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The drawing is benefits for the community from the main candidates" Sri Ramakrishna said, cultivat- hanging high in an office in - Tamil I ntelligentsia in Sri Lanka ing higher life is denouncing dis- Kalmunai, Sri Lanka - crimination and recognition of Pic by: Dushiyanthini TNA Decides to Support Sarath Fonseka divinity in everyone and in every- Kanagasabapathipillai By Siva Sivapragasam President Mahinda Rajapakse thing, compassion for the down- Just as Bhagwan Sri Rama- In a keenly expected close con- * Vote for the Joint Opposition trodden and spirituality is final solu- krishna called upon the youth of the test between the two main candi- candidate Sarath Fonseka tion to worldly miseries and univer- country to arise and awake, 18 dates, the Tamil Vote will undoubted- * Vote for the Tamil candidate sal love. Bharathiyar also wrote to Ilaya Need for emergence... According to The Vedanta Bharatham (Young India). ly play a crucial role in the forthcom- Sivajilingam Kesari, A monthly issue published Song by Mahakavi Subra-mania ing Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka. A former Sri Lankan High Court by The Ramakrishna Order, several Bharathi, “Oli Padaitha Kanninai” With barely two to three weeks Judge and a well-respected Tamil and parallels can be drawn between (Thou with sparkling eyes), called to go, majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka Religious scholar Justice Ramakrishna Vivekan-anda ideolo- upon the youth of the country to are still un-decided on their role in Wigneswaran in his interview to a gy and twentieth century Tamil lit- arise and awake to rejuvenate the the forthcoming Presidential leading Tamil Newspaper in Sri Lanka erature. land. Elections. on the forthcoming Presidential 5 Swami Ramakrishna's deep See Poem Translation in Page 20 They are faced with the following Elections has stated that the Tamils Who will Win ... major options should exercise their democratic right * Boycott the Elections of voting . * Vote for the incumbent Contd. in Pg 4 Sri Lanka government continues 36 with re detaining IDPs Canada Challenges... Despite recent presidential displaced people (IDPs) had been polls motivated announcements relocated to a camp in Killinochchi by Sri Lanka Government of instead of resettling in their releasing IDPs, several reports homes, says one of the refugees continue say there are re-deten- who spoke to the BBC. tions and further release of hun- He told the BBC Sinhala dreds of thousands still in intern- Service, that they were taken 49 ment camps are being indefinite- from Vavunia to Killinochchi to be Heal yourself... ly postponed. put in another camp. 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Jan 27: Honouring International Holocaust Remembrance "In worshipping God we have Day and remembering the plight of Tamils been always worshipping our January 27th, 2010- This is day is As there are fewer survivors to tell aration of children from their parents And also of LTTE leader 's octoge- own hidden Self" observed as The International their stories today, it is of primary and in detentions under incommunica- narian father dying in military custody - Swami Vivekananda Holocaust Remembrance Day world- importance that these universal les- do conditions. all highlight the conditions of what wide. sons be shared with all fellow human An electioneering frenzy has let many other Tamils face today at the According to the United States beings. Only this will ensure that their off several token releases and politi- hands of the Government of Sri Lanka, Managing Editor & Publisher Holocaust Memorial Museum, in 2005 legacy will continue to promote cally motivated announcements to win apart from the electioneering conces- Logan Velumailum the United Nations General Assembly respect for diversity and human rights decisive Tamil votes by Sri Lankan sionary gimmicks. designated January 27 as an annual for generations to come.