Collective guilt?
By Prof. Susirith Mendis One of my good and sincere friends, now a self-exiled expatriate, growing an amazingly beautiful and typical ‘English Garden’ in, I believe, Great Yarmouth, UK, had made the following comment rhetorically to a post I put on Facebook of an article by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke titled “Most Tamil Moderates, Liberals and Progressives are Tamils First, and Moderates, Liberals and Progressives Later”: “Are the Sinhalese any different? Minorities in any community are more conscious of their minority status, in SL the majority community suffer from a minority mentally, they keep frightening each other by comparing their numbers with Tamil population of Tamil Nadu.” Yes, Sinhalese do have a ‘minority mindset’. They are a singularly miniscule minority of about 15 million people in […]