Mahendran Thiruvarangan

Mahendran Thiruvarangan. Academic, University of Jaffna. Member of the Jaffna People's Forum for Coexistence. Alumnus, Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai.

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

Some general reflections (in Tamil) on the British literary canon, postcolonialism and the relationship between literature, globalization and nationalism. https://t.co/l6uQTy996E

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

‘A Volatile Picture’ month at last!
The book is shipping out in the US via @UWAPress (summer sale on now! ) / UK distributor @LivUniPress. Out in the world on the 16th of June https://t.co/lEhCVqDvGm | https://t.co/Oj81FgrcRH

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

My Kuppi article "Pitfalls and Exclusions in Academic Recruitment" in today's The Island. https://t.co/ajRiBl7c0l

[Gajen Ponnambalam MP @GGPonnambalam]

யாழ்ப்பாணப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் வணிகபீட மாணவர் ஒன்றியம் வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கையின் உணர்வுகளுடன் நானும் எனது கட்சியும் முழுமையாக உடன்படுகிறோம். தத்தமது சமய மற்றும் பண்பாட்டு நம்பிக்கைகளை அனுபவிக்கும் உரிமையும் சுதந்திரமும் அனைத்து மாணவர்களுக்கும் உண்டு.
அவ்வாறே, சிங்கள பௌத்த மாணவர்களுக்கும், வெசாக் மற்றும் அதுபோன்ற பௌத்த விழாக்களைக் கொண்டாடுவதற்கும், கடைப்பிடிப்பதற்கும் அந்தத் தடையற்ற உரிமை உண்டு.

நேற்று இரவு யாழ்ப்பாணப் பல்கலைக்கழக வளாகத்திற்குள் வெசாக் வெளிச்சக்கூடு சேதப்படுத்தப்பட்ட விவகாரம் முழுமையாக விசாரிக்கப்பட்டு, அதற்குக் காரணமானவர்கள் மீது உரிய நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்பட வேண்டும்.

வெசாக் கூட்டை சேதப்படுத்திய செயற்பாட்டை தமிழ் தேசிய பேரவை வன்மையாக கண்டிக்கிறது.

[Gajen Ponnambalam MP @GGPonnambalam]

I wish to fully associate my self and my party with the sentiments of the statement issued by the Management Studies and Commerce Students’ Union of the Jaffna University. All students have the right and the freedom to enjoy their religious and cultural beliefs. As such the Sinhala Buddhist Students and others who celebrate Vesak and similar Buddhist occasions have that unfettered right.

The incident of vandalism to a Vesak lantern that had occurred last night within the Jaffna University premises needs to be fully investigated and those responsible properly dealt with.

The Tamil National Council condemns the act of vandalism unreservedly.

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

02.06.2026

Statement Regarding the Recent Vesak Celebration Incident at the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna

[Muttukrishna Sarvananthan PhD @MuttukrishnaS]

Decolonising liberation: Seeing beyond the Vaddukoddai Resolution | Daily FT https://t.co/hfog7yEKmt

[Pitasanna Shanmugathas @pitasanna]

"Contrary to the Vaddukoddai Resolution, I wish to recall the Freedom Charter of the African National Congress, which framed South Africa as a country that belonged to all its people. In the Freedom Charter, residency rather than membership in a particular community or nation became the central logic of the new resistant political imaginary of the anti-apartheid movement. The ANC was able to rise above the Euro-modern nationalist logic of ethnic/racial/religious/linguistic territorialisation in its broader vision for post-apartheid South Africa. It was able to offer multi-racial democracy (as opposed to black nation-state) as an alternative to apartheid. We need a similar imaginary in the North-East. It should not be based on any real or imagined histories of the region’s past. It should reject hierarchies of communities and ethnicities and their relationship to land. What is needed is a vision that prioritises the wellbeing of the people who inhabit the region and their coexistence as equal communities and people. Such a vision should be strengthened by a socio-economic program that ensures re-distribution, social justice, gender justice and abolition of caste."

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

@akeenan23 President AKD met Ampitiye Sumarathane recently, didn't he?

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

The impunity for rape that Buddhist monks enjoy in Sri Lanka stems at least in part from the impunity for racism and hate speech they have always enjoyed. When one form of violence by monks is normalized and even glorified, it is difficult to fight others. (1/2)

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

Folks in and around Colombo - Please attend. A very important book that traces, among other things, the history of the dispossession that Tamils faced and continue to face in Manal Aru in the name of development.

[SSA_Lanka @ssa_lanka]

Tomorrow at 5 PM

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡
Manal Aru / Weli Oya: The Violent History of River Valley Development, Frontier Colonisation and Ethnic Territorialisation

🗓️: Tuesday, 𝟐𝟔 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
📷: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
📍: SSA, 380/86, Sarana rd, Colombo 07

[SSA_Lanka @ssa_lanka]

Tomorrow at 5 PM

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡
Manal Aru / Weli Oya: The Violent History of River Valley Development, Frontier Colonisation and Ethnic Territorialisation

🗓️: Tuesday, 𝟐𝟔 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
📷: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
📍: SSA, 380/86, Sarana rd, Colombo 07

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

the executive presidency is a hell of a drug 💥 #SriLanka

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

Does this mean the NPP (like all the other parties) is going to keep the Executive Presidency alive? @anuradisanayake @Dr_HariniA @Lakmali89

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage says no one can stop President Anura Kumara Dissanayake from being re-elected in 2029, claiming the government has stabilised the country’s economy and increased public confidence.

Addressing a public gathering, the Minister said Sri Lanka had previously become “directionless” due to poor decision-making, but insisted the current administration had changed the situation.

He also said that support from Sri Lankans living overseas had contributed to the country recording its highest-ever foreign worker remittances. (Newswire)

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

Sri Lanka’s IMF-led Debt Restructuring and Lessons for Senegal - article by Ahilan Kadirgamar
https://t.co/faqSK63v6G

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

My article "Decolonising liberation: Seeing beyond the Vaddukoddai Resolution" in today's edition of Daily Financial Times

https://t.co/X8lzessFY4

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

Abolish the Executive Presidency.

[Budu℠ @BuduMalli]

In your opinion, who are the most future-ready presidential candidates in Sri Lanka right now?

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

The NPP and the Tamil Question: Rhetoric without Substance?
My conversation with Prof Jayadeva Uyangoda and Dr Geethika Dharmasinghe https://t.co/1O8Vd8tk3U

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

@DearthOfSid I am complete outsider. Asking these questions to get an understanding of the verdict.

[Mahendran Thiruvarangan @t30m2]

@DearthOfSid Friendly questions - Do you think it was a good move to project him as the CM face for the third consecutive time? Is it true that he was promoting his son-in-law as successor? Why was Shailaja Teacher not given a chance to lead the Left front?