‘Aba Saranai’ And The Scourge Of Theocratic Politics
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“…it is time that the world adopt a position that refuses to countenance Religion as an acceptable justification for, excuse or extenuation o, crimes against humanity.”
Wole Soyinka (UN Conference on the Culture of Peace and Non-violence – 21.9.2012
( July 10, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) ‘Eat, Pray, Fast’ was the title of a photo-essay in the Foreign Policy magazine marking the beginning of the 2013 Ramadan season . The pictures provided a glimpse of the wide and varied spectrum of global Islam – from the hip young protestors of Turkey breaking fast in the Gezi Park to a fully-covered woman outside a mosque in India.
