Sadly, in independent Sri Lanka, the societies were not governed by basic norms of existence, as the elite leaders followed instead divisive policies. The world knows well of the resulting fragmentation of the country, as […]
Author: Northern Breeze
A Weblog by Thamby Ramar named "Northern Breeze" to exchange views with ever growing followers worldwide, on current affairs and other related subjects to facilitate the development of a multi-ethnic and united Sri Lanka.
A native from Jaffna did my secondary schooling in Colombo and graduated in England with an Engineering Degree to be made a Chartered Engineer in 1975 gained over 20 years of industrial experience in design and construction specializing mainly in Power, Energy & Water Supply based in UK, with assignments in Malaysia, Oman and Saudi Arabia. On returning home to my roots in North of Sri Lanka in 1986 when there was a deep resentment among the Tamil youths on a perceived betrayal by an oppressive state making them feel like strangers in their own land that forced them to wage a war for over three decades. While, I worked for over 30 years as consultant on development related projects, includes managing a team of Designers and Engineers in Jaffna during the period 1986 to 1992 when forced to closedown operations due the high intensity of the civil war on the ground causing severe destruction and loss of lives that forced us while at work to move into bunkers for safety and were internally displaced many times.
Thereafter functioned as a freelance Development Consultant; presented many concept papers on development of various sectors particularly in the North. Finally, after the house was shelled sold up everything for a song and left war torn Jaffna peninsula to live in Colombo with the family in 1997. Did work on some key assignments that includes preparing the Jaffna District Water Supply Development Programme in 2003 for National Water Supply & Drainage Board; the concept of managing waste land as an entry point for development of Vali-West Division in 2010. Later worked as Quality and Energy Audit consultant from Colombo to empower businesses and consumers to make wise decisions and eliminate wasteful uses of energy.
At present a keen follower of the post war economic and political developments in Sri Lanka sharing my experience and knowledge with a quest to know what kept the state on hold while Sri Lankans were tearing apart into negative peace years after the guns of the Tamil Youths were silenced in 2009 and since 2015 how the Unity Government is getting on with the promised good governance.
Keeladi museum in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu
The Archaeological department of Tamil Nadu has been carrying out the excavation since 2018 and a lot of findings have been recovered which indicate at a thriving urban civilisation on the banks of river Vaigai […]
Sanatana Dharma for all Sri Lankans!
Sanatana Dharma is a belief and is not a fixed philosophical wisdom; has been in use with Tamil language and Hinduism for thousands of years, which other languages and religions lagged behind. Looking closely with […]
The concept of the Divine in Hinduism!
The concept of the Divine, is represented by various deities in Hinduism and Adi Shakti, also known as Devi or the Divine Mother, is the supreme goddess is believed to be the source of all […]
Ecotourism and Northern Sri Lanka
Ecotourism industry is growing and changing at a fast pace to be an increasingly important source of income and employment in many countries. According to the World Tourism Organization, ecotourism is recorded as the highest […]
Sri Lanka could still revive and thrive!
Economic Death – The rural regions in the country have failed to consistently clock healthy economic growth and will die out of gradual economic atrophy. Sri Lanka’s perennial sub-par economic growth after independence and its […]
Sri Lanka in crisis with hundreds of small businesses collapsing!
After the civil-war was brought to finish in 2009, the Buddhist Sinhala leaders of the major community, as rulers retained their dominant role, at the expense of minority communities depriving them of their fundamental rights. […]
Mismanaged “Ceylon Railways” in Sri Lanka!
Locomotive No. 1 is the only locomotive designed by James McConnell to have been preserved. McConnell was the Locomotive Superintendent of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Southern Division at Wolverton railway works and […]
Unconformist politics only helps the rulers!
Sri Lankan President only knows very well that in the end this will not help his act of wanting to do justice to the Tamils as a minority race; but bitter truth is it is […]
Sri Lanka to reduce it’s military strength now!
With the end of the civil-war in 2009, as a democracy Sri Lanka should have reduced its extraordinary number of soldiers. However, then president, like a dictator for many other purposes, did not do it; […]
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