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| road to nandikadal english: The Seasons of Trouble Rohini Mohan, 2015-10-20 For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan’s searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city-bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces, his middle-aged mother, Indra, searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Mugil, a former child soldier, deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived, they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims, frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country, losing his way – and almost his life – in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays, breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world, desires, plans, and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling, brutal, yet beautifully written debut from a prize-winning journalist. It is a classic piece of reportage, five years in the making, and a trenchant, compassionate examination of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people. |
| road to nandikadal english: A Long Watch Ajith Boyagoda, Sunila Galappatti, 2016 |
| road to nandikadal english: Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Communities Bert Jenkins, D. B. Subedi, Kathy Jenkins, 2017-10-29 This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands. It offers insights to further our understanding of the social and political processes of reconciliation in a region that has witnessed numerous armed conflicts, many of them perpetuating over generations. The book also draws lessons from the richness arising from diversity in terms of religious and cultural practices, social life, and forms of government and governance, and through the exploration of theories and practices of reconciliation in conflict and post-conflict contexts in the region. It provides useful reference material for researchers, academics, policy makers and students working in the areas of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, reconciliation, social cohesion, development, transitional justice and human rights in the Asia and Pacific region. |
| road to nandikadal english: Still Counting the Dead Frances Harrison, 2012-09-20 An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone. — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail. |
| road to nandikadal english: The Road from Elephant Pass Nihal De Silva, 2003 |
| road to nandikadal english: The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka Francis Boyle, 2010-04-20 Sri Lanka’s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world’s most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country’s ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of captives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil civilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons. Human Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were committed during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance since, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers, including the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a “war without witnesses.” This book traces the ongoing engagement of international lawyer Francis A. Boyle during the last years of the conflict. Boyle was among the very few addressing the international legal implications of the Sri Lankan Government’s grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the conflict was taking place. This is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law. |
| road to nandikadal english: Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai, 2015-07-14 Now a major motion picture. An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the turbulent and deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict. Arjie is “funny.” The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity. Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles. “Adult intolerance of difference and the process of coming out as a gay teenager are given fresh perspective and rare insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A great deal more than a gay coming-of-age novel . . . Selvadurai writes as sensitively about the emotional intensity of adolescence as he does about the wonder of childhood.” —The New York Times Book Review “There’s not a shred of false optimism in this delicately balanced coming-of-age novel by Selvadurai, a remarkably talented young writer.” —Entertainment Weekly “Compassionate and mature . . . blessed with both a deftness of touch and a seriousness of purpose. An auspicious debut.” —Montreal Gazette |
| road to nandikadal english: Black Belt Krav Maga Darren Levine, Ryan Hoover, 2009-12 As the official defensive tactics system of Israeli police, military, and elite special operations units, krav maga has proven its effectiveness from front lines to back streets. Black Belt Krav Maga teaches and illustrates the discipline's most lethal fighting and self-defense moves in book format. |
| road to nandikadal english: Reef Romesh Gunesekera, 1996-02-01 The incandescent (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera Triton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook and adults to impress and a brilliant master whose voice was poetry. And people from all over the world came to the house-- to sell their wares, to talk, to live, for this was where life took place. Even the sun would rise from the garage and sleep behind the del tree at night. And in the house, life was good. But beyond Mister Salgado's house and their Sri Lankan village there was a world. And all around them, it was falling apart... |
| road to nandikadal english: Sanath Jayasuriya Chandresh Narayanan, 2019 |
| road to nandikadal english: British Governors of Ceylon H. A. J. Hulugalle, 2014 |
| road to nandikadal english: A Fleeting Moment in My Country N. Malathy, 2012 Isolated in their struggle and condemned by world opinion, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) nonetheless proved capable of withstanding all external forces, drawing large numbers of Tamils to support its cause. This book provides an insider's look at the motivations, issues and complexities of this largely secret civil war. |
| road to nandikadal english: Paradise Poisoned John Martin Richardson, 2005 On the political conditions in Sri Lanka after civil war in 1983 and its effect on development; a study. |
| road to nandikadal english: Armed Conflict and Environment Detlef Briesen, 2018 This study is the first to analyse the manifold interrelations between armed conflicts and the human and natural environments both historically and sociologically. While most research to date has dealt with this topic primarily with regard to environmental destruction caused by acts of war or armament in peacetime, this publication goes one step further by highlighting the historical changes to this complex interrelationship with concrete examples: from the Second World War in Europe and Asia via the classic proxy war in Vietnam to the current asymmetric wars in South Asia. At the same time, it focuses on systematic questions: How do environments influence armed conflicts? How do wars change environments? And how do complete war landscapes (warscapes) emerge, in which war and militarisation permanently change the relations between people and their environment? |
| road to nandikadal english: This Divided Island Samanth Subramanian, 2015-02-05 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016 In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee, and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today - an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories. This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed. |
| road to nandikadal english: An Explosion in the Parliament of Sri Lanka , 2019 |
| road to nandikadal english: The Assassination of President Premadasa of Sri Lanka , 2021 |
| road to nandikadal english: Enemy Lines Margaret Trawick, 2007-04-11 Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a region where childhood, warfare, and play have become commingled in a world of continuous uncertainty. |
| road to nandikadal english: Mossad Exodus Gad Shimron, 2007 In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment from former Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan and deliver them in the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. Gad Shimron, the author of this book, was one of their number. Shimron offers a thrilling firsthand account of how the operation was put in place, and how the Mossad team in Sudan brought it off, despite great personal risk, running a partying vacation spot for wealthy tourists by day as they stole through the Sudanese desert to rescue desperate refugees by night-- |
| road to nandikadal english: Tamil Tigers' Debt to America Daya Gamage, 2016 |
| road to nandikadal english: Sri Lanka Vijitha Yapa, Langenscheidt Publishers, 2000-01-21 This is the guide that answers the questions you'd ask a friend who lived in Sri Lanka. Which places are really worth seeing? What excursions shouldn't be missed? Where are the great places tourist haven't yet discovered? Written by a local host, it is based on intimate knowledge of the island. *History and culture Sri Lanka's past and present explained in a nutshell. *Tailor-made itineraries Seven itineraries cover the main sights of Colombo and its surroundings. *Selected excursions Six excursions explore the hill towns and beaches of Sri Lanka. *Shopping, eating out and nightlife Tips on what to buy, where to eat and where to stay out late. *Essential practical information Hotels, climate, currency, getting around, useful addresses, etc. *Detailed pull-out map This gives an overview of the tours and can also be used independently of the guide |
| road to nandikadal english: Embattled Media William Crawley, David Page, Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, 2014-12-15 Insights into the importance of independent media for democratic governance in the wider South Asian region! |
| road to nandikadal english: Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers Paul L. Moorcraft, 2013-03-19 In 2009, the Sri Lankan government forces literally eradicated the Tamil Tiger insurgency after 26 years of civil war. This was the first time that a government had defeated an indigenous insurgency by force of arms. It was as if the British army killed thousands of IRA cadres to end the war in Northern Ireland. The story of this war is fascinating in itself, besides the international repercussions for terrorism and insurgency worldwide. Many countries involved themselves in the war to arm the combatants (China, Pakistan, India, and North Korea) or to bring peace (US, France, UK, and Norway).While researching this work Professor Moorcraft was given unprecedented access to Sri Lankan politicians (including the President and his brother, the Defense Permanent Secretary), senior generals, intelligence chiefs, civil servants, UN officials, foreign diplomats and NGOs. He also interviewed the surviving leader of the Tamil Tigers.His conclusions and findings will be controversial. He reveals how the authorities determined to stamp out Tamil Tiger resistance by whatever means frustrated the media and foreign mediators. Their methods, which have led to accusations of war crimes, were brutally effective but are likely to remain highly contentions for years to come. |
| road to nandikadal english: The Cage Gordon Weiss, 2011-06-01 The Cage is a brilliant yet harrowing account of Sri Lanka's fall into darkness. Since independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has been marred by a toxic mix of religion, nationalism and xenophobia. Post-colonial governments ruled with an iron fist, and democracy crumbled. Extremist Buddhist monks preached bloodshed. Pogroms and death squads killed tens of thousands in the 1970s and 1980s. The Cage unravels the compelling history that led to the horrific events of 2009, when government forces surrounded the brutal Tamil Tiger guerrillas and hundreds of thousands of civilians on a tiny sand spit. Were tens of thousands of innocent people killed in the first months of that year? Was the government's destruction of the Tamil Tigers justified? Were war crimes committed in the process? And why is it that unlike recent events in Libya, Sri Lanka escaped detection and the censure of the watching world? The Cage analyses the serious questions thrown up by Sri Lanka's war on terror for the liberal international order. It examines how it was that on the strategically vital island, the three Indian Ocean super powers - the US, China, and India - jostled for supremacy, while the 21st century's first major war crime unfolded. |
| road to nandikadal english: From a Borrowed Land Shash Trevett, 2021-05-02 Driven by grief, these poems bear witness to Tamil loss during the Sri Lankan civil war: of lives, of a homeland, of a language, and of a way of life. |
| road to nandikadal english: Woolf in Ceylon Christopher Ondaatje, 2006 Leonard Woolf was born in London in 1880 and spent five years at Trinity College, Cambridge where he began lasting friendships with men such as Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes. In 1904 Woolf applied to join the home civil service but failed the exam. Instead, he was sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a cadet in the Ceylon civil service, joining the small group of white administrators who ruled the colony. He remained there for nearly seven years. In Woolf in Ceylon Christopher Ondaatje, who was himself born and brought up on the island, follows in the footsteps of Woolf. Drawing on his personal experience of Ceylon and empire, he compares the way of life during imperial days with that of the post-colonial era. We learn as much about the country, its people and their transformation of the country during the past century as we do about the man who used his colonial career to become one of the leading English men of letters of the twentieth century. Ondaatje s sensitive descriptions, illustrated with period and modern photographs, tell the compelling story of Woolf s sojourn in Ceylon and his developing disillusionment with the British colonial system. The result is a unique evocation of both a vanished imperial world and a colonial servant s enduring legacy in the contemporary culture of an enchanted but troubled island. |
| road to nandikadal english: Adventurous Journey from Peace to War, Insurgency to Terrorism Cyril Ranatunga, 2009 Career biography of Cyril Ranatunga, Sri Lankan general, chiefly narrates the 1971 JVP rebellion and civil war with LTTE. |
| road to nandikadal english: A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam, 2021-07-15 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother''s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others. |
| road to nandikadal english: Pirabhakaran Phenomenon Sachi Sri Kantha, 2005 |
| road to nandikadal english: The Prabhakaran Saga S. Murari, 2012-06-05 This is the story of the man who defined the armed struggle for an independent Eelam for over three decades and who lived by the gun and died by the gun–Velupillai Prabhakaran. The book is a first-person account by the author based on his innumerable visits to Sri Lanka during its turbulent years. He looks at the Prabhakaran era, a critical phase in the country's history, objectively, without being judgmental. |
| road to nandikadal english: Gotabaya , 2020 |
| road to nandikadal english: Mistaking Politics for Governance Charan Rainford, Ambika Satkunanathan, 2009 Study on interim power sharing arrangements in Sri Lanka. |
| road to nandikadal english: The Tiger Vanquished M. R. Narayan Swamy, 2010 Collection of news stories and commentaries penned by the author from 2003 to 2009. |
| road to nandikadal english: Ilaṅkait Tēcīya Nūr̲paṭṭiyal , 2016-07 |
| road to nandikadal english: Selections from Regional Press , 2008 |
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