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Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/2760/ Date: 27-Feb-2017 Republished. Originally published on 26-May-2009   Dear Jeyamohan Sir, How do you do? I too am a firm believer in non-violence and gandhism like you. I may have inherited it from my family. My grandfather participated in Indian independence movement. He had participated in toddy shop picketing, Quit India Movement and had been imprisoned. We have been devoted nationalists as long as I know.  You would be knowing about the news articles published in the online version of Dinamani about the recent happenings in Sri Lanka. Comments from readers were also published and I had also written my comments. In reply, I was scolded and advised by many. India as a nation state was questioned and criticized in those online comments. Several people stated that non-violence cannot lead to independence. Many insisted that Gandhi was an impostor. Participants of that discussion praised Nethaji and announced that Prabhakaran was o...

  Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/193158/ Date: 9-Nov-2023   "What use are the travels that a writer undertakes? Shouldn't he be writing about the people and the places that he knows quite well? How can the lands, places that he skims about and the passing acquaintances that he makes help him? Wouldn't he be able to write in detail only about those that he knows?". Several years back, a senior Tamil writer asked me this. This is the reply that I gave him. Writers are of 2 kinds. The first kind are those who write about things that they know pretty well or about things that they have experienced with a direct narration and with correct details. These are the majority. A few among them have some significance in literature. But they are not artists. Because, literature is a quest undertaken with imagination as the tool. These authors are against imagination and are incapable of understanding imagination. They will be labelled as "biographers of life" ...

Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/193275/ 11-Nov-2023 Dear J, During the question-answer session after the speech at Canada, you seem to be siding with Hamas in the Israel-Hamas war. I would like to know your standpoint. Ravichandran Dear Ravi, One of the basic problem of SriLankan Tamils is that they always converse only about politics unable to think of anything else - but 90% of such people have escaped from those political shores and have settled safe and sound in their business and work. Politics is nothing but their imaginary game. Therefore, it contains only the exaggerated emotions. Many among them can be seen in a constant state of intensity (only within the social-media and stage). They think that if they can present themselves in a forum they would achieve an identity. They imagine that their compromises and downfalls would get evened out by blaming others. I know people who have been playing this game for 30 years. Most of them have reached the age of 60. Their next...