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On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.
Shyam Selvadurai
Family
Home
Mind
Situation
Canada
Lanka
Personal Level
Political Situation
Tremendous
Unbearable
Sri Lanka
Any
Back
Events
Here
I Think
Level
Lost
Members
Much
Personal
Political
Possible
Think
Those
Very
One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
Sunil Yapa
Me
World
Father
Important
Bank
Consultant
Important Things
Importantly
Lanka
World Bank
Sri Lanka
Even
He
More
Things
Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and bought a pub, which he turned into an Arsenal pub.
Romesh Ranganathan
Love
Dad
He
Reason
Arsenal
Bought
East
Fell
Lanka
North
Pub
Sri Lanka
Actually
Because
Fan
Huge
Lived
London
Moved
Over
Then
Turned
Which
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
Michael Ondaatje
War
Path
Chance
Fate
Abroad
Commission
Crimes
Educated
Grows
Human Rights
Investigate
Lanka
Sri Lanka
Back
Brought
Gets
Goes
Human
Rights
She
Through
Up
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Nicholas Kristof
Way
Like
Lanka
Maternal
Countries
Honduras
Led
Mortality
Slashing
Sri Lanka
Few
The Congress-DMK combine has constantly deceived the people. They have neither safeguarded Tamils in India nor those in Sri Lanka.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
People
India
Deceived
Lanka
Combine
Neither
Sri Lanka
Constantly
Nor
Those
Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later, Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.
Romesh Ranganathan
Problems
Dad
Financial
Lanka
Marrying
Mum
Split
Sri Lanka
After
Came
Had
Later
While
Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.
Romesh Gunesekera
Future
Face
Past
Live
Lanka
Malaysia
Remembering
Similar
Sri Lanka
India
Issues
Made
Seeing
Understanding
Us
Want
Whether
I was born in Sri Lanka.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Born
I Was Born
Lanka
Sri Lanka
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
M.I.A.
People
Think
Nothing
Birth
Camp
Concentration
Giving
Lanka
Sri Lanka
About
Give
I Think
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.I.A.
Long
Age
Day
Skin
All Day
Basically
Classes
Five
Front
Hierarchy
Lanka
Onward
Poor
Row
Sat
Sorted
Street
Tone
Sri Lanka
Back
Kids
Out
Played
School
Sometimes
Were
Who
Your
Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.
Romesh Gunesekera
Live
Want
Well
Find
Explore
Lanka
Sri Lanka
Background
Fiction
Part
Through
Very
Where
Works
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A lot of the Indian supporters would have been born in Birmingham, have Birmingham accents. It is my home city as well. Second, third generations from the sub-continent still support India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Moeen Ali
Home
Support
City
Born
Accents
Birmingham
Generations
Indian
Lanka
Pakistan
Supporters
Third
Sri Lanka
Been
India
Lot
Second
Still
Well
Would
I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.
Jacqueline Fernandez
People
Food
I Am
Feel
Common
Cuisine
India
Keen
Lanka
Mumbai
Restaurant
Sri Lanka
Am
Bring
Different
Enjoy
Here
I Feel
Much
Open
Something
Sure
Up
Will
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
Romesh Gunesekera
Think
Who
Growing Up
Child
Lanka
Sri Lanka
Any
Been
Growing
Had
Knew
Other
Out
Up
I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?
Sunil Yapa
Mom And Dad
Better
Remember
Hands
Arguing
Correct
Fork
Lanka
Proper
Sri Lanka
Clearly
Dad
Eat
Five
I Remember
Like
Mom
Old
Over
Way
Whether
Years
Your
When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come right after the Miss Universe pageant.
Jacqueline Fernandez
People
Universe
See
Right
Arms
India
Lanka
Miss
Pageant
Surprised
Toned
Sri Lanka
After
Came
Come
First
Had
Were
My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.
Romesh Ranganathan
Life
Music
Truth
Parents
Embraced
Landlord
Lanka
Listens
Properly
Pub
Super
Tiny
Truth Is
Villages
Western
Sri Lanka
Both
Came
Dad
English
He
Like
Mom
The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.
Jacqueline Fernandez
Time
Age
Crazy
Universe
Contest
Exercises
Exposed
First Time
Fit
Gym
Joined
Lanka
Miss
Olympics
Pageant
Sri Lanka
Could
Doing
First
Girl
Then
Very
Were
Where
Who
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.
Stefan Sagmeister
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
Alexander Cockburn
People
Remember
Now
Most
Be Careful
Burma
Careful
Lanka
Malaysia
Thailand
Sri Lanka
About
Become
Cannot
Part
Should
Whether
I've definitely grown into the job after that difficult first Test against Pakistan. I'd been captain for the Sri Lanka one-dayers, which hadn't gone well, and all the talk was that I only had that one Test as captain.
Andrew Strauss
Difficult
Job
Only
Captain
Grown
Lanka
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
After
Against
Been
Definitely
First
Gone
Had
Talk
Test
Well
Which
I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.
Billy Campbell
Good
People
Trust
Think
Awhile
Lanka
Script
Shooting
Somewhere
Sri Lanka
Almost
Always
Any
Every
Fashion
Film
Form
Going
Like
Means
Once
Some
Things
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
Romesh Gunesekera
Writing
Three
Philippines
England
Lanka
Shaped
Sri Lanka
Been
Countries
Has-Been
Lived
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A.
I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.
Julia Sawalha
Love
Best
Family
Me
Dive
Forced
Hideous
Lanka
Scuba
Scuba Dive
Seas
Travel
Trust
Sri Lanka
Also
Amazing
Because
Difficult
Friends
I Love
Learning
Them
Two
Very
Were
I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.
Romesh Gunesekera
World
Place
Reading
Growing Up
Daydreaming
Lanka
Partly
Somewhere Else
Young Kid
Sri Lanka
Because
Else
Felt
Growing
Kid
Mental
Most
Out
Somewhere
Up
Young
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
M.I.A.
Me
Everyone
Being
Shot
Calling
Lanka
London
Pakistani
Sri Lanka
Even
Then
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
You
People
Past
Memory
Certainty
Commonplace
Earlier
Generations
Lanka
Thailand
Sri Lanka
About
Back
Countries
Discovered
Few
Find
Go
India
Like
Lives
Talking
Those
Total
Used
Where
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work
Youth
Nation
Dream
Collectively
Developed
Economically
Lanka
Message
Peaceful
Prosperous
Sri Lanka
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