11 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
THE TRUE BUDDHIST VALUE OF SRI LANKA
CONFIRMED
GIVEN LIFE BY THIS PRESIDENT
I began reading the Sunday Times article ‘Breaching the
president’s gates, mocking the Rajapaksa security state’ by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, Commissioner, Right to Information (RTI)
Commission of Sri Lanka when I received the following response from Dr Kasinathan
Nadesan:
From: Kasinathan Nadesan
Sent: Monday, 11 July 2022 1:22 PM
To:
Gaja Param
Cc: S.B.Asoka Dissanayake; Sena De Silva; Sena de Silva;
sumanagune;; Charith Nanayakkara; Nesith Weerasinghe; anushines;
asokawettasinghe; Asoka Dissanayake; kalindasam; Bishop Kumara Illangasinghe;
Dr.P V. R. Kumarasiri; G Kulanathan; Jayantha Karunaratne; Kandiah
Suntharamoorthy; Kanex; Dr. Primali Jayasooriya; Edmhk Pethiyagoda; Piyantha
Wijekoon; Priyanka Tennakoon; Sanjeewa Pitawela; Sisira Pinnawala; Subramaniam
Pon; ishan printmec; Chethiya Ratnakara; Dr.Thamber sabaratnam Ravindran; Nimal
Ratnayake; Ranjan Rajavasan; Rajakulendran; Ranjith Pallegama; THARANGA
RATHNAYAKA; Dulanjaya Epa; Thangarajah Maheswaran; thaiman sivakumar
Subject: Re:
PROTESTORS OR HOOLIGANS?
Gaja, once again
you are blabbering your usual bias with malicious intention of tarnishing any
thing that is good. Your calling the protesters as hooligans clearly
shows your warped mindset of looking at things. The recent protest was
utterly civilised and orderly and enlightening. If there were any unlawful
acts it was by people like you who have infiltrated the groups to spoil their
name. In fact I see you as just one of those mercenaries intended to tarnish
any thing every thing. Let us forget about your cousin Krishna, knowing
you, we can fathom how utterly dangerous he would have been to any movement
that is lawful or needed for freedom. Even in hinduism there are numerous
instances where traitors have been killed. So here I have no difficulty to understand
how dangerous guy he would have been to a cause. However, it is not wise
for me to go by what you utter, as it may be cooked up. So let Krishns rest in
peace away from you. By the way dont drag late Sunil Silva into your
conversation because he is a gentleman and a realist and I know him more that
what you do. I am not talking of the political future of SL but for heaven sake
dont drag them into your warped analyisis. For you the world is still flat and
all your manifestations are determined by a few planets around the earth.
Nada
Krishna
was part of my immediate family. I had every right to express the Truth I know
about him through my family relationship and include him as if he were a part
of myself. That is how positions regulate our activities. My article was
written on the basis that the crowd that entered the premises of the Prime Minister
and acted as if it were theirs. Protesters cook food,
play carrom inside Lankan PM's residence. We were exposed to this in Australian
news. Indian media also published it – for example at https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/sri-lankan-crisis-protesters-cook-food-play-carrom-inside-lankan-pm-s-ranil-wickremesinghe-residence-video-gotabaya-rajapaksa-101657462911207.html
In Public life, the PM and the President are relatives by law – to every
citizen. When a citizen ceases to view the person outside the portfolio, and
outside the Truth of the person, the viewer’s investment in governance structure
is confirmed to be at that level. As per my interpretation of Dr Nadesan’s
response, his level of investment in family structure does not extend even to ‘cousins’;
leave alone relatives in Public life.
In the case of Public life, Dr Nadesan confirms the level of his
investment as follows:
[By the way dont drag late
Sunil Silva into your conversation because he is a gentleman and a realist and
I know him more that what you do]
My investment in the same person was through his position, confirmed as
follows in chapter 29 of my book ‘Naan Australian’
A
Felicitation of Sunil de Silva PC on Completing 50 Years of Continuous Legal Practice
as a Barrister at Law
I valued the fact that Sunil brought his
mother along with him to the meetings of Sri Lanka Reconciliation Forum Sydney.
Without knowing that the lady was Sunil’s mother, I asked Sunil who the lady
was? Sunil responded that ‘he had known her from the day be was born’. That is
Sunil! Later he asked me how I had the Energy to write as I did. In terms of Reconciliation service Sunil is now
our ancestor. I honoured him by including his achievement as mine in my book
which is now with the National Library of Australia as well as the library of
the University of Jaffna – confirming that we were no longer relatives but ‘family’.
That confirmed the success of the mission of Sri Lanka Reconciliation Forum
Sydney.
One of the most hurtful actions by the
crowd was the burning of books in Mr Wickremesinghe’s home. These books were meant
for Royal College. As a current tutor of students of Royal College, my pain was
that much stronger. Dr Nadesan could not have truly mourned the burning of
Jaffna Library. If he did he was felt pain of books that are part of Colombo
Education system.
Kishali
Pinto-Jayawardena
Commissioner,
Right to Information (RTI) Commission of Sri Lanka
Writes as
follows in her above mentioned article:
[As the Constitution was changed to accommodate the ‘vision’ of a President-King
who swore to cherish the ‘Sinhala-Buddhist’ heritage in front of the
Ruvanveliseya (one of the most venerated religious sites in the country),
his henchmen had already started dismantling governance institutions with
ruthless intent. From that point onwards, Sri Lanka resembled more a nation of
idiots rather than one of the oldest democracies in South Asia, bootlickers and
military men were catapulted into key state positions under the aegis of
‘efficient rule.’]
If indeed Ruvanveliseya
is one of the most venerated
religious sites in the country, and the President was open about
it – there would have been a firm ‘Buddhist structure’ that was developed through
the relationship between this President and the Buddhists to whom Ruvanveliseya
was a Buddhist heritage. Is that not
the Economic structure that Lord Buddha showed through is own life?
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