Meera Srinivasan
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#SriLanka
: 15 years since the civil war's end, a poverty of hope among Tamils - long read from
#Mullaitivu
, the site of the May 2009 carnage
via
@the_hindu
#lka
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#SriLanka
: The petrol queue dance (to
@arrahman
's music from 1994) - received via whatsapp. Hoping to see him sometime when I'm in line.
#lka
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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பாட்ஷா எதிர்பார்த்து போனவங்க பாபா பார்த்துட்டு வந்த மாதிரி இருக்கே! 🤔
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If you haven't watched
#JaiBhim
yet, please do. Such an important story, reflecting how power structures in our societies work, how brutal and inherently violent they are, who they target the most, and how. 1/2
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#India
: This homeless senior citizen hadn't heard of
#Demonetisation
until Sunday. And he may lose his only saving - report from Krishnagiri
via
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: DMK leader Jagathrakshakan’s family linked to record-$ 3.8 billion FDI in Sri Lanka for oil refinery in
#Hambantota
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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According to Sri Lankan mythology, Ravana is a king and a hero. And Sri Lanka would go by its mythology, not India's 🤷🏾♀️
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#SriLanka
: A friend shares this aerial view pic of a message left on the beach 👇🏾
#lka
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#SriLanka
: Very disturbing visual from a fuel station in
#lka
;
As part of its response to the
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
, SL government has tasked the military with manning fuel stations, and more recently managing the token system for fuel distribution
Fuel crisis : Video of an Army officer assaulting a civilian in a fuel station has gone viral in Facebook
📸
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#SriLankaElections
: Sarojini Kadirgamar, 97, tells
@the_hindu
what she is voting for this election, at a polling booth in Colombo
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#SriLanka
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I was in the House, ma'am. Speaker called for a vote, issued 3 warnings and then said he'll go by voice and did that. Thank you.
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#Srilanka
has an admirable public health system, arguably the best in the region. Really hope that the tireless efforts of health officials, workers, this week's public holiday, and govt's next crucial steps, help
#FlattenTheCurve
, setting a benchmark for the region!
#COVID19
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#SriLanka
: Growing up in her village in Sri Lanka’s northern Kilinochchi district, Sadasivam Kalaiyarasi had one dream — to play cricket for Sri Lanka.
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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There are multiple narratives coming out since the incident. The Sri Lankan govt hasn't said this yet. Better not to speculate without credible first information/evidence/Sri Lankan government's official word. There's no joy in getting this story first, we need to get it right.
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#Srilanka
: What does it mean to have a mass grave unearthed in the heart of town? I report from
#Mannar
, where 300 skeletons have been identified so far, in one of the biggest mass graves uncovered in the island -
@the_hindu
's
#Groundzero
page
#lka
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#SriLanka
: That's what the entrance to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo looks like right now. It's Sinhala-Tamil New Year today, usually one of Colombo's emptiest, quietest days as the country shuts down to celebrate
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#lka
@the_hindu
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#SriLanka
: Remembrance event being held at Galle Face, Colombo, in solidarity with Tamil families, civilians who were killed/forcibly disappeared during the civil war. Several families gather at
#Mullivaikkal
this day every year to remember their loved ones killed in 2009
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Ace Sri Lankan cartoonist
@awanthaartigala
's take on Ranil Wickremesinghe's appointment as PM yesterday
#lka
#SriLankaCrisis
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#SriLanka
: Blurry pic of people cheering and cooking milk rice near Temple Trees, shortly after Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned yesterday. Just what many in the south did when his govt defeated LTTE in May 2009 after a bloodbath 1/2
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Anupriya, 8, broke open her piggy banks, into which she had been putting ₹5 coins for the last four years, just so she could buy a bicycle ...her donation added up to ₹9,000. 😀
#KeralaFloodRelief
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#Srilanka
: SL Muslim council condemns Sunday's deadly attacks targeting churches, hotels in & around Colombo, & Batticaloa. Over 100 persons killed, several hundred injured. No verified information/official word yet on those behind attacks
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#SrilankaBlasts
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#SriLanka
: "A larger message from the demise of the Rajapaksa brand is that muscular nationalism and majoritarian mobilisation may not be an endless reservoir of support, and will be of no avail when the masses face economic hardship"
@the_hindu
editorial
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#SriLanka
: At Fort, Colombo right now. Media and lawyers being stopped at every entry point to Galle Face. "You can't enter the area . No one can get in. Not even media or lawyers," say cops at barricade. No access to Galle Face
#lka
#SriLankaProtests
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#SriLanka
's foremost feminist scholar, regional and global icon Dr. Kumari Jayawardena at the Galle Face Green protests,calling for 'economic and political stability soon in a democratic Sri Lanka'.
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#SriLankaProtests
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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Many congratulations to director and friend
@tjgnan
for telling this story with much sincerity and clarity. Glad
@Suriya_offl
chose to back the project, and let the story hold fort.
#MustWatch
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@rohini_mohan
For the person "giving", it's always in her terms - what to give, how much, when and how.
Justice on the other hand, will not be in their terms.
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#SriLanka
: Tourism loses $1bn revenue due to protests, claims hotelier. How did he establish the cause for drop in revenue as protests, and not any other reason like say shortages or power cuts? 🤔
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The best news in
#SriLanka
this morning:
Akila Thirunayaki, a 71-year-old resident of Mullaitivu secures victory at the Masters Athletics Championships in the Philippines, clinching two gold medals and one bronze! 👏🏾
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#SriLanka
: Amid all the buzz in the country's political terrain, almost lost is the quiet achievement of a team of Sri Lankan scientists in outer space -
#Colombo
despatch today
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#astronomy
#exoplanets
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#SriLanka
: ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ a welcome start, say Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamils
- on what the song, with over 200 million views since it's launch in March, means across the Palk Strait
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#TamilNadu
, is there a T-shirt yet saying 'Ek gaon me ek kissan raghu thatha?'
#AskingForAFriend
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#PSBB
has issued at least 2 statements since allegations of sexual harassment -- which it irresponsibly terms "inappropriate behaviour" -- by a long-serving teacher surfaced. Obsessed with "legacy" & "excellence", neither demonstrates sincerity/a resolve to address the issue 1/2
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Irrespective of your position on farm laws, if this is what your child's school is teaching them, you should be very worried, parents!
This is a sample fm a Class X English paper of a popular Chennai school. The incident and the much larger farm bills issue is still being discussed but here this is being said 'violent maniacs under external instigation'
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#SriLanka
: Citizens gather outside the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre in Colombo, protesting govt's handling of
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
. Authorities have imposed a curfew from Fri evening to Monday morning, following Emergency.
#lka
@the_hindu
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#SriLanka
: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe thanks Tamil Nadu CM Stalin for humanitarian aid
Sri Lanka today received Rs. 2 Billion worth Humanitarian aid including milk powder, rice and medicines from India. Our sincere gratitude to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Hon.
@mkstalin
and the People of India for the support extended (1/2)
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#SriLanka
: All Cabinet Ministers in Sri Lanka resigned late on Sunday, amid raging protests by citizens asking the Rajapaksa administration to quit for “failing” the country in its crisis response
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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The voice that millions are addicted to, was ushering me in: “Please come in, ma’am.” As I pass by a smiling
#SPB
, who holds the door open for me, I wonder if chivalry could ever sound better - from a 2012
@the_hindu
interview
#SPBalasubramanyam
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#SriLanka
: 'Gota go gama' (Gota go village) this morning (pic courtesy: a friend), with its resolute tent city 2/2
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#SriLanka
#GotaGoGama
protesters have launched a protest in front of
#MajesticCityComplex
in Colombo, against
@AdaniOnline
's renewable power project
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#PowerCrisis
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#Srilanka
: Vijitha Herath of the JVP, who was seated in the front row and injured by attacks of JO MPs, speaks to
@the_hindu
soon after Friday's dramatic sitting.
#lka
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#Srilanka
: BREAKING: President Sirisena's sacking of parliament before 4.5 years and call for snap polls illegal, rules Supreme Court
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: This page, being shared by some on social media, has nothing to do with
@the_hindu
. Someone decided to Photoshop a fake news item with an image of our masthead. They got our font wrong, and have done a bad job of photoshop-ing as well.
#lka
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Idudaan anda late aanalum latest matter-a boss? 🤔
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#Srilanka
: India has no moral right to comment on power devolution after
#Kashmir
, says Minister
@pcranawaka
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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Adani Group's projects in
#SriLanka
were negotiated as “government to government” deals, Foreign Minister
@alisabrypc
tells
@suhasinih
Despite the Group's stocks plummeting, Sri Lanka "is not panicking" - 1/2
#lka
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: PM RW confirms India offered "specific intelligence" on
#EasterSundayAttacksLK
, adding it's regular practice for countries to share intelligence
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: Seeing several images with the same message on social media. Let's listen to the doctors, please
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#Srilanka
: Two Muslim Governors in Sri Lanka stepped down on Monday, days after a Buddhist monk began a hunger strike demanding that they resign, following allegations linking them to Easter terror suspects.
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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Kudos to colleagues behind this brilliant, in-depth coverage of
#Karunanidhi
. Rich in history & perspective - a fitting tribute!
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: JVP's Bimal Rathnayake has just handed over a motion signed by 122 MPs to Speaker
@KaruOnline
, saying they have no confidence in the purported new government of Mahinda Rajapaksa
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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'Superstar'
@rajinikanth
, a favourite in the Rajapaksa household, says
@RajapaksaNamal
If anyone can define SouthIndian cinema, it is the legend himself,
#Rajinikanth
. He is a favorite actor in my household, especially my father's & it is a great coincidence that both these legends complete their 5 decades, just days apart. May
#Thalaiva
continue rocking the reels
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#SriLanka
: “I just went on my bicycle to buy diabetes medicines at our local phamacy... I even showed the empty box of my pills, but the soldiers forced me to kneel down right there... with my hands raised."
#lka
@the_hindu
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Adani Group passed off low-quality coal as far more expensive cleaner fuel in transactions with an Indian state power utility, according to evidence seen by the Financial Times that throws fresh light on allegations of a long-running coal scam.
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#SriLanka
: 'Occupy Galle Face' - huge crowds on the eve of Sinhala/Tamil New Year Day, usually one of the quietest times of the year in Colombo
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#SriLankaCrisis
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#SriLanka
: A proposal from the Adani Green Energy Ltd. "on the request and recommendation of the Government of India" was considered by GoSL, and granted policy clearance -- Ceylon Electricity Board in a clarification to
@FT_SriLanka
👇🏾
#lka
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#India
's South Asian University issues notice to PhD student who cited criticism of Modi.
The notice also demanded an explanation from his supervisor, Sri Lankan scholar Sasanka Perera, on the choice of research topic.
Perera has since resigned.
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Today's papers: Pakistan got the headline Sri Lankans want to see, with a different name.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#SriLanka
#lka
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#Srilanka
: President's Counsel Kanag-Iswaran who appeared for one of the petitioners, TNA Leader
@R_Sampanthan
, on the
#dissolution
case verdict delivered by SC minutes ago.
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#IndianElections2019
: Fantastic, comprehensive infographic by
@the_hindu
's data team and desk
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A dissenter is not an anti-national. Holding a contrary view to that of the government does not make one an anti-national, Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta said on Monday.
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#Maldives
: "Pandering to religious extremists could take the country to a dangerous place in the next few years...look at
#Afghanistan
today" - former President Nasheed tells
@the_hindu
, in his first media remarks after the attempt on his life
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#Srilanka
: Mobs attacked several mosques, torched dozens of shops & homes of Muslims in Kurunegala, some 100 km north-west of Colombo on Monday, in the biggest incident of violence since the Easter attacks
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#EasterSundayAttacksSL
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#SriLanka
: Protesters have now entered the heavily guarded Presidential Secretariat - on day 92 of their continuous protests outside the building. Massive crowds at Galle Face Colombo as "Gota go home" chants get louder
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#SriLanka
: Military assaults protesters in pre-dawn raid at Galle Face, Colombo
* Media, lawyers denied access to the spot
* Development comes less than 24 hrs after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in President
#lka
via
@the_hindu
#SriLankaProtests
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#India
: Very saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Thiru. U. Arulanandam, a senior fishermen's association leader & a long-time, committed activist in Pamban, Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu), who consistently foregrounded rights of the most vulnerable, daily-waged fishermen 1/4
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Fact Check | History shows
#India
did not lack access to vaccines as claimed by PM Modi - in
@the_hindu
today
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#SriLanka
: Big group prepares to leave the University of Colombo, towards the agitation site.
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When rage courts terror: The journey of the suicide bombers behind
#SriLanka
's Easter terror attacks in
@TheHinduMag
today
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#SriLanka
: Doctors seek global contributions to secure diabetes drugs, now in short supply amid
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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#SriLanka
: The tale of Gotabaya Rajapaksa's mighty fall, decidedly more pacey and dramatic than his giddy political ascent, had an unlikely protagonist — the ‘Janatha Aragalaya’: a profile of the movement that booted out the Rajapaksas via
@the_hindu
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DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi crossed a rare milestone in the country’s political history on July 27, becoming the first leader to enter the 50th year as president of a party - fascinating account by
@kolappan
in
@the_hindu
#Karunanidhi
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#Srilanka
:
#Fakenews
& personal attacks targeting colleagues
@AzzamAmeen
,
@tingilye
by different actors on social media is just unacceptable. Do not attribute false motives/statements to journalists doing their jobs, please.
#lka
#pressfreedom
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“On what basis did you ‘select’ and ‘nominate’ Adani Ports for this government-to-government deal?" Congress's communications chief
@Jairam_Ramesh
asks PM Modi, on the Adani Group's investment in
#SriLanka
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Yes, sir. Once injured students stop bleeding and receive suitable emergency medical care, they'll maintain dignity and peace. Until then, hope you and your colleagues can keep these ultra thoughtful messages coming!
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#Srilanka
: 2 busloads of people, aided by local goons, carried out raging attacks on mosques, Muslim-owned shops& homes on Monday in
#Kurunegala
, locals said. A 45-year-old Muslim man, who ran a timbre store, succumbed to stab injuries.
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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@rohini_mohan
Charity, however thoughtful and kind, thrives on someone else's reliance, creating/ maintaining a power dynamic. Justice requires targeting precisely that power that the "givers" have, so it's no more just theirs to give. 2/2
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#SriLanka
: Massive protest at Galle Face, Colombo's iconic seafront leading to the Presidential Secretariat.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#Srilanka
: Suicide bombers involved in Easter serial blasts were all from Sri Lanka, well-educated, middle and upper middle class youth. One of them had an undergraduate degree from the UK, and a PG degree from Australia: State Min
@RWijewardene
#lka
via
@the_hindu
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#SriLanka
: Over a fortnight now. It's close to midnight, a large crowd is chanting anti-govt slogans outside the Presidential Secretariat, adjacent to 'Gotagogama' or 'Gota go village'. The many barricades didn't put them off, evidently
#lka
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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#SriLanka
: Protests outside Presidential Secretariat gain momentum again
#lka
#SriLankaCrisis
#SriLankaProtests
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