Obituary: Velupillai Prabhakaran

There is an old indian proverb, transliterated here in tamil, it reads, “Amritham adhigam annalum, visham agum”, meaning that ‘Amrit’, the life giving potion discovered or created by the gods, can become posion if consumed in excess. Ironic it would seem, but very appropriate here. What started out as a fight for a good cause, [...]

SriLanka – solving the crisis

According to me the first step in solving the crisis that is affecting Sri Lanka today is – dissolving the LTTE, surrender and arrest of its leaders. LTTE was muddying up the waters, and causing problems for all parties involved in arriving at a solution to the problems of the tamil population. The tamil being [...]

Strike the LTTE

For the past few months, i have been closely watching the progress of the civil war in Sri Lanka. I was drawing immense pleasure from the fact that the LTTE, the terror organization that has been leading the battle against the Sri Lankan government, was being routed from bastion and being reduced to smaller and [...]