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  • German Memories in Asia: Exploring the Human Evolution  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While we were having a chat by the seashore, twilight has turned into night and the German team who were playing volleyball has already left the beach.

    We were discussing many things.

    The similarities of genes between the human and the chimpanzee became a hot topic in our discussion.

    When I was telling about genealogy, my other German friend couldn't grasp it, but Walker did quiet easily.
  • An Exploration Into Indo - European Migration Towards South Asia  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    A new very history started in South Asia, with Indo - European migration somewhere between 6000BC to 1500BC through Central Asia towards Western Asia and South Asia.


    When the Indo-Aryan of the larger Indo-European family blended with Dravidians, Mongoloids, Semitic people and others, new languages and cultures evolved in the region.



    Historians place the Indo - European migration happened by invasion in the Indian subcontinent.

    The analyses of the male Y-chromosome and mitochondria show that today's genetic patterns agree with accounts of ancient Indo-European warriors conquering the Indian subcontinent.
  • Journey of the Early Man: Africa to America  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Their studies showed that there were three waves of early humans from Africa that swept across India and Australia: There were three major waves of migration of quite different ancient people who came to the Australian continent from Southeast Asia.


    The early Africans crossed to Australia from Africa through Asia, and then to the Americas by crossing the Pacific Ocean.

    The first hint of an American aborigine settlement of South America came from cave paintings in Brazil.

    The Africans crossed the Atlantic and reached various parts of the Americas as well.
  • Dutch Fort of Jaffna and Our School Day Adventures  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    We used to go inside of the Dutch Fort in our junior school days with our class teacher as she was residing inside the Dutch Fort with her husband who was a senior Police Officer attached to the Jaffna Fort.
  • An Exploration into Eurasians - the Burghers of Sri Lanka  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    When we were leaving the Church premises through the narrow passage and entering into the Main Street, still the centuries old Dutch-style mansions were symbols of their colonial past.

    The Main Street was once an exclusive place for the Burgers, Dutch and British citizens.

    The Burghers are an Eurasian ethnic group, historically from this Island, consisting for the most part of the male-line descendants of the European colonists and of the maternal ancestry of Sinhalese and Tamil.


    Burghers always have European surnames mostly of Portuguese, Dutch and British origin and it is not uncommon to find German, French,Russian, or even Flemish surnames.

    In the late 1950s and early 1960s, many Burghers left the island and emigrated mostly to Australia where there is an area of Melbourne known as "Little Ceylon" as Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon during their migration.
  • Dutch Jaffna And The Rise And Fall Of The VOC - The World's First Multinational Company  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    During the Dutch period in Asia, all Dutch colonial operations were overseen by the VOC, the "Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie" or the Dutch East India Company.

    When the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia, the VOC, the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stocks entered its acitivities in Asia in 1602.
  • German Memories in Asia: The Memorable Moments of Our Tsunami Mission!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    One could not help watching Fredrike's care and concern at the restaurant garden when she was tending to an infant who was with the mother inside a van.


    Fredrike extended one of her fingers into the tiny palm, and the infant immediately seized Fredrike's finger as tightly as possible.


    I noticed Freidke was enjoying those moments.

    I wished them all and when Freidka's turn came I observed that she looked uncomfortable.


    Her soft nature once again confirmed her emotional reactions.
  • Recalling My Memories on the Day of the Indian Ocean's Tsunami!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    In the morning of 26th of December 2004, people were running here and there in our residential area where we were staying in Colombo, the capital of the Indian Ocean's Island state of Sri Lanka.
  • Asian Qi Phenomenon  By : Sharon White
    With the growing interest to the Asian (Chinese) philosophy and medicine people would interest more and more Asian phenomena without even knowing their details history.
  • Culture And Religions Of Native Americans  By : Sharon White
    Native Americans differed much in their cultural and religious traditions before their first contact with Europeans.
  • Canadian Festivals  By : Sharon White
    Canadian people adore various celebrations and public performances.
  • German Memories in Asia: A Mission in Asia!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Pascal holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and had worked for some time in the German Ministry of Defense.


    Pascal is a simple guy.



    He said his maternal grandfather was from France and in the Second World War while serving in Germany, had fallen in love with his to-be grandmother.




    There were many inter-marriages in Germany and Europe in the Second World War and before.



    Pascal is now attached to the International Institute of Ratings and Consultancy.
  • German Memories in Asia: The Unsafe World!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Still in South India, some tribal groups who have been marginalized heavily by the rigid Hindu religion and cultural system and caste orthodoxy are still eating rats for their protein as other sources are beyond their means.


    In India there is competition in every field though one would think the vast Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea could give some employment by way of fishing as a source of food.


    The level of competition could be understood if one moved closely in Indian society.



    Colonial invaders from Europe and the rest of the world to unknown places of the world from time to time was only part of the problem for those native inhabitants.



    The world is at times not a safe place for living and creates tragedies and costs lives.
  • Human Terror!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    I suddenly recalled Marita's conversation when I asked her about the collapse of the Berlin Wall with the end of the cold war and how she felt.



    She told me that she was only a six or seven year old child and she could hardly be expected to remember anything.


    The pathetic part is that children everywhere in the world are pushed towards war and victimized, while natural disasters are from time to time shaking the world and a number children are being victimized and become.............
  • German Memories in Asia: A Visit to War-Torn Area  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    When we stopped near the Vavuniya clock tower along the highway, there were people, who gathered to see what was happening.



    It is a usual phenomenon in Asian rural areas when Europeans make visits.


    Whatever the hidden motive or drive which impels them to meet the white-skinned foreigners, especially the Europeans, it is something they would not miss as it is a chance in a lifetime among these village folk.



    The obvious reason is that they hardly come across them in their remote places and do not have the wherewithal to travel to Europe and meet them.
  • German Memory in Asia: A Tsunami Mission on the Shores of Bay of Bengal!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While I was approaching the edge of the Indian Ocean, I observed there were some sea gulls speedily hurrying from sea to land.


    I was terrified thinking that another tsunami was approaching us.


    Though I didn't feel any strong quake, I was aware that an earthquake can trigger killer waves thousands of miles across the ocean and could generate hours later the tsunami waves.
  • German Memory in Asia: A Visit to Tsunami-Hit Coastal Areas of Indian Ocean!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    I had a fine view of the mangroves in the both directions of the passage, recalling memories of the good old days in Mullaitivu.


    When we reached the tsunami-hit bridge, we stopped over it and had a close view of the devastated bridge and the surrounding area.


    In the vicinity we could see that LTTE cadres were reconstructing the bridge and excavating the debris under it to enable an uninterrupted water-flow over the narrow canal which links the Indian Ocean and the interior Lake.
  • Changing the World!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Anita Roddick employed Red Indians to collect jungle seeds in the Amazon Basin, which helped them to become jungle entrepreneurs. She gave them in the Amazon jungles, a chance to integrate with global business.

    If the world want to claim the real victory of globalization they have to start with these masses in the isolated far corners of the world first.
  • German Memories in Asia: The German Kindness  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Having delivered my speech and moving away from the table, the way the students were greeting me by tapping slowly on the table is ever memorable. The simultaneous tapping on the table was creating a new kind of melodious music. I accepted their greeting with a smile. I was really amazed by their greetings and the way they did it.
  • German Memory in Asia: Memories of the Old Europe  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While we were passing a junction, the driver told, he wanted to visit a deity, because he had made a vow some time back and turned the vehicle towards a more isolated passage.

    Though he was Catholic by religion his faith in deity worship is not strange in Sri Lanka.
    Ancient nature worship and Hindu traditions are deeply rooted in the daily life of many people.

    Steffani and Romy were watching intently what was happening in that small temple of deity worship. But the deity and nature worship is not strange to Europe. Before Christianity was introduced into Europe, there were deities and also everywhere other sorts of Pagan religious practices.
  • German Memories in Asia: A Discussion on Volcanic Winter & Human Evolution!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    But the Sumatra region has a record of having faced many disasters and re-shaping human evolution itself on Planet Earth.

    A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a "volcanic winter".

    Professor Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois advocated this idea. He believes that the eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra caused the bottleneck.
  • Human Necessities  By : Sharon White
    First human beings did not need so much. The only necessities he had are food, shelter and heat.
  • English Literature: Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles  By : Ian Mackean
    In Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy deals with issues of morality in two fundamental ways; one is the relativity of moral values - their variation according to time and place - the other is the opposition between man-made laws and Nature. These issues are explored through the experiences of Tess Durbyfield as she encounters the problems of life, and exemplify Hardy's idea of the ‘two forces’:
  • James Joyce. 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'. Rebellion and release  By : Ian Mackean
    James Joyce’s novel 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a 'bildungsroman', concerned with the development of its main character, Stephen Dedalus. By comparison with Joyce's earlier version, 'Stephen Hero', we see that he has cut out all extraneous material concerning other characters, and presented a close and detailed account of the development of Stephen's character from infancy to young manhood
  • English Literature. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling  By : Ian Mackean
    Few modern English readers could enjoy Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim' in the way Kipling intended it to be enjoyed. Kipling was an Imperialist, and 'Kim' embodies attitudes towards British rule in India which these days are unacceptable. But as a work of fiction it does have fine literary qualities, and it and deserves its unique place in the history of English literature.
  • Indian Literature: R. K. Narayan. The English Teacher  By : Ian Mackean
    Krishnan, the central character of R. K. Narayan's 'The English Teacher', undertakes an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey during the course of the novel. At the start of the novel he is an English teacher, living and teaching at the same school where he was once a pupil, and at the end we see him resigning his post, beginning work at a nursery school, and learning to communicate psychically with his dead wife.
  • Psychological warfare in the plays of Harold Pinter  By : Ian Mackean
    Dialogue between characters in Pinter's plays can often seem enigmatic, and its purpose obscure, but it becomes less so when we realise that as often as not a battle is taking place between the characters, and that identifiable strategies are being employed.
  • The Age of Reason and the spread of English  By : Stephen Colbourn
    What non-English-speaking people would have taken the trouble to learn English in 1700? For study and diplomacy, the answer is practically nobody. That had changed by the year 1800: English had become an important language. Now, the language of the United States is predominant and more people are learning English than the total number of native speakers.
  • Sir Kingsley Amis and the era of Lucky Jim  By : Stephen Colbourn
    Kingsley Amis was a modern and popular writer who began his career as a radical and ended up fostering an image of curmudgeonly conservatism. He was knighted in 1990. Amis is remembered first and foremost for Lucky Jim (1954).
  • Samuel Beckett: an introduction  By : Stephen Colbourn
    Beckett wanted to strip language to its naked elements in search of meaning. Working in French he believed he avoided a concern with elegance of style and came closer to saying what he meant without worrying overmuch how he said it.

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