Vharai Tamils Free I shall keep my ears plugged to the ground To hear your returning foot steps We were your shield and fortress And now you have left us... WE are weak; just skin and bones Yet the spark of humanity is left within us We shall survive. Under the starlit sky we sleep Dreaming of freedom. The haunting howls of the night Disturb my gentle sleep I shall be awake To see whether I could detect your foot prints in the sand on a full moon night. I have kept half- a-tamarind to share with you So that we can eat and talk of the meaning of humanity. That which binds us Far beyond the physical dimensions of our restrictions, fears and suspicions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------    more »

Friends! Do you still want us to look on the bright side? Tell me on which bloody side is your volley? The question is who got us on this mad folly Looking on the bright side? O, Golly!   more »

LTTE readjusts its positions in the east

On 19 January 2007, LTTE decided to pull back from its Pannichchankerni position which is on the access route to Vaharai.

People in Vaharai, residents and the displaced, have endured more than six months of denial of humanitarian access. Since October only once a small quantity of food and medicine was allowed into ...   more »

                The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals 

                               Edward W. Said

 

In everyday usage in the languages and cultures with which I am familiar, a "writer" is a person who produces literature--that is, a novelist, poet, dramatist. I think it is generally true that in all cultures writers have a separate, perhaps even more ...   more »