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The villages of Mithi Virdi, Jaspara, Mandva, Khadarpar and Sosiya are blessed with fertile land. Of the five villages, three villages – Mithi Virdi, Jaspara and Sosiya are situated along the coastline. Most of the land proposed to be acquired falls under Jaspara village. There are total 152 villages in 30 Kms radius of the proposed nuclear power plant.

Constitution of Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan [movement against communalism] (Adopted at the Founding Conference, Delhi, 1989, amended at the annual convention, Delhi, 1990).

The greatest gift education can give us is not a degree but an inquiring and questioning mind, which enables us to look through spurious spirituality, to disbelieve rumours, to intelligently link cause and effect. This will not happen unless it is planned: many teachers in schools and colleges have deep prejudices which they are not afraid to flaunt. Rationality has to be taught. It needs to be part of the curriculum in all schools and colleges. Perhaps then some of our fellow countrymen will escape from the prisons they willingly put their minds into.

Pick on a spontaneous communal event and thereafter pour communal fuel to snow ball a minor event into a communal cauldron. Those are the time tested tactics of the Sangh Parivar. Even a perfunctory scrutiny of the two riots, the 2002 Gujarat riots and the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, reveal that both have similar genesis.

Sunila Abesekera passed away in Colombo on the afternoon of 9 September 2013. Posted below are the first the news reports and messages from Sri Lanka. Posted below is also a song sung by Sunila (recorded by CPR in Sri Lanka)