The liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are a guerilla/terrorist group representing the minority Tamil community, fighting for an Eelam, or homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Led by V. Pirabhakaran, the group started as a small forty to fifty man outfit in the early 1980s, but has since grown to an organization of several thousand. A unique, if macabre feature of its tactics has been the use of suicide commandos, both men and women, some in their early teens, for individual assassination as well as mass attacks. A former Indian prime minister, a Sri Lankan president, and several top aides have been targeted and killed in this way. The LTTE has not hesitated to kill prominent Sinhala civilians. Between 1987 and 1990 LTTE fought the Indian Army, which was sent to disarm it as part of an Indian-Sri Lankan agreement. After the Indian pullout in 1990, the organization used a suicide bomber to carry out the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Thereafter Indian authorities unravelled a well-organized network of safe houses, supporters, and logistics depots in Tamil Nadu. India maintains a strict naval cordon sanitate around the area of conflict, which shows no signs of abating. Read more...
The liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are a guerilla/terrorist group representing the minority Tamil community, fighting for an Eelam, or homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Led by V. Pirabhakaran, the group started as a small forty to fifty man outfit in the early 1980s, but has since grown to an organization of several thousand. A unique, if macabre feature of its tactics has been the use of suicide commandos, both men and women, some in their early teens, for individual assassination as well as mass attacks. A former Indian prime minister, a Sri Lankan president, and several top aides have been targeted and killed in this way. The LTTE has not hesitated to kill prominent Sinhala civilians. Between 1987 and 1990 LTTE fought the Indian Army, which was sent to disarm it as part of an Indian-Sri Lankan agreement. After the Indian pullout in 1990, the organization used a suicide bomber to carry out the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Thereafter Indian authorities unravelled a well-organized network of safe houses, supporters, and logistics depots in Tamil Nadu. India maintains a strict naval cordon sanitate around the area of conflict, which shows no signs of abating.
Read more...The Struggle for Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka
Regionalism has commonly been expected to dissolve as a consequence of the administrative regional penetration of the centralized modern state and the homogenizing forces associated with modernization. This mode of reasoning has reappeared recently among authors who see globalization as a universal force that will eradicate regional economic inequalities, local identities and regional political mobilization. Contrary to these expectations, regional autonomy movements continue to play a central political role within many states. Consequently, it remains an important analytical challenge to understand the construction and politicization of regional interests.Against this background, the article presents a critical interpretation and contextual analysis of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. It is argued that studies of nationalist movements should seek inspiration in the contemporary dialog between three main perspectives on social movements (theories of new social movements, resource mobilization theories, and theories of collective identity) and a corresponding three-dimensional understanding of place (location, locale, and sense of place). The paper shows how nationalist mobilization cannot be reduced to essentialist notions of primordial nations, territorial nation-states, or internal colonialism, but instead should be understood as the outcome of cultural and political practices by a multitude of actors, operating in time- and place-specific contexts
Read more...ABOUT NALLUR TEMPLE
Historians have found evidence that the original temple was built in 1248 in Kurukkal Valavu in Nallur at the same location of the present temple. Nallur was then the capital of the Jaffna Kingdom. But in 1450, Parakramabahu the 6th of the Kotte Kingdom, in response to the Arya Chakkaravarthi of Jaffna's to extend his rule to the South, sent his son Sapumal Kumara to bring the Jaffna Kingdom down to his rule. Sapumal Kumara defeated King Arya Chakkaravarthi, destroyed his palace and the original Nallur temple. But upon becoming Buvaneka Bahu the 6th , he sought to make amends by building a new temple in 1467 at a nearby location, says Shanmugapriya in Nallur Kanthaswamy: A Spiritual Experience.And centuries later the Portuguese, after fighting witht the kings of the Jaffna Kingdom for more than hundred years, with the death of King Sangilian, captured it in 1620. The Portuguese General Phillip Oliviera used the Nallur temple as a fort.During Dutch rule, the new temple was built in the same place in Kurukkal Valavu,as the original place.The main shrine has deity Vel, but later a statue of Lord Murugan was installed.Further the Nallur festival of old days took place in the nights,with the procession carrying the deity preceded by women clad in shimmering outfits dancing to the beat of gigantic drums. The streets of Nallur were illuminated with flame of torches and lamps.
Hindu priests in White attire for the evening event on Theerththam. 
Camphor seller 
Young camphor seller 
Young camphor seller in Nallur 
Peanut Stall
Peanut - Kachchan stall
Sudal
Thannner penthal - "Lemmonade stand", quenching thirst.
Getting ready for the sales...
How much are you willing pay....? 
Thumpu mutaaz..Cotton candy 
Bargaining timw...palmyrah houseware
Palmyrah and other household products
Palmyrah products stored for sale
Household products made with palmyrah leaves
Toy and fancy goods stall
Panam porul - Palmyrah products
Fancy goods stall
Bangles stall
Utensils stall
Shopping Spree
Bhajans
Thaallam
Playing udukku in a bhajan . Udukku is belived to be a spiritual instrument in Hindu tradition.
Bhajans
Devotess on Kizhakku Veethi
Devotees
devotees
Kidz.....reminding our childhood dayzz...
Coconut offering
Coconut breaking
Coconut breaking
Devotees at dusk
Ice cream bar
Shopping time
Baloons anyone...
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