A Continent of Trust – Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Son killed bec of father

08/01/2016

There is a saying in Tamil about the tiny cylindrical rice measure, the aazhaakku.It smiles at theaazhaakkuimagining that its little roundness has an ‘east’ and a ‘west’ : aazhaakkilkizhakku-merkku. Well, whether the littleaazhaakku has directions or not, islands do. Sri Lanka does. Directions are about places and about paths. We can say today, Sri Lanka knows its directions, its paths and is walking with steadiness on the path its people have charted for it. And so I offer my felicitations on the first anniversary of the government of national unity to Sri Lanka in its multi-directioned roundness. I offer felicitations to its north and its south, its east and its west and to its Central Highlands where, under the shade of the Sri Dalada Maligawa, I spent four deeply formative years.
A Continent of Trust – Gopalkrishna Gandhi by Thavam Ratna