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I refer to the letter published on page 12 of the Sunday Observer on 19.02.2006 titled S.B. and protest marches. With regard to this letter I would like to say that as journalists it is your duty to highlight facts. I wholeheartedly agree with what Lakshman Perera has stated in the aforesaid letter. We saw in the media, S. B. Dissanayake coming out from Welikada Prison. In fact he was living in a hospital room, which is like a 5 Star hotel room. He was warded at the Merchants Ward of the National hospital. For the past so many months he was living there and people who have seen the Merchants Ward know how comfortable it is. He is trying to show the masses that he spent his jail term just like an average prisoner, the truth is that this was not so. On the other hand, does he deserve to be treated as a hero because he himself pleaded guilty and was jailed? The entire episode on the day that he was released is an attempt to deceive the people, therefore his civic rights should not be restored. - V. Gunaratnam When the Englishmen came to Sri Lanka they looked at our women folk with scorn and displeasure because it was 'loathsome' to look at their bare upper bodies. Their lower bodies were covered with a piece of cloth. During that time the vast majority of the people were uneducated. Only a handful who belonged to the higher echelons of caste and society received an education from the temple. As time went on people began to receive a religious education. Every religion advocates a concept of 'shame and fear' (lajja, bhaya). When the women were inculcated with a sense of shame and fear they started to cover their upper bodies. Now in the twenty first century our girls have gone back to the eighteenth century in their mode of dress. The girls have a very strong desire to expose parts of their bodies. It appears as if one tries to outdo the other in wearing revealing clothes. The girls would be very pleasing to the eye if they dress modestly. I would like to draw the attention of all religious dignitaries to instill in girls and their mothers a sense of lajja bhaya. - P. A. Binduhewa. |
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