Mahendran Thiruvarangan Archives

VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You. ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2023 BOOKS. A Journey of Faith by Samuel Thevabalan Arnold, 2023. (Donated by the Author, Macquarie Park, NSW) Narrow Gauge Railways of Ceylon by Rasika Wickramanayaka. Supplement One, 2023 (Donated by the Author, Malabe, Sri Lanka) Enjoy, Cuisine of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort Muslims by Fazeera Ismail, 202 (Donated by Dr Firazath Hussein, Galle, Sri Lanka. Delivered by Ibrahim Hussein, Rowville, Vic) Souvenir, Golden Jubilee of Priesthood, Rev.Fr. Stephen Abraham, O.S.B., 1964 – 2014 (Donated by Mrs Pauline Nugara, Cooloaroo, Vic) ...

Writing The American Ceylon Mission: A Review Of The American River Of Love That Flowed Into Jaffna – By Mahendran Thiruvarangan Mahendran Thiruvarangan Source:-colombotelegraph When cultures and faiths meet one another, there often crop up debates, dissonances and worse, even violent conflicts. But is that all we can say about such events that history unfurls time to time? Didn’t such moments of the past also include cultural fusions that make us who we are today? Aren’t we all carrying in our bodies, thoughts and practices of the present some of these blends made in the past? How do we narrate these histories that created simultaneously both ties that cut across linguistic, cultural and religious borders and violent hierarchies that organized our communities unequally? I found myself grappling with these questions when I was reading The American River of Love that Flowed into Jaffna, a book by Bishop Jebanesan launched recently ...