What if I told you that it is not ME or US but BOTH - That it is not Individual or Society but BOTH - That one does not exist without the other - That the inside and the outside always go together - That the relationship between the individual and…

It was related in the Mahabaratha, some two thousand years ago, that when Tharmar, the eldest of the Pandavas, was questioned as to what was the most surprising thing in the world, he replied: ‘The most surprising in the world is that man knows he…

Jayalakshmi Satyendra nee Rajandram was born on 12 September 1936, in Colombo, Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). She left the land of her birth in the aftermath of the genocidal onslaught on the Tamils in Sri Lanka in July 1983. In 1988 she was…

Today, more than 80 million Tamil people live in many lands across distant seas. Given the armed struggle for Tamil Eelam in the island of Sri Lanka, and the two hundred and fifty thousand (and more) Tamil asylum seekers and refugees in many…

A long standing supporter of the Tamil Eelam freedom struggle and a friend wrote to me about a month ago -"I picked up the Pathmanathan Pages from tamilnation.org When I read the first piece it gave the impression that K Pathmanathan (KP) was trying…

It should not come too much as a surprise that Chief Minister Karunanidhi who was vociferous in his support for an independent Tamil Eelam during the Indira Gandhi regime now tells his 'udan pirapukal' that they should follow in the foosteps of the…

Early Political History The island known to Tamils as Eelam (and known under British rule as Ceylon and under Sinhala rule as Sri Lanka) is about 25,000 square miles in extent, situated about twenty miles from the southern extremity of the Indian…

I have never met Velupillai Prabhakaran. Neither have I ever spoken to him. I did not know him personally. Again, it is not that I have agreed with everything that he said or did. Yet, when he died on 17 May 2009, I felt a deep sense of personal…

"...... No one should underestimate the murderous damage done to Sri Lanka over the last 26 years by the LTTE, or the sheer hatred felt for its leadership. That is recognised in the international community, but while terrorist organisations work by…

"It was the Buddha who said that suffering is a great teacher. The Tamil people are being taught on the hard anvil of death and suffering appropriately enough in Buddhist Sri Lanka that human rights and humanitarian laws are more often than not,…

In 1983, I stumbled into a lecture on International Relations at Cambridge University. The lecture was by a visiting German Professor. I forget her name. But something that she said has remained with me over the past several years. She…