By Priyadarshi Dutta Hello Friends Narendranath Dutta known as Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsar and founded the Ramakrishna mission that performs commendable service in many parts of the world including Sri Lanka. Swami Vivekananda is a Bengali who was born in 1863 and passed away in 1902. He was greatly responsible [...]
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Thaippongal celebrations at Temple Trees
A pictorial perspective Hello Friends, “Thaippongal” is the traditional Tamil Thanksgiving festival that augurs bountiful harvests and good fortune. It is known as “Thamizhar Thirunaal” and “Uzhavar Perunaal”. “Thaippongal” was celebrated by President and Mrs.Rajapaksa at “Temple Trees” this time. I am posting some pictures taken by photographer Sudath Silva from the event held on [...]
“Api” (us)-”Owun” (them): A pictorial tugging at heartstrings
by. D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Hello Friends,
Several people both known and unknown have been forwarding a particular e-mail to me the last few days.
It consists of some moving pictorial images contrasting the pathetic existence of internally displaced Tamils on the one hand and the comfortable lifestyle of some Sinhala people on the other.
The pictures have Sinhala captions.
