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Praise for Sangakkara



Kumar Sangakkara has impressed many people with his excellence in communication
Cricinfo's UK editor Andrew Miller and associate editor Dileep Premachandran have joined the army of admirers for the Sri Lanka skipper according to a recent feature published by the website which featured the two editors in a chat.

Following is an excerpt from a long dialogue which gives ample testimony to the respect Sangakkara has earned among his peers and the whole cricketing community at large.

DileepPremachandran: I think Sanga will do a superb job in the long term. He's a thinking cricketer, with terrific temperament. And he's respected by all his mates. He's shrewd, articulate and a great ambassador for the game.

Andrew Miller: No opinion on his tactics as such, but I tell you, that man is about the most impressive public speaker I have ever heard. His speech to the press - and it was a speech - on the eve of the tournament was truly rousing, as he spoke of the importance of cricket to his war-torn country. If Ranatunga can become a minister, Sangakkara can be secretary-general of the UN in retirement

If Ranatunga can become a minister, Sangakkara can be secretary-general of the UN in retirement

If Ranatunga can become a minister, Sangakkara can be secretary-general of the UN in retirement

Bigotry alive for Christian Dalits

A 17th Century church building, Lady of the Rosary Parish, stands tall above the Eraiyur settlement. The village came up around the parish church, with Vanniyar houses closest to it. The Dalits were forced to build their small huts on the fringe of the village.

It did not take long for the divisions within the Hindu social system to be reflected among the new Christians.

The dominant Vanniyars created rules which restricted the movement of the Dalits.


We were told not to touch any upper caste person, not to get too close to them, not to talk to them

Mrs Peraiyamakar
When they visited the parish church they were not allowed to walk on the main street leading to the building. Instead they had to use a side street that led to the church gate.

When Dalits died they were not allowed to be buried in the cemetery. Their burial ground is beyond the village and can only be accessed through a broken path.

In addition, the funeral cart parked inside the church building can be used only by Vanniyars.

'We were told not to touch any upper caste person, not to get too close to them, not to talk to them,' says Mrs Peraiyamaka, 60, a farm labourer who has been visiting the parish church since childhood.

'It is no different now.'

Mr Thomas, a 60-year-old labourer says there is also a fear of violence as young Dalits refuse to be submitted to such humiliation.

He says this fear prompted the Dalits to build an alternative church.

A single-room, white-washed brick structure with an iron grill for the entrance is set in a small open ground.

Called Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Dalit church has a coloured icon of Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus in her arms. She is flanked by plastic flowers and incense sticks burn on the sides.

The Dalits' demands of recognition for their church were rejected by local Catholic priests on the ground that a village can have only one parish church.

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