25^th April 2022

Dear Professor

I took the opportunity to watch your interview in Lankasri wherein the analysis you gave to the people on the current economic disintegration and the vision and mission that should be decided for the future. Your explanation was crystal clear and excellent.

Please read my article on the 74years of oppression, discrimination and the murders committed by the Sinhala murderers, abandoning the economic equilibrium of the imports and exports and the economy of SL. The Sinhala government had the vision and mission prepared secretly through the Buddhist Maha Sanga of Sri Lanka to establish an ethnoreligiously unified by a common religious and ethnic background establishing their Fundamentalist concept.

 

Sir, I appreciate your thoughts on the analysis and the vision and mission for future administration for Sri Lanka and comparing Vietnam and her progress, I have some reservations about your analysis, please. I hope you will appreciate my thoughts.

 

I am 79 years of age. I was responsible for the coordination of the NAM conducted in Harare, Zimbabwe in October 1986. V.Prabakaran and Anton Balasngham gave me full authority to organise the NAM campaign and with some foreigners, as our Tamils in Harare refused to participate in the campaign being scared for their safety. I was successful as Rajiv Gandhi walked into placing a solution. I was entrusted with the political campaign in Africa including SA.

 

I studied Economics, Finance and reliability engineering and have Post Graduate certificate qualifications. Sri Lankan government focussed their concentration on Tamils and their advancement only giving up their financial and economic sustainability. I wrote a  letter to Professor Ricardo Hausmann on the economic malpractices in Sri Lanka to which he replied and the paper was published in Academia. The economic downfall in SL was due to the multidimensional incompetency of our politicians. How many of our politicians have their “O” level. Apart from a few who have their PhD, I do not consider them as competent.

 

I could have done my PhD, which I was invited to do, but I could not cos of finance. So I worked and financed my children to get their PhD. My son has a top job with an American company and my daughter is a surgeon and my DIL has a PhD in cancer science.

 

தமிழில் சொல்வதென்றால் தலையை விட்டு வாலைப் பிடிப்பது. The Sinhala government was practising this concept for the last 74 years, wherein they were focussing on Tamils’ destruction and oppression. Please read my letter to Prof Ricardo Hausseman where I have explained the shortfalls of our ministers and the economic mismanagement.

 

GOSL has High Commissioners and Ambassadors. Do they do their function? The office has Trade ministers in their high commissions. What they do is spy on Tamil Diaspora. I know this as I did spy on them fools. An army guy like Gotha: does he understand economics, technology, technology etc. I asked him (Gotha) via my letter why the Port City is important, apart from converting Anuradhapura into a “Digital Technology” city. The guys did not understand the “Debt-Trap”; ( Harbour)

Our Tamil’s responsibility now in this current situation is not to provide the Sinhala idiots with a solution, but to seek a permanent solution for the Tamil’s independence. I know that it is not kind enough to punish the Sinhalas, however, think of the past when more than a hundred thousand Tamils were slaughtered and killed including child soldiers. Tamils displaced, lands taken.

Today, SL has no “Soap” and “Box of matches”. Maybe people have to get back to the iron age where they have to make fire by hitting stones.

Replacing the government ministers will not solve the issues. Getting IMF loans will not solve the issues. Getting loans from countries will not solve the issues.  The entire Rajapaksas should leave and some new blood should come in. Permanent economic sustainability formulas and operations should be formulated and those should be constitutionalised.

Tamils should get their autonomous state called Tamil Eelam. The young students from Jaffna University who have done Economics, Finance, Agriculture, and management should be encouraged to enter politics. People like Sambanthar, Mavai Senathirajah etc are incompetent to be in politics. I have followed  Jaffna Uni and have much regard for the academics and the young qualifying graduates.

Sir as a Professor, please campaign every Tamil in the N&E to utilise their backyards for vegetation. Eggplant, Kasava, Chillies and whatever that can grow.

Professor Sivakumar Subramanium is doing top research on water management and sustainability for the North & E. Sir, please engage yourself in promoting “Economics” into the minds of our Tamil population in the N&E. Both. Macroeconomics and microeconomics. And, as consumption, distribution, exchange, production and public finance.

Please contribute your portion on economic learning and practice to the Tamils. You could organise a newsletter (Tamils). Your faculty could organise monthly newsletters for the students and news media (paper).

Every Tamil should understand the theory and practice of economics, irrespective of their occupation and profession.

My qualification is: I am a Control and Electronics engineer, with added qualifications.

The appreciation of the academic and practical training and the experience thereon makes one competent.

Additional topics:

Opportunity Cost and/or Cost-Benefit Analysis

Tamil politicians could have advocated the development of water resources for the region since independence. The Thondaimannar and Vallai lagoon area was empty. The sluice gate built in Thondaimannar was with some intent. Tamil politicians could have focussed on agrarian, fishing, Palmyra, and cottage industrial services in the North. Of course with a University, degrees could have been designed to the needs of the province. A reservoir could have been built in the Vali region as the area covers a significantly large catchment area. Of course, right from SJV to Sambanthar, politicians are advocating for power-sharing.

 

The Sri Lankan Accountants, engineers and economists should dig deep into various economic and accounting theories and analyze the “Role of Opportunity Cost in Financial Decision Making”.

 

The analysis should be a qualitative and quantitative study detailing the costs, benefits (tangible and intangible), plus risks associated with the project. Quantify the risks associated with the project during and after.

 

People need to know the qualitative and quantitative benefits of future development.

An example of the west operating pattern: In developed countries, major projects if planned, are placed before the public to study and make comments, either through the City Councils or the MP. The public is allowed to study the proposals, and feasibility reports and submit constructive criticism.

 

 

Thank you

 Kind Regards

 

Kanthar Balanathan