of course The old terror of registering the next evil "black July". Each Tamils in Colombo has re-com- year saw this comical ritual being menced despite the defeat of enacted faithfully. "terrorism". This annual "black July" scare The purveyors of racial hatred The original significance of it helped each year to divert focus are spreading their evil gospel being called "Black July" to mark away from the remembering of and irresponsible sections of the the horrible pogrom against the the Black July 1983 pogrom media are peddling it regularly. Tamils was systematically diluted. against Tamils. Instead of letting Communalist propaganda in the Historical revisionists may the Nation recall this terrible act garb of pseudo nationalism is even obliterate this "original sin" with remorse, the spotlight on an gaining ground. and substitute some other event imaginary threat from the LTTE The LTTE is no more but the as being the cause for July and helped reverse roles. The Tamil population remains. They becoming Black. Thereby the long nation at large was perceived as are seen as being relatively well - term "guilt" effect of the anti "victims" because they were con- off or enjoying better standards of Tamil holocaust of 1983 July on sidered vulnerable to a diabolical living compared to the lumpen the Sinhala psyche will be alleviat- LTTE threat because of "black [L to R ] ~ Anandatissa de Alwis, Cyril Mathew, Lalith elements in urban, semi -urban ed perhaps eradicated in time to July". Athulathmudali, Gamini Dissanayake, Ronnie de Mel, areas. Also the economic peace come. Ven. Walpola Rahula Thero The perception of Black July dividends expected by the ordi- The second aspect of this was distorted. Instead of being project that month as victory "those who do not remember the nary people are yet to percolate campaign was the demonising of portrayed as the month denoting month over the LTTE . But there lessons of history are condemned downwards. an LTTE threat. The July 1983 vio- the pogrom against the Tamils were thousands of civilians who to relive it again". Against that backdrop a com- lence as well as the phenomenon "Black July" was now the month were killed, injured or disap- Arguably had the memory of munal conflagration cannot be of Captain Miller, the first Black where the nation particularly the peared in that month. So to a 1958 anti - Tamil violence been ruled out decisively. Neo-fascism Tiger, embracing death on July Sinhala majority was perceived to large number of Tamil people May frequently re-visited the incidents and pseudo-nationalim require 5th 1987 were used in a cunning be cruelly vulnerable to LTTE vio- 2009 is "Black May" like "Black" of 1977 and 1983 may not have the discovery of new enemies roundabout way. lence. July 1983. recurred. constantly. The line trotted out was that The negative result of this Under these circumstances A major demographic change After the Holocaust of the the LTTE considered July as campaign was the undermining there is a possibility that the sig- of vast political significance is the Hitlerian era and its impact on the "Black" enough to warrant the and distortion of the significance nificance of Black July may phenomenon of about a million European Collective psyche few perpetration of some terrible act of July 1983. Signs of blaming the decrease gradually. Tamils relocating to the areas out- would have expected fascism or of violence as symbolic defiance. victim syndrome were also visible. We are told nowadays that side the North and East in recent neo Nazism to resurface. Yet So we saw the media being The LTTE debacle of May 2009 there are no minorities in this times. Politically this was a major many European Nations including inundated with stories of how the has now transformed the situa- country. We are advised to forget obstacle to the Tamil separatist Germany are experiencing it now. security forces were geared up to tion. With the LTTE gone there is the sordid past and look to the cause. Here were people electing All people of this land striving face threats to the nation because no way of whipping up emotions future. to live in "enemy" areas even as a for a decent and humane future the Tigers wanted to take of a "Black July" saying tigers Remembering the past is bitter armed struggle was being would hope that the July 1983 revenge for Black July. could launch savage attacks on depicted as unwanted and unnec- launched in the North and East on pogrom was only an aberration. The whole security apparatus the South or on the Sinhala peo- essary in the current climate. The the rationale that coexistence was But as in the case of eternal is placed on a red alert it was ple. So those who attempted to July 1983 anti - Tamil pogrom is not possible. vigilance being a prerequisite for said. Any relatively minor incident distort the implications of Black fading into distant memory. But this point is lost on the maintaining perennial liberty, con- of violence by the LTTE in July July have no way or need to do so The inherent danger in the new spectre that is emerging in stant rekindling of the tragic was attributed to the Black July anymore pogrom of July 1983 being forgot- the South. The ugly head of neo memories of "Black July 1983? is syndrome. But then there is always May ten is that it may very well hap- fascism masquerading as patriot- very necessary to prevent repeti- After July passed , a collective 2009. The government is trying to pen again. As the truism goes ism is being raised. The Tamil tion. [dbsjeyaraj.com] Tamils in Sri Lanka seeking asylum: A need no more or not?

by Rev. John Barr basic needs. My experience left Diocese Green Memorial Hospital by land mines and is as such They wait for months on end, After UnitingWorld's the Rev. me questioning whether Tamils in Jaffna visits the centre for a uninhabitable. uncertain of when they will be John Barr returned from visiting are truly safe from harm today. few hours whenever possible to At another centre, the people able to return to their land and the war-torn north of Sri Lanka in During the one week trip to perform medical checkups. were in no better condition. start rebuilding their lives. There June, he described his journey as assess the situation, I visited During this visit I met Annamma, I met a man who had lost are no places for Tamils to one of the most challenging and several holding centres for Tamils a young mother of three children. both his legs. Another man suf- mourn, and many do not know confronting trips he has ever who have been released from One of her legs had been blown fered shrapnel wounds in his what has happened to their loved experienced. Here is his reflec- detention camps and await per- off during the recent war. Her stomach. Then a woman next to ones. Trauma is a massive issue, tion. mission from security forces to husband was incapacitated due me collapsed to the ground and and there is no closure for so The island of Sri Lanka is return to their homeland. to a bullet lodged in his spine. gripped her head tightly, convuls- many people. likened to a tear drop in the These holding centres are Annamma's family were ing on the ground. People tell me An urgent question in Indian Ocean. This is, perhaps, a extremely dire places. Food is Tamils that had fled Jaffna in that this happens to her fre- Australia concerns the wellbeing most apt image given the coun- scarce and access to basic health 1995 to rebuild their lives in quently, a result of shrapnel of Tamils from the north and the try's tumultuous history. In 2009, care is minimal. , an autonomous Tamil lodged in her brain. east of Sri Lanka seeking asylum we all cried and opened our One of my strongest memo- region. Their future now remains Today approximately 45,000 in Australia. Many are detained in hearts to over 280,000 Tamil ries is my visit to a centre locat- in serious jeopardy. people have no choice but to terrible conditions with limited civilians that were interned in ed in the grounds of the former Annamma told me she is "sick continue to live in these centres access to their most basic needs. detention centres run by Sri Killinochchi Central College, of being here". She is "sick of scattered throughout the coun- Are Tamils truly safe in Sri Lankan security forces. where some 335 families reside waiting… all we do is line up and try's north. Lanka today? From what I saw Humanitarian aid was severely today. wait… for food, for water, for a Back here in Australia, we the answer is NO. restricted and 'unexplainable dis- The top floors of the main shower…". Thousands of others hear little more than reports that We have a responsibility to appearances' were frequent. building have been blasted by are in this same situation. There we war is over and that condi- continue opening our hearts to My recent journey to the artillery and mortars during the was a depressing sense of hope- tions are improving in Sri Lanka. the many thousands of Tamils north of the island gave a chilling war. The people who live there lessness in this holding centre. But my first hand view highlights who face danger in Sri Lanka insight into the issues that thou- receive food from the United that the Tamils there continue to today. sands of Tamils continue to face. Nations World Food Programme, These families are waiting experience a real sense of subju- [John Barr is Associate While much of the conflict is over, but access to basic health care here for land to become available gation and humiliation. Director for Church Solidarity it is clear that many people have remains extremely limited. where they can resettle, but Many queue for hours to (Asia)] been unable to access their most A doctor from the Jaffna much of the land remains riddled access to food and health care. Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Milestones 25 Ahilan Arulanantham wins prestigious Human Rights award

The American Immigration National Harbor, MD. Lawyers Association (AILA) pre- Arulanantham litigates before Arulanantham puts great effort sented Americal Civil Liberties federal courts, the Board of into mentoring his legal interns, Uniion (ACLU) Attorney Ahilan Immigration Appeals, and immi- allowing them to take on high- Arulanantham with the 2010 gration courts. Most recently, a level litigation tasks while patient- Arthur C. Helton Human Rights team of attorneys led by ly guiding them and building their Award, a media release from AILA Arulanantham won a major class confidence. said. AILA mentioned Ahilan's certification victory in a class Prior to joining the ACLU's "innovative litigation and its enor- action challenging the detention Southern California office, mous benefits for countless vul- of noncitizens held in the Central Arulanantham was an Assistant nerable non-citizens for their District of California for more than Federal Public Defender in El rights and dignity," in presenting six months without a bond hear- Paso, Texas for two years. Before the award. ing while in immigration proceed- that, he was a fellow at the ACLU Ahilan Arulanantham, is a ings. Immigrants' Rights Project in New grandson of Rev. J.T. Arulanantham has achieved York, where he provided legal Arulanantham, Principal of St. remarkable successes in curbing assistance to dozens of non-citi- Johns College, Jaffna, Sri Lanka ICE's use of prolonged and indef- zens detained after the during 1940-1957. inite detention. Arulanantham co- September 11th attacks. "US Tamil Political Action litigated a 2009 action against Arulanantham is a former law Council (USTPAC) is very pleased ICE's derelict "B-18" detention clerk to the Honorable Stephen with the recognition accorded to facility in . Reinhardt of the United States Ahilan Arulanantham. Ahilan has Arulanantham's suit resulted in a Court of Appeals for the Ninth been instrumental in helping the Ahilan Arulanantham comprehensive settlement Circuit, a graduate of Yale Law underdogs of this country, includ- regarding a badly overcrowded Law School, and a graduate of and its enormous benefits for School, and a graduate of Oxford ing many Tamils seeking a just facility in which there was no soap Oxford University, which he countless vulnerable non-citizens University, which he attended as a hearing for political asylum, and or drinking water. The settlement attended as a Marshall Scholar. for their rights and dignity. Arthur Marshall Scholar. the Arthur C. Helton Human not only rectified appalling condi- Full text of the AILA press Helton was a shining example (The American Immigration Rights Award is well deserved for tions of detention, but also halted release follows: with a distinguished career as an Lawyers Association is the nation- his services," said Dr. Elias ICE's practice of moving Ahilan Arulanandam NATION- advocate for refugees and asy- al association of immigration Jeyarajah, President of USTPAC in detainees back and forth to local AL HARBOR, MD - The American lum-seekers. Arulanantham lawyers established to promote a congratulatory message mark- jails in an effort to avoid rules Immigration Lawyers Association exemplifies the qualities of Arthur justice, advocate for fair and rea- ing the AILA honour of Ahilan prohibiting long-term detention at (AILA) awarded Ahilan Helton - compassion, intellect, sonable immigration law and poli- Arulanantham. B-18. Arulanantham, Director, tenacity, and strategic thinking cy, advance the quality of immi- Ahilan Arulanantham is a for- Arulanantham is also a fine Immigrants' Rights and National that are the hallmarks of excel- gration and nationality law and mer law clerk to the Honorable teacher, frequently lecturing in Security, ACLU of Southern lence in the advancement of practice, and enhance the profes- Stephen Reinhardt of the United CLE settings and offering a semi- California, the 2010 Arthur C. human rights. He received the sional development of its mem- States Court of Appeals for the nar on preventive detention at the Helton Human Rights Award for award on July 3, 2010 during bers.) Ninth Circuit, a graduate of Yale his body of innovative litigation AILA's Annual Conference held in University of Chicago Law School. Dr. S. Packiyanathar Athanasiyar October 16, 1917 - July 8, 2010 Dr. Swampillai Packiyanathar a renowned veteran well known Athanasiyar was born on October in the field of Ayurvedic treat- tives and parishioners 16, 1917 in Sillalai, a village ment in the Peninsula. Dr. Dr. Packiyanather was mar- called "Little Rome" in the Jaffna Packiyanather earned the ried to Perly Swampillai, a caring, diocese to orthodox Catholic par- respect and affection of his loving and a compassionate wife ents. patients. His kindness and good- much involved in social work and His father was Dr. Swampillai ness with his specialized ances- an ex- Chairperson of the Athanasiyar and his mother Mary tral medicine for children and Pandaterruppu Town Council. Josephine. He had six sisters and adults reached out to all and he They were blessed with one one brother of whom three sis- enjoyed a lucrative practice. daughter and two sons. ters predeceased him after a Always neatly dressed in long life time of service as an white, he was a gentleman par Dr. Pakiyanathar's faith in eminent physician in Sri Lanka excellence. He was so conscious God sustained him in all his trials and abroad he passed away of his profession that even if dis- and triumphs. His demise is an peacefully at the age of 93 on turbed in the dead of the night irreparable loss to the Ayurvedic July 8, 2010 while in London. he would not hesitate to attend medical profession and to the Incidentally 25 years ago his to emergency calls. community at large beloved mother too died on this He was a devout Catholic. He As his brother-in-law I will same day. played an active role in the not forget the yeoman services Completing his secondary parish activities and served in he has rendered to my family. education in Jaffna, he joined different capacities with respon- May he rest in peace. the Ayurvedic College in sibility and honesty .In spite of Colombo to pursue his studies in his heavy schedule, he always S.B. David medicine. He joined his father Dr. found time to participate in all (Courtesy: Sunday Times) S Athanasiyar and acquired more church activities and never failed knowledge and experience from to attend any functions of rela- 26 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal JOHN BODDY HOMES PRESENTS 'EAGLE GLEN'

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REMEMBERING THE CREATOR OF INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as Gandhi walked this earth,

– Albert Einstein Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi (Also known as The Mahatma or Baabuji)

By Siva Sivapragasam It was Gandhi who introduced Sa- tyagraha as a form of non-violent Fifteenth August 1947 was a day of protest and it required inner-discipline rejoicing for every Indian - except for and total commitment to non-violence, one person. Ironically, he was the most not easy for normal mortals to fol- important personality responsible for low. It was in later years that several India’s Independence on this day. politicians followed this principle of That person was Mohandas Karam- Satyagraha to win their demands with- chand Gandhi, fondly remembered as out spilling blood. Gandhi strongly the Mahatma or Baabuji.. believed that non-violent changes Just as the mid-night hour ap- would come about only through risk proached , Jawarhalal Nehru, the first - Prime Minister of Independent India and sacrifice, by going to jail and of fering our lives for peace and justice. was waxing his eloquence with his fa- He said “Freedom is to be wooed only mous “Tryst with Destiny” speech in inside prison walls, but never in coun- Parliament, while Gandhi was fasting cil chambers, courts or the school- and observing 15th August as a day of room ”Based on this, he and several mourning. other Indian leaders went to jail for non-violent protests. When asked to Why did Gandhi not rejoice Inde- explain the meaning of Life,he said pendence Day? “Renounce and Enjoy”. The Answer lies in his thinking Gandhi was admired even by his about the Partitioning? enemies. Naturam Godse, who killed him, first bent down and prayed at his feet before he fired the shots. He ad- It was Gandhi who mitted in court that he killed Gandhi not because he loved Gandhi less, but introduced Satya- because he loved India more. Naturam graha as a form of Godse was a young Hindu fanatic non-violent protest from Poona who believed that Gan- dhi was giving in at the expense of and it required the Hindus and decided to move him inner-discipline and out of the political scene. When Gan- total commitment to dhi was going for his prayers, Godse rushed towards him, folded his hands non-violence, in Namaste fashion and shot him at not easy for normal point-blank range. Gandhi felled down mortals to follow chanting “Hare Ram”. The whole of India went into dark- ness hearing his assassination. Nehru, addressing the nation in a choking fashion, stated that “the light in our The partitioning of India was loom- lives has gone out and there is dark- ing large in the minds of everyone. In ness everywhere. Our beloved leader an attempt to prevent the fragmen- whom we call Baapu is no more” Neh- tation and fracture of India, Gandhi ru who has been with Gandhi all his suggested to Jawarhalal Nehru that life wept like a child unashamedly. Mohamed Ali Jinnah be made the first When Gandhi mounted the steps of Prime Minister of Independent India. Buckingham Palace in his loin cloth Nehru refused - Not because he was and shawl, the British sneered at him. eyeing the post but because he feared Undaunted, he sat at the roundtable a backlash by the Hindus. Gandhi was conference. British Prime Minister perturbed and became a sad man that Winston Churchill contemptuously re- he had to agree to something he dread- ferred to him as the “half-naked fakir” ed. He could not convince the leaders and stated that “we are handing over of the Indian Congress and the Muslim power to men of straw”. League against the partitioning of In- Over Sixty years later, Churchill’s dia. He succumbed to the thinking of prophecy had gone wrong. India re- other Congress leaders and agreed to mains a vibrant democracy even with the partitioning. This left a permanent it’s flaws, and towers high as a world- scar in his mind. power being the envy of all. AUGUST 2010 Indian Independence Supplement 29 Quotes on

Historians, writers, politicians and other eminent personalities across the Globe have greatly appreciated India “India is the cradle and its contribution to rest of the world. Though these of the human race, remarks are only a partial reflection of the greatness of India, they certainly make us feel proud of our motherland. the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, “We owe a lot to the Indians, who the grandmother taught us how to count, without which of legend, and the no worthwhile scientific discovery could great grand mother have been made!” of tradition. Our most valuable and most artistic materials in the history Albert Einstein of man are treasured up in India only!” (Theoretical Physicist, Germany) Mark Twain (Writer, America)

“Civilizations “If there is one place on the face of have arisen in earth where all the dreams of living other parts of the men have found a home from the very world. In an- earliest days when man began the cient and modern dream of existence, it is India!” times, wonderful Romaine Rolland ideas have been (French scholar) carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my “She (India) has left indelible imprints “If I were friends, it has been always with on one fourth of the human race in the asked un- the blast of war trumpets and course of a long succession of centuries. der what the march of embattled cohorts. She has the right to reclaim ... her place sky the hu- Each idea had to be soaked in a amongst the great nations summarizing man mind deluge of blood..... Each word of and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. has most power had to be followed by the From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the fully devel- groans of millions, by the wails icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java oped some of its choic- of orphans, by the tears of wid- and Borneo, India has propagated her est gifts, has most deeply ows. This, many other nations beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!” pondered on the greatest have taught; but India for thou- problems of life, and has sands of years peacefully exist- Sylvia Levi found solutions, I should ed. Here activity prevailed when (French Scholar) point to India.” even Greece did not exist... Even Max Mueller earlier, when history has no “There are some parts of the world that, (German Scholar) record, and tradition dares not once visited, get into your heart and peer into the gloom of that in- won’t go. For me, India is such a place. “India con- tense past, even from until now, When I first visited, I was stunned by the quered and ideas after ideas have marched richness of the land, by its lush beauty d o m i n a t e d out from her, but every word has and exotic architecture, by its ability to China cul- been spoken with a blessing be- overload the senses with the pure, con- turally for hind it and peace before it. We, centrated intensity of its colors, smells, 20 centu- of all nations of the world, have tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my ries without never been a conquering race, life I had been seeing the world in black ever having and that blessing is on our head, and white and, when brought face-to- to send a single soldier and therefore we live....!” face with India, experienced everything across her border.” Swami Vivekanand re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” Hu Shih (Indian Philosopher) Keith Bellows (Former Ambassador of China to USA) (Editor-in-chief, National Geographic Society) Source: National Portal Content Management Team 30 Indian Independence Supplement AUGUST India to Offer $35 Laptop for Students New computing device will have web browsing, video-conferencing capabilities, ability to run on solar power, says HRD Minister Sibal India has created a prototype for a $35 touch-screen laptop that it hopes to make available to thousands of students. India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says the computing device will have web browsing and video-conferencing ca- pabilities. The iPad-like gadget will also have the ability to run on solar power. The Linux-based computer, introduced by the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science, should be available by India’s Human Resource Develop- 2011. Sibal says there are plans for the device to become even cheaper, ment Minister Kapil Sibal displays with the price dropping to $20 and eventually $10. a recently unveiled prototype of a The inexpensive laptop is part of a nationwide Indian education ini- US$35 basic touch screen tablet tiative that also includes installing broadband capabilities on the na- aimed at students. AP pic tion’s more than 22,000 college campuses. MURUGAN TEMPLES IN TAMIL NADU

INTRODUCTION

The state has many temples dedicated to Lord Muruga and some of these are in rarefied environs. The journey to the Aruppadai Veedu or the Six Houses of Lord Pazhamudhir Cholai Muruga may be arduous but it has its own rewards. The six abodes of Lord Muruga are located in Thiruthani, Swamimalai, Thiruchendur, Pazhamudhir Cholai, Tirup- Located close to Madurai, parankundram and Palani. All these places are well connected by road and other this is yet another temple means of transport. whose origins date back sev- eral hundred years. Nakkirar, Truly a holiday for mind, body and soul! Arunagirinathar and Avvai- yar are among the several Tamil saints who have made references to this shrine in their hymns and literary Thiruthani work. Legend has it that Lord Muruga appeared before Av- Thiruthani is located 87 kms vaiyar in a playful form as a from Chennai. Situated on a young boy, to test her. hillock, the Murugan temple is accessed by a winding flight of 365 steps. Each symboli- cally represents one day of the year. Here, Lord Muruga sits Thirupparankundram resplendent with his consort Valli whom he married after bringing her from the nearby Vallimalai. The Thiruthani temple is known for the Karthikai festival it celebrates in December every year.

Swamimalai

Located 8 kms Madurai, this abode of Lord Muruga is noted for its inner sanctum that is cut out of the hard rock. Lord Muruga together with his consort, Deivayanai gazes benevolently at his devotees. The main temple itself is an early cave shrine, but the rest of the structure dates back to the Nayak period.

Another revered shrine to Lord Muruga, it is located 45 kms from Thanjavur. Here, Lord Palani Muruga is said to have taught the meaning of the OM mantra to his father, Lord Shiva! The temple sits on top of a hillock and can reached by a flight of 60 steps that are said to represent the Hindu cycle of 60 years. Thiruchendur

Located 120 kms from Madurai, this is one of the most hallowed shrines of Lord Muru- gan. The name Palani is a later coinage. It was Pazhani, which is said to come from two Tamil words Pazham meaning fruit and Nee meaning you. The statement it conveys is You are the fruit (wisdom). There is a story that Lord Shiva and Parvati described Lord Muruga in these words after he had a row with his brother Lord Ganesha. The temple is on top of a hillock and can be reached by a flight of 690 steps. Kodaikanal Kodaikalal comes from the Tamil words ‘Kodai’ and ‘Kanal’ literally means ‘re- lief from heat’ and the place never disappoints the traveller. Located 120 kms from Located 48 kms from Thirunelveli, this 2000-year old temple is best known for the an- nual Kanda shasti festival that is celebrated here. At the festival the devotees re-enact the Madurai , this hill station is more than 2000 metres above sea level draws tourists to the verdant charms of its spectacular lake, the waterfalls and sholas or forests. victory of Lord Muruga over Surapadman. Thiruchendur showcases Lord Muruga in a rare Kodaikanal is also home to the Kurinji Andavar temple dedicated to Lord Muruga. form. He is seen holding a string of rudraksha beads instead of his usual spear. The reason It is a spectacular sight to watch the mist clear from the temple by late morning, cited for this change is that he is worshipping Lord Shiva at this temple. revealing the full expanse of the valley below. AUGUST 2010 Indian Independence Supplement 31 BLACKBERRY MAKERS RESIST PRESSURE FROM INDIA AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS

Under pressure from countries He said the encryption that was like India and UAE to provide causing alarm among foreign access to its customers’ messag- governments was used for many es, the Canadian company which other purposes, including E- makes Blackberry on Wednesday commerce transactions, telecon- Aug 4th made it clear that it will ferencing and electronic money not allow such a thing to happen transfers. as it would “imperil the firm’s re- “If you were to ban strong en- lationship with customers.” cryption, you would shut down “We are not going to compro- corporations, business, com- mise that That is what has made merce, banking and the Internet,” BlackBerry the No 1 solution he said. worldwide,” Mike Lazaridis, “Effectively, you’d shut it all Manufacturing Cools in US, China; founder and co chief executive of down. That’s not likely going to RIM, told The New York Times. happen,” he told the Times. Accelerates in India, Euro-Zone His comments came as Indian There are about a million users security agencies demanded that Primeof Minister BlackBerry David services Cam- in India Blackberry allow them to moni- eronat urges present. India The securityto invest agencies in tor its services. in India apprehended that Black- It also comes close on the heels the UKBerry services in the present of Saudi Arabia ordering lo- UK formatGovernment posed a ministers serious security cal cellphone providers to halt threat. BlackBerry service, saying it and Thebusiness Ministry leaders of Home from Affairs failed to meet regulatory require- Indiahad and warned the UK RIM have that taken it would ments. Dubai will ban some of ban BlackBerry’s operations if the Blackberry services from Oc- part thein a security summit concerns to discuss were not tober 1. opportunitiesaddressed. for trade and He said allowing governments In view of technical problems company had already granted investment between the two to monitor messages shuttling special concessions to the gov- involved in accessing the data, across the Blackberry network ernments of countries like Indiacountries. the government has been push- could endanger the company’s and China, which have large ing the service provider to set relationships with its customers, numbers of BlackBerry owners. up a BlackBerry server in India which include major companies so that its services can be easily “That’s absolutely ridiculous and Global surveys of manufacturers show factory activity has cooled in and law enforcement agencies. patently false,” he said. monitored by security agencies Lazaridis denied reports that the in an emergency. [PTI] the United States and China, while growth has accelerated in India and the 16-nation euro-zone. The U.S. Institute for Supply Management says its manufacturing in- dex fell to 55.5 in July from 56.2 in June. A reading above 50 means factory output is growing, while a sub-50 reading signals contraction. It is the 12th consecutive month of growth for U.S. manufacturers, but the pace of that growth has declined for the past three months. July’s reading beat economists’ forecasts of a slowdown to 54.1. HINDU FEDERATION Another survey of manufacturing companies in China found that fac- tory production shrank in July for the first time in 16 months. London- And based bank HSBC and financial services company Markit say China’s purchasing managers index, or PMI, fell to 49.4 from 50.4 in June. City of Mississauga (Co -Sponsor) HSBC and Markit say India’s manufacturing sector performed better in July, with faster growth driven by new orders. India’s PMI rose to 57.6 from 57.3 in June. The Hindu Federation & City of Mississauga present A separate report shows manufacturing growth also accelerated last month in the 16-nation euro-zone, where Germany accounted for most

GRAND DAY OF FUN & ENTERTAINMENT of the increase. The Markit survey said the euro-zone’s PMI rose to 56.7 in July from 55.6 in June. INDIA HERITAGE FESTIVAL China’s government has been trying to cool down industrial produc- tion to prevent the economy from overheating. It has tightened compa- nies’ access to credit and imposed limits on property speculation and SUNDAY August 15 2010 investment in energy-intensive plants. China’s statistics bureau published its own manufacturing index re- cently, showing a slowdown in growth to 51.2 in July from 52.1 in Time: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm June. [VOA News] Presentation of “FloatParade” with colurful displays of Indian Art, Fashion, Music and Dance and other cultural traditions: Burma, India Sign Defense, Economic Deals India and Burma have LOTS OF VENDORS signed several new agree- ments to build stronger economic and defense ties, during a visit to India 4: 00Location pm by Burma’s reclusive mili- Cultural programat begins tary ruler. Living Arts Centre Senior General Than (Park) The event is sponsored by the Members of the Hindu Federation Shwe, received a formal Missisuaga ON welcome on Tuesday, Jul Opposite Square One 27th in New Delhi, where Canada Hindu Heritage Centre, he met Prime Minister Datta Yoga Centre, Manmohan Singh and Devi Mandir, Presenting the best in Hindu Art and Entertainment other Indian officials. Gur Mandir, The two countries signed Mississauga Ram Mandir, Vendors selling a variety of Indian style clothing and an assortment of Accessories five agreements following Radha Krishna Mandir, as well as Indian art and music/ Video etc. the talks, including a plan Vaishno Devi Mandir, to jointly combat arms Vishnu Mandir, FOOD & SNACKS FOR SALE smuggling across their BAPS - Shree Swami Narayan Mandir, shared border. India also government’s continued repression of agreed to help Burma in its political opponents. Pro-democra- Bharat Mata Mandir, Lot of delecious and spicy Indian Vegetarian food will also be available plus great a host of projects such as cy activists have held demonstrations Sanatan Mandir, sweets and your favourite snacks. building roads, developing in New Delhi to protest against Than Hindu Heritage Centre waterways, and a port. Shwe’s five-day visit. INDIA HERITAGE FESTIVAL Rights groups have criti- Aside from their shared border, For more info.Call 905-670-8439 cized India for engaging Burma is of important strategic inter- with Burma, citing con- est to India because of its large natural cerns about the Burmese gas reserves. [VOA News] 32 Indian Independence Supplement AUGUST NDIA’S BOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY TRIES TO PRODUCE CROSSOVER MOVIES

By anjana pasricha India's popular film industry, known as Bollywood, is trying its hand at producing films which will appeal to a global audience. But the popular Mumbai-based movie indus- try's efforts to break into the interna- tional market have made an uncertain start. Mohammed Rafi The movie Kites, which released in May in more than 30 countries, is symbolised the an emotional love story of an Indian and a Mexican immigrant in the Unit- ed States. Set in Las Vegas, it stars multicultural resilience a popular Bollywood actor, Hrithik Roshan and Mexican actress Barbara Mori. Its producer, Rakesh Roshan, called it "a truly Indian global film." Kites was the first big-budget effort by the Hindi film industry to make a movie which would appeal to mainstream audiences in India and in Western countries. Barbara Mori and Hrithik Roshan in a scene from 'Kites'- Not impressed Photo: FilmKRAFT However, the film failed to impress have the potential to make their presence felt beyond people on either side. Indians said they could not iden- the traditional markets in India and Asia. Among them tify with the mix of Hindi, English and Spanish dia- is Mumbai-based film critic Taran Adarsh. logues. A shorter version, Kites: The Remix, released "That is what has attracted a lot of people from the in countries like the United States, fared even worse. Western world… our colors, our songs, our dances, the Edited by Hollywood director Brett Ratner, it was an Bollywood masala," Adarsh says. "I have had a lot of attempt at a Hollywood-Bollywood crossover. people coming up to me and telling me that they love Mumbai-based film trade analyst and critic Komal Bollywood films. They don't understand the language, Nahata says Bollywood film producers have long been but there is something about Bollywood films. They enthusiastic about trying their hand at crossover cine- find it very interesting." ma. But he says their efforts have not met with success, In their quest to win international audiences, Indian because audiences in India and Western countries are film producers are trying to break the mold and explore very different. more contemporary themes. "I think it is this urge to tap newer markets, to tap Bridging the gap newer audiences," says Nahata. "But our filmmakers Several movie critics say the success in several coun- don't realize is that what is lacking is cinema which tries of a recent Hindi film, My Name is Khan, shows they enjoy. You cant jut tweak Bollywood cinema and that Bollywood is starting to tap a wider audience. It is say that 'I made it for the crossover audience'. Their the story of an Indian in America who battles the double tastes are completely different, plus their sensibilities problems of fighting Asperger's syndrome (a form of are different." autism) and being a Muslim in a post 9/11 world. Successful attempt However, trade analyst Nahata points out that cross- Bollywood has a massive fan following, not only in over audiences are still "miniscule." He feels the dis- India, but in many Asian countries such as Indonesia, tance between a Bollywood and a Hollywood movie is Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is also a huge too vast to be easily traversed. hit with Indians staying in Western countries. About "It has to be a completely different film, which risk seven percent of the revenues of the $2 billion industry the Indian filmmakers won't take because then they fear come from overseas markets. that the Indian audience and the traditional audiences The desire to woo Western audiences got a boost will be lost to that kind of film, notes Nahata. "The after the runaway success of the Oscar-winning film amount of crossover audiences which view our films is Slumdog Millionaire. The film was a British produc- so small it hardly matters." By: Kanayalal S Raina tion, which used Bollywood talent and was shot in the Some Bollywood producers are scaling down their slums of Mumbai fueled the desire among Bollywood ambitions for crossover projects. But others are not Last Saturday marked the 30th death anniversary of Mohammed Rafi, production houses to make a similar hit. giving up. In September, one of India's best known India’s singing legend who was loved beyond the borders of South Asia. Of course, a typical Hindi movie is very different filmmakers, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, will start shooting in However, he was paired with many playback singers over a career span- to Slumdog. It is usually a predictable, melodramatic the United States for an English language film called ning four decades, his more memorable songs were rendered with the story of boy-meets-girl and overcomes all odds to be Broken Horses, also aimed at global audiences. Like iconic female vocalist, Lata Mangeshkar. Rafi was a Punjabi Muslim, Lata together. These films are replete with glitzy song and him, many others hope that some day Bollywood -- a Maharashtrian Hindu. Their love songs still inspire millions. dance numbers. which produces the most movies in the world -- will When we see his voice sit ‘pat’ on Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand who Reason for optimism manage to make a mark internationally. started out in the ‘40s through Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra and Rishi Many people are optimistic that Bollywood movies [VOA News] Kapoor and then go perfectly on someone like Govinda in the Farz Ki Jung, we realise that Mohammed Rafi and his effortless vocal magic tran- scends time. But there is more to Rafi than just his huge musical treasury - he is as relevant today as he was in his lifetime, and has been so for 30 to live in Pakistan. So she returned to India and perma- Rawalpindi Conspiracy case. Later he was jailed for years since he passed away on July 31, 1980 nently settled there. more than four years. Similarly, Sahir Ludhianvi, a much-loved romantic Ustad Daman, the popular Punjabi poet, had a cha- poet, had settled down in Lahore in 1943, where he risma of his own. His radical views landed him in jail Rafi lives on… worked for a number of Urdu magazines. Everything on one occasion following the discovery of a bomb was going well until his writings, influenced by Com- planted in his room by his detractors. Pandit Nehru Why is Mohammed Rafi relevant today? To understand that, we must munism, appeared in Savera. A warrant for his arrest wooed him to take Indian citizenship but he stayed put study and analyse exactly what happened after Rafi passed away, when was put out by the government of Pakistan. In 1949 Sa- in Pakistan in spite of the challenges he faced. right at the top. Not only did he deliver multiple chartbusters in 1980 hir fled to India and never looked back. It was common to find Pakistanis seeking refuge in (Karz, Aap To Aise Na The) itself, he also dominated several big-ticket Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the magical classical India right up to Zia-ul Haq’s martial law regime. In- scores in that year (Aasha, Dostana, Ram Balram, The Burning Train, singer, was a Pakistani citizen. He became so disillu- dira Gandhi ensured that the special guests were well Shaan, Swayamwar, Kali Ghata, Do Premee and Aap Ke Deewane) with sioned by the apparent apathy towards him and his art looked after. In the 1990s, the tide turned and this is or without his good buddy, ardent fan, professional colleague and media- in Pakistan that he applied for and was granted a per- what the excessively nationalist Indian intellectuals fail declared “rival” Kishore Kumar. manent Indian immigrant visa in 1957-58. He migrated to accept. They seem to have little idea of how deeply The Lata-Rafi pairing was not some deliberate shoring up of maudlin to India where he lived happily till his death. Perhaps the rise of the Right-wing in India corroded the very secularism in the clichéd Hindu-Muslim mode. Just before them, the duets all who migrated to India lived a full life and were con- idea on which India was founded. of Kundan Lal Sehgal and Khursheed Bano were a rage in a self-assured ferred with awards and affection. Perhaps it is already too late. The Right-wing rum- India. After the trauma of 1947, Rafi and Lata, unconsciously and unob- On the other hand, Saadat Hassan Manto, whose blings in India, a country many Pakistanis till recently trusively, came to symbolise the multicultural resilience and the feasibility acerbically crafted stories of the Partition still evoke saw as an escape from Zia’s bigotry, was beginning to of the experiment called India. And nearly all their duets were similarly and define the tragedy, migrated to Pakistan after 1947 look like a replica of Pakistan. That’s how Fehmida — unconsciously and unobtrusively — a musical rejection of the idea of where he was tried thrice for obscenity. Disheartened Riaz, sensitive to India’s Nehruvian tryst, not the least Pakistan, not necessarily the way its founder conceived it, but the way it and financially broke he died at the early age of 42. because she had found refuge there through much of evolved. Zia Sarhadi, the Marxist filmmaker who made mem- Zia’s military excesses, was moved to speak up. She For decades after partition, there were other ways in which India claimed orable films like Footpath and Humlog, was a celebrity wrote: the higher moral ground over Pakistan in the realm of popular and classi- in Bombay when he chose to migrate to Pakistan. Rah- “Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle cal cultural motifs. I am privy to an ongoing discussion between worried guzar, his first movie there, turned out to be the last he Ab tak kahaan chhupe thay bhai artists, mostly from Pakistan, about the state of affairs. To back up their ever directed. During Gen. Zia-ul Haq’s martial law he thesis they listed several grievances with their country. was picked up by the Army and kept in solitary con- Wo ghaamadpan, wo jaahilpan jisme humne Only on Sunday, says Waseem Altaf who seems to have initiated a Web finement in terrible conditions. The charges against him sadi gawaee Ab pahonchi hai dwaar tumhar- discussion in Pakistan, he was watching a TV programme on the novel- were sedition and an inclination towards Marxism. On eyArey badhaee, bahot badhaee” ist Quratulain Haider. She went to Pakistan in 1949 where she joined the his release he left the country to live in the UK never Press Information Department. In 1959 her great novel Aag Ka Darya was to come back. The Lata-Rafi fan club is substantially curtailed today. published. It raised important questions about partition. It was this more The scholar poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was arrested in Along with it the era of their multicultural representa- than anything else, feels Altaf, that made it impossible for her to continue 1951 under the Public Safety Act and charged in the tion of India has all but waned. AUGUST 2010 Indian Independence Supplement 33 CLASSICAL TAMIL

Prime Minister David Cameron urges India to invest in the UK

A woman sells snacks at the venue of the World Classical Tamil conference, June 2010. Photo: S.Siva Saravanan/The Hindu

Among the world languages the Classical greatest Classical languages of the world status was originally given only to Greek …. It is only the that has produced uniquely so in India – an indepen- Press conference with Prime Minister Singh David Cameron listens to a and Latin. During 1800 – 1900 A.D., San- question from a journalist during his press conference with skrit was regarded a Classical language as dent, indigenous literary theory of a very Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 29 July 2010 a result of the English translations of the high standard including metrics and prosody, ancient Sanskrit texts by great savants like poetics and rhetoric. tamil-name Sangam William Jones, Max Muller and others. poetry is the expression of a linguistic, pro- In the later part of 19th century, Dr. Robert sodic and stylistic perfection; it is a finished, UK Government ministers and business leaders Caldwell established beyond the pale of con- consummate and inimitable literary expres- from India and the UK have taken part in a summit troversy the reality of Dravidian Family of sion of an entire culture, and of the best in to discuss opportunities for trade and investment be- Languages and the high antiquity of Tamil, that culture. In this sense, it is truly a classi- tween the two countries. which according to him, is the most highly cal product, a classical literature”. Prime Minister David Cameron, Business Secre- cultivated of all Dravidian idioms, can A.K. Ramanujan, another scholar of global tary Vince Cable and Chancellor George Osborne dispense with its Sanskrit altogether, if need reputation, endorsed the above view and and a number of Indian government ministers at- be, and not only stand alone, but flourish further added that among the two Classical tended the summit in Delhi, India, on July 29th. without its aid. languages of India, Sanskrit is not in current Mr Cameron told delegates that Britain’s universi- usage while Tamil continues its existence His study provided the base for the forma- ties, strong science sector, and expertise in defence tion of Pure Tamil Movement, founded by with a classical past. Apart from the views of the aforesaid and civil nuclear power were among the reasons that the great Tamil savant Paritimar Kalaingar other countries should consider investing in the UK. (V.G. Suryanarayana Sastri), who gave the scholars, the historians and archaeologists clarion call to recognise Tamil as a Clas- established the fact that the Indus-Valley The PM added: sical language, which in his high esteem Civilization is Pre- Aryan and Proto – Ta- “I think we bring a lot of those things in terms of was a high language (E°º-ö©õ-È), unique milian, indicating that the language of the expertise that we can share with you, but the one- language (uÛ-ö©õ-È) and Classical language Indus people was Proto-Tamil, the ancient minute advert for investing back in Britain is we (öŒ®-ö©õ--È). His view was further turned by form of Classical Tamil. The influence of have the English language, we have a time zone be- the renowned scholars Maraimalai Adikal Tamil on the Vedic Sanskrit was identified tween America and Asia, we have access to Euro- and Thvanaya -paavanars opinion that Tamil by Dr. M.B. Emneau and Dr.T. Burrow. pean markets, we have a highly trained workforce was the primary classical language of the Katyayana and Patanjali, the great com- and, as I’ve said, we’re one of the most open and world. mentators on the Aadhyayi of Paii exhibited welcoming economies.” their acquaintance with Tamil while explain- It is essential to note that even before the Earlier, the PM had taken part in a ceremonial wel- advent of Dr. Robert Caldwell, native schol- ing some grammatical rules. The presence of Tamil words in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, come at the Presidential Palace in Delhi and held a ars with erudition in Sanskrit discriminated meeting with President Pratibha Patil. the unique features of Tamil, independent of Japanese, Korean, Malay and other global Sanskrit. Sivanana Munivar of 18th century languages has been proved beyond doubt by Mr Cameron also laid a wreath at the Samadhi of A.D. underscored the special aspects of the specialists. The cultural and commercial Mahatma Gandhi and had a series of meetings in- Tamil, in his elaborate commentary on the commingling of the Tamils with the West cluding with Vice President Ansari and Ratan Tata, Payiram (-Prologue) of Tholkappiyam. Its and East was established through the numis- chairman of India’s largest corporation Tata Group. substance is given here below: matic, epigraphical and literary evidences. Following the summit, the PM visited the Delhi “The morpho-phonemic rules, the techni- Thus, the classical status of Tamil and the 2010 Commonwealth Games Hockey Stadium and cal terms, the implied verb, verb compound international contact of the Tamils with the had talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and other grammatical categories, the clas- global people become evident. where UK and Indian representatives signed a Mem- sification of words into rational category Though the scholars and linguists unabat- orandum of Understanding on Cultural Cooperation. edly emphasized for more than a century (-uyartịai) and non-rational category (-arịai), In a joint press conference following the meeting, the classification of literary themes into that Tamil has been a classical language, the credit goes to Dr. Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi, Mr Cameron said: Akam (love) and Puam (warfare and related “I believe we have made tremendous progress with themes), the behavioural divisions such as the Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil this relationship already. I believe there is much, Kuinci (union of lovers) and Vetc̣i (cattle Nadu, whose sagacious and tenacious efforts lifting) and their related aspects, the prosody prompted the Government of India for the much more to come and, after this visit, I feel even of Vepā and other metres – these and other official recognition and declaration of Tamil, more enthusiastic than I did when I put into our man- related features are not found in Sanskrit”. as a Classical language on 12.10.2004. It is a ifesto then into the Queen’s Speech how we wanted Among the reputed Tamilologists with memorable day in the annals of the Tamils. to build this very special relationship with India. And multi-lingual erudition who voiced for the I, for one, cannot wait to come back again and make Classical status of Tamil through their im- further progress in this, an important and winning partial research, let us first quote Kamil V. relationship for both our countries.” Zvelebil: [from World Classical Tamil Conference on- [www.number10.gov.uk] “those of 26,350 lines of (Sangam) poetry line - www.wctc2010.org ] promote Tamil to the rank of one of the 34 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal The Diaspora-'brain drain and brain gain'

ness oriented models in seeking own countries for better job secu- diaspora contribution to develop- rity. Many expatriates already ment. Indian recently launched contribute massively to their diaspora policy is multipronged; national economies through send- A. Brain Drain- I ts Nature pursuing direct investment, tech- ing remittances to their families. Well educated immigrants nology transfer. market opening It is said that India earns most of cause a massive brain drain in the and out-sourcing opportunities. its foreign exchange through the developing countries like Sri The poorer countries are not posi- remittances of their nationals Lanka and India. They make use tioned to take advantage of many working in the Middle - East and of the best educational resources kind of business investments but other foreign countries. Many available in their countries to millions of poor people in coun- expatriates are keen to use their equip themselves with a good tries that are more technological- skills, expertise and capital to education and leave for affluent ly sophisticated might benefit become real partners in local and counties for a better quality of life from multiplied effects of diaspo- national development. This was for their children and for them- ra investment. The dense web of very true of the recent happen- selves. George Haddad of ties between diaspora and their ings in the war affected areas of UNESCO asserts that 'a global country of origin in many cases, Sri Lankan where the diaspora in remittances to their families in lowed by U.K, India, Australia, phenomenon is emerging. It is the creation of individuals and various counties like Canada, their home country. They have Germany, New-Zealand, France, driven by new forms of transport, groups acting inn their own initia- Australia, U.K and the European provided investment band skills US, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, communication, business and tive, rather than a product of gov- counties have shown tremendous transfer specially in the dynamic Swiss, Netherlands, Ireland and search for economic, educational ernment intervention. beyond interest in the development of software industry. It is estimated Italy amount to almost 600,000. and scientific opportunity.' Even the individual and family level, their home lands. They have sent that 60% of all FDI (Foreign The well placed Tamils in the from African countries the flight diaspora organisations include medical, educational and engi- Direct Investment) to China was western countries have the pri- of human capital is staggering. associations of migrants originat- neering teams to help in the north provided by the Chinese diaspora. mary duty to meet the needs of Since 1990, at least 20,000 quali- ing from the same locality, ethnic and east of Sri Lanka. They have Contributions to tourist expendi- 100,000 children and young peo- fied people have left Africa every family groups, alumni associa- also invested usefully in rehabili- ture by their visiting families and ple in the war affected areas of Sri year. They would have been an tions, religious organizations, pro- tation schemes to help their kith relatives mainly through utilizing Lanka. The government of Sri asset to their home countries. fessional associations, charitable and kin. The possibility of virtual restaurants, hotels, entertain- Lanka may be able to restore the They are the people who can organizations, development participation in nation-building is ment and other services account name of their resplendent island deliver public services and articu- NGO's, investment groups, affilia- now made easier through interac- for another benefit. While remit- by getting the help of their dias- late the cause of democracy and tion of political parties, humani- tive technology sharing as well as tances have contributed to pover- pora through finding peace and development which are vital for tarian relief organizations schools the conversion of specialized ty alleviation, foreign exchange stability. It should gather the these countries. Resource people and clubs for the preservation of expertise into economic, social earnings and balance of pay- goodwill and cooperation of their also go temporarily for higher culture, virtual networks and fed- and cultural capital. Many reli- ments, to date, there is no evi- diaspora by solving the political education in western countries eration of associations. Many gions and nongovernmental dence that they have propelled problems with prudence and and most of them stay behind. examples are found in the organizations are helping with output growth. Furthermore dur- urgency. It has to tap the vast They had previously used public Canadian context itself. The grass root development. ing times of national calamities resources it has in the form of funds for their first degrees or Canadian Tamils have several Furthermore, social, religious like natural disasters or armed their diaspora in several western earlier education. Key destina- organizations that connect them and humanitarian agencies are conflicts, it is the diaspora that counties. It is then that Sri Lanka tions include the European Union, with their kith and kin in Sri devoted in accumulating all the comes to help in a great way as could prove itself and resurrect it North America, Japan and Lanka. The Tamil Rehabilitation man power and financial evidenced in Haiti and Sri Lanka. as the ' Pearl of the Indian Australia. The United States is Association of Canada is resources available in the task of E- Sri Lanka and I ts Ocean.' still the main pole of attraction. engaged in funding several devel- the development of the neglected Diaspora j.j. atputharajah Countries like Canada give all opment projects in the backward and the needy. The Sri Lankan Tamil immi- Formerly- Lecturer-NIE- encouragement and facilities to areas. International Movement of To sum up it could be assert- grants in the western world, large (PGDE Program) keep them behind. Tamil culture helps in promoting ed that the diaspora had provided number of them in Canada fol- B. Problems of Brain Drain cultural al activities in Tamil When these trained and well- homelands. The Canadian Tamil experienced people leave their Chamber of Commerce has Villages destroyed, residents driven out countries, the government face engaged in projects that are insurmountable problems in mutually beneficial to Sri Lanka to develop tourist sector in Sri Lanka terms of financial and public wel- and Canada. The Thenmaradchy fare to cope up with the deprived Service Organization is getting by Melani Manel Perera and bring them before the courts. and cashew nut trees, our sole situation. In certain African coun- the support of the diaspora from a On 17 July, masked men wield- Panama and Ragamvila are source of income. The government ing weapons destroyed the homes coastal villages. The local tourist does not care about our lives; it tries, the very existence of health particular village to help in its of residents in Panama and sector was badly damaged by the only wants to boost tourism." and medical facilities are threat- development. There are several Ragamvila, two coastal villages in civil war between the government On 27 July, residents of the ened. They are available to the alumni associations operating in northeastern Sri Lanka. Police and and Tamil Tigers that ended in May two villages protested in the wealthy but not to the ordinary Canada helping to provide more troops who now occupy the area 2009. Currently, the government in streets. Edision Gunatilake, senior man. In other spheres, develop- resources for their former have prevented residents from Colombo is taking over land and deputy inspector general of the ing countries are also critically schools. One can go on and on coming back. Locals accuse the cutting down forests to built facili- Eastern Province, promised he lacking in engineers who can relating the contribution of the government of taking their land to ties to increase tourism in war- would meet them. So far, he has design and oversee infra-struc- diaspora to the land of their birth. promote tourist development. affected areas. not yet set a date for a meeting. ture projects. Observers feel that D. Diaspora - Positive Ampara (AsiaNews) - Colombo On the night of 17 July, armed "It is a bad thing that land is developing countries should give Contributions is confiscating the land of resi- men wearing masks attacked the being grabbed with police protec- all incentives for their trained per- Diaspora of many of the dents of the villages of Ragamvila villages. They set houses on fire, tion," a PPT judge told AsiaNews. and Panama, Ampara Province, destroyed a village temple and "People who live along the coast sonnel to stay behind and help developing countries are now northeastern Sri Lanka, to give a drove people out. Police and are in real danger because they their mother countries. However, becoming agents of development boost to the local tourist sector, a troops moved in and took over the can be driven from their land at a former advisor to the Indian and rehabilitation for their mother decision slammed by the residents area and have prevented residents any time." Prime-Minister said that such countries. The influence of mobil- before the Permanent People's from coming back. "We urge politicians and restrictions may violate the funda- ity on economic and social Tribunal (PPT) last Sunday. Altogether 35 families, both investors to stop grabbing land mental values of human rights progress has also brought recog- PPTs were set up back in July Tamil and Sinhalese, called the and violating the rights of resi- and individual freedom. nition that the circulation of skills by the Praja Abhilasha Network, a place home. "We condemn this dents," said Herman Kumara, sec- C. Recent Trends-'Drain or and manpower can be positive in body created by the National unjust act by police of stealing our retary general of the World Forum Gain' accelerating development. Global Fisheries Solidarity Movement land," some residents, who pre- for Fisher People. China, India and Taiwan focus recession has induced some of (NFSM) to focus on land issues, ferred to remain anonymous, said [asianews.it] less on remittance than in pro- the expatriates from countries like especially seizures, in order to to AsiaNews. "We have lived here denounce them to public opinion for 20 years and tended coconut moting their very different busi- India and China to back to their Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Feature 35 PAPANASAM SIVAN

In the world of Tamil Isai sistence in the ` Ootpura' of the actress and wife of former Chief there are many carnatic music Maharaja. While at Trivandrum, Minister of Tamil Nadu. Rajagopal composers that have composed Sivan came under the influence of Iyer also had a encouraged by Shri Papanasam varnams, krithis, thirupugal, eminent musicians like Noorani Sivan was a recipient of a few Sivan Ashok Ramani a great javali, padhams viruthams, Mahadeva Bhagavathar, Samba titles. In 1950 the Indian Fine Arts singer and vice principal of sivan theverum's and thiruvasakams Bhagavathar and Karamanai Society honored him by confer- arts academy. If you get a chance songs and the most famous one Neelakanta Dasar. While at ring him the title ` Sangeetha to sing in front of him it is like Thirukurals by Thiruvaluvar, but Trivandrum, Sivan studied in the Sakithya Kala Sikhamani'. At the singing in front of Sangita today you will be exclusively read- Maharaja's Sanskrit college and celebrations of the 60th birthday Kalandhi Shri Papanasam Sivan ing about Sangita Kalanidhi Sri obtained the title Upadhyay'. of Sivan, Kanchi Acharyal blessed because it is that great. Sivan's Papanasam Sivan was born on Beyond this he had no schooling him with the titled ` Siva Punya bhajanai tradition is continued September 26, 1890 and lived till at all. Gaana Mani'. The Tamizh Isai celebrated its fifth anniversary in even today his daughter Dr. his last breath on October 1, Sivan's mother, who had a Sangam honored him with the Toronto on the10th and the 11th Rukmini Ramani and her son 1973. Sri Sivan was a prominent gifted sweet voice for music, had title ` Isai Peraignar'. The Music of July 2010 at Athi Parasathi Papanasam Ashok Ramani and composer of Carnatic music and a learnt more than 600 songs of the Academy honored him with the Hindu temple in Scarborough. even by rasikas around the world. singer. A famous composer, Sivan famous composers of the day. title "Sangeetha Kalanidhi". He Papanasam Ashok Ramani is was also known as Tamil Sivan imbibed this talent heredi- was admitted as a ` Fellow' of the doing this function all around the Thyagayya. Using Classical South tarily from his mother and his Sangeet Natak Akademi, New world. This function is held in Indian as a base, Sivan created material grandfather, who was Delhi. In 1962 Sivan received the almost every country. We rasikas numerous hits popularized by M. also a good musician. Sivan led a President's Award. Lastly in 1972, should thank Sri Papanasam K. Thygaraja Bhagavathar and M. very simple unshakeable life at the age of 82, the Indian Ashok Ramani for caring on the S. Subbulakshmi. Sri Sivan has nature timid and shy to the extent Government conferred on him Papanasam Sivan heritage. On composed over thousand songs of self-abnegation ` Padma Bhushan'. the 10th there was a music com- even though he had no formal Ramaiya (Papanasam Sivan) Between 1899 and 1910, petition and the options were training in Tamil. The Music has a daughter Dr.Rukmani Sivan lived with his mother in vocal, violin mridangam and Academy honors itself by bestow- Ramani who is a leading Carnatic Tiruvanantapuram, where he was bharatha natyam. On the 11th ing on Sivan the title "Sangita Musician in Chennai. Ashok inspired by the composer there were individual singing of Kalanidhi" in December 1971. He Ramani who is his grandson is Nilakanta Sivan. Nilakanta Sivan Sivan songs, and then they had a lost his father when he was six also a successful Carnatic passed away in 1903. However, prize distribution. But the main years old, and since the family Musician. Another daughter by Sivan says he had the fortune of point was even if you did not get was afflicted by adversity, Sivan, name Nila Ramamurthy also com- attending Nilakanta Sivan's bha- a prize you can surely get a prize his mother and elder brother poses Carnatic music. He had a jans during the years 1902 and next time, because you will work migrated to Trivandrum, the brother Rajagopal Iyer whose 1903. as twice or as triple times harder Article By: Kapilan Sachchithananthan "Dharma Rajya". They found sub- daughter V.N.Janaki was an This year Sivan Arts Academy and achieve and you will get Waka Waka The official Song for FIFI 2010

Though Colombia never made demic interest how our audience it to the World Cup 2010, it is well would react to K.L. Saigal's "ek represented, again, today with bangle bane nyara, rahe kunba jis the curves and moves of Shakira, mein sara." It is one of the best the Colombian pop superstar, will songs of one acclaimed as the be centre stage with the latest first superstar of Hindi cinema. He song, "Wak Waka" the official was born in this city. How would song for World Cup 2010, has the younger generation react to become the sound that captures it? It is an age of nuclear families. the excitement of the most await- One is not sure either of the reac- ed soccer event. Shakira's 'Waka tion that "ae malik tere bande Waka', the official song for World hum" (sung by Lata Mangeshkar) Cup 2010, has become the sound may evoke in the present materi- that captures the excitement of alistic age. The youth believes in the most awaited football event. speed and overcoming all chal- The world has enjoyed foot- lenges. It claims attention as a ball as it has been played in South matter of right as Monali Thakur Africa. It has also danced to the says in her voice "ah zara zara tune of Waka Waka. Everybody touch me" in Race in what turned with an ear for music has out to be the fourth most played hummed it at least once. song on Indian radio during the Colombian singer and musician ver screen on fire with "Bidi jalai may twist one of his several to denote youthful energy. There first half of 2008. Waka Waka Shakira (full name: Shakira Isabel le" (Omkara) and "ho Billo Rani, meaningful observations for our is some anger in South Africa. It captures that spirit. Mebarak Ripoli) has lent meaning kaho to abhi jaan de dun" (Dhan immediate purpose. He has said: seems to be born of the fact that and glamour to the official Dhana Dhan …Goal). "What's in a name. the song has not been sung by a Kanayalal Raina anthem of the FIFA World Cup She has now expressed the That which we call a rose by son or daughter of the soil. Why www.businessplans4all.com 2010. Tilted "This Time for Africa" desire that she wants to learn any other name would smell as should they lament? There are it goes on: "Pick yourself up, and Shakira's moves. What clicks in a sweet." Waka certainly does not several South Africans who have dust yourself off, and back in the song is always difficult to say. mean Rose. But as of today it is given Shakira a helping hand. saddle, you're on the frontline. There are many ingredients that one of the most popular expres- There are many more who have Everyone's watching… go into its making. It seems that sions. What is in a word if it does enjoyed every moment of it. Why Waka Waka eh eh." Her catchy tune matters more than not catch the popular imagina- should we confine music to geo- movements are so graceful and anything else. There is definitely a tion? From all accounts Waka has graphical boundaries? Had foot- so meticulously she leads her value addition if it is accompanied been lapped up by masses all ball been similarly restricted it flock in the video (unfortunately by steps and gestures of a talent- around. It has become a catch- would not have come to South we have missed the actual pres- ed artist. phrase for struggle. Its literal Africa. entation which has been in anoth- Waka Waka is a case in point. meaning, they say, is "do it" or Looked from our perspective er continent) that our own sensa- It hardly matters if we don't know something which is joyful or full of Waka Waka is yet another signal tion Bipasha Basu is enthralled. the meaning of the word. With life. We are among many on this that the fast music is the fashion Bipasha has set the Bollywood sil- due apologies to Shakespeare we planet who think that it has come of the day. It is a matter of aca- Kanyalal Raina 36 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Canada - We Complain, the World Compliments Samy Appadurai is a the short term pain for the long term gain. Practicing conser- renowned broadcast vatism in politics brought us journalist, author, away from the Americans. When Samy Appadurai educator and public the thirteen colonies of the new I was at the emergency ward speaker who makes his world fought against their colonial at one of the better known hospi- ruler the United Kingdom and had tals in Toronto at about 7.00 am home in Toronto. the revolution, the Canadians in with a friend of mine who had an ism-the idea that all people of all the north still wanted their inde- emergency health problem. cultures need to work together to pendence but without shedding While he was suffering from some support each other while uphold- blood or antagonizing their ances- sort of respiratory problem, he ing common values. And unlike tors. The Americans, the sons was shouting loud enough to pen- America's melting pot policy, and daughters of liberty adopted etrate all the layers of the atmos- Canada does not just "tolerate" or a brand new republic and the phere and hard enough to make a dilute other cultures; rather it presidential system of govern- hole in the ozone layer. This encourages new immigrants in ment, Canada still continues the the preservation of their culture parliamentary and the constitu- scene alerted the attention of of the facilities that we enjoy respects. The world nations that while getting integrated into tional monarchy systems. In spite other patients who had appeared today. It may serve us well to condemned China's deprivation of Canadian life at the same time. Of of practicing conservatism in to be waiting their turn for a cou- think about how they survived freedom left it isolated until the course, in the due course of time many aspects of the government, ple of hours for treatment. Some without pipe born water , without early 1970s. It was at that time the third generation of new com- the structure of the senate follows of the patients who thought that electricity, no modern heating that Dr. Henry Kissinger, former ers gets absorbed within the main in the footsteps of the House of they had unbearable pain became equipment for the cold winters state secretary of President Nixon stream culture without any out- Lords with some new Senators noticeably more relaxed seeing , not having industrial strength made a strong political maneuver side help. The only drawback is appointed by the Prime Minister. him in a much worse condition equipment for building infra- by recognizing China and estab- that many show a strong patriotic It is this idea of "Responsible and realized they themselves structure on virgin forested land lishing a diplomatic relationship. connection to their ancestral Government" that makes the new were in a relatively better state. and having to live at the mercy of There were a number of reasons homeland. It began from the comers who have migrated from The reporting formalities were the weather . At that time as well, for doing this but the most impor- father of Canada, Sir John A over 190 countries around the done in short order and while I you had to pay for medical treat- tant one was based on the politi- McDonald who once said that" I world feel more at home in was seated in a corner, I listened ment and surgery could put your cal philosophy of "The enemy of was born as a British subject and Canada. to some of the patients venting family into debt for years. Quite my enemy is my friend". live and die as a British subject". The whole world was very their frustrations. One of them frankly I think our forefathers Although both the former Soviet It is and will be very important to impressed with the operation and said that "It is a horrible health would balk at our lack of courage Union and China practiced the foster a sense of national pride in the management of the Canadian care system and this not at all an and forbearance. Communist ideology in their econ- new Canadians. banking system when all of the emergency ward, how long we First of all let's get into an Air omy and politics, they were rivals Another excellent example developing nations had been are going to wait." Another per- Canada plane and go around the in their circle. By becoming closer from recent history is that when struggling to fight against the son said "Never mind waiting for world and listen to what the world and encouraging China in its radical sovereignty members worst recession since the a couple of hours, imagine this, leaders and citizens of countries development, the strength of were very active in Quebec and Depression of the 1930s. Most of my sister has to wait for kidney in all six continents have to say. A Soviet Union would be brought the unity of Canada was at stake those nations entered the reces- surgery for years". Still another recent survey conducted by a down to a certain extent. Another , both of the leading Canadian sion earlier and have yet to come person said "Look at these politi- reputable institution revealed example is India. India is the political parties got together, put out of it whereas Canada entered cians, they swallow our money that over 54 percent of middle most populous democratic nation their party interests aside and later and began getting out of it by saying that they want to trans- aged people from developed in the world and a spiritual giant, brought the national interest to earlier. The conservatism policy in fer our files into e-files and then nations such as the United but India does not have very bal- the forefront. They accepted controlling and managing the they did nothing fruitful." These Kingdom, U.S.A, France , India, anced development and is lagging what was the only alternative to financial institutions brought in a complaints never helped in reduc- China , Germany, Japan , behind in many aspects. safeguard the unity of the nation steady capital formation and a ing the pain and suffering of the Australia , Russia to name a few Although America is the only and that was to strengthen the strong real estate market. patients, rather they aggravated wanted to migrate to Canada and super power of the world , provincial Liberals of Quebec Though the deficit in the govern- it. After listening to all of this I join us in sharing the fruits of our American foreign policy is con- and create a powerful provincial ment budget is higher compared arrived at two conclusions. The labour. Their reasoning is because troversial , government debt is in government , rather than allow- to the period of the recessions in first one being that these people of overall development in Canada the trillions and that debt itself is ing the Parti Quebecois to the 1980s and 1990s, still com- are complaining that the glass which includes better health serv- more than the GDP of some become more dominant. The pared with countries like the half empty rather than half full. ices, education, transportation, countries in the world. national Conservative leader was United States of America, United The second one is the assumed and the peaceful co existence of Let us now refresh our memo- transferred to the position of Kingdom, and some other devel- mismanagement or misuse of the multi ethnic groups. The survey ry and allow me to capitalize on provincial party leader of the oped nations, the Canadian deficit tax payer's money by the govern- clearly revels the internal temper- my years of deep rooted experi- Liberals and even today, the is still relatively small. The unem- ment. ature of the world and tells us ence on three continents and Premier of Quebec John Charest ployment rate never climbed to I do not disagree with that the high quality of life cou- gauge today's Canada. The acknowledged that he will seek a double digits and began to come Canadians who lobby and protest pled with greater maturity in unique qualities of Canada cer- 4th consecutive victory and not down from 8.1% to 7.9% in the on reasonable grounds. But com- most of the vital aspects of this tainly supersede its draw backs. at all rejoin federal politics. month of May 2010. When it was plaints regarding issues such as nation, people and the governing The political maturity of the At the Winter Olympics, and discovered that there were some inadequate health services, institutions has placed the image Canadian masses and active the G8 and G20 summits of 2010, new mineral deposits in the increasing crime rates, school of Canada in a very unique posi- politicians are scoring compara- the members of the opposition northern territories and large dropout rates, air quality, environ- tion. I do understand that there tively high marks. It is pretty clear parties disagreed on many things amounts of oil sand deposits in mental issues, abuses in the are countries in the world that that Canada has a vision and including the spending of almost Alberta and Newfoundland, immigration system, discrimina- have better strengths in certain every move of the government a billion dollars on security. But Canadians did not get overly tion in many sectors, the cost of aspects but are lacking behind in and the voters are very much in when the time of hosting those excited, rather they carried out security for the G8-20 and so many others. For example, China synch. Canada acknowledges and events came, they all forgot their their normal routines. The atti- forth are unavoidable and should is marching forward as a potential values the efforts put forward in differences and either cooperated tude of "stay calm and carry on" not be ignored or accepted at world power having a strong building this nation. As a nation or kept silent. Canadians are has served us well. face value. Sometimes I wonder economy. This country has come we are concerned with diminish- smart people; they do not make My commentary would not be if the souls of the forefathers from a "have not" level to the sec- ing the gap between the main much noise and watch the situa- complete if I do not narrate the who built this nation get revived ond largest economy in the world stream and minorities and within tion carefully before making any stand of Canada on international and listen to our complaints? If worth 3 trillion dollars. But the the minorities that of the visible moves. I can cite a recent exam- terrorism, particularly with the they could speak to us from denial of fundamental freedoms and non visible. When it comes to ple of how Canadians waited until Islamic nations. beyond the grave, they may ask for the people, freedom of the integrating minorities, we are the eleventh hour and approved us to look back at their circum- press, freedom of expression etc very successful. This is somewhat the way the G8-20 was organized Contd. in page 38 stances and at the non availability has brought China down in some rooted in the idea of intercultural- and executed. Canadians take Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Feature 37

If you make a list of all the WORDS OF PEACE things that you consider sin, in let's say, the five major religions of the world; take the top five reli- gions in the world, make a list of Knowing all the things that you label as sin, How do people know what water there." then you will understand, to be always you must be going to the they know? The traveler's third concept, alive is a sin. Isn't it? temple or church or mosque and "All our lives," says Maharaji, he says, was that he could get So, if you don't feel guilty pay the necessary money and who travels the world to speak to water himself--"I don't need this about something you will not go respects and works and every- people about a fundamental kind fellow." to the temple or church or thing, this is how the whole damn of knowing, "people have told us Maharaji endorses knowing mosque? Fear and guilt have been thing has been running. Isn't it things, and we have believed rather than believing as the way two tools with which religion has so? those things. We're trapped by to experience this life. been running for a long time. If What I am telling you is - do our own ideas. They become "My advice," Maharaji says, "is there is no fear in people, there is whatever you want, but please chains that hold us back. Each link not to be a believer, but to no guilt in people, very few would understand for every action that in the chain is formed by the become a knower. Don't believe. go these places. Most of the peo- you perform there is a conse- hearsay and beliefs that we have Know. Just that much will change ple are going only because there accumulated in life." a person for the better. For those These ideas are not harmless, who want to know, clarity knocks says Maharaji, who over the years at the door. For those who only Bring sense has addressed millions of people want to believe, clarity stays far in hundreds of cities around the away, because it knows it will not world. be welcomed." "It's so easy to have concepts- - it's this way, it's that way," he in your life says. "The world is full of that. quence. If you can bear the con- When there's speculation, then sequence joyfully, do whatever there are questions. There are you please. If you are the kind doubts. There are discussions, who will cry when the conse- debates, and interpretations, quence comes, right now, you because the real thing is not need to calibrate your actions. If there. When the real thing is not you are the kind, no matter what there, that's what happens. happens to you; if you are going "There is a story that perhaps to be hanged tomorrow, you will illustrates this," he says. "A travel- still go blissfully; do whatever you er heard that there was some- want. 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These efforts got a big push ing Hindu philosophy's four ways of global political leaders' attitude to when Sri Lankan military intelli- dealing with people - Sama, Dana, the LTTE after the 9/11 al Qaeda gence recently unearthed highly Bheda and Dand - in defusing the attack and the US led war on Jihadi classified documents and diaries of Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora's poten- terrorism in its wake. Prabhakaran Castro, former head of the LTTE's tial to incubate separatist militancy did not realise the urgent need to international wing, at Viswamadu. of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil change the LTTE strategy to suit the These documents have provided Eelam (LTTE) kind. new environment. KP's observation details of LTTE international While Sama uses logical reason- "there is a new world order today, activists engaged in human traffick- ing and common sense to explain which does not tolerate armed cam- ing, arms smuggling and financial one's position, Dana is the classical paigns and that is the hard reality," bases in East Asia, Western , carrot ploy of offering incentives - showed a realism much needed by Canada and Africa. as Americans say 'if you can't win those still voicing LTTE slogans. In this context it is interesting to them, buy them.' Bheda the third Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) The increasing public projection note that the Defence Secretary option is the one that politicians aided by KP would probably work religious society since independ- of KP in spite of his detention has Gotabaya Rajapaksa touched upon indulge all the time - create a split on this segment, provided political ence precipitated Sri Lanka's ethno- caused uneasiness among Tamil this aspect while addressing the to win over a section. Dand, the last initiatives are also taken in tandem. political conflict. Sri Lanka 's politi- politicians who consider it as Galle dialogue on maritime security resort is to use force (or the stick, The other segment has a much cal masters compromised Sri Rajapaksa's ploy to destabilise conference over the week end. He the other half of the proverbial car- deeper ideological belief in preserv- Lanka's long term national and them. This fear is probably justified said, "no matter how powerful we rot ploy). ing the Tamil identity and creation strategic interests for short term as KP is no ordinary prisoner. are individually, so long as we act in The recent high profile public the Tamil Eelam as the only process political gain. Unless Sri Lankan Normally as a member of the inner isolation, we will be ineffective projection of the former LTTE inter- to do it. This segment has its origins politicians build the understanding cabinet of Prabhakaran he should against threats arising from the national affairs representative and a even before the LTTE was born. to never again to play ethnic and be cooling his heels in the Sri trans-national operations of non- high security prisoner Kumaran This segment is deeply suspicious religious based politics, poison the Lankan version of the Guantanamo state actors." Pathmanathan (KP) is apparently a of majority Sinhalese's political ground by radicalizing its youth, and Bay, where his former colleagues Can Sri Lanka wean over the part of Sri Lanka's Bheda strategy. intentions due to historical experi- reinforce ethnic and religious divi- are awaiting prosecution. His arrest Tamil Diaspora from the Eelam It fits in well with the larger Sri ence. And it had been the fountain- sions, the country is likely to suffer in and rendition was the cause and support to resurrection Lankan game plan to handle the head of separatism. It would proba- a repetition of its unfortunate past." biggest story of the year after the of Tamil militancy? Tamil Diaspora. Already it seems to bly be never wholly won over by the The Sri Lanka government and the defeat of the LTTE. To answer yes to this question have worked as a few known per- reasoning of the type KP dispenses. national leadership would do well to But even before KP completed would be oversimplifying a complex sonalities of the Tamil Diaspora However, he may make a dent in its heed his words of caution as there his first year of imprisonment, problem compounded by uneven (who had supported the LTTE in the system of beliefs. is no indication they are attending rumours are thick that the elusive composition of the Diaspora. And it past) have agreed to join hands This segment needs political to this vital aspect of political confi- former chief arms procurer of the would also be ignoring the historical with KP and participate in the solutions to disprove their ingrained dence building. LTTE, may rise like the proverbial realities of how the Tamil Diaspora reconstruction process in the North. beliefs. These have not been forth- Unless this is attended to mere phoenix from the ashes of Tamil became the main supporters of KP had confirmed this in a coming for the last three decades Machiavellian strategies in handling militancy to join the political main- Tamil militancy. The Tamil Diaspora series of media interviews recently. from successive Sri Lankan govern- the Diaspora would not provide a stream. And if the media space he is is neither uniform nor clearly seg- According to him his newly formed ments. And even now little has satisfactory solution. already hogging, even as a prisoner, mented in their support to the NGO outfit 'The North-East been done, other than talking about (Col R Hariharan, a retired is any indication the process for his Eelam cause. Basically they act in Rehabilitation and Development implementing even a half way Military Intelligence specialist political anointment has already two planes. One is on the emotion- Organisation' (NERDO) located in house solution like the 13th amend- on South Asia, served with the started. It fits in well with a series al plane based upon their own bitter Vavuniya, was preparing to play a ment to the constitution. Indian Peace Keeping Force in of stories that started with his much experience over the years, having key role in the rehabilitation, recon- Prof Rohan Gunaratne, Sri Sri Lanka as Head of publicised visit to Vanni in the com- lost their kith and kin. Their inabili- struction and resettlement process- Lanka's own high profile terrorism Intelligence. He is associated pany of Tamil Diaspora leaders to ty to directly go the aid of their kin es. With years of overseas exposure analyst of international repute, with the Chennai Centre for look at the state of rehabilitation when they are still suffering makes in his LTTE days, KP had built influ- touched upon this home truth while China Studies and the South and the formation of a NGO for them angry now. Swayed by emo- ential Diaspora connections. While speaking on post war challenges of Asia Analysis Group. E-Mail: canalising contributions from the tions on happenings in Sri Lanka all of them may not join KP's efforts, Sri Lanka in Colombo last week. He [email protected] Blog: Diaspora thereafter. the majority probably belong to this he seems to have thrown a spanner said "failure of Sri Lankan leaders to www.colhariharan.org) KP's candid interviews bearing category. The Sri Lankan strategies in the works of sections of the govern a multi-ethnic and a multi- his views not only on the LTTE's Diaspora to rebuild a unified organ- defeat and Tamils suffering but also isation to carry forward the LTTE his favourable comments on the cause. Of course, hard boiled LTTE Canada - We Complain, the World Defence Secretary and the acolytes would now find justification President came as icing on the cake to call him a quisling. of his publicity blitz. There is no Contd. from page 36 Justifying his action to collabo- Compliments doubt that KP's privileged public rate with the government, KP said it access is part of a Sri Lankan game We should appreciate that Let us now look at the sion, search and exploration of was essential for Tamils to realise plan. However, his political rehabili- the ground realities in a post-LTTE Canada has not confronted any future of Canada. In the future, new markets are one of the top tation may come through only after era in the island nation and review particular ethnic, religious, or there is going to be more of a most priorities. Last but not his evidence as a crown witness is its strategy to meet the new chal- political groups. In fact, decentralized economy away least, the baby boomers expect- fully milked during the prosecution lenges. His said he was only "con- Canada never joined as the from Alberta, Ontario, and ed that more babies would of 737 LTTE hard core cadres in cerned about the welfare of the confronting fighters in the Iraq Quebec to other provinces. replace them, but the decline in custody. This process could take a people, particularly children, though or Afghanistan wars. In There is a concentration of eco- the natural increase in popula- year to complete unless special some seek fresh funding to cause Afghanistan, we are participat- nomic activities that have tion does not give us much courts are set up. If this surmise is mayhem. People are fed up with ing due to our obligations to already moved from Ontario to hope, therefore, Canadian correct, probably KP is slated to war and every effort should be NATO. Internally Canada never some other provinces due to immigration policies have to occupy a place in the political firma- made to alleviate their suffering deprives the rights of certain more of the pulling and pushing meet the challenge of the short- ment in 2011. without playing politics with a pure- groups of people or relaxes its forces. The security and protec- age of man power. I am not Even before the war, Sri Lanka ly humanitarian motive." This is so hate crime regulations. There tion of the Canadian North is worried, we have faced many had embarked upon an effort to true. Logical reasoning with LTTE essential. The exports of raw challenges before and we will make it difficult for LTTE to retain its might some small incidents that supporters had never worked suc- foothold in many countries. The might have been instigated by minerals may have to be turned do it again. cessfully in the past when the President, prime minister, and the certain individuals, and even in into finished products more In closing allow me to say, LTTE's flag was flying high. But foreign minister in the past had those cases Canada has stood than now. Since North this is my country. I love it and words coming from a senior leader stressed this aspect in their interna- firm in protecting the constitu- American free trade is not mov- I love its people. Let us all be like KP in times of adversity would tional visits and appearances. Apart tional rights of the victims ing as was expected, the exten- proud to be Canadians. definitely create at least second Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Feature 39 Sirimavo Bandaranaike: 50th anniversary of world's first woman Prime Minister by Gopalakrishna Gandhi leadership vacuum being filled by Month of July this year a next of kin amid acclaim, and marked 50 years since the world then legitimised in free and fair beheld its first woman prime min- elections, is and will remain a ister. I was about 14 and knew Sirimavo accomplishment and a but little of Ceylon when I read Sirimavo contribution to the the banner story 'Bandaranaike dynamics of political succession in shot'. 'Will he live?' was the first South Asia. question that crossed my teenage Few could have anticipated mind gripped by the description Sirimavo's role in the Asia of 1962 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of the outrage and of the stricken and in the non-aligned world. first woman PM handling negotia- prime minister rushing in from the After China announced a cease- tions with her Indian counterparts verandah of his home, calling out fire on the Sino-Indian border, a (both newer than her in prime "Sirima, Sirima!" settlement of the border question ministership) with the confidence That must have been the first could have been expected to of a 'senior' PM albeit of the Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike with Soviet Union Prime Minister Alexei time the world outside of the come; it did not. Indeed, it could 'smaller' neighbour. Size is one Kosygin,Tissa Wijeyeratne and Anura Bandaranaike not, given the circumstances. thing, strength another. island really heard of her. India est-born, added poignantly. "She Bandaranaike was no ordinary Sirimavo, just over two years' old Sirimavo Bandaranaike lost had seen her visiting with her was no ordinary woman," said the woman. But this wasn't just in prime ministership, invited the office around the same time as husband. Prime Minister Nehru, younger daughter, President because she was the world's first governments of five other non- Indira Gandhi did in 1977, in a ever the one to take a watchful Chandrika Bandaranaike woman prime minister. aligned countries - Burma, democratic corrective to host's interest in the families of Kumaratunga. (Gopalkrishna Gandhi was Cambodia, Ghana, Indonesia and Emergency Rule. Sirimavo then visiting heads of government and Sirimavo's and SWRD's only Indian High Commissioner to Sri the United Arab Republic - for a had her civil rights taken away by State, must have warmed to this son, Anura, came straight from Lanka from 2000 to 2002. This is discussion on the situation. A set President Jayewardene, seen by traditional Kandyan woman and electioneering, crushed. a revised version of an essay in a of 'Colombo Proposals' emerged, many as Prime Minister Morarji her three children, beside the Sirimavo had, barely a few volume being issued in Sri Lanka which India accepted, establish- Desai's Lankan equivalent. But westernised prime minister of hours earlier voted in the con- to mark 50 years of Sirimavo ing the PM of Ceylon on the Asian the very populace that had voted Ceylon. stituency he was contesting from, Bandaranaike becoming prime stage, with intercontinental Sirimavo out, disapproved of that Speaking in chiselled English, but from a party's that was not minister. The views expressed by salience. extreme 'punishment' and Solomon West Ridgeway Dias hers. Such is democracy. Sirimavo the author are personal) Bandaranaike ('SWRD') soared Bilaterally, India saw Sirimavo returned her to power. with his words and ideas. In con- take up with verve the question of Which reminds me that trast, she was very much on and Ceylon's 'Stateless' Tamils of Sirimavo had a striking head and Ten-Year Infrastructure Plan Will off the ground. When reports Indian origin. The issue pertaining a strikingly broad forehead. And from Colombo suggested that the to these hard-working men and her face, prime ministerial or not, Support Economic Growth sudden vacuum created by women on the island's tea and one could not pass by without McGuinty Government Frost South, 6th Floor, Toronto, SWRD's succumbing to the attack rubber plantations had defied feeling, 'What an unusual person'. Seeks Public Input on Long- ON M7A 1Y7. solution for years, with Nehru Shortly after assuming duties as may get to be filled by none other Term Plan "The McGuinty government's High Commissioner for India in than the demure 44-year-old saying that they "are or should be Ontario is developing a new, new 10-year Infrastructure Plan Sirimavo Bandaranaike, there was citizens of Ceylon". September 2000, 10-year plan for infrastructure will build on our record of mod- surprise. How would she man- In 1964, discussions between I called on her in her Rosmead that will support the Open ernizing and renewing our age? At that stage in her life Sirimavo and India's new PM Lal Place residence, the same house Ontario Plan to create jobs and schools, hospitals and other pub- Sirimavo was what wives of prime Bahadur Shastri led to a policy SWRD had been assassinated in. new opportunities for growth. lic infrastructure. Since 2003 our ministers are taken to be - non- change culminating in the She was physically weak. But the The McGuinty government is investments have helped create persons to be greeted and spoken Sirimavo-Shastri Agreement. This stroke she had suffered hadn't asking to hear Ontarians' per- future economic growth and with to in thought-free courtesy and agreement divided that popula- got the better of her mind. Her spectives to help create the new input from Ontarians during then, duty done, forgotten. But tion between the (smaller) num- forehead glowed, her voice 10-year Infrastructure Plan. The these consultations we will con- soon, a patronising appreciation ber that Ceylon would accept and though soft, had a resonance to plan will identify key trends, tinue to support the vital infra- issues, and priorities to help structure that make our commu- replaced the earlier surprised the (larger) number that would be it. "How is Delhi?" she asked. The modernize and expand public nities stronger - and make scepticism. repatriated to India, the fate of question could have meant many infrastructure over the next 10 Ontario a better place to live, The new PM was conducting the balance to be decided on a things. And then turning to the years. This will help boost pro- work and play." herself at discussions with ease, if later date. Who stays and who Indian High Commissioner's ductivity, support economic - Brad Duguid also with modesty; her English leaves was to be determined by house in Colombo - India House - growth, improve public services Minister of Energy and she said, "Large house, lovely was plain but effective, her think- choice - in theory, a voluntary and enhance our quality of life. Infrastructure ing sharp, her grasp of 'hard' exercise. garden." I asked her to visit. "Will Ontarians are invited to pro- QUICK FACTS issues sharper, and she was But with the 'quotas' deter- be glad to do so," she said. But vide their input on infrastructure Total infrastructure invest- 'growing into her office' remark- mined and the stayers' quota that was not to be. priorities in their communities ment by the province this year ably well and fast. Sirimavo dis- quickly over-subscribed, the On October 10, less than a and across Ontario, and can visit and in the past five years totals covered the prime minister in her- agreement lost its voluntarism month after my calling on her, she the ministry's website for more approximately $60 billion. self and invented herself in the and became a fait accompli for was gone. It was a polling day. information. Construction is underway or prime minister. Where she made the plantation workers, with the She was returning home after Building on recent short-term completed at more than 100 an early and acknowledged mark stayers feeling relieved and the casting her vote in Horagolla infrastructure investments and major hospital projects and more was in her clear realisation that in leavers bewildered by the abyss when she took ill and was given the successful $30-billion ReNew than 13,000 school renewal proj- Ontario plan, the province is ects across Ontario. governance, in diplomacy and in of uncertainty ahead. treatment in a small medical cen- developing a new long-term The $30-billion ReNew the many dimensions of political The Sirimavo-Shastri tre that happened to be on the infrastructure plan to meet Ontario investment plan helped leadership, the surest guide is Agreement was compounded the way. But it was too late. I reached Ontario's future needs. The final tackle Ontario's infrastructure one's own instinct. following decade by a Sirimavo- the house as the lifeless form was plan is expected to be released deficit and was completed in To Sirimavo Bandaranaike also Indira Agreement in which the being brought in. It was signifi- next year. 2008-09, a full year ahead of cant (I told the family) that a per- belongs the credit of consolidat- 'residuaries' were shared half- You can e-mail your submis- schedule. son whose voting rights had been ing something that had been and-half between India and Sri sion to infrastructure.submis- Ontario is providing record 'started' earlier by Dudley Lanka, in another diplomatic taken away should have ended [email protected], fax it to 416- infrastructure investments in Senanayake, namely, the principle accomplishment for Sirimavo. her career as a democratically- 325-8851 or send by mail to: The 2009-10 and 2010-11 that will of a next of kin succeeding a These two agreements, and the elected leader, just after casting Ministry of Energy and create and support more than leader in political office. Outside decisions on the islet of her vote. "With voters' ink fresh Infrastructure, c/o Infrastructure 300,000 jobs in Ontario over two of monarchic arrangements, a Kachchativu, showed the world's on her finger," Sunethra, her eld- Policy and Planning Division, years. 40 Durham News AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Canada Day Celebrations

ture at the Canada Day celebra- parks, TCASD booth was filled tions with the Town of Ajax and with children and adults lined up the City of Pickering. to get anything ranging from At the Rotary Park TCASD dragons and maple leaves to tra- conducted Cultural Fashion Flair, ditional henna designs drawn on their hands. The Tamil Cultural and modeling a variety of sarees, This year TCASD introduced a Academic Society of Durham lenghas and punjabi suits, new activity to have the people's (TCASD) participated in the cele- emceed by Robert Gruber name written in Tamil. bration of Canada's 143rd birth- Manager of Community & Cultural Overall it was a great success! day at the Kinsmen Park in Development with Town of Ajax TCASD is grateful to both cities Pickering and Rotary Park in Ajax. and Raveena Rajasingham for the opportunity to share their Celebrating multi-culturalism, It President of TCASD. Canada day festivities with the was a great opportunity for At the Kinsmen Park TCASD youth performed dances. At both residents of Ajax and Pickering. Sigogini Sivarajah modelling in Punjabi suit at the Town of Ajax TCASD to showcase the Tamil cul- Canada Day celebration

Laurina Mahendran Modelling in an elegant saree at the Town of Ajax Canada Day TCASD youth doing henna designs at the City of celebrationPickering Canada Day celebration Pickering Canada Day celebration Our Lady of Madhu

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11.30 a.m.: Holy Rosary followed by Holy Mass 3.30 p.m. Benediction For more info: 416-3300-77026 Some children had their name written in Tamil at the City of Pickering Canada Day celebration UPCOMING EVENTS AT TCASD Mark Your Calendars: TCASD Outing and Fun Fair 10th annual BBQ on Saturday, August 14th Date: Aug 14th, 2010 You are invited to join us for fun fair activities at a special destination. DTA's 10th Annual BBQ & Sports Activity at Paulynn Park on Ravenscroft north of Special activities are planned for children and seniors and adults. Please call 905-576-9937 for more information Rossland in Ajax.11.00AM to Dusk Saturday August 14th All are welcome, fun filled activities planned for toddlers to seniors with BBQ, tradi- Competitions tional Kottu Rotti (yes! freshly made to order by our famous chefs) More details August 28th, 2010 Math, English, Tamil & General Knowledge 905.428.7007. www.durhamtamils.com For more information call 416-857-0846 or visit us at www.tamilsociety.ca Everyone Welcome! 9th annual Youth Festival in September 2010 Believe in You 2010 Coming soon in September 2010: Durham Tamil Youth present our 9th annual Youth Date: September 25th, 2010 Venue: J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate Festival, showcasing the Talents of all Durham Tamil Youth! everyone's welcome to Time: 6 PM This is talent show showcasing the talents of children and youth from ages 3 participate. It will be a Red Carpet Premiere event, Be Part of it! . year old and up. If you live in Durham and not yet registered to participate in this spectacular show please call 416-857-0846. We welcome everyone! www.durhamtamils.com Call before August 20th. Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Waterloo News 41 Community Picnic, an event with joy ...

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Left to Right - Tharini Mahesan-President, Delma Exchange, Mr. Rajendra Theagarajah - M.D. and CEO of HNB lighting the traditional oil Mr. Sreedharan - Senior Manager -Wellawatte Branch, HNB, Ms.Tharini Mahesan, President of lamp before the commencement of the function Mr. Theagarajah - M.D and CEO of HNB and Mr. Rohan - HNB. Delma Exchange lighting the tradi- tional Oil Lamp

Keynote Speaker Mr. Rajendra Tharini Mahesan - President, Delma Theagarajah - M.D. and CEO of Hatton Picture taken after the lighting of the traditional Lamp Exchange welcoming the guests. National Bank addressing the audience

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The Tamil Literary Garden . The Annual was Kovai Gnani, a long time to Jeyamohan for his novel which was established in 2001 is Awards function was held last researcher and writer who 'Kotravai.' while Non-fiction a Toronto based organization month in Toronto. brought Tamilology and Marxism awards were given to two writers, committed towards promoting the The Annual Lifetime together. Dr N. Subramanian and A. development of Achievement Awards this year In addition to the Lifetime Sivasubramanian. presented to Kirubhalini internationally. The mandate were presented in Chennai to two Achievement Awards, the follow- Poetry award was given to Giruparajah. The award ceremony includes the presentation of of the most outstanding scholars. ing awards were also presented at Sukumaran for his collection of concluded with a talk from Dr Awards on an annual basis to Noted epigraphist Iravatham a ceremony held in Seeley Hall, poems and the Information Sascha Ebeling, Professor, those creative persons who have Mahadevan received the award University of Toronto on 17th July Technology in Tamil Award to University of Chicago, USA. made significant contributions for his research in ancient Tamil 2010: Tamil Linux KDE Group. Seen here are some pictures towards the development of the scripts and the other recipient Fiction award was presented The student essay award was taken at the Awards function.

Non-fiction award given by Lalitha, Jayaraman and Non-fiction award given by Jesudasan and Sakuntala Ganesh. Award given by Balamurugan and Bama Rabendravarman. Received by Dr N. Subramanian Dilip Kumar receiving award on behalf of recipient

Poetry Award given by Mr. Nandakumar and Joe Special award given to Dr Sascha Ebeling Student essay award. given by Bahir Vivekanand and Mrs Edirmanasinghe. Also in the picture is Mrs. Rajalakshmi by Dr M. Sanjayan. Subramaniam., received by Kirubhalini Giruparajah. Nandakumar.

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the target-free approach in able sections of the population. It administering family planning also seeks to strengthen the pub-

Every One Counts" is the services. lic health delivery services at all theme of World Population Day Initiatives To Check levels. The initiatives launched by 2010, which falls on 11th of July. Population Growth the Health Mission aim to reduce This is an annual event, which In pursuance of the National mortality and morbidity so that seeks to raise awareness about Population Policy, the Government the life expectancy of the people global population issues. This had set up "National Rural Health will improve. The Mission also year's theme is about encourag- Mission (NRHM)" and "Jansankya includes, the second phase of ing people to participate in their Sthirata Kosh (JSK)" to check the Reproductive and Child Health official census and other methods growth of population. The aims Programmes (RCH-II), which of collecting data on populations. and objectives include encourage- intends to improve the perform- The event, established by the ment of Fixed day, Fixed Place ance of family welfare by reduc- United Nations Development Family Planning Services round ing total fertility rate, maternal Programme in 1989, seeks an the year through 24X7 Primary and infant morbidity and mortali- increased public awareness of Health Centres and other facilities ty and unwanted pregnancies. It population issues like importance under the Health Mission, increas- provides assistance to state gov- of family planning, gender equali- ing the basket of choice by sys- ernments for strengthening the ty, poverty, maternal health, sex- tematically and carefully introduc- public health system by way of ing new and effective contracep- improving health infrastructure, ual and reproductive health, and gramme called "Navajat Shishu the "Human Development Report" tives in the programme, increase augmentation of human human rights which have a seri- Suraksha Karyakaram" for provid- 2009 is 67.5 years whereas the in the compensation package for resources and community involve- ous impact on the world's devel- ing care to the new born at birth average life expectancy at birth sterilization. To support this, a ment in delivery services. One of opment and environment. to reduce the neo-natal deaths. for India is 63.4 years. National Family Planning the Goals of the Mission is to World - India The programmes takes care of U.N. Millennium Insurance Scheme was also start- achieve the Total Fertility Rate The World population is esti- the main components of care at Development Goals ed since November 2005 to com- (TFR) of 2.1 by 2012. TFR in mated to be around 6.8 billion by birth like resuscitation, manage- The Millennium Development pensate the sterilization acceptors India, which was 2.9 in 2005 has end of June 2010 as against 5 bil- ment of hypotherimia, infection Goals (MDG)-5 mandates a reduc- for failures, complications and reduced to 2.6 in 2008. So far, lion in July 1987. At the current prevention and promotion of early tion in the Maternal Mortality deaths. With a view to achieve under the Health Mission, 7.49 rate of growth in population, the initiation of breastfeeding. The Ratio (MMR) by three quarters, good health for people, especially lakh "Accredited Social Health number of people in the world is new progamme will complement between 1990 and 2015. The tar- the poor and the underprivileged, Activists (ASHAs)" have been likely to reach 7 billion by October the existing programme and will gets set by India under the Rural the 11th Five Year Plan (2007- selected and 5.65 lakh trained. 2012, according to analysts. be of help in reducing Infant Health Mission (2005-2012) are in 2012) aims at reducing the Around 18,776 doctors and The population in India has Mortality Rate (IMR). Several line with the MDG goals and aim Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) to 87,973 para-medical personnel increased more than three times states are also setting up Sick to reduce MMR to less than 100 one per one thousand live births, have been engaged on contract from 350 million in 1947 to 1.15 New Born Care Units (SNCUs), per one lakh live births by the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 28 basis. billion in 2010. As per Report of Child Stabilization Units and New year 2012. As per the recent sur- per one thousand live births and Health Expenditure the Working Group on Population Born Care Corners under the vey report released in 2009 by the the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) to The Government has raised Stabilization - 11th Five Year Plan National Rural Health Mission. Registrar General of India, the 2.1. the plan outlay for the health sec- (2007-2012), Indian population is Sex Ratio and Girl Child MMR has declined from 301 per Infant Mortality tor to Rs.72,731 crore in the first expected to overtake that of The Ministry of Women and one lakh live births during the India's infant mortality per four years of the 11th Plan (2007- China by the year 2030 and the Child Development is implement- period 2001-03 to 254 per one 1000 live births is 53 in 2009 as 2011) from an actual expenditure country will be the largest in the ing the scheme of lakh live births during the period against 46 across the world. The of Rs.36,079 crore in the 10th five world with an estimated popula- "Dhanalakshmi" as a pilot pro- 2004-05. The Government has total fertility rate in the same year year plan (2002-03 to 2006-07). tion of around 1.53 billion. The gramme to provide a set of stag- taken several steps to reduce is 2.68 as against world's 2.54. The World Bank has committed to annual growth rate of population gered financial incentives for fam- maternal mortality. They included The 11th five year plan aims at extend an assistance of 360 in India has fallen from 2.14 dur- ilies to encourage them to retain "Janani Suraksh Yojana (JSY)", a raising public health spending to Million US Dollars for RCH-II pro- ing the decade (1981-1991) to the girl child. The Government cash benefit scheme to promote at least 2 per cent of GDP as gramme during the period from 1.93 during the decade (1991- has also declared 24th of January institutional delivery with a spe- against the present 1.45 (as per August 2006 to September 2010. 2001), according to the popula- every year as a "National Child cial focus on pregnant women 2009-2010 budget estimates.) In Women Empowerment tion census data released by the Day" to bring to centre-stage the belonging to below poverty line this direction, the allocation for And Youth Registrar General of India. problems faced by the girl child and scheduled castes and sched- the Rural Health Mission and a The Government has been (Population projections upto the and create national awareness. uled tribes. number of other programmes has implementing several projects year 2026 were done by a The Government has also taken National Rural Health also been enhanced substantially since long to contain population Technical Group constituted by several measures to improve the Mission (NRHM)) in the first four year of the Plan growth on its own and also in col- the National Commission on sex ratio at birth in the country. The Government has period. As per the Sample laboration with several external Population and according to these During the 1991 Census, sex ratio launched the flagship programme Registration System of Registrar agencies. Realizing that women estimates, the population of India in the country was 927 females of National Rural Health Mission General of India under the empowerment is key to success, in 2026 is expected to be around per one thousand males, which (NRHM) to improve primary Ministry of Home Affairs, the the Government had already 1.40 billion.) increased to 933 females per health care system and to provide infant mortality rate is estimated launched several schemes to National Population Policy 1000 males during the 2001 cen- medical facilities to citizens with to be 53 per thousand lives for ensure good health, quality edu- 2000 sus. The Government has enacted special focus on 18 states. the year 2008. As per a report cation and reduce poverty among The Government has adopted the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Population stablization is one of published by UNICEF, India is the people. All out efforts are also a National Population Policy in Diagnostic Techniques (Prohib- its objectives. ranked 49 with 143 countries hav- being made to focus on country's February 2000, which provides for ition of Sex Selections) Act, 1994 The Mission provides a thrust ing a lower Infant Mortality Rate youth population. The country holistic approach for achieving under which stringent punish- for reduction of child and mater- (IMR) than India. Another has nearly 315 million young peo- population stabilization in the ments have been prescribed for nal mortality and reduction of the UNICEF report in 2010 said India ple aged 10-24 years who are country. It affirms the commit- using pre-conception and pre- fertility rates. The main aim of the ranked at 49th out of 193 coun- needed to be educated about sex- ment of the Government towards natal diagnostic techniques to ille- Mission, launched in April 2005, is tries in descending order of the ual and reproductive health choic- voluntary and informed choice gally determine sex of the foetus. to provide accessible, affordable, Under Five Mortality Rate es. and consent of citizens while Life Expectancy At Birth accountable, effective and reliable (U5MR). The government has Kanayalal Raina availing of reproductive health The average global life primary healthcare facilities, launched a new training pro- care services and continuation of expectancy at birth reported in especially to the poor and vulner- Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 49 50 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Murali: A Legend of Cricket Retires came as no surprise when he for a sensational collapse of the caught the eye of the Cricket hosts on the final day. With both Board's spinners coach then, that sides crossing 400 runs in their amiable Australian Bruce Yardley, first innings one could not have by S.Skandakumar when he wheeled down nearly 50 blamed the pundits for predicting When that great bard, William overs for as many runs taking 7 a certain draw at the end of the Shakespeare wrote the lines, "All wickets against Hugh Morris' visit- fourth day's play. the world's a stage, and all the ing England A team the same John Crawley's wicket on the men and women merely players", year. stroke of lunch on the final day he could not have envisaged an 'That guy is going to rock and Darren Gough's dismissal, off spinning genius from Sri Lanka world cricket before long' were bowled round his legs to seal vic- entering that arena almost four Bruce's prophetic words as we tory, sent ripples through the and a half centuries later . reflected on the match over a pint media that the maestro had pro- As the curtain comes down on of beer. In the ensuing years duced yet another variation to his a truly memorable theatrical Murali did more than that as he spinning repertoire as he finished 800 and out: Muttiah Muralitharan celebrates his landmark which has held the undivided set out to put the nation's cricket with 16 wickets in that historic achievement Photo: AFP attention of the cricketing world squarely on the world map, along win. Murali's triumphant return to humour that in their 8 year rela- ness. for almost two decades, that spin- with his ever loyal skipper Arjuna, the Island led to celebrations at tionship, he has often been left to The encores will reverberate ning genius will soon take his final team mates Aravinda Sanath, his cricketing home the Tamil wonder as to who was managing long after the curtain has bow before a world audience that Mahanama,Tillekeratne, Vaas, Union, where he was felicitated whom !! The Foundation of descended as the cricketing world will rise as one, to repeated Gurusinghe, Kaluwitarana , for securing 200 test wickets. Goodness, a truly humanitarian continues to recall the life and encores . In a career studded with Dharmasena, and Pramodya in Even before the champagne project that Murali and Kushil ini- achievements of a cricketing icon intrigue, challenges, and phe- particular, the warriors who glasses could dry, Murali was on tiated post -tsunami, has attract- and a remarkable human being nomenal achievements, Muthiah brought home the prestigious to 300, then 400, 500….a speed ed some of the finest names in who never lost the common touch Muralitharan, will shortly leave world cup in 1996. that led to envy and deplorable the sporting world as partners nor the precious values of his the Test arena with life's most In August 1998, in the tradi- efforts to distract and downgrade and co- sponsors. upbringing. precious assets, Humility and tional one off test that the English his achievements. Instead they When Murali focused on his Thank You My Friend, and Integrity, securely intact. Cricket Board was accustomed to only succeeded in strengthening target for those rendered home- Bless You, …. a fresh challenge In 1991, when a shy young grudgingly grant Sri Lanka in the genius' mental resolve as he less by that tragedy at 1000, an now awaits you in the rebuilding schoolboy from St Anthony's those days, Sanath's batting hero- added another 592 wickets in the astonished Kushil inquired if he of our beautiful nation , and the College, Katugastota entered the ics and Murali's spinning wizardry years following that initial felicita- was talking about his tally of reconciliation of its wonderful playing field of Sri Lanka 's finest brought our nation her first ever tion in1998. wickets !!. The final count to that people. cricket venue, the Colombo Oval, test match win on England's soil, In his manager Kushil commitment was 1024 houses (S.Skandakumar, is a Former to pursue a professional career , appropriately on their own Oval ; Gunasekera, he found the all per- and Murali achieved what he set Hon. Secretary, Sri Lanka Cricket ) the talent was plain to see. So it a match that will be remembered fect gentleman who recounts with out to do, a reflection of his great- Murali should have Annual WALK A THON 2010 by STSP been made captain of The Senior Tamils Society of Peel (S.T.S.P) is a community oriented, not for profit organization since 1999. Sri Lankan cricket team

The Society has a membership of over 700 and it has so far organized seven (7) Walk A Thons since 2003 and will be conducting the eighth (8th) on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

From the funds raised in the last seven Walk A Thons, and have donated over $ 65,000 to the hospitals in the Peel region and about $ 10,000 to charity. by Durand Appuhamy hope the Selectors will consider No matter what exacting stan- him and appoint him captain. He The major part of the funds raised will be donated to the hospitals in dards the Selectors set for the has been a match-winner on the Peel region and a portion to the people affected by Human Rights captaincy of a Test side, Murali many occasions in the past. Violations. would have passed them all Captaincy would give him enor- summa cum laude. Therefore he mous satisfaction and a fitting merited to be made the captain a reward for his services to Sri Date & Time: long time ago. Lankan cricket more than mere Saturday 28, August 2010. Somehow the Selectors verbal encomiums. As captain, if From 10.00 am to 12.00 noon. ignored him as they did Chaminda he also manages to win the Vaas. They appear to be thor- matches against Dhoni who oughly prejudiced against bowlers "stole" the ICC trophy from us, it Route: Start from Equity Plaza 3085 Hurontario St. (Kirwin & Highway becoming captains of our side. would really be a glorious retire- 10) Mississauga. There was no excuse this time, ment. given the fact that the Selectors I would also urge the Kandy were privy to Murali's retirement Municipal Council to bestow on End at Yarl Co-op Building, 2584 Rugby Road from Test Cricket. They should Murali the Freedom of the City. As (Dundas & Confederation) have made him the captain so someone suggested in The Island Mississauga. that he could have retired as one newspaper he is really an icon for of the great captains of our crick- unifying our divided society. May eting side. his example on and off the field be It is not clear whether he will a rallying call to all of us to proj- "We walk for health and help" play in the next two Test matches. ect our Sri Lankaness first in our If he is expected to participate, I lives. Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Events 51 Nehru Trophy in Brampton

The second Nehru trpohy boat race competition held at heart lake by Brampton malayalee samajam was won by jalakeshari boat rowed by new york boat club with philip madathil manager and kunjumali capatin. They defeated Toronto malaylee samjam's eduathu chundan (manager Tomy vallukaran and capatain sam sam- muel) in photo finishing competi- tion. Nss Canada's youth team rowed boat bharathkesari came up in third place. The best per- formance award was given to kalladayar boat (manager Titus Vaidhyan).The spectacular event was fun and thrilling for the spec- tators and for the competitions. The event was watched by many vistiors in the banks of heat lake. The winners received $1000 and beautifully crafted Nehru trophy sponsored by Manoj karatha.

Courtesy: Harikumar Mannar [freelance journalist] 52 Monsoon Feature AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal Barack as Anti-Christ: End times theology in the age of Obama By Amarnath When I asked Randolf Amarasingam whether he planned to take his Kenneth Alex Randolf is a views to the streets, he argued fifty-six year old former lawyer liv- that the streets of the twenty-first ing in Seattle. When Barack century are on the internet. "If Obama announced his presiden- done properly and if the circum- aesthetically," says Farhad tial aspirations in 2008, Randolf stances are just right," he says, Manjoo in his book True Enough. got to work on a blog that soon "it's clearly possible to reach hun- In other words, the internet has attracted some attention, and was dreds of millions of people on the potential to create ghettos or later featured on CNN. those 'streets'. In terms of cost- enclaves where alternative view- The blog presented several effectiveness, time consumption, points dare not enter. These pages of evidence - some over-coming language and cultur- enclaves only reinforce a belief numerological, some astrological, al and national barriers, there are among right-wing populists and some Biblical - for his overall no better 'streets' to be active apocalyptic writers that they are argument: Barack Obama was the on." Randolf is optimistic, but it privy to certain kinds of knowl- Antichrist. It is not really known remains to be seen whether the edge that the rest of society is how many people in the United from the heights." The video regardless of education or expert- rallying cries and slogans of socio- unable or unwilling to see. They States believe this, but what notes that Jesus probably spoke ise can create websites, dialogue religious movements can be are the embattled vanguards of a remains evident is that apocalyp- Aramaic, and since Aramaic is the with others in forums or message heard when shouted solely, or fight that the rest of the world ticism - and right-wing populism "most ancient form of Hebrew" boards, and produce viral video even primarily, from within the does not even realize is taking more broadly - is alive and well in (which is false) it holds that we clips that may be viewed by mil- dark alleys of cyberspace. place. the United States. can translate the key terms in this lions of people. (Amarnath Amarasingam is a It is uncertain the extent to One of the individuals who verse into Hebrew to see what Second, the internet fosters doctoral candidate in the Laurier- which online communities and first put apocalypticism on the they really mean. The narrator an environment in which individu- Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies enclaves, which exist only on the bestseller lists in the United says that, according to the Strong als more easily interact with peo- in Ontario, Canada, and is the edi- web, have an impact on actual States was a charismatic preacher Hebrew Dictionary, the word for ple who think like them. "Instead tor of Religion and the New politics. The internet is most pow- named Hal Lindsey. His book, The lightning is 'baraq'. Similarly, the of getting together with people Atheism: A Critical Appraisal. This erful - as seen in the Tea Party Late Great Planet Earth, was pub- word for heights is 'bamah'. The who are close to us physically, Article appeared in the Guest movement - when it adds to the lished in 1970 and has sold over narrator then points out that the now we can get together with Voices section of Washington mobilization already taking place 35 million copies to date. sixth letter of the Hebrew alpha- people who are close to us ideo- Post) on the ground. Apocalyptic thinking entered bet, waw, is often transliterated logically, psychically, emotionally, American politics on the back of as a 'u' or 'o' and is mostly used an individual deeply inspired by as a conjunction. Thus, "I saw Lindsey's book. Satan as lightening falling from Ronald Reagan was so influ- the heights" would, in Hebrew, enced by Lindsey's book, that he be: "I saw Satan as baraq wanted his military leaders to fully o'bamah". For a thorough treat- understand its significance. With ment and debunking of this popu- Reagan's blessing, Lindsey was lar viral video, see Michael invited to brief the Pentagon on Heiser's PaleoBabble blog. the "divine implications" of their Another viral video, one which hostilities with the Soviet Union. Randolf also takes as strong evi- No other president in recent his- dence, argues that Obama's tory has allied apocalypticism and name actually adds up to 666. It national security with such ease. approaches the issue through the Speculation about the identity use of numerology and Gematria of the Antichrist has also been a (the Hebrew system of assigning constant presence in the United numerical value to words and States. In the early 1960s, phrases). According to the video, President John F. Kennedy was Barack in Arabic means 'blessed', suspected by some writers. After Hussein in Arabic means 'hand- his death, a few waited for some', and Obama is an African Kennedy to rise from his coffin, word meaning 'leaning'. The pointing to the Book of video notes that when the Revelation, which states that the Gematria values of blessed (246), Beast would survive a head handsome (268), and leaning wound. (152) are added together, the In the 1970s, Henry Kissinger sum is 666. was a suspect, as well as In addition to such obvious Ayatollah Khomeini (during the contributions by religious tenets, hostage crisis), Saddam Hussein the internet must be seen as one (during the Gulf War), and Osama of the main driving forces behind bin Laden (after 9/11). Beginning the persistence of apocalyptic during the 2008 election cycle, thinking and right-wing populism the Internet began teeming with more generally. speculation about Obama. Emails This can be understood in two circulated widely and amateur ways. First, the ease with which videos were posted on YouTube blogs, forums, and websites are proclaiming strange personality created has given rise to an alter- and numerological resemblances native media, existing outside tra- between Obama and Biblical ditional sources of information, statements about the Antichrist. and varying in size and reliability. One of the most popular The internet becomes hugely videos propounding that Obama important for right-wing populists is the Antichrist is entitled, "Did who nurse a deep sense that the Jesus Give Us the Name of the individual is under attack, and Antichrist?" The narrator of the express a fundamental distrust of video points to Luke 10:18, which those who produce knowledge states, "And he said unto them, I and sanction truth. saw Satan as lightning falling On the internet, any individual Monsoon Journal AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Op-Ed 53 Sri Lanka Govt must ensure there is no discriminatory targeting of Tamils

by National Peace Council Responding to a query from of Sri Lanka the media last week the Police The re-commencement of the spokesman said that action was nise that security measures may practices of registering Tamils taken under the Police Ordinance need to be taken we are opposed with the police and of conducting in this respect. The Police to the singling out of any one search operations that target Ordinance gives power in respect community for such targeted them have been widely reported of detection and prevention of actions on the basis of democrat- in the Tamil media in particular crime. It cannot be applied in an ic values. and have created a renewed ethnically discriminatory fashion. The positive actions of the sense of insecurity and injustice The Colombo head of police, government, such as its appoint- amongst the larger Tamil popula- Deputy Inspector General H.N.B. ment of a Commission on Lessons tion that is detrimental to nation- Herath is reported to have said Learnt and Reconciliation, and al reconciliation. Tamils singled out and asked to register themselves at Police Station they were instructed by higher with which the government has The practice of registering of again since July 2010 authorities to register all people - challenged the credibility of inter- Tamils and security search opera- wide as a sign that normalcy had to uphold the Constitution which - including Tamils. All right think- national human rights critics, tions of private residences even returned to the country. affirms that everybody will be ing people will acknowledge that must not be undermined by its late at night was carried out dur- On the ground however the treated equally irrespective of democracy is governance accord- discriminatory and heavy handed ing the period of war and terror- situation has deteriorated where race or creed. The President him- ing to law and not according to actions in other areas. NPC calls ism. But today more than 14 normal life for Tamil people is self has frequently proclaimed the wishes of the rulers. The upon the government to repeal months have elapsed since the concerned. Democratic People's that there is only a single nation rulers are equally subject to the the obnoxious Prevention of war ended, and there have been Front Leader Mano Ganesan has in this country. However, Tamils law and must abide by the Terrorism Act and Emergency no acts of militancy or terrorism requested President Mahinda living in Wellawatte had been sin- Constitution. Regulations under which the in this period that would necessi- Rajapaksa to intervene to halt the gled out and asked to register The National Peace Council police are acting. We only stating tate a revival of the harsh meas- police registration of Tamils in the themselves at the Wellawatte calls on the government to ensure the obvious when we assert that ures of the past. Two months ago Wellawatte Police division in Police Station last week. There that there is no discriminatory security does not come through Parliament approved the repeal of Colombo as discriminatory and are reports of Tamils in other targeting of Tamils, or any section suspicion but only through trust a large number of emergency against the spirit of reconciliation. parts of Colombo also being of the Sri Lankan people, as this is and confidence born out of recon- laws which was projected world- The Government is expected asked to register themselves. root of conflict. While we recog- ciliation. Census Information Vital for Immigrant Success

By: Dr. Eric Hoskins offer the types of programs that ers. This is why agencies such as Ontario Minister of Citizenship help newcomers succeed. the Toronto Region Immigrant and Immigration We need an accurate picture Employment Council (TRIEC) and As Ontario's Minister of of the immigrants we serve when the Ontario Council of Agencies Citizenship and Immigration, I am developing programs to help Serving Immigrants (OCASI) have deeply concerned that the Federal them. We need to know where voiced their opposition to the Government has unilaterally Ontario's newcomers originate elimination of the mandatory decided to abandon the mandato- and the languages they speak so long-form census, and to the loss ry long-form census. we can communicate with them. of important information that Ontario benefits from being Knowledge of their age and edu- would result. home to one of the most diverse cation level also helps us deter- At a time when the federal populations in the world. Nearly mine the programmes that can and provincial governments are half of all immigrants to Canada help them thrive and succeed in negotiating a new Canada Ontario choose Ontario as their home and Ontario. Immigration Agreement, the fed- our government wants to ensure The census provides us with eral government's decision to that newcomers find success the information to answer these reduce access to reliable new- when they arrive in Ontario. By vital questions, information that is comer information will make it ending the mandatory long-form not available through other more difficult to deliver targeted census, Ontario will no longer sources. and effective programs to ensure have access to valuable and reli- As Minister of Citizenship and the success of our newcomers. able information that is critical Immigration, I have the privilege This fact, in turn, reinforces our when developing programs to of working with community agen- view that we need a new and bet- Help Wanted help our newcomers. cies, not-for-profit organizations ter federal-provincial partnership This issue is about more than and businesses in the delivery of for the delivery of newcomer - Require full time Flower Shop Manager. statistics. It is about people - programs and services to services and programs - one that understanding their needs, their Ontario's newcomers. Along with gives Ontario a greater ability to - Must be able to speak English and Tamil. challenges and their potential. our partner agencies, our govern- meet the needs of our newcom- - Must be able to take phone orders over the phone In the coming years, immi- ment relies on the accuracy of the ers. grants will play an even more crit- information that is provided by The replacement of the from both Tamil and English speaking Customers. ical role in the prosperity of the Government of Canada's long- mandatory long-form census with - Experience in making flowers garlands or floral Ontario. As the Conference Board form census. For example, the a voluntary questionnaire will of Canada has noted, the contin- information from the long-form yield far less reliable results with arrangements is required but not necessary. ued strength of Ontario's labour under representation from our census assists Ontario in target- - Previous Flower shop experience is required but force relies on immigration. ing investments of $175 million to newcomer communities. The cur- Ontario's success will depend in more than 200 occupation-specif- rent long-form census is an not necessary no small part on the success of ic bridge training programs, help- essential and reliable tool that - It is a full time position and must be able to work our newcomers. Immigrants to ing thousands of newcomers aids our newcomers. As the 2011 Ontario come from many coun- overcome barriers and find jobs in census nears, I urge the federal extra hours during busy seasons. tries, speak many different lan- their field of expertise. government to reverse its deci- guages, and possess a range of Many agencies also rely on sion to abandon the mandatory Contact Shanthi at (416) 288-1419 experiences and talents. Having this information to identify trends long-form census. access to accurate, reliable infor- and to develop services to meet or Fax the resume to (416) 288-9311 mation is key to ensuring we can the needs of Ontario's newcom- 54 AUGUST 2010 Monsoon Journal

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