I wonder if Mr Jayadevan could enlighten me as to where in London I could get this necessary fix since I have failed to find it in the Food & Wine shops run by Sri Lankans.
by Pearl Thevanayagam
(November 14, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) One must be a hell of a journalist to function with personality disorder and imbibing kasippu ( a cheap lethal cocktail of toddy, cockroaches and ripe fruits usually the preferred choice of alcohol for the dirt poor) and to regularly keep up her writings which never fails to evoke responses supportive, defensive and like that of Mr Jayadevan’s downright risible.
I wonder if Mr Jayadevan could enlighten me as to where in London I could get this necessary fix since I have failed to find it in the Food & Wine shops run by Sri Lankans. I can find bottled toddy, Mendis Special, cheap wines along with Chivas Regal which an average Sri Lankan here buys on a regular basis even though he/she cannot pronounce it but kasippu evades me.
As I write this I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms since 2001 when I have tried and failed to obtain my kasippu. Could Mr Jayadevan put me in touch with Chungan from Walthamstowe whoever he may be? Does he have insider knowledge as to how I could procure my Kassippu? But before that I need to confirm with Home Office whether it is legal brew in the UK.
I certainly do not want to blight the good name the Tamil diaspora has in the UK what with their credit card swindles, benefit frauds, getting ‘divorced’ to obtain two houses from the Council (one for the separated mother and children and one for the offending husband) and renting out one for 20 asylum-seekers(illegal), NGOs which collect funds for the IDPs in the North and East, TGTE and human trafficking. The Tamil Squad in the Metropolitan Police has successfully eliminated knife-wielding gangs in that most have been put behind bars and others deported but it takes time and surveillance to bring these other crimes to book.
Goods collected for ‘Vanagaman’ a project started to help victims of the war by the Tamil diaspora such as palettes of food and computers and other essential items are rotting in private garages. Those who contributed are no high-income earners. They are small time shop-keepers and asylum seekers who toil in bakeries, sandwich factories and petrol sheds for a measly £3.00 an hour.
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I confess that my personality disorder started when the war ended. I was at the end of my tether when the government blocked out the media calling them gutter journalists, sensationalism seekers and distorters of truth. Several were bumped off, others imprisoned and several more attacked or kidnapped. Then arose a new set of journalists abroad who having never witnessed the war or having reliable sources were hired by interested parties to spread inflated accounts recalling to mind their vivid imagination.
On a serious note, I defended Ms Imelda Sukumar because I felt she was telling the truth since she has been a GA for many years and she knew the pulse of the civilians, the security forces and the LTTE. She could have easily obtained asylum abroad instead of like Casabianca (the boy who stood on the burning deck) she stood by her people through thick and thin.
Likewise I defended the Sunday Leader editor Frederica Jansz although on earlier occasions I have criticized her purely on a journalistic point of view. Frederica stands up for her beliefs and so does Ms Sukumar. What’s wrong with defending these two courageous individuals? I would not hesitiate to challenge Ms Sukumar if indeed as Mr Jayadevan alleges she willfully ignored regular procedures in tenders or she consorted with politicians for her own betterment; even in my kassipu induced state which brought on my personality disorder as per the Hindu scriptures of Mr Jayadevan. I have known Frederica a good while as a colleague and therefore I am privy to her journalistic style and stance.
Mr Jayadevan fails to comprehend English in that he fails to understand the jibes Ms Paramasivam makes against the GA although she harks back on ancient Hindu epics which have little reference to the subject at hand. But then she is not a journalist and she does not reveal exactly what her specialist subject is although she implies she has some knowledge of law.
I took the pain to elucidate Mr Jayadevan on his wrong usage of English and recommend he spends some time scanning the dictionary (I would recommend Oxford English, Webster’s and Collins dictionaries).
Here are some of his bloopers
Rudimentary - Anything in its first undeveloped state (Try derogatory)
Psycho-centric – There is no such word in the English dictionary. Try psychopathic (more effective)
Viraginous –Try vitriolic.
I am afraid I need to stop here to meet my supplier of an illegal drug round the corner (a young Sri Lankan lad of eighteen) to get my fix to contain my personality disorder.
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