“I am not a silent spectator, but a part of the game’’ This was one of the statement made by Fr. Stan Swami who has been arrested for voicing for the voiceless.
This commercial world is always tent to forget about the minority and the low caste people of the nation. This was the situation in Jarkhand where most of the Adivasi communities live. Fr. Stan Swami has been one of the prominent social activists who worked for the rights of the people in Jarkhand. It has been more than a month since Fr. …
For a longer period of time North and South part of Sri Lanka has been the Tamil populated area. The land also belong to the Tamil speaking people in the country. Since land is the identification of an ethnic group that also in danger of going away from the hands of Tamil people.
From 1983 Tamil minorities are fighting for their own nation. Under the leadership of Prabhakaran Tamils formed an army and fought against the government to get land known as Tamil Illam. In 2009 the government with the support of some other powerful nations in the world defeated…
தமிழர்கள் தமக்கென்று தன்னகத்தே பல கலைகளை வைத்துள்ளனர். அவைகள் காலத்தால் மிகவும் பழமையானவை. மேற்கத்திய நாகரிகத்தின் செல்வாக்கானது தமிழ் கலைகளை சிறிது சிறிதாக பயன்பாட்டிலிருந்து வெளியேறிச் செல்ல வழிவகுக்கின்றது. இவ்வாறு காணப்படும் சூழ்நிலையில் மதுரை மாவட்டம் வாடிப்பட்டி சேர்ந்த தப்பாட்ட கலைஞர் கணேசன் அவர்களுடனான சிறிய உரையாடல் பல உண்மைகளை வெளிக்கொணர்ந்தது.
நாட்டுப்புற கலைகள் ஏன் வழக்கொழிந்து செல்கின்றன? அவை அழியாமல் இருக்க நாம் என்ன செய்ய வேண்டும்? அரசாங்கம் எவ்வாறு இந்த நாட்டுப்புற கலைஞர்களுக்கு ஆதரவு வழங்கவேண்டும்? என்ற பல்வேறுபட்ட கேள்விகளுக்கு அவரின் பதில் என்ன?
தமிழரின் கலைகளைப் பற்றி பார்க்கும் போது எனக்கே வியப்பாக உள்ளது எத்தனை வகையான கலைகள், கூத்துக்கள், ஆட்டங்கள் என பலவற்றை தன்னகத்தே கொண்டு காணப்படுகிறது. இது வெறுமனே ஒரு கூத்தாக அல்லது ஆட்டமாக மட்டுமல்லாது மக்களது வாழ்வோடு கலந்து பல பயன்களை ஏற்படுத்துவதாக காணப்படுகின்றது. எத்தனை வகையான ஆட்டங்கள் எனக்கே வியப்பாக உள்ளது…
‘I don’t want to depend on somebody for my needs, so I have decided to sell sweets and earn for myself’, said Mr. Paul; one of the visually challenged people in the Saidapet railway station. Humanity teaches us to treat one another equally. But human beings tend to forget every time and focus on our own profit. Fail to listen to others cry, and even not ready to give an opportunity to express their inner storming.
There is a crowd of visually challenged people sitting in the railway station and chatting at a certain time every day. Who are these…
“Becoming a popular person doesn’t make any difference in my life unless I don’t do any good to the society”. I have established this mentality from my childhood.
Whatever I do and become should be for the betterment of the society. My first inspiration as a child was catholic priests who were doing social work in the society. Now I am a first year Digital Journalism student at Loyola College and I want to make use of this opportunity of becoming a journalist for a better purpose. …
Chennai has been an industrial hub for a longer period of time. The Industrial Revolution opened its gate for all kinds of works. The job seekers saw Chennai as a paradise to live. The main motivation for coming is employment and a better salary. The majority of the migrant workers who are in Chennai have come from the Eastern part of India, namely Odisha, Behar, West Bengal, Assam, and other places.
Do these migrants have insurance? What health benefits do they get? How long do workers work? Does Chennai really care about them? These questions remain only as questions. Though…
Violence in the name of religion is taking the streets. The divide between the religious communities is widening by the day. In the last few decades we have seen an increase in violence and the changing patterns of South Asia. In Pakistan the victims of communal violence are primarily Christians and Hindus, lately Ahmadiyas also being prosecuted there. In Bangladesh there have been incidents of violence against Hindus and Buddhists. In India the major victims are Muslims and Christians. Since the 1980 the trend of picking up identity issues like Ram temple, conversions, love jihad, and beef eating among others…
At last India seems to have woken up. Protests across the country, spontaneously led by University students, are becoming a movement. The youth, in particular, seem to have recognized the need to voice their dissent. For almost a decade people seem to have been numbed into silence partly out of fear, partly out of misguided expectations or misplaced hopes in the new regime.
People stood in line during the Demonetization thinking that it was a good economic decision, when the government interfered with rather questionable religious practices of a group, people give in hoping that it would help the concerned…
Business world trying to get profit out of Covid-19 in Sri Lanka
The deadly COVID 19 is on its heights and threatening the whole world. The cure for the virus has not been discovered. The only way to prevent ourselves is to be away from the Corona victims and following the safety measurements. The best way is to cover our mouth and nose with a face mask when we are exposed to the outside.
Sri Lanka is currently facing trouble because of the face masks shortage due to the high demand. This happened because a tourist from China was identified…
Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that cause common cold to severe illness such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The deadly virus was first identified from Wuhan, China on 31 December 2019. On 30 December 2019, three Broncho alveolar large samples were collected from a patient with pneumonia of unknown etiology, following the SARS outburst of 2002–2003 in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital.
The novel corona-virus is a zoonotic disease (transmitted from animals to people). The investigation found that SARS-Co V transmitted from cats to humans, MARS-Co V transmitted from camels to humans and corona-virus also first…
