Rasbora, Diaspora and cancer

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As a child I learned that a Rasbora was a species of fish, quite beautiful not particularly harmful and definitely not cannibalistic.

As a middle-aged man since the word started to come up I learned what Diaspora was or I thought I did. It did and does not seem to have the features mentioned in the Rasbora but seems to have the exact opposite.

At 62 years as an older man I got cancer; with time to think, walking through the valley of death and the possible objectivity this breeds, it made me reflect that the activities of the subspecies of Homo and hopefully Sapiens known as the Sri Lankan Diaspora is not geared to help those they purport to call their own in a distant Indian Ocean Isle.

Are their sustained actions on many fronts eating up (cannibalistic?) the future of those especially in northern and eastern Sri Lanka trying to enter the mainstream of humanity?

Is this Diaspora in fact not interested in the body or limbs of a 20 million nation but rather in their own cancer-like growth with no concern for those left behind of all races and religions who try to make a better world for their children? Do their voracious cancer cells have to kill the cells of this land to thrive?

From rap artist to parliamentarian and all those in-between of the sub species Sri Lankan Diaspora, think of what you actually do in practical terms to breathe life into the body of my mother Lanka and all her children, or do you mostly in Western world comfort need to feed on our cells for your temporary and superficial growth and not care about the consequences?

Ave Diaspora! We who are about to die do not salute you.

Prasanna W. Jayewardene

Rosmead Place,

Colombo 7