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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

21 September is forever the day my mother was killed outside our house while we waited for her inside. I miss her. We all lost so many, and yet Sri Lanka is in yet another authoritarian mode, the state intent on undoing even small steps towards devolution and democracy.

Meera Srinivasan

@Meerasrini

4 years

#SriLanka : On this day, 31 years ago, human rights activist and academic Rajani Thiranagama was assassinated in Jaffna. Here's a piece from 2017, featuring three survivors of the courageous university teachers' group she was part of #lka via @the_hindu

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(My dearest father) Dayapala Thiranagama speaks to BBC Sinhala ( in Sinhala) about the assassination of Rajani Thiranagama (my mother) in 1989 by the LTTE. She was a doctor, an academic and a human rights activist with the group University Teachers for Human Rights ( Jaffna).

BBC News Sinhala

@bbcsinhala

2 years

''බිඳුණු තල් රුක කියන පොත තමයි රාජිනීගේ ඝාතයට මුල් වුණේ.'' වසර 33කට පෙර ඝාතනය කෙරුණු වෛද්‍ය රාජිනී තිරාණගම ගැන මතකය

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Great statement!

Newsfirst.lk Sri Lanka

@NewsfirstSL

2 years

Occupied public property to be returned to state Details: #lka #SriLanka #SLnews #News1st #Aragalaya #SriLankaProtests #ProtestLK #CrisisLK

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Sharika Thiranagama

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Students are reviving Universities into places that actively engage with the world and community. The Stanford SitIn encampment protesting against genocide in Gaza and the West Bank was one of the most meaningful actions I have seen for a while. Now in awe of Columbia students.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

So excited to talk in this series. To honor Rajani Thiranagama, my mother who was assassinated on Sep 21 1989, I will talk more personally about consequences of militarization, incarceration and violence in Sri Lanka and the necessity to nurture politics of living.

Center for South Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz

@CSAS_UCSC

3 years

The schedule for our 2021-2022 lecture series, Dissent. Please share! For more info visit @Mirsuhail @r_gov11 @LAbuHamdan @kareempuff @dwai_banerjee @thirana1

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Sharika Thiranagama

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3 years

Audrey Rebeira passed away today. She was not a known figure, an ordinary person with strong feminist and socialist convictions and faith led her to nurture and care for others. Audrey sheltered Tamil dissidents and Sinhala leftists throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

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Sharika Thiranagama

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2 years

Abolish the STF. It is a paramilitary force only set up to repress and enact extrajudicial violence. There is no argument anyone can advance for its continued existence.

JDS

@JDSLanka

2 years

Commandoes of police Special Task Force were filmed brutally beating and kicking a student activist while rest of the protesters were tear-gassed and chased away on #SriLanka ’s parliament road as the clashes extend into Friday night. | 🎥 Rekha Nilukshi Herath

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Sharika Thiranagama

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2 years

A Sri Lankan storming of the presidential palace not only involves swimming in the presidential pool but cleaning up and frying snacks in the presidential kitchen. The best!

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2 years

Such a sad day. Remembering the thousands of Tamils who died in the last battles in Mullaivaikal 2009. Reposting the link to the UTHRJ report on the last days. It bears witness, as we have to. When justice seems still so far away, truth lights our way.

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4 years

I knew a landslide was coming. Yet I am still so devastated. More authoritarianism. More militarization. More corruption and more and more and more. #lankaelectionresults

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Remembering the thousands and thousands of Tamils killed at Mullaivaikal between April and May 2009. Also begging progressives writing to remember not to erase the ethnic cleansing and killing of Muslims. "Tamil only" acted like "Sinhala only"in north and east.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

1995, five years after the eviction of Muslims, the Sri Lankan army advanced on Jaffna, the LTTE forced all Tamils to leave to make a political statement and leave the city empty. People begged to stay. My grandmother was one of the last to leave. Eviction and Exodus.Never forget

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Sharika Thiranagama

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1 year

Come join us! We are hiring. The Department of Anthropology at Stanford University invites applications for an Assistant Prof rank tenure-track faculty appointment in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Review of apps begins Sep 26. Please send to others also!

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

I’ve been living on Twitter news and protest videos. For all my friends who have no idea what is going on in Sri Lanka, I know that my Twitter feed seems crazed. What has happened and is happening in Sri Lanka is cataclysmic. People refuse to give up. Hope and despair together.

Vindhya Buthpitiya

@vindib_

2 years

‘In recent weeks, protests unlike anything seen in Sri Lanka’s history have taken place across the country, driven not by an organised movement but fuelled instead by a collective rage at the politicians’ via @guardian

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Sharika Thiranagama

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1 year

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) | Print on JSTOR The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) | Print collection contains over thirty thousand (30,000!) digitized print items. Check it out! New items added all the time.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Very honored as well to be awarded the Stanford Asian American Center’s Faculty award and to be in such good company.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

I wrote something for a great special issue of the Journal South Asia on Hysteria. Please check out all the articles already up. With this article, the first 50 can have it as a free e-print. Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka

Figures of Menace: Militarisation in Post-War Sri Lanka

In 2011, Sri Lanka experienced a wave of ‘grease devil’ attacks—men covered in grease assaulting women. In minority Tamil and Muslim areas, these incidents provoked vigilantism and clashes between ...

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

@ambikasat It is so possible for so many of us to oppose State and LTTE killings, incarcerations, persecution of minorities. It is not about seeing both sides. It is about picking a side. Ordinary Tamils and Muslims over military actors. Every time.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

@gobiratnam @vg123e @ambikasat My aunt was incarcerated by state. My father tortured and imprisoned by state. My mother wrote about state, IPKF and LTTE violence and was killed by the LTTE for it. I grew up in Jaffna with state violence. We’ve been talking. You haven’t been listening in that case!

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

8 months

In NYC this Friday for a showing of No More Tears Sister. Thanks to CUNY graduate center who are hosting. Thanks to Helene Klodawsky who made this beautiful film about my mother- to whom I am always grateful. Come and hear us talk about war, human rights and holding on to justice

Center for the Humanities at GC CUNY

@HumanitiesGC

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Register here:

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Sharika Thiranagama

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6 months

#ConstitutionNotManusmriti #Republic NotHinduRashtra ⁦ @SAsiaSolidarity ⁩

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@thirana1

2 years

@ShehanKaru . It’s day my mother died, so I am reading your amazing “Seven Moons of Mali Almeida” today. I cried because it is a tremendous book and because my mother is there ushering in the dead, tired, conscientious and humane. I cried and laughed throughout. Thank you

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

You may argue that the state holds greater responsibility for the impoverishment and displacement of our communities. But fighting for justice against the state doesn’t mean erasing the trauma of what the LTTE did to us. Especially the LTTE’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

There is nothing noble about suffering when all you want are the people you have lost back again in your life. I try and keep my mother alive for my children. Sri Lanka forgets every single one of our dead, the host of people waiting for a reckoning and accountability only grows.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Please join us Sep 30, 12pm PST for a great conversation with amazing speakers: Farzana Haniffa @FaraFarout , Marisa DeSilva @EmDeeS11 Swasthika Arulingam @anjaliarondekar to learn more about protests in Sri Lanka, current suppression of dissent, and where to go next…

@garam.hawa

@anjaliarondekar

2 years

The People Revolt: Sri Lanka. Join our series on FUTURES @CSAS_UCS Educate Agitate Organize! Sept 30, 12.00 pm PST. Register here:

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Sharika Thiranagama

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4 years

Thank you for the opportunity to write this essay. I shied away from writing something like this for a long time. I wrote this in memory of my grandparents and all the families who have lost in Sri Lanka and deserved and needed so much more.

Yousuf Saeed

@saeedyousuf

4 years

Tasveerghar's new visual essay by Sharika @thirana1

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Sharika Thiranagama

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1 year

In Sri Lanka, Tamils Are Divided over the LTTE's Legacy - New Lines Magazine. Had the pleasure of talking to ⁦ @jeevanravindran ⁩ for this wonderful piece. Thank you for this nuanced take!

In Sri Lanka, Tamils Are Divided Over the Tigers’ Militant Legacy

Who gets to be a ‘hero’ or ‘traitor’ is complicated and contested

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

@ambikasat Thank you Ambika. It is so important to acknowledge the complexity and brutality of relations between LTTE and ordinary Tamils and Muslims. It is sad to see Tamil nationalist selective erasure for political benefit, these brutalities are actual life and memories for many of us.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

7 months

I signed. Christmas in my Christian Tamil family is always so sweet even in the middle of the war. But the inhumanity, and destruction of this latest installment of the Israeli war waged against Palestinians is unbearable. Christmas is for the dispossessed who long for freedom.

sawporg

@sawporg

7 months

Scholars Against the War in Palestine Petition “All I Want for the Holidays is a Ceasefire” Please read, sign and share the petition widely to your networks

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Sharika Thiranagama

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4 years

Today thirty years ago that the LTTE forcibly evicted 80,000 Northern Muslims from their homes in the north. The LTTE and the SL State have rendered displacement the defining feature of being Tamils and Muslims. Remembering is our promise to our future. This statement says it all

Mahendran Thiruvarangan

@t30m2

4 years

Statement Commemorating the Eviction of Muslims from the North.

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Sharika Thiranagama

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3 years

Audrey was where my father hid underground throughout my childhood and where we went to meet him. Where she took in my aunt and others throughout the 1980s and 1990s. So many people have this story of Audrey. She sustained dissidence and human rights in Sri Lanka unrecognized

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

A thread from my sister that says it all. ❤️

Narmada Thiranagama

@Narmadha

4 years

Thank you for all the beautiful messages to my sister and me yesterday. You can’t know how much it means. For many decades the fear that shrouded our lives meant that we only heard cynical, painful comments about our mother - speaking to a nihilism and

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Sharika Thiranagama

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4 years

I miss my mother and it has been 31 yrs. I think of those families of the disappeared in the last 12 years, those who have lost in recent anti-Muslim riots and just how much this violence and fear keeps going on. We have to mobilize against this authoritarianism now.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

Families are left to mourn our dead and our disappeared. Between 1989-1991 my mother was assassinated by the LTTE, my youngest aunt’s two best friends, both student activist arrested and later killed by the LTTE. My favorite uncle disappeared and killed by the State.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 months

Waking up to Indian election results as they come in, and feeling the first stirring of optimism that I have had for nearly a year!

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state’s apartheid. This is integral to both my moral view and my scholarship. Pass it on. #Free_Palestine #SaveSheikhJarrah #BDS

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@thirana1

2 years

“The wealth of the country belongs to the people.” I wish I was there with you ⁦ @villimbuhal ⁩. This government has to go. #GohomeRajapaksas . #abolishtheexecutivepresidency #justiceinsrilanka .

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

5 years

For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old ghosts - The Washington Post

Perspective | For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old ghosts

The news did not initiate a new fear — it ignited an old one, based on countless experiences from the war

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

9 months

Please sign this letter in support of (my dear dear friend) Maura Finkelstein @Dr_mauraf written by her wonderful students as she faces targeted campaigns trying to get her sacked for writing and teaching on Palestine. You can sign anonymously if you prefer too.

Allegra Lab

@allegra_lab

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We stand in solidarity with @Dr_mauraf who is the target of a campaign aiming to silence her opinion on Palestine. At a moment when a genocide is unfolding and world leaders fail to act, freedom of expression must be defended. Sign the petition!

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4 years

I see the left whatever is left of it, once again deciding that Tamils and Muslims are irrelevant for its politics of the people. The bleakness all around is very real

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@thirana1

3 years

What a loss personally and intellectually to so many. Qadri Ismail passed yesterday. Malathi De Alwis earlier. So sad to see a generation go early.

Mahendran Thiruvarangan

@t30m2

3 years

Qadri Ismail's last piece in Groundviews where he, as has always been, does not mince his words in his critique of the Sri Lankan state and the President.

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@thirana1

4 years

It just means picking the rights and future of our communities over the military actors that have governed our lives for decades. Owning our pasts is painful, but we have made some bear it more heavily to avoid our responsibility for what was done by us and others in our name.

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@thirana1

3 years

We, the undersigned members of the Stanford community, condemn in the strongest terms possible the state of Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian property, homes and lives

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

9 months

This is a statement on behalf of students and alumni at U of Toronto urging the university to take humanitarian action for Palestine. Please sign and circulate especially if you are a UofT student or alumnus!

UofT Students and Alumni Demand Humanitarian Action for Palestine

We, the undersigned graduate students, undergraduate students, and alumni at the University of Toronto write in response to “President Gertler’s Message to the U of T Community on the Conflict in the...

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@thirana1

4 months

Maura Finkelstein on Jadaliyya tomorrow! A must watch @Dr_mauraf . So chilling how our universities want us to deliver education that gives students values that respect humanity, practice empathy, and stand up for rights, but suspend you for showing any of that for Palestine.

Sanaa Alimia

@SanaaAlimia

4 months

Had the honour of featuring @Dr_mauraf in @RedPeppermag issue PALESTINE with a crucial essay on “Spectacles of Muslim Death” and weaponisation of antisemitism. We at @RedPeppermag will be listening in tomorrow 21 March ✊🏾 solidarity !

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Imp thread. Some Tamil nationalists seeing the devastation in Palestine, instead of solidarity turn to think about how they can yoke this moment to the LTTE. I don’t even know how to deal with some Sinhala nationalists lining up behind Israeli state. Ugh and double ugh.

YaliniDream

@yalinidream

3 years

Free Free #FreePalestine ! End End the Occupation! To my dismay, rather than expressing unwavering solidarity, some Tamils are highlighting the LTTE’s support of Palestine and asking why Palestinians don’t show #solidarity with the #TamilCause . Let me break it down:

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Never joined an NGO. Never pushed herself forward. But without Audrey and her powerful convictions, sense of right and wrong, work against violence and racism in Sri Lanka, so many people would not have survived. She was a beacon, a flame, a candle. so few Audreys in the world.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

This years Rajani Thiranagama memorial event will be held on 1 October 2022 in Jaffna. It will be on the people’s protests.

Mahendran Thiruvarangan

@t30m2

2 years

Rajani Thiranagama Memorial Event in Jaffna. "People's Sovereignty and People's Councils" - A Workshop. Saturday, 1 October 2022 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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Sharika Thiranagama

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8 months

Please do read. Academic freedom is a pressing issue all over the world. Statement of academics abroad on Swasthika Arulingam’s cancelled speech at University of Jaffna | Daily FT

Statement of academics abroad on Swasthika Arulingam’s cancelled speech at University of Jaffna |...

As academics based abroad who address Sri Lanka in our scholarship and creative work, we write in support of Swasthika Arulingam, a Tamil attorney-at-law and well known human rights activist who was...

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

5 years

Great interview with Anjali Arondekar on CAA and NRC. Hope more Indian diaspora folks speak out and spread the resistance.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

U.C. Davis recognizes caste-discrimination. Anjali Arondekar speaks to KCBS Radio in a brilliant interview explaining why more college campuses need to do this and what caste domination looks like and means in the US….Waiting for this ⁦ @Stanford ⁩

U.C. Davis makes a change involving caste-discrimination - KCBS...

U.C. Davis has made a change to its anti-discrimination policy, adding caste-discrimination to the list and is one of the first schools in the country to make this move... For more, KCBS News Anchor...

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

9 months

Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza – TWAILR. 800 scholars signed including me. Please read.

Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza

On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate…

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Moved me to tears. The despair of just asking for just basic living.

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@thirana1

3 years

UTHRJ and Tamil leftists and dissidents all owe so much to Audrey. She was braver than so many others in unflinchingly caring for them. She was the safe house, the strong voice who kept all secrets.

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Tamil dissidents have fought to insist upon Tamil and Muslim rights which don't involve the denial of one for the other. FFS mourning a genocide has to work against ethnic purity dreams not reinstall them. The families who lost want their loved ones back, that is the trauma.

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4 years

Apart from all my tweeting...being in the US right now is sending me into a spiral of existential dread. I grew up partly in a war so I know a life that was far more constrained. And YET I can barely think past the next few days. I can’t stop tabulating scenarios and violence. 😱

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Audrey’s house is so familiar to me. We stayed there on our visits to see our father because that was the only safe house and place when Sinhalese leftists like him were being slaughtered by the JVP and the state. Audrey was chosen family.

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@thirana1

3 years

Yes! Do read Thomas Blom Hansen’s new book, The Law of Force. Powerful indictment of contemporary politics in India. Out from Aleph Press.

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@thirana1

2 months

May is just full of thinking about the war, thinking about how many people were lost. I just find myself triggered when the atrocities committed by the state are then also accidentally ( because of lack of thought) slid into further erasure.

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1 year

What a night!! ⁦ @LawhoreVagistan ⁩ at Stanford. #auntylookedamazing Thank you for the brilliance and the sparkle. ⁦⁦ @ushai2020 ⁩

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@thirana1

2 years

@Pimpilikki Oh! I am so relieved. This also brought tears to my eyes. These are such frightening situations normally.

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@thirana1

3 years

I’m a Brit. I hate the monarchy always. Remembering my sister, my father and I watching the Diana interview at the time it happened. Now find myself with tears in my eyes listening to Megan with my kids. I’ll process my politics later. feeling sad and angry #HarryandMeghanonOprah

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@thirana1

5 years

Statement from Women’s Coalition for Disaster Management in Batticaloa. What comes next in Sri Lanka after the headlines die away.

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3 years

Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's “Regional Closets” - Jegathesan - - Feminist Anthropology - Wiley Online Library

Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's “Regional Closets”

In 2015, Donna Haraway introduced the Plantationocene concept as an alternative to the Anthropocene in Environmental Humanities. Engaging Black feminist scholars who were thinking about the plantat...

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Please, if you are in London, come to show your solidarity and protest against the brutal crackdown against protesters by the Sri Lankan state. So much for a peaceful transition. #RanilResign

Chathura Gunathilaka

@Chathura_london

2 years

Please come to high commission at 2 pm today

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4 years

This city on a shining hill indeed. Is anyone capable of making an argument without pointing to some risible idea of America’s standing in the world. As someone from the third world who has to live in this country I listen to this all the time. But so nauseating. I’m sorry wtf?

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5 years

“Tamil Rapper Arivu releases an amazing song for the resistance against CAA & NRC. We need some songs from the South! As he says “Who are you to tell me what I am”

Tamil rapper Arivu's fiery 'Sanda Seivom' takes on CAA-NRC

“Come forward Tamizha, let us fight! In the streets, let us fight. United as one, let us fight. If our rights are taken, let us fight!” In his latest song ‘Sand

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@thirana1

3 months

Ah, was waiting for the TNS. My first job and where I had some of the most amazing students. Solidarity with you all. #Genocide_in_Gaza #divestmentnow

katie smith

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NOW: Students are picketing outside the New School in support of the encampment which has been erected inside the lobby of the University Center

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3 months

Proud of my sister @Narmadha and the team! Narmada, always an inspiration!

UNISON - UK's largest union

@unisontheunion

3 months

Testimony from @Narmadha was part of the #Windrush case against the Home Office in the High Court this week. @UNISON_Legal was represented by @ShanthaDavid and @emma_pitfield The bravery of those standing up and speaking truth to power is movingly captured here by Narmada ⏬

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@thirana1

2 years

Important discussion on why the IMFs terms must be met with progressive demands that prioritize peoples lives, collective solutions and without further raising prices or privatizing basic services.

ERPI South Asia Collective

@ERPIsouthasia

2 years

ERPI South Asia collective's Ahilan Kadirgamar and Devaka Gunawardena independent researcher at University of California discuss the Economic collapse in Sri Lanka.

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@thirana1

3 years

The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror

Stanford University anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen discusses the rise of anger, brutality, and violence in Indian public life.

www.thenation.com

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

My favourite commentary so far!

stefgotbooted.bsky.social Agree to disagree

@StefGotBooted

3 years

The opening two paragraphs from the Irish Times review of the Harry and Meghan interview. Lmao.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

20th Amendment passed today. Sri Lanka's history is a testament to how much presidential power should be curbed. And today they were expanded.

M A Sumanthiran

@MASumanthiran

4 years

M.A. Sumanthiran said the weakening of Parliament would result in minority communities losing their voices. “There will be power changing hands from the legislature to the executive. In the legislature all sections of the polity have a say, however small”

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

8 months

Amazing!!! Congratulations to UT to getting Sidharthan Maunaguru!

Francis Cody

@francispcody1

8 months

Inaugural Chair in Tamil Studies looks to establish U of T Scarborough as a global hub for Tamil scholarship

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Brilliant book. Congratulations @ShehanKaru . This was a total tour de force. Highly recommend it to all!!!

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

2 years

We are delighted to announce that the WINNER of the #BookerPrize2022 is ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ’ by Shehan Karunatilaka. Discover more about the winning book: @shehankaru @sortofbooks @ShahidhaBari @hrcastor @amabanckou @mjohnharrison

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@thirana1

2 years

London Sunday JULY 17 Solidarity Protest - Meet at 1pm at Lancaster Gate station, onwards from Sri Lankan High Commission to Trafalgar Square. Please please join us! My kids have begun the preparations by teaching my aunt how to tweet.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Elections! Just got off the phone dissecting Kerala!

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

“Protest Launched From Pottuvil in East to Poligandy in North”. A good summary of the marches and their potential to bring together Tamils and Muslims to fight militarization and racism. (We need this, not anti-Muslim dissident violent LTTE legacy)

Protest Launched From Pottuvil in East to Poligandy in North

There has been a lot of political excitement in the Tamil speaking areas of the Eastern Province for the past two days (February 3 and 4) due to the launching of a protest demonstration named...

www.dailymirror.lk

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

Proud to bring it out at UPenn Press series Ethnography of Political Violence. @tobiaswkelly

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

@t30m2 Speaking the truth and hewing close to it is the hardest act it turns out but that is the essence of having integrity and siding with ordinary people. We have to stand for something that means more than the LTTE and the Sri Lankan state. Having a future depends on it.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

@Narmadha ❤️🧵To think this is just before! The first in his family and village to go to university. Incarcerated at 19 for 4.5 yrs. Finishing uni after the heavy torture and solitary confinement. Then incarceration again in a grey zone of police station cells and CID for another 1.5 yrs.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

If you are in London, do go and join. This protester is someone I love very much btw.

Dr Thurairajah

@RubenThurairaj

2 years

Sri Lanka protests are spreading outside Sri Lanka. Please listen to this protester in Parliament Square, London, 🇬🇧 #SriLanka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis #GotaGoGamaUK #GotaHoGama

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

10 months

An open letter from David Shulman and Yigal Bronner - speaking of the violence happening on the West Bank as well as genocidal bombing of Gaza.

Daisy Rockwell ڈیزی راکویل डेज़ी राक्वैल

@shreedaisy

10 months

And here is a screenshot of the whole letter. Please distribute widely.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

1 month

So thrilled. Congratulations to @V_V_G so deserved, Brotherless Night and feels like a clarion call right now.

Women's Prize

@WomensPrize

1 month

Two exceptional books, two extremely talented authors. @V_V_G with her Bessie, for her #WomensPrize for fiction winning novel Brotherless Night and @NaomiAKlein with her Charlotte, for her Women's Prize for Non-Fiction winning novel, Doppelganger 👏🏻

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@thirana1

2 years

Such a brilliant moving essay from @MythriJega . Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma - Journal #128 June 2022 - e-flux

Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma - Journal #128

Mythri Jegathesan writes her Sri Lankan family recipe from memory.

www.e-flux.com

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

1 year

Best Photo circulating on my WhatsApp. Helps with the enormous anger I feel towards the Tories. Can’t for these f**ckers to leave. All the harm they have done remains. The sheer inhumanity though is sickening.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

Moderating this amazing event: The People Revolt: Sri Lanka Speaker(s) Swasthika Arulingam Marisa De Silva Farzana Haniffa Fri September 30th 2022, 12:00 - 2:00pm PST The People Revolt: Sri Lanka

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

MORE updates on Sri Lanka. GOODBYE, FAREWELL, F*** OFF. via @NYTimes

The president has agreed to resign, the speaker of Parliament says. (Published 2022)

www.nytimes.com

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

@t30m2 Yes. Both are possible. I mourned the death of thousands of Tamils. I was so angry. With the Sri Lankan state. And with the LTTE senior leaders who prized the life and protection of Prabhakaran ( responsible for the murder of my mother and so many Tamils) above our community.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

9 months

Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone - Allegra Lab. Another powerful essay from ⁦ @Dr_mauraf ⁩ . I wept reading this Maura.

Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone - Allegra Lab

I am not a scholar of Palestine. While I’ve spent time in the region and written about the occupation, this is not part of my scholarly ethnographic work.

allegralaboratory.net

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

My 12 son suggested we watch the Grave of the Fireflies. We both cried. This is literally the saddest film I have seen for years. It is devastating. OH MY GOD.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

9 months

@elihoole Elijah. I think you have missed out the Mandate and the colonial rearranging. Please don’t say such quick things. There are plenty of really good histories. I don’t know about you, but for me, this makes me think about how the state continually retaliated against Tamils.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

3 years

New collection that documents Sri Lankan radical activists. Congrats American Institute for Lankan Studies (AILS), ⁦ @EdinburghUni ⁩, ⁦ @PULibrary ⁩, The South Asia Open archives, ⁦⁦⁦ @tobiaswkelly ⁩ and all the amazing people involved!

Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka, 1960s to 1990s

dpul.princeton.edu

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

2 years

@gobiratnam @vg123e @ambikasat I’m always glad when people are willing to openly speak about LTTE violations as well as State. That shows me that they are serious about really thinking about Justice.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

4 years

CONGRATULATIONS Stanford Anthropology Class of 2020!!! #stanfordanthropology2020 . I am so proud of you. Teaching you all in the Senior Capstone was the highlight of my year. @joshuacobler , @LenaLaTena @daschuapital please pass it on because I don’t have everyone’s twitter....

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@thirana1

2 years

Political Violence & Oral Histories: Presenting the Archive of Sri Lankan Tamil Feminist Dissent September 30th!! I'm proud and honored to be part of two events. Panelist here for an amazing new archive on Tamil Feminist Dissent.

Tamil Feminist Liberation

This collection of oral histories provides an archive of Tamil feminist dissenters’ lives and their relationship to memories of home and migration.

www.saada.org

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@thirana1

4 years

@araineparrot @rgay @courtneymilan For some British names that I read recently - Talia Hibbert is amazing for romance. Just recently read and loved the amazing books by Bernadine Evaristo, Candice Carty-Williams. Recent also British non fiction, Gary Younge.

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Sharika Thiranagama

@thirana1

1 year

My Sri Lanka at 75…. filled with love and fear

LSE South Asia Centre

@SAsiaLSE

1 year

Sri Lanka's ATA 2023 is a cruel blow to those still living with PTA 1979. In this personal post, @thirana1 @StanfordAnthro describes the scars that people, families & communities bear, and what she wishes for #SLat75 . @LSEsociology @LSEHumanRights

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@thirana1

2 years

Absolutely live your dreams without Gotabaya!

Maithreyi

@maithi

2 years

About to start our demonstration outside the Sri Lankan High Commission today! My niece: "We want pancakes, not the Rajapaksas" and my favourite, "Live your dreams without Gotabaya" #srilanka #GotaGoGamaLondon #peoplepower

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@thirana1

3 years

Yes, please read @MythriJega whole thread. The news is crushing, and the reaction and judgement in the press and on Twitter equally so.

Mythri Jegathesan

@MythriJega

3 years

The statement from Hishalini’s mother willing to accept punishment for sending her daughter to work in Colombo while grieving her assault and death is crushing for so many reasons.

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