Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SAROOR Shreen Abdul
Over a two-week period in October 1990, the LTTE forcibly expelled 75,000 Muslims from the Northern Province. My family was among them. Most of them were allowed to take only 500 rupees and clothing; some fled with nothing.
Unable to get any transportation until reaching the towns further (…)
, by HEMACHANDRA Lakmali
“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law.” –Dhammapada
What happened on Easter Sunday is unforgivable and our rage and condemnation is beyond imagination. The nation should be complimented for their patience and maturity (…)
, by JEYARAJ David Buell Sabapathy
Easter Sunday is celebrated by Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, as the day on which the crucified Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It is a joyful day on which Christians sing jubilantly – Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? He’s alive, He’s alive, He is risen! In a (…)
, by SUROOR Hasan
Hounded by mullahs: A Muslim woman writer forced to leave home, why is the community silent?
As a poet, Sharmila Seyyid is used to dealing in imagination, but even she couldn’t have imagined that an innocuous remark in an innocuous BBC interview would trigger a chain of events that would turn (…)
, by SUNDARAM Kannan
Fundamentalism knows no boundaries. In India, it was Perumal Murugan who announced the death of the writer in him. In Sri Lanka, writer Sharmila Seyyid was ‘raped’ and ‘murdered’ online on March 28, marking a new low in the history of intolerance. If casteist and Hindutva forces drove the writer (…)
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