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23 Mar 2006 23:34:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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If it is the ordinary public of Jaffna who oppose Prof. Hoole's appointment, what is the point of discussing this with the Butcher.
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24 Mar 2006 02:57:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Naleen, have you forgotten that Waruna never answers questions? :-) |
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24 Mar 2006 03:02:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tamilcanuck, yes, the most outsiders do associate Tamils through Tigers. This includes many Sinhalese in this forum.
Below is the letter I wrote to the Student Association of Jaffna Uni. I need to know the Truth and this will lead me to it.
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GAJA LAKSHMI PARAMASIVAM
AUSTRALIAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
906/ 56, Carr Street; Coogee N.S.W. 2034; Australia ;
Email gajalakshmi_param@bigpond.com ; Phone 61 2 9315 7417
The President,
Student Association
University of Jaffna
Jaffna
Sri Lanka
24 March 2006
Dear President,
LEADERSHIP OF JAFFNA UNIVERSITY
I write to offer my services to help you reconcile the leadership issue of the University of Jaffna, with ALL investors of the University.
Staff and Students are Preferential Owners of a University funded by the Public. Public are Primary / Ordinary owners. I am not aware in detail of the reason for the conflict between the Student body and the Government of Sri Lanka. As I am not aware in detail of the reason for the conflict between the Student body and the Government of Sri Lanka, my mind is free enough to make Objective decisions and use the Subjective path only for ?local? needs.
As you would agree, both the Objective as well as the Subjective measures are needed when appointing persons for higher positions of responsibility. The less visible our services the more Subjective our decisions need to be ? as in the case with Universities. Our intuitive wisdom is far more powerful than published ?facts? by those in power. It is only on this basis that your association has a legitimate reason to ?protest? against someone with whom you do not feel intuitively connected. This is the only legitimate reason, because as per my intelligence, you have so far not published any Objective basis to your protest against particular candidates. We need to respect other people?s sovereignty for us to earn our own. Hence unless we are able to Objectively criticize an opposition individual, we must use that person?s institution/ association and not the individual himself.
President, our Tamil civilization has communicated to us that it is our DUTY to pass on to our children, the wealth we received from our parents. This wealth is physical, mental and spiritual. With the physical wealth ? our children have to follow our physical path. With the mental / intellectual path ? we have to follow the Common Intellectual Path of all those who included us in their thinking. With the Spiritual path ? we just need to exist ? keeping the path open for genuine seekers to connect to our Spirit and carve out their own paths at the physical level.
University of Jaffna has been passed on to your generation, from my generation who fought for intellectual freedom. It is your DUTY to pass this on to the next generation at least at the level at which YOU received it. Otherwise, you would be guilty of selfishness at the expense of Common Intellectual Values for Tamils as a group.
There is deep passion in Northern Sri Lanka, about being a Tamil, not through the language ? but through Common experiences that we have shared because we were Tamils. The language is one primary level expression through which we express that Common language. I am quite capable of expressing myself in Tamil and have done so during my recent Service work in North and East but this time I choose to write in English because this is an intellectual issue ? which needs to follow International Standards ? recognizing the investments made by ALL those who identify with our Common experiences ? especially all those who shared in our pain even though they were not biologically connected to us. This includes my nation Australia. I came to Australia for love and not for economic or safety reasons. It is therefore like a marriage made in Heaven. I therefore connect to and feel a part of all those who love their country of birth and / or of marriage / migration.
You as citizens of the University of Jaffna have the rich opportunity to identify with this International Community of Tamils ? some of whom may not even speak Tamil. The unique feature of University of Jaffna is that it was born out of the pain and sacrifices of Tamils ? especially intellectually driven Tamils and all those who were led by those Tamils. In other words, we must be Tamils in mind ? so we include in our thinking, all those who contributed to Higher Education of Tamils. My parents, especially my Mother, sacrificed their comforts and pleasures so I could have higher education. Likewise I sacrificed for both my siblings to go through higher education. Every educated Tamil is connected to you, whether you endorse them at the physical level or not.
During my ?Capacity Building? services with the Tamil Tigers in 2003, a well educated young Tiger said to me in Batticaloa, when I said that the Administrative Head of the Eastern Health Service needs to be appointed by the Central Administration in North ? that if they did not get what they wanted they would lift up their guns. I said to the young guy ? that if not for the expatriate Tamils they would not have guns to lift up. I then explained to him how hard I have worked to get to where I have and how deeply I have sacrificed to handover to my children at least as much as I received from my parents. I explained that some of it was by risking our safety during Communal riots in Colombo and later in Papua New Guinea where we ? my three young children and I - were the only Tamil family in the remote area where our quarters were. I said that even as I started on that particular UNDP job through which we had been to Batticaloa, fellow Tamils here in Australia had asked me whether it was ?safe?. I said I had not calculated whether it was ?safe? or not. I felt there was a NEED ? due to my cousin Mrs. Malini Rasanayagam AM, (who went to prison in India, for helping Tamils) communicating to me the need to set up Administrative systems in Northeastern Sri Lanka. Since I feel connected to Mali Acca?s family through many angles, I did not calculate ? but responded to a genuine need. The young Tiger realized that I was genuine and before I left Vanni ? brought and showed me his little daughter. I even initiated her on the computer ? thus blessing her with my communication skills and wisdom.
President, you would be one of the primary candidates for the position of Vice Chancellor / President of Jaffna University in the future. If not the University, it would be some other organization. Would you like your children/students to rise against you, at a time when you are the CEO of an organization? If you feel the need to protest ? please do so through the intellectual path. This is a MUST for educational institutions. Otherwise Goddess Saraswathie would turn into Goddess Khali to suit your own FORM of investment. God comes to us in the form we have invested in. If you seek Khali, please let go of the investment in Saraswathie ? so Khali?s path is clear.
As is widely known here in Australia amongst the Tamil Community, I went to prison for intellectually challenging the Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, where I consider myself a Preferential Owner, because I received much less benefits than I earned through my genuine work. You consider yourselves Preferential Owners of the University of Jaffna because of the work you have done and are continuing to do in your current environment. How many of you are likely to come back to serve the University of Jaffna ? especially by foregoing other more economically attractive offers? You need to genuinely assess your ownership value in the University against that of someone against whose appointment you are protesting and take up your position accordingly through the INTELLECTUAL path first. Choosing the physical path first will lead to forgetting what you learnt at the higher level ? as happened to the Vice Chancellors of the University of New South Wales who sent me to prison. I am now using my Accounting wisdom to claim damages of 10.1 million dollars through the Court system. In the process, I am doing all possible to clean up the Court Administration which leaves much to be desired. Right now, I am in the process of developing a claim format which would highlight the CAUSE of Torts of various forms. The judge may or may not award me victory. But my work will benefit the Court system and all genuine seekers of Justice through the Administrative process. The law is a primary avenue through which we share our Truth. I ask you to please follow the Lawful path that all of us ? especially those who are used to International Standards can comfortably identify with. In return you will share our International wisdom. That is the power of Families and Communities. Each time I succeed your motivation goes up.
Hence please show up your work at international standards and we will do our best to show you relevant parts of our work in local language. One such project is the work done by me to promote the accreditation of Jaffna College Undergraduate Section, to teach the course of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ? my Accounting family. My husband is a physical part of the Jaffna College family. The strongest bondage that my husband feels with our three children who are NOT biologically connected to him is Higher Education. We are both passionate about our children passing it on to their children beyond the biological connections. I myself include many orphans in North and East, as my children and grandchildren.
My family sacrificed two sons of ours ? Radha Krishna Visvanathan of Killinochchi, and Mani Visvanathan of Colombo, to the Tiger led war. It?s a big loss for our family ? because they were both in the prime of their lives and they were both killed when their mothers were alive. That is the worst pain most mothers would feel. I want to honour them also through my work to save other mothers from similar pain.
Please let Higher Education expand your thinking to include those who are not biologically connected to you but who identify with your work and pain. I offer my services temporarily to help you develop the position of Vice Chancellor from your own discoveries and the discoveries of all genuine owners of the University of Jaffna. You cannot see as far ahead of you as I can. Jaffna needs women ? Mothers. Owayar who made rich contribution to Tamil is on record saying that if she were to be born again it should not be as a woman. ? Pehdu Neeki Pirathal Vendum. That might have held good during Owayar?s times. But I want to be born again and again as a woman ? because I want to be a mother who does not calculate but intuitively knows the needy and serves with love. I do not desire what I do not have and hence I do not fear what I have. The relationship between Mother and child is the most natural relationship in our world and is the source of all other relationships. I invite you to connect to me as a Mother and help develop an Intellectually driven University of Jaffna through which the whole world can learn about our Common discoveries. Otherwise our struggle will die with one generation ? making others wonder whether it was for economic reasons and not for Common Principles of Independence and Freedom.
Do it for your parents and your children. Be the present that is never visible but is always felt.
Yours sincerely,
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
CC: All Concerned
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24 Mar 2006 04:26:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Naleen, that was a very analytical explanation!
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Looks like Gaja Lakshmi is promoting her self to become the vice chancellor of Jaffna university exploiting the situation. She is trying to capitalize on the law suite against the NSW university. Nice way to attract attention and mislead youth.
She is talking about family members killed in the war , and that Jaffna needs mothers, but does not want to talk about Dr. Rajani Thiranagama a mother of two children , senior lecture and the head of the dept of Anatomy of Jaffna who was killed by LTTE.
She talks about her being discriminated by NSW university and suing them for $10.1 million but hesitate to condemn LTTE for killing a daughter of Jaffna who came back from England to rebuild the dept of Anatomy of Jaffna medical faculty in a war torn country.
I have never seen such BS being sent by any body to a university body than what Gaja Lakshmi has written to the president of the Jaffna University student association.
But one good thing is Gaja Lakshmi will never antagonize LTTE so she will be safe. |
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24 Mar 2006 06:06:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Magha for your response. Each one reads me as per their own investment in me and in themselves. Your reading differs very much to the reading of Tamils who urged me to apply.
It's true that you may have never before seen such an offer. Neither did the University Managers and other Public Service Managers who highly appreciated my work in Resource Management.
Perhaps you would better appreciate the likes of Professor Hoole who is being criticized for promoting self-interests above community interests. Those who know me will assure you that my self interests are a natural part of my community interests.
If you were so sure that I was safe with the Tigers why did you warn me? Can't make up your mind as to which side you are on?
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24 Mar 2006 06:34:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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I thought most of the Tamils are intelligent but it appears that there are Tamils who even asked Gaja Lakshmi to be the vice chancellor of the Jaffna university. I am sure it should be the Tamil Terrorists who have the level of education up to great five like their schizophrenic leader Prabhakaran. Perhaps Gaja Lakshmi got a reference letter from 'Dr.Bala'.
I am waiting to see how your self promotion will be seconded by tamilcanuck. |
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24 Mar 2006 06:37:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Magha,
I talk about my family because I know the Truth about them and FEEL the loss of their killing. If YOU feel for those in your circles why don't YOU write about it any way you can. Tamils who studied with me, including doctors often say that I was intelligent whilst they were hard-working. I agree that I did not work as hard as them to get the grades. I do now for Common benefits and opportunities. When YOU do likewise you would appreciate my bottom-up approach. Tamils who have suffered due to the war do connect to my bottom-up approach and have encouraged me to keep going - even promoting me to apply for the position of UN Secretary General.
Magha, you see Professor Hoole as one of your own and you promote him. Respect others to promote their own candidates - including themselves. One needs COURAGE to go ahead knowing that the likelihood of losing are high. I have already made a positive contribution by encouraging young Tamils to have courage on the basis of THEIR Truth. If you can promote an external candidate on Objective merit basis - I can promote an internal candidate on both Objective as well as Subject merit basis. I doubt that your Professor Hoole can come anywhere near me in Resource Management and Administration - which is what the University of Jaffna NEEDS right now. You with your affection for theory are not able to identify with this need. I stronly suggest that you limit your counsel to your Universities and not those of your opposition - which is Tamils because you seem to think that all Tamils who say good things about Tigers are Tigers.
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24 Mar 2006 06:45:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Magha,
I received the reference from the People of Jaffna - the deepest investors of the University of Jaffna.
As for those promoting me - they include White Australians who have benefited from my work. They just ask me to keep my home base here - so THEY would feel included in my life.
Are you jealous Magha? Don't be. Why don't you apply for the position of Vice Chancellor of University of Peradeniya? - Do you have the courage to do so? I have applied for senior Resource Management position within the University of New South Wales. I fully believe that if the best academic known to me - Professor Bruce Dowton who has now gone back to the USA - had been the Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales I would have been the top Resource Management person in that University. Hence I have the confidence to apply. The next person nominated for the position of the Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales is indeed a non-academic. Australians are getting tired of empty theories. I am able to identify with a big part of that change. What can YOU show to match my credentials for the position offered? If you do not have any - it's best that you hold your peace and not dilute your own investments in higher education.
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