Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Is M.I.A. really, in your opinion, endorsing typical LTTE violence or is she telling a different kind of story thru her music? Both?

The scene quickly grew into chaos and violence, when a mob began attacking the lorry driver and his passenger, and swarming the street around the accident.

It is with great pleasure for me to announce that P2P Rescue has developed a new partnership with a U.S.-based organization called Girls Helping Girls. Together, we have agreed cooperate to create international teams of girls (age 10 to 21), who will work together on a year-long social change program designed to assist girls in Sri Lanka.

I read this story and, while I’m sure this happens more than anyone knows, I found it shocking. What are these people going to do?

I could really use your help in bringing some measure of Sri Lanka online to America.

I had the fortune during one of my early trips to Sri Lanka to meet a woman who I respected and considered a friend. Let’s call her Miss A.

The wonderful folks over at Vesess, the Sri Lanka-based Web design and development firm that created our site, published a lengthy blog post/interview on their end about working with us, and I must confess it came as a really nice surprise.

I live in Berkeley but I was in Vietnam when the tsunami hit in December 2004. I stayed glued to the television the rest of the trip–holed up in my hotel room in a state of shock.