by Rajan Hoole
Senthan’s Testament
The following from notes made by Senthan was published in the Arrogance of Power in 2001:
“Fear of fascists seems to be a dominant emotion going far beyond even parental or fraternal love. Friendship has become ephemeral. Friend forgets a friend who is murdered. I have seen fathers being forgotten by children and even two wives becoming mistresses of the same killer of their husbands. Lack of devotion even to the inner family makes me wonder what happened to Tamil society which once boasted of its strong family unit. Is it that their earlier devotion to family was no more than manifestly egoistic? How could someone who loves his family at the least not be kind to another man or, in the extreme, not be unkind to him? This is a riddle for me that does not get sorted out easily. Yet I could safely say something – the Tamils have themselves become more rotten inside than being eroded from outside. The Sinhalese, for their original sin, have bec
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Posted on May 15th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
When
the first Israeli airstrike hit Gaza on Monday nine children and 13 others were
killed, according to
Washington Post. (Monday 10, May, 2021). By
Saturday the death toll had risen to over hundred and 33 of them were
children. Simultaneously, Taliban bombs exploding in Kabul on Tuesday killed 85
Muslim school girls, according to
CNN. What’s the
difference? How can we condemn the Israelis when the Muslims are committing the
same crime of killing Muslims? Can Muslim violence descend to a more
inhuman level than in Kabul? In Africa? In Sri Lanka?
How
can we condemn the Israelis when our own Tamils committed the biggest