"Dear God, Please send a tsunami and clean up the whole of Srilanka or at least one side of it, so that I no longer need to hear the war news from the island" - Yeah, I can pray, but I know my God can't listen. No point in listening to a human who has no knowledge of the wholeness.
12 - LTTE, 35 - SLA. I was so happy to see these numbers in my school days. Now I know that they are not mere statistical data but the lives which wouldn't have burdened the earth, if allowed to live in this world. At times, it hurts! No mercy, God is not of 'human', otherwise, we would have seen a different world.
Is it not natural to be attached with 'you', 'your language', 'your caste', 'your religion', ... when grouping is unavoidable? We are not going to be allowed to free of this binding that easily. Perhaps, that is why, like thousands of Tamils, I see Prabhakaran as a hero (hurting is the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi's). Will demolishing his body bring peace to the Srilankan Tamils? Or will they go voiceless slavery? Or will the wounded hearts wait for another generation to find another Prabhakaran, another hope?
The thirst for freedom is always deeply rooted. Greatest of sacrifices for the freedom are written in the history. We, born after India's complete Independence, have no chance of feeling that joy. Oh, so powerful are the hopes and dreams that these Tamils refuse to die which is easier than these prolonged pangs of death. Will their dream be realised? Will they all come to the streets with their heart filled with divine ecstasy and dance, the dance that you and I can't do.
Kovil Pillai P.
12 - LTTE, 35 - SLA. I was so happy to see these numbers in my school days. Now I know that they are not mere statistical data but the lives which wouldn't have burdened the earth, if allowed to live in this world. At times, it hurts! No mercy, God is not of 'human', otherwise, we would have seen a different world.
Is it not natural to be attached with 'you', 'your language', 'your caste', 'your religion', ... when grouping is unavoidable? We are not going to be allowed to free of this binding that easily. Perhaps, that is why, like thousands of Tamils, I see Prabhakaran as a hero (hurting is the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi's). Will demolishing his body bring peace to the Srilankan Tamils? Or will they go voiceless slavery? Or will the wounded hearts wait for another generation to find another Prabhakaran, another hope?
The thirst for freedom is always deeply rooted. Greatest of sacrifices for the freedom are written in the history. We, born after India's complete Independence, have no chance of feeling that joy. Oh, so powerful are the hopes and dreams that these Tamils refuse to die which is easier than these prolonged pangs of death. Will their dream be realised? Will they all come to the streets with their heart filled with divine ecstasy and dance, the dance that you and I can't do.
Kovil Pillai P.
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