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24 Mar 2006 06:46:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anantha,
For someone choosing such a beautiful name you sound very grumpy and sour.
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24 Mar 2006 06:52:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anantha,
I am a woman and you would have known this if you had been literate enough to read my letter and know the essence of my message.
As for GOSL funding the University of Jaffna - the PUBLIC RESOURCE the University. GOSL is only their agent and in this instance only for funding. This University is primarily resourced by the Tamils in Jaffna. That is what the local Tamils are moving towards and I am offering my services to regulate that move through International Standards so all investors would identify with their investment in the University.
If you have the skills be man enough to criticize me Objectively through the process of Democracy. Don't hide behind Magha's skirt to express your uneducated views.
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24 Mar 2006 06:59:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anantha,
Professor Hoole is reported to have received credits from the academia at international level. One who seeks to 'show' his work is promoting himself. There is everything right with this in a well structured university of the type Professor Hoole might have encountered in the USA. As a matter of interest, did Professor Hoole ever apply for the position of VC at Peradeniya which has the strongest Engineering Faculty in Sri Lanka? If not or if he did and did not get it - ask yourself why?
University of Jaffna needs someone who can FEEL with its people. Later on - once the administration becomes stronger Professor Hoole's opportunities may get realised. By now Professor Hoole must have the wisdom to identify with the opportunities that he has developed and not withdraw from it for fear of losing.
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24 Mar 2006 07:03:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ha, Ha, Ha,
Gaja Lakshmi, you crack me up. I have not being to a comedy for long time and was planning to see Pink Panther this week end. Looks like I do not have to. |
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24 Mar 2006 07:21:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anantha,
We are quite immune to Gaja Lakshmi's strange behavior, getting worse around full moon time. I blame it to 1983 riots.
Since Jaffna is now devoid of intellectuals except for the few academic staff of the university, she believes that buttering the LTTE who is also empty of intellectuality and showing few thousand dollars collected for Tsunami victims and gambling on the pending law suite money she could achieve her illusions or the hallucinations will come true. According to her one Singhalese Psychiatrist and his superior an Indian Psychiatrist had diagnosed her with a serious mental ailment. She is awaiting second opinion by Tamil Psychiatrists who so far had made no attempt to give a date for consultation with the fear of rocking the boat.
Sad story but it is the reality.
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24 Mar 2006 14:50:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Nobody from this forum has endorsed Gaja Lakshmi yet as the vice chancellor of Jaffna university? Where is Gaja Lakshmi's fan club?
Embarrassed I suppose? |
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24 Mar 2006 20:19:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Magha,
Make up your mind as to which side you are on as to which side you think I am on. If you think I am on the side of the Tigers - then why should I try to please them? If I am on someone's side - I AM them. If you have even a fraction of my intelligence, you would have worked out that if I were the sucking up type, I would be holding a high position within Australian Public Service / University of New South Wales. Perhaps if you pay greater respect to your guru on International issues - you might improve your intellectual ability a little bit more.
You say to Anantha 'We are quite immune to Gaja Lakshmi's strange behavior, getting worse around full moon time. I blame it to 1983 riots.'
First of all who are the WE ? You Vinivida and Karthika? Shame on you Magha - that you would include yourself with these two empty vessels.
You say 'Since Jaffna is now devoid of intellectuals except for the few academic staff of the university, she believes that buttering the LTTE who is also empty of intellectuality and showing few thousand dollars collected for Tsunami victims and gambling on the pending law suite money she could achieve her illusions or the hallucinations will come true.'
If we who are alleged to be devoid of intellectuals have brought your government down on its knees - what does that say about your government and their intellectual emptiness? Tamils had to match your government and hence the war by sacrificing our higher intellectual skills and reserves.
The primary wealth I helped Tsunami victims collect was their motivation to live a better life using the Tsunami pain to connect to each other. I helped them also respect each other first instead of getting carried away with the handouts from the West. I helped them USE THEIR Public Service to get what they had earned / deserved. Now I am ready to do that with the people of the North - especially the intellectually driven - so they would start using the International organisations monitoring Sri Lanka - to encash their pain and use it locally. That is the path of Dharma. If you genuinely invest in International and National standards and your governments fail to deliver, you are entitled to refund - with interest. The rest of Sri Lanka might start learning from the University of Jaffna.
In terms of Universities - they have to work out the Cost of providing their Courses and then produce a bottom up Budget - from zero base - and claim it legitimately from the Public through the Government. That would leave to self-management and accountability. THAT is what I have achieved for the Public Service here in Australia.
If the intellectually poor like me can do this, just imagine what the intellectually rich Tamils would have achieved if not for their desire of the Goodwill of the Government ? The Sinhalese who appoint the government owe this compensation to the Tamils - whether you recognize it or not. If you don't - the system of Natural Justice will take over and distribute as per each group's genuine work and sacrifice.
If you measure me through this forum and this alone - you would know the Truth - the whole Truth about me. Understand through a small part and know the whole. It is for this reason that we have Common Values. But if you see me beyond the limits of this forum - because you think you are higher than I - then you mislead yourself.
You say 'According to her one Singhalese Psychiatrist and his superior an Indian Psychiatrist had diagnosed her with a serious mental ailment. She is awaiting second opinion by Tamil Psychiatrists who so far had made no attempt to give a date for consultation with the fear of rocking the boat.'
As I have said before - once you feel a part of the whole - in this instance the whole of Tamil group - there are no calculations at the individual level. I discipline internally - as if they were a part of me - as I do with my children. I have rarely criticized my children publicly. They are part of wider society and if they take opposite side to me - I criticize them as part of that group and not on the basis of their faults that I had the privilege of seeing as a Mother. Likewise with younger Tamils in University of Jaffna. This is what was found lacking in Professor Hoole - who according to the pundits here tends to want his own way. That is a limitation ambitious academics place on themselves. Professor Hoole needs to openly ask himself as to why he wants to be the VC of this particular University - whether it was because it seemed an easier target for his ambitions. If yes, then it is understandable that the citizens of University of Jaffna are feeling insulted. They are not a worse University than University of Peradeniya or Oxford. They are different and they seek to have their own unique identity. The students fear that Professor Hoole is not able to appreciate this. An elderly Tamil Tiger - I think they call him the Master - in their education sector expressed the view that they had managed their education sector for so long and that new entrants - especially from other countries were trying to tell them how to suck eggs. Likewise the reaction to Professor Hoole.
You say 'Sad story but it is the reality.'
Why sad Magha? Those around me are happy - so if mental illness makes us happy should we not want more of that? Don't be afraid - you are already mentally ill yourself - and using your mate's assessment - more ill than I am alleged to be. The measure is whether you challenge those above you in position. As per this forum - you challenge the government much more than I challenge mine.
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Thank you Virumandi. Thank you deeply. I am applying for the position of UN Secretary General in competition with Mr Jayatha Dhanapala. I am receiving deep support from the valuable sections of the Tamil community that are genuinely seeking self-rule.
Tears welled up in my eyes when I read your post. There is a big reason for this - beyond logic. I saw an ad in an episode of 'Annamalai' tele drama - the ad for the film Viramundi - with Kamalahasan as the hero. It just attracted my attention whilst I was thinking about Jaffna Uni issues. Now I know that it was Divine message last night - showing me the Truth about myself.
There are others who keep saying that I have courage and self confidence and compared me favourably with the Tamil (I think his name is Vaikundavasan) who made a bottom up presentation in the UN - about the plight of Tamils. We need courage to present our Truth at the international level. I have courage because I feel happiest in Truth.
Thank you for sharing that Truth with me. The feelings of a genuine person who shares my pain and sacrifice is far more worthy to me than millions of calculated opinions. Truth is God. A spark of Truth is the Truth itself. If we know to limit ourselves to the level where our Truth is mostly felt - we are Truth. Going below or above that would lead to misery. In the past I have gone below that level often - due to a false sense of modesty. Not any more.
Thank you Virumandi. Your Truth makes us a part of each other.
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24 Mar 2006 21:08:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja acca,
have you written to sangam.org they have a wide audience and will publish letters. or tamilcanadian.com. |
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24 Mar 2006 21:24:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Virumandi / Oldpuli. I knew it was Swami's work.
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