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Tuesday, June 27, 2006


Part of an email from a friend after the suicide attack which killed the Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Sri Lankan army.

The violence started out in the north, the most sensitive area in the country. Within the span of a few months it moved its way up to Colombo... the land of the elite and the moderates... people who don't want war, but are too used to its threat to run away from it. People who love their land more than they love themselves, their children, friends, lovers, homes. People who are reluctant to accept the possibility of being destroyed completely and to prepare for it.

I wonder what makes people live and be the way they are. War is a terrible thing and yet most of us who say so know nothing of it. We don't and hopefully never will understand the full ramification of the word, the process. We can only sit behind television screens or crumpled sheets of newsprint and imagine the permanence of its misery. War is a terrible thing, and yet... nobody seems to really know it. But what is certain is the fact that the human race is cursed to kill itself, if not by war then by the lingering persistence of its pain.

Pessimistic? I don't think so. Sounds closer to the truth to me...


// posted by Sai K @ 12:16 am
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Saturday, June 10, 2006

WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!


It's finally here! Missed out on the first day of play - bloody work! :((((
Catching up now... so that's it for the next one month... not much chance at all for any other news... enjoy the World Cup all of you...


// posted by Sai K @ 8:35 pm
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