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To promote ethnic and religious harmony in Sri Lanka – Thamby Ramar
Uncategorized by Northern BreezeNov 3, 202110:24 pmNov 4, 2021

Happy Deepavali all!

Today is Deepavali, a festival celebrated by Hindus world over, but is an important day associated with the Tamil culture, such as Thai Pongal in January and Tamil New Year anniversary of Chithirai in April, […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 31, 20219:27 pm

Management of waste land as an entry point to develop Vali-West Division in Jaffna!

In 1986, returned back to Sri Lanka with my family to our home in Moolai in Jaffna. Earlier the ethnic conflict has escalated into an armed conflict in the 1980s and developed into a full […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 30, 20219:01 pmOct 30, 2021

Sesame oil is an earliest known crop-based oil of Northern Sri Lanka!

At Navaly in Jaffna Peninsula is serene, pass through fields encounter vast areas of uninhabited land decorated with palmyrah trees to the oil mill. After turning into a by lane the aroma of sesame oil […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 29, 202110:29 pmOct 29, 2021

Blacksmiths with 140 years still operates in Moolai in peninsula!

There are various traditional skills are still practiced in the North, in spite of some skills going extinct due to the civil-war. In my village Moolai in Jaffna Peninsula there are still blacksmith’s forge where […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 28, 20215:59 pmOct 28, 2021

A controversial hardline Buddhist monk

Venerable Gnanasara Thero is a Buddhist monk once accused of hate speech targeting Muslims, has been appointed head of a panel on legal reforms in Sri Lanka. What’s more the minorities criticise proposed legal reforms […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 27, 202111:46 am

Once paradise Sri Lanka doomed forever, unless..!

With independence all politicial groups in the country had opportunities to rule the country and taste power. Almost all benefited by it and all the citizens got in return was a bankrupt country. Now if […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 25, 20214:51 pmOct 25, 2021

Why once paradise Sri Lanka is today in ruins?

Once asked how people could preserve their liberties, Solon replied:“Those who are uninjured by an arbitrary act must be taught to feel as much indignation at it as those who are injured.” A principle which […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 22, 20211:25 pmOct 22, 2021

Still there are lessons for our leaders to learn from Nelson Mandela!

What impressed most was when he came to accept the principle of armed struggle; his strategy was not to seize power by force but rather to make the government negotiate; and when, in turn, the […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 17, 202110:17 amNov 27, 2021

Collective action needed from all Tamil speaking representatives!

When Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, the country was a paradise. The British drafted a constitution fit for multi-ethnic and multi-religious country Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called. Unfortunately, the majority Sinhalese Buddhist […]

Uncategorized by Northern BreezeOct 13, 20219:58 pm

Lankan Teachers left unhappy!

On Teachers Day, that coincide with the birth anniversary of Father of Free education C W W Kannangara, that falls today, with people continue to give teachers and principals respect due to good work attitude […]

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