Eminent scholar Claude Levi-Strauss has passed away: he was the true founder of structural anthropology who was born in Brussels in 1908 to Alsatian Jewish parents. Let us pay our greatest gratitude to him at this sorrowful day. He was very lucky to live over a century in the human world.
Recently there was a discussion at the National library auditorium on the topic of “National Thought”. At the meeting, a few blind followers worshipped Pro. Silva by debasing others academic efforts. We will soon start a new dialogue on these unliked cubs and fanatics of Pr. Silva.
Dearest Kapuge,
Today is your birthday. Your body has left the world whereas still you are living with us. But the mafias of media and Mafioso have forgotten you. That’s why we often don’t hear you on the radio or television. At least we can’t see you in news papers but still your voice with amiable lyrics resonate in our mind which will never stop. I still remember your lyrics…
Allata shilpa singa sarasavi pare…
Leli thalana numbe atata ran muduwa gorahedida doni…
Karagala gaga enna karawemi sohoyuraneni…
Diyaluwo weli tana…
Nirmala nam deriya himi salu wadana menike nirmala…
The dynamic world with two different political orthodoxies has totally undergone changes after the cracking down of USSR and its followers. Then the foremost political practice was capitalist economic with the ideological safe guard of liberalism and later it was amended by neo-liberalism. With arise of neo-liberalism; thereby the economic diversity became a monologue where the one ideology is prominent. Then the resonating voice of the liberalism spread all over the world in an ideological point of view by the Fukuyama’s lyrical book: “The end of history and last man”. His lyrical book has come to nothing by today. In other words the last man has become nobody at this critical juncture of the world. It critically reflects the requirement of dynamic economical favors to the current world.
Totally this economic downturn could be understood with their ideological safeguards so that we suddenly remind Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on the base of their economical liberalism where the whole world painted in a single colour. Are we able to apply further the same theories to merge the world economy into one stratum?
Please, our request is:
Let it be so………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Don’t destroy the economic diversity and heritage in the world. Don’t dilute and pour the economic diversity in the world into one basket. Agrarian countries are agrarian countries whereas industrial countries are industrial countries; the countries who are surviving with their own livelihoods let them be so. “Thatcher”! and “Reagan”! please, don’t come to our world again because we can write the history in a new stylus in contrasting Francis Fukuyama’s end of history.
He was a very simple person who was much matured. ‘Simple’ in the sense he never used mobile phones, he never used vehicles and even a motor Bick. He didn’t speak much at all. The simple symbol of his life was a smile with a slight bend of the body at the hip. This article was published after his death in order to remind quixotic memories of his life with the young generation
The conservative scholar Samuel Huntington has passed away last week. He was the author of "Clash of Civilizations," the well known book all over the world. He was seventy-four years old at the death, tenured; Huntington is a mild-mannered, balding man from the political analyzers point of view.
Sri Lankan eminent author Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara admires the book that was written by Samuel: “The clash of the civilization and remaking the world order”. Amaraseka also considered this book as a safe guard for his national thought and he may worry a lot now on this death. The other eminent professor: Nalin De Silva also was on the same track in appreciating the Huntington’s book as a master piece of the national thought.
Anyway as an influential scholar, we missed Samuel.
The war with arms in progrss. Uncleared areas are being captured by the government. Border lands are no more in Sri Lanka but the real war has not started yet in the North & East. Once the government completed this arms war, the real war would start where we can't play with these arms. So that, the plans should be made to get rid of the real war which may occur in the near future. In that war, the arms will have to be changed in to cultural arms. In other words, a cultural bridge will have to be built between the southern and nothern ends.
The current century has captured a number of landmarks in each and every field including spiritual and materialistic world. Almost everything has undergone changes. In other words, almost everything has been conditioned so that the free thinking patterns are no more in the existance: in the sense, the way that everyone should think has already been intended. By whom........? That is what the problem which should be understod. Then, only we can understand that where are we.
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