the girls’ final of the all-island shakespeare drama competition is tomorrow evening, and for about a week now i have been able to think of nothing else.

ladies’ college’s ‘the comedy of errors’ is up against ‘romeo and juliet’ from bishops college and also from ave maria convent, negombo, and ‘as you like it’ from girls’ high school kandy.

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if the latest story about the massacre of the family of four isn't sickening enough, there are now more stories of door to door interrogations by 'the people who should be safe-guarding our security'.

first hand accounts of these people going to sinhalese homes in colombo and asking whether any tamils or other 'outsiders' reside there. since when have tamils been outsiders in this country?

since WHEN?

where did Vijaya the acknowledged progenitor of the sinhalese come from?

we are all one blood.

sometimes i wish i could go back to the 50s and 60s, during the incidents and events that eventually lead to the heinous 'lanka for the sinhalese only' travesty of a decision being made. i would like to give them all a big 'kanay para'. i would like to haul them out of their graves and show them what kind of harvest we have had to reap from the seeds they sowed.