Ilya Zhitomirskiy: Diaspora Co-Founder Dies at 22

Ilya Zhitomirskiy in Apparent SuicideIlya Zhitomirskiy, one of the co-founders of Facebook alternative Diaspora, has apparently committed suicide. He was 22 years old.Diaspora: Open-Source Facebook AlternativeTechCrunch first reported the news of Ilya Zhitomirskiy's death,...

Facebook Alternative: Diaspora Surpasses $100,000 in Microfunding

Diaspora: Open-Source Facebook Alternative Diaspora, the "open-source Facebook", has surpassed $100,000 in funding through Kickstarter, which allows donations as small as $1. The impressive aspect here is that...

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas begins today

New Delhi: India's flagship annual event to connect with its diaspora spread across the globe will begin in New Delhi on Thursday which will primarily focus on boosting investment and sharing of expertise. ...

Mercy Mission Humanitarian Relief being unloaded in Colombo

Update: 9-July-2009 Mercy Mission Humanitarian Relief being unloaded in Colombo " 9 July 2009: Two months after leaving Fos-Sur-Mer, France on 7 May 2009 the humanitarian relief sent by the Tamil Diaspora in...

Beware of this e- mail vulture

As the Sri Lankan government is reluctant in allowing aid agencies to fully access the Tamil concentration camps and relatives of the Tamils living abroad are unable to help them , a Sri Lankan person is taking advantage of the situation. He is campaigning to get money from...

The Post-LTTE Dire-spore-a

If this was the decomposition, the definition would be something like: dire  (dr)adj. dir·er, dir·est 1. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous spore  (spôr, spr) n.1. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly...

Can we end this cycle of hatred ?

http://www.groundviews.org/2009/05/20/can-we-end-this-cycle-of-hatred/ Can we End this Cycle of Hatred? May 20, 2009 at 5:00 pm · Categories: English, Peace and Conflict, Pollonnaruwa | by Lalith Gunaratne I am amazed at the mobilization of young people from the Tamil...

Cyber Or 16 Jewish N-Gen vs Y Gen

This is another post by Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror on Cyber Or and the N & Y generations. "By Moshe Dror I would like to suggest that the Generation Y and the Net Generation are much the same people. The N-gen is...

U.N. council sees no need to punish Sri Lanka

Stunts - conducted by the LTTE supporters in Diaspora - like blocking roads and preventing the normal citizen life in western countries did not yielded the desired result. Completely ignoring the noises made by...

UK Tamil guilty of aiding Tigers

In another news confirming that LTTE is very much active in Britain collecting money and planning terrorist activities, a  "Prominent" businessman of Sri Lankan origin was convicted on terrorism charges. He...

How the Tamil Diasporans feed off their own

Members of the pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora are a peculiar lot. Conscience, they have none of it. They just want to secure the safety of the megalomaniac-in-chief, V. Pirapaharan & Co, (or what ever remaining) at...

How a Diaspora Killing it's own - David Blacker.

“Repeat the lies again and again and again. Finally you will find the a taker. “ This is the LTTE propaganda mantra. They loosely modified the Joseph Goebbels's version "“The most brilliant propagandist...

Tamil Diaspora for Dialogue

21 intellectuals, members of the Tamil Diaspora arrived in Sri Lanka last week to have discussions with the government and to see the situation in Sri Lanka for themselves. These individuals came in the hope...

Let My People Go In Peace By Dr Noel Nadesan - Editor, Uthayam

Finally a member of the Tamil Diaspora, once a hardcore Eelam supporter has had a soul search and asking the much needed questions from the rest of them. Parts of his article is quoted here. " Let My People Go...

War Zone Toronto

Bandula Jayasekara writes about the situation in Toronto. It is alarming to see how Canadian authorities have let this happen to their country, just for a few hundred thousand votes. " Many innocent Sri Lankan...

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