Sahasamvada: Panel on Sri Lanka

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Panel on Sri Lanka

Panel on Sri Lanka @ 2 -3:45pm on Sat, Feb 13th:
Sri Lanka: Return of the Displaced and Political Reconciliation
Panelists include: Ahilan Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, Himal Southasian Magazine, Kafila Collective

Sharika Thiranagama, The New School "Houses of the Future: Return and Reconciliation amongst Nort...hern Muslims and Tamils"

V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, The University of Michigan, Lanka Solidarity,
journalist and author of Love Marriage "Dialogue in the Diaspora"

February 13th, 2010 - 9am
Rosenthal Pavillion, NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square S, New York, NY

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If interested in attending, please register for the conference at
http://sites.google.com/site/nyuglobalsouthasiaconference/registration

You can find the itinerary, personal bios, and other information about the conference at the following link:
http://sites.google.com/site/nyuglobalsouthasiaconference/Home

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Reflections

"not knowing the atrocities of war those who cry out for it whoever they are - I will say that they are the first reason that Eezham still remains burning" - Sakkarawarthi
"The Tamil diaspora has created this monster. They are the reason for this on-going war. They must stop this war because we need peace. We all need peace. Even the soldiers need peace. They don't want to be in this war. They want to go home and live in peace" - Rt. Rev. Thomas Soundranayagam, Bishop of Jaffna
"Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us" - Arundhati Roy
“In the event that there are any ambiguities or uncertainties on this issue, I wish to reiterate that non-violence is the central article of our political faith. We cannot glorify death whether in the battlefield or otherwise. We, on the other hand, must celebrate life, and are fiercely committed to protecting and securing the sanctity of life, which is the most fundamental value without which all other rights and freedoms become meaningless” - Neelan Tiruchelvam
"Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use to first, shrink wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead" - Arundhati Roy
"One day some gun will silence me and it will not be held by an outsider but by the son born in the womb of this very society, from a woman with whom my history is shared" - Rajini Thiranagama (1954 - 1989)