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From: an7261@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Why not me?
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:23:50 GMT


Everyone is doing it (Anonymous posting), so why not me !

Did you ever wondered why Sri Lanka changed it's name to " Shri Lanka " ?
Well, I have. So I asked around and this is what I found out.

Official Version :-

Sri Lankan always called it Shri Lanka. So why not change the name officially
to make their life easier. ( How thoughful ? I love our leaders.)

By the way, this was exactly what they said, when name was changed from Ceylon.
And I believed them. Don't we call it "Siri Lanka", or is it just me ?

Un-official ( Probably the true ) Version :-

1. To comply with the LTTE request to drop " SRI " , this was the cooked up
face saving way. You may recall that "SRI" being sacred to Tamils , there
was an ongoing battle to change the country's name from " Sri Lanka " to
".... (Any thing, but)".
2. It was found out by the Premadasa's fortune teller that either Prema should
get rid of all his hair on the head or step down from Sri Lankan Presidency as
his horescope dictate grave results. To counter this Prema came up with this 
ingenious idea : Change the name of Sri Lanka to Shri Lanka so he no longer is
the president of Sri Lanka and get rid of both eye-brows instead of a shaven
head.
3. Prema's wife, lovely Hema , can't pronounce that damn Sanskrit letter. (Well,
Hema you are not alone, Remember J.R. folks)
4. Add your own , discussion floor is open. ( This reminds me of a guy , who
used to post news articles to SLNET from compuserve. He single handedly was
able to Delete all Sri's from Sri Lanka and was able to get away with it. I
didn't bother to object, because he was doing a great job spending his own
money , just by posting those news articles. If you look back you'll see no
Sri Lanka's in News in that era, only Lanka's.)

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From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: 82 royal college reunion: USA
Date: 22 Jan 1993 06:20:48 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1993Jan22.001129.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> pkumar@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>My husband graduated from Royal College in 1982.  Since graduation, he has lost
>contact with many of his school friends.  Recently, however, he was reunited
>with some of his friends and desires to have a reunion with as many of his
>friends as possible from Royal College and Colombo in the U.S.A.  If interested
>or if you would like to be reunited... let me know.  


There is an organization (based in California) called RCOBANA.
Royal College Old Boys' Association of North America.
Their roster is over a 100 deep with memebrs all over the USA and Canada.

For a telephone number you can call:
				Dr. Milroy Fernando at (818) 727-7073
Milroy is an ex-president of the Old Thomians' Association of California
and he should have a few telephone numbers of Old Royalists since there
is quite a bit of contact between the clubs.


- Vasee
From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Sri lanka Regrets Allied Attacks Against Irag
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:54:22 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1k3a29INNd88@skat.usc.edu> ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah) writes:
>Sony.B writes:
>> COlombo:  Is is really FUNNY to read that Sri Lanka said it deeply regretted
>> civilian casualities recent allied air attack on Iraq.
>
>Its even funnier considering that Sri Lanka released a statement fully 
>supporting the US led attacks in response to what SL considered were 
>gross violations of the UN resolutions (paraphrased). That was a few
>weeks back when the attacks began.

It's even funnier considering that most of the Sri Lankans let the government
get away with these flip-flops.  Where's the accountability ?  The government
feeds the people bullshit, and the people accept it as being valid.  It spends,
spends, and spends on thrash, mortgaging the future generations (that is
YOUR children) to eternal debt.  The civil war is but a symptom of this 
unaccountability.  Time that the government starts working hard for all the
money (that is YOUR money) that it controls.
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Sri Lankan Journalists :-
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:02:47 GMT

I post the following for Maya [ccjt@umsvm].  I have a portion of
Maya's note for your information.

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 21

=====
.... therefore I could not post anything in soc.culture.sri-lanka. The
friend who forwards me the postings from the newsgroups does not have
posting privileges. Could you - if it is not a trouble for you - post
this for me? .....

+maya
=====

Sri Lankan Journalists :-

Sri Lankan 'journalists' apparently launch a protest against the attacks
on them. Haa, to my knowledge, there is no such thing called 'journalism'
in Sri Lanka. Most of the newspaper companies are under government 
control, irrespective of who is in power. There are few others owned by
political parties or by special interest groups. Our newspapers just
printed what the management wanted to tell people. English or Sinhala 
papers didn't want to print the real situation in Tamil areas. Lanka
Guardian - thanks to Mervin De Silva and Dayan - included some Tamil
issues within a limit. As I hear, Tamil papers are gutless in this regard.
When JVP was on rise - when thousands of our sibilings were brutally
massacred by our own forces - these papers and these repectable journalists
chose not to write about them. When Vijaya Kumaranatunga - my favorite -
was killed, I was almost sure that it was done by Green Tigers. I
expected the journalists to do some investigative reporting. To my
disappointment - I admit, I expected too much - the papers printed
whatever the government said. 

Now - as they see fire in their back - as they find masked men
knocking their doors - our journalists are screaming. Let the real
journalism and neutral reporting get a kick start on the dead bodies
of our mediamen.


>   The Free Media Movement took out advertisements in two independent
> newspapers under the headline ''Journalism under threat.''
>
>   It urged journalists to sign a petition against harrassment to be
> presented
> to parliament and called for wide participation at a public meeting next
> Thursday to protest against the ''increasing threat to the freedom of the
> journalist in  Sri Lanka. ''
>
>   The group says there have been repeated attacks in the past few months by
> police and unidentified assailants in plain clothes on journalists covering
> anti-government protests.
>
>   ''Journalism has today become an increasingly risky profession in  Sri 
> Lanka, '' it said in the advertisement.
>
>   The Free Media Movement said it decided to mount the campaign because
> repeated appeals to the authorities to curb attacks on journalists had no
> result.

+maya

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: an4465@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Chief BANANAS
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41:42 GMT

you are the the chief gue vax.  you are the chief paraya "mad" dog.
you don't have balls to standup for you are rights. kittu did.
congradulation you still PRESIDENT of bananas club.  you have
lot people to help you like the politicians in you are country.
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From: pkumar@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: 82 royal college reunion: USA
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:11:29 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

My husband graduated from Royal College in 1982.  Since graduation, he has lost
contact with many of his school friends.  Recently, however, he was reunited
with some of his friends and desires to have a reunion with as many of his
friends as possible from Royal College and Colombo in the U.S.A.  If interested
or if you would like to be reunited... let me know.  

Reunions can be quite fun.  I founded an alumni association for my high school
- Naples American High School, Naples, Italy - about three years ago.  Now we
have 500+ current addresses on our directory and we publish our own newsletter.
 Other alumni volunteered to be the newsletter editor, graphics editor, and
class representatives.  We have class representatives for the class of 83 and
88.  Class representatives keep track of their class members (address updates
and pertinent info.) and are the liason for their class members to the alumni
association.  Finally, we are having our first major reunion to be held in
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, August 6-8, 1993 for all
associated with Naples American High School (a.k.a. Forrest Sherman High
School) to include faculty/staff/administration, parents, students, friends,
etc.  

By the way, Overseas Brats, Inc. (Joe Condrill, President) in San Antonio is
the master organization for americans who went to high school overseas... such
as Department of Defense Dependents Schools, Department of State schools,
international schools, American schools, etc.  They can help us plan a reunion
for Royal College here in the U.S.A. plus help in locating people.  

Excuse these letters (remnants from my mispellings above!)  I haven't figured
out how to delete letters that I mistakently key or type.  sh , pou
d

Before I go, if you run into any American who went to school overseas with
others and want to get in contact with their alumni association, let me know or
forward them to Overseas Brats and Joe Condrill in San Antonio, Texas.  Also,
look for the public service announcement on tv about Overseas Brats in many
cities courtesy of JAck Canavan of Pensacola, Florida - another overseas brat
who went to school in Japan, Puerto Rico, and somewhere elese (can't remember).
 He's a news director for one of the major networks in Pensacola, Florida and
will be happy to get you started with putting the Overseas Brats, Inc. public
service message on tv in your city.  By the way, Overseas Brats, Inc. did
publish the name and address of some American school in Colombo, Sri Lanka in
one of their recent publications.  

Don't forget, we're looking for 82 graduates of Royal College!

:acdskto;i
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Lanka Not Happy about Attack on Iraq
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:41:54 GMT

sri lankan government regrets over western air attacks on iraq

	sri lankan foreign  minister  harold herat  said the sri
lankan government  deeply regrets  that the  recent western  air
attacks  on iraq have caused civilian casualties in iraq.  speak-
ing in  parliament  friday night, the  minister  said  that  the
tragic loss of innocent lives must be averted.  he said that any
escalation of the conflict in iraq is likely to have grave reper-
cussions which  would extend beyond the  gulf region and cause a
threat to international peace and security.  he said that events
in the gulf  had caused concern  throughout the  world including
sri lanka and the government will continue to monitor these deve-
lopments very closely.  "the u.n. security  council has passed a
number of  resolutions relating  to iraq subsequent  to the inva-
sion of kuwait in august 1990.  sri lanka  has  taken  action to
implement these resolutions", he said.  the approach to all  the
unsettled issues  involved in the  situation  should be  pursued
strictly in terms of agreed  u.n. resolutions, the minister said.
he added that there  should be no  recourse to unilateral action
which is not in keeping with  the purpose and  spirit of the u.n.
resolutions.
===

This was from Xinhua agency news report.  Well, it contradicts
with what Mr Rohan(?) Weerakody's comment. Is it new in Lankan
diplomacy or politics?

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 23
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: thewitt@bnr.ca (Tony Hewitt P120)
Subject: Upul Molligoda?
Keywords: Where are you?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:31:41 GMT

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Upul Molligoda?

He was a friend of mine from 1982-1984 in England 
(Hulme hall school) and I have not heard from him since.

I can't receive EMAIL but I can post-to and read-from
this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,
Tony Hewitt, Raleigh NC, USA
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Sri lanka Regrets Allied Attacks Against Irag
Date: 26 Jan 1993 04:16:09 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

Sony.B writes:
> COlombo:  Is is really FUNNY to read that Sri Lanka said it deeply regretted
> civilian casualities recent allied air attack on Iraq.

Its even funnier considering that Sri Lanka released a statement fully 
supporting the US led attacks in response to what SL considered were 
gross violations of the UN resolutions (paraphrased). That was a few
weeks back when the attacks began.

Although techincally Shree Jayawardenapura might be correct in "deeply"
regretting civilian casualties and at the same time supporting the 
"allied" decision to punish old Saddam for mis-behaving it is
painfully obvious that we are pandering to both sides.  We need Iraq to
buy our tea and we need the "allies" to buy the clothes that the 300
new garment factories will produce. There is also the lure of Foreign aid.

Don't the powers that be in Shree Jayawardenapura realise that both Iraq
and the "allies" are well aware of the fact that we are "kissing up?"

Wouldnt we be better off if we didnt say anything?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vasee
From: na@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Aru Arunasalam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Stydy Japanese.....
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:39:41 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ABB Systems Control Company, Inc.


In article <19715.2b63cd55@ecs.umass.edu>, vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes...
>sri lankan businessmen urged to study japanese
>
(text deleted) 
> 
>Hmmm.....  Sinhala as the second language for Tamil speaking people
>and Tamil as the second language for Sinhalese people....  Misunder-
>standings and problems among Lankans wouldn't have gone this far!
> 

I think English as a 2nd language (learned well) should serve communication
needs within and outside Sri Lanka.  As for that 3rd language, I feel that
"need" should be the driving force rather than some government regulation. 
In my school in Kandy, Tamils learned Sinhala and the Sinhalese learned Tamil.
The Tamil students did a far better job of learning a third language because 
they could see the need for it. 

As for misunderstandings and problems,
despite the ease with which Sinhalese and Tamils in my school could talk
to each other (through English) it was not uncommon to hear racial
slurs and stereotyping...But I must say that race relations in my school
were far superior to anything I experienced in other Sri Lankan 
institutions.  

Aru/-                                 na@abb-sc.com

		     

Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:39:41 -0500 
From: Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <thundayal+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Why not a UN resolution on SR?

Let's face it. Hoping that leaders from the SL government and LTTE will 
iniate a peace process on THEIR own is a bit unrealistic. During the
last rounds of talks, both parties were busy regrouping and rearming
themselves. And the colonization and poice harassing of civilians also
went unabated in the East.
So, resumption of hostilities was unavaidable. The methodology of that
peace process was flawed from the begining. Something vital was missing.

There was no neutral oberver to the process. 

A possible option for both sides(a compromise): 

Let  UN or a third party(not India) supervise the peace talks. The third
party will also monitor the situation in the Northeast and will
relinquish the 'observer' role if any of the parties to the process
violate a protocol. A set of protocols was to be established by
representatives from LTTE, Presidency and the 'observer.' Parties to the
conflict agree to abide by and respect the protocols they have just
agreed to. The third party can have added clout if foreign aid to SR and
exiled Tamils' support for Tigers can be used as levers in forcing both
parties to be sincere in their efforts. For this, France, UK, Jermany
and US will have to play minor but critical roles. Hardline elements
from parties will try to scuttle any genuine efforts at peace. Behind
egos, there is the perceived loss of power for many(Tamil & Sinhalase).
Particularly, certain hardline factions from the Sinhalase community
will try their best in formenting 'trouble' for the government. They,
after all, do fear peace more than anything else. How else can they
continue have some clout? 

There have to be compromises. As of now, the big sticking point is the
East. Factually, this area was and had been a traditional Tamil land.
Colonization in the last few decades cannot deny the Tamils their
heritage. Maybe, there can be a compromise. What about 'shared
administration' of Batticoloa and Trincomalee(and Pollaneruwa?)
Districts by Tamils, Sinhalase and Muslims? The economic potential of
Trinco harbor area is lying wasted now. Five or ten years later, let the
people who live there decide for themselves; to be divided or remain
integrated.

...any suggestions?

Suresh
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Worse than World War II Days...?
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:06:06 GMT

This news piece was from The British Broadcasting Corporation.

Even during the World War, the postal service was not distrupted.
According to Jaffna post Office, they have  no problems with the
delivery system inside the Jaffna peninsula.

===
Postal blockade of Jaffna

     The Sri  Lankan government  has stopped sending  mail to the
Jaffna peninsula for over  two months, Press  Trust of India news
agency (in English 0750 gmt 24  Jan 93) reported, adding that the
move had snapped off  the only mode of communication  Jaffna resi-
dents had with the outside world.

     The  blockade  has also  disrupted  the  work of  government
departments and  pensioners have  not been paid  their dues.  The
government was also tightening  economic strangulation of  Jaffna
in other ways. The Ministry of Rehabilitation has suspended trans-
port of essential food items to  Jaffna by ship, the  report said,
citing a Jaffna newspaper.

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 28
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: an7658@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Repost
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:27:00 GMT


From: thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (R. Thiyagarajan)
Subject: Re: A DARK DAY FOR TAMILS! (Who support LTTE and terrorists)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:14:22 GMT


In article <sfLLvbu00iV3E2GahO@andrew.cmu.edu>, Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <thundayal+@CMU.EDU> writes...
>>Does this 'grand tradition' include killing of innocent tamilians and muslims?
> 
>No. How did you come to such conclusions?

Oh Boy! There are so many incidences that we can not count them. Anyway did you
already forget the 200+ muslims childre+women butchered few months back by ltte
blood-suckers?

> 
>>Incidently Kittu was kicked in his ass because of his illegal money-laundering
>>activities in Britain. (Switzerland denied asylum later)
> 
>After Rajiv's death, India asked Britain to extradite Kittu. Britain cooked up 
>unsubstantiated charged against him so he can be forced to leave(at that
>time, India didn't have an extradition treaty with UK. Now, it does)\
> 

This is the problem with Ltte. If someone does not like their activities ltte
immeadiately blames them as traitors. Did you forget the good old days when UK
provided security and comfort for your ltte self-proclaimed leaders?
Only after Kittu started money laundering and extraction UK gave a nice kick.



>>Don't even dream about this. Tamils from India are peace loving and
>they showed
>>it in the last elections.
> 
>They certainly did. And now, they are paying for it. Should have
>bothered to look into what forces were behind Karunanidhi's ouster.

Do you want TN to become another garbage dump as Jaffna?

> 
>>Many will really appreciate if they scrap visas if any one wants to visit from
>>Madurai to let us say, Washington.
> 
>This is what I mean by 'being an economic mercenary.'

Oh, so you came to US to enlighten your soul leaving your fellow-ltte to fight.

> 
>>What do you mean by clutureal degradation? Do you think Aryans developed the
>>cinema craze. Do you know that TN has a temple for a living aryan (in your
>This is mainly self-inflicted.
>The upper-caste dominated media is playing a vital part in it.
> 
>>>ancient kings must be turning in their graves to see us subject to the
>>>whims of Delhi and Colombo. I have studied Tamil history. It is quite
> 
>>Ya sure they do. They used to fight among themselves (except a few) and may 
>>not have time for anything  else.
>Maybe. But, they made it possible for you to be born as a Tamil with a
>rich heritage you can be proud of. The kings didn't realize how selfish
>and divided some Tamil descendants would become.

No. They had plenty of experience. 
> 
> 
> 

RT




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From: theo@jake.prz.tu-berlin.de (Teodor Pirkmayer)
Subject: Info about Ayurveda needed
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:04:19 GMT


My girlfriend would like to travel to Sri-Lanka this year and to stay
for about three month. She is looking for Ayurveda Colleges or education
camps where she can get some basic knowledge about Ayurveda. She is
also interested in pancha karma treament. 

Who can help ? Thanks in advance !

Theo Pirkmayer

theo@prz.tu-berlin.de

Theo Pirkmayer 
Weigandufer 17
1000 Berlin 44
Tel. +0049-30-6868818
From: vinita@redbird.pa.dec.com (Vinita Bhatia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Survey of international students
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:11:27 GMT
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This is a request for help in a survey of facilities provided to internation
students on different campuses.  I need the information for a class project.

I will appreciate you sharing your experiences of the International Students
Offices in your university with me.  Please let me know of any program that
you thought was useful to you when you joined the school.  Also, if you felt
there was something for which you really needed help and was not addressed
before or after you joined the school.

Thanks for your help.

Vinita
-- 
Vinita Bhatia
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