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The koothu master

Kannan Arunasalam — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:58:48 +0000

Both my grandfather and father were annaviyars

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Title: Both my grandfather and father were annaviyars

Title: There are three kinds of koothu that I know about.

Title: We didn't have cinema. We only had koothu.

Title: I don't want this art form to disappear

The judge

Kannan Arunasalam — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:29:51 +0000

One day she told me that she had expectations of my writing some beautiful judgements

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Title: One day she told me that she had expectations of my writing some beautiful judgements

Title: He expected the same from everybody else. Such people are extremely rare today

Title: Islamic law said that even the poisoning of the arrow is absolutely forbidden

Title: Everywhere there was so much friendship

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The sister

Kannan Arunasalam — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:58:26 +0000

When the call comes, it is from God

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Title: When the call comes, it is from God

Title: We never used the word Sinhala or Tamil

Title: My hometown is Batticaloa

Title: Because Batticaloa people accept things better

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The astrologer

Kannan Arunasalam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:19:43 +0000

If we lose patience, things go wrong. You must be patient.

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Title: If we lose patience, things go wrong. You must be patient.

The matriarch

Kannan Arunasalam — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:09:09 +0000

But Dutch Bar is the best!

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Title: But Dutch Bar is the best!

The correspondent

Kannan Arunasalam — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:40:10 +0000

In clear print it is stated, land of the singing fish

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Title: In clear print it is stated, land of the singing fish

Title: And I wanted these fellows to know my badge, the bald head

Title: And that's how I became the Batticaloa correspondent for Lake House

Title: I must show her the remnants of the house after the tsunami struck

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The storekeeper

Kannan Arunasalam — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:35:52 +0000

He comes to my house. I can go to his. We talk. We can go anywhere. Do anything.

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Title: He comes to my house. I can go to his. We talk. We can go anywhere. Do anything.

Title: I was born in Kattankudy, 2nd cross, to a poor family.

The Jesuit priest

Kannan Arunasalam — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:03:00 +0000

I feel at home only here

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Title: I feel at home only here

Title: They can only overcome us if they set us against each other

Title: Tamils, Burghers, Muslims and Sinhalese…they were like one family

Title: We recorded 8,000 complaints of missing persons

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The fisherman

Kannan Arunasalam — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:35:35 +0000

I used to throw much bigger nets than this. But now I can’t lift them.

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Title: I used to throw much bigger nets than this. But now I can’t lift them.

Title: He was big and strong. He could row the boat by himself, like me.

Title: It has hands and legs, just like us. But below the waist, it’s like a fish.

The cricketer

Kannan Arunasalam — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:54:03 +0000

It was the friendliest rivalry that one could see

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Title: It was the friendliest rivalry that one could see

Title: Our crowd...every time we fielded the ball, they booed us

Title: Practically every match of any worth was played at the Tamil Union

Title: Sathasivam, who in my view was probably one of the best batsmen who ever lived

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