I shouldn’t teach any Sri Lankan , who is Mr.Anagarika Dharmapala , so I don’t wish to repeat his biography here. But for those from other countries , please use this link to read his biography.

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagarika_Dharmapala

It’s true my computer is working properly , as anywhere on this soil , but I cannot just forget that I’m writing this while standing on the precious soil of Sri Lanka, the isolated , mango shaped , beautiful Island , the pearl of Indian ocean , and my dreamland.

It’s not because of the soil. This soil is my victorious soil. She’s quite friendly to me and always welcomes me with her loving warmth. 

But it’s because of people , that I’m so afraid to write a thing like this. Cos these fools (majority) have used to hunt like hounds , anyone who writes things or creates artworks that are not in favour of them. So , naming Mr.Dharmapala as a racist (who is regarded as a national hero) , would definitely wet their temptation and bring a good hunting for them. 

Our criminal procedure code too has some implementations towards that. (Actually , it’s not the case of criminal procedure code but dirty and biased hands that are handling it. One such example is the concept of “disgusting”. Anyway according to its implementations , saying “He’s a fool and therefore I’m not surprised to see him writing such things” , is a disgust to that person , which can be punished unless judge satisfactorily agrees that the person is actually a fool. But saying “I can deduce that he’s a fool  according to things he is writing” wouldn’t bring any offence.  

So , I will try my best to stick to this second criteria. So , it’s my duty to prove why I claim Mr.Dharmapala is a racist from his writings , instead of criticizing his writings with the claim that he’s a racist. For that I have his Singhalese book “Dana Gatha Yuthu Karunu” – ‘the facts to be known’.  

I don’t  know what’s the exact demarcation between “racism” and “nationalism”. I don’t try to claim that these are alike. I’m at least not going to challenge who claim that

such a demarcation exists. It may exist, which I, and others with my ideology never care , cared or will care in the future. But what’s in my mind is “nationalism is something stupid…(oh , sorry –not that wise-) , and racism is “something bad”. I don’t know to what extent that my believes are fair.  

But many standard encyclopedias have defined racism as “the hope that either his/her own race/ethnic group or any other race(s)/groups, is superior to others”. There are many people who are suspected to be racists, who are with a widely varying spectrum , dealing with this “race business” . It’s not fair to call them all racists. But no fair man can claim that a man working according to above definition is not a racist. It’s probably the worst form of racism.  

But according to that definition , ugly things like racial segregation (without superior feeling) are “not bad enough” to get included in racism. But those things are still ugly. Let’s take those as unpleasant pre-racist stages (which may sometimes lie within nationalism).  

Anyway what I’m going to show in Mr.Dharmapala is not such a pre-racist stage but the ugliest form or the racism proper. Mr.D writes ,  

“hqfrdamSh cd;S o mrjr yusn fndusnhsldr mrfo sYlfhda o hqfrdamShhka jsiska idod tjk ,o fkdfhla jra. Jsials iqrd o isxy,hkaf.a y;=frda hhs ie,lsh hq;=hs’ fudjqkaf.ka wyla jSug jShH lghq;=hs’ mru oqra.kaO fus mdmSka fijkh fkd flg Tjqkaf.a ux.,Hj,g fkd f.dia Tjqka jsiska fok lEusnSus fkd f.k u;ameka mdkh fkd fldg Tjqka jsiska urd jsl=Kk W!reuia l=l=M uia wkqNj fkd fldg l%sia;shdks pdrs;%dosh yer oud f;amams idh .jqka yd l%sia;shdks kdu m%;slafIam fldg wdrah Orau wkqj l,a hjkag is;g .; hq;=hs’”- (Sinhala font rangi_Leonard or any equivalent of Wijesekera Keyboard. For Singhala readers)  

Meaning :- “We should regard European nations , Persians , Moors , Indians , and various types of Whiskey  , produced and sent by Europeans , as enemies of Singhalese. We should be determined to keep away from them. We shouldn’t be friendly with those evil men.We shouldn’t go to their weddings. Shouldn’t eat chicken and pork they sell. We should try to live according to Aryan customs , leaving their Christian customs , their caps , skirts , frocks , and Christian names”  

Without any doubt , these few words are quite sufficient in proving that he is a racist according to above encyclopedia definition as this clearly indicates his idea that Sinhalese, their customs , their names , their foods and dresses are quite noble than and superior to others and theirs. (and we previously agreed that definition cannot be refused by any fair-thinking man). Apart from that , this also proves a high amount of racial discrimination. This discrimination is even without adequate reasoning. He sees Christians and Muslims as evils just because they eat flesh , and this alone is enough to refuse everything in their cultures. This is a total absence of awareness of cultural diversity.  

Here I don’t comment of whiskey. I have never drunk and neither will hope to ever drink whiskey , and it’s historically true that British rulers in colonial era promoted whiskey in Sri Lanka , to make Sri Lankans lazy and unproductive , and it’s a good suggestion to avoid whiskey. Nevertheless , this is not at all sufficient to refuse whole European culture. I have clearly stated in my article “my believes” that any country have right to stop importing s certain product if it draws their currency abroad. But as an alternative , they should be able to produce such products locally in adequate amount to fulfill people’s demands. So , the right thing is not to refuse European dresses , but to start producing them here.  

Yet , something about Aryan complex. No one , lived on this soil during middle of last century can forget the world war II , the world’s most furious and destructive war ever fought. What that was based on ?  

It’s clear that NAZI (national socialist) leader Mr.Adolf Hitler , who lead the German-Japanese-Italian coalition in WWII fought for advancement of German nation , which he regarded as a breakthrough of Aryan (the noble race). He regarded most others as Anarya (inferior) races , and they are dirty and should be destroyed to achieve prosperity to a country. I think I shouldn’t remind that this brought death to more than 60 000 innocent German Jews , who were regarded as inferior. Such a Motherfu__ing Aryan Customs , Mr.Dharmapala was appearing for.  

That’s enough for the day. Please comment.

-bkt