KAMALIKA PIERIS ITEM 1 Speech delivered on December 18, 1949 at the Inaugural business meeting of Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam KC Chairman of the reception committee and delegates assembled here, I thank you most sincerely for the honour you have done me in electing me your Chairman for today’s […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 12.9.23 The place names of the north and east indicate that the north and east were Sinhala before they became Tamil. The incoming Tamils, arriving from Tamilnadu, simply tamilised the existing Sinhala place names instead of inventing new names. In 1886, the irrigation engineer, Henry Parker, presented a series of Sessional papers […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS There are four    documents which need to be studied before the discussion on Tamil colonization of Sinhala lands can proceed. They are, Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact, Dudley Senanayake-Chelvanayagam Pact, the District Development Councils Act and the Provincial Councils Act. All four take positions on the subject of Lands and land settlement”. BANDARANAIKE – CHELVANAYAGAM PACT […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Since the philanthropist  Dhammika Perera is supporting the education of the Sri Lankan youth, may I suggest that DP Education considers an avenue of targeting the programmes towards revenue-generating employment overseas. Currently many Western countries need and invite qualified Nurses to support their elders and the hospitals. USA, UK, EU have vacancies […]

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By Garvin Karunaratne The Colonial PeriodAs colonialism was gradually disbanded in the Forties and Fifties many colonial countries were bequeathed with independence, provided with democratic constitutions for governance and allowed to rule themselves. The fundamental aims of the colonial regimes was to maintain law and order, the collection of taxes and to restructure the economies […]

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වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ෆ්‍රෙඩ්රික් නීට්ෂේ විසින් 1882 දී  රචිත The Birth of Tragedy ( The Birth of Tragedy, Out of the Spirit of Music (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) කෘතිය ග්‍රීක ඛේදවාචකයේ මූලාරම්භය තේරුම් කරයි. එසේම දර්ශනවාදය සහ කලාව තරණය කිරීමට ගත් උත්සාහය ඔහුගේ පළමු කෘතිය  මගින් පෙනී යයි.  එක් ආකාරයකින්  The Birth of Tragedy 5 වැනි සියවසේ […]

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