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Archive for May, 2009

Bullet Point Post

Posted in Colombo, Personal, Random, Sri Lanka on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My brain has been detoxing from the tedium and stress, so I don’t think I can write coherent prose for the time being. So here’s the Colombo update.
- People were burning tyres on airport road on Saturday. What’s the deal?
- If I see another political poster, I will puke. These people are no eye candy [...]

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Island Summer, Soon

Posted in Colombo, Ethnic Conflict, Personal, Politics, Society, Sri Lanka, St. Andrews, Terrorism, Thoughts, War on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Per, annual ritual once again I’m sitting in a sparse room: a void which has seen many a stray sock, paper explosions galore and the messes which accumulate in thickets. I never claimed to be tidy. The space is unusually sterile, almost sad considering that it was more a personal space, than the drab dorm [...]

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Ayubowan

Posted in Disasters, Ethnic Conflict, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, War on May 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I trawl the Internet for news every few minutes, wondering what has changed. I see people’s digital patriotism and ponder if the rumours are true, as photochemical evidence surface on the news as breaking alerts and exclusive footage. If the war is really at an end. The government has no post-war plan outside an IMF [...]

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The Man Himself

Posted in Dumbasses, Ethnic Conflict, Politics, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, War, tagged , , , , , on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote a post saying everything I wanted to regarding bungling Sri Lankan ambassadorial representation. Thanks to the youtube gods, you can now see the The Man Himself.

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Memento Mori

Posted in Ethnic Conflict, News, Politics, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, War on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am preoccupied with the state of my research proposal, trying to establish a framework which unites feminist theory with post-colonial discourse. I ponder about packing up my belongings for the summer amidst end of year exams. 6000 miles away I feel hypocrisy percolating into the distance of my own existence. I read the news [...]

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Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Posted in Ethnic Conflict, News, Politics, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, War on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Interview: Both sides of the Sri Lankan conflict – 02 May 09: Aired on Al-Jazeera English.

I suppose, all I can say is make up your own minds because I can’t seem to tell the government’s actions apart from the LTTE’s actions any more.
Two deabauched sides of the same cursed coin.

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The May Hurrah!

Posted in College, Escapades, Personal, Photos, Scotland, St. Andrews, University on May 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Some of you may remember that arcane little celebration, we St. Andreans dub The May Dip, which I have written about but unsuccessfully photographed here.  Weather Gods, this time around were kinder as EmC and I wandered out to Castle Sands at 4am for a knee-dip in the North Sea, with bonfires, Octopus floaters and [...]

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