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Welcome to Diaspora, the show where we share the remarkable stories of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. In this episode, host Aditya Mehta interviews Ranil Herath, a senior executive in the education sector. Ranil discusses his journey from Kandy, Sri Lanka, to the UK, then New Delhi, Toronto, Calgary, and finally Seattle. He shares his experiences growing up in Kandy, studying in India, and navigating career shifts from pharmaceuticals to tech to education. Ranil delves into his decision to immigrate to Canada amidst a civil war in Sri Lanka and his challenges securing his first job in Toronto. The conversation also explores his transition to Calgary, cultural integration, and his current role as the Chief Revenue Officer at Shorelight. Additionally, Ranil discusses his involvement with the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship, his interest in angel investing, and the importance of building a professional network. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that touches on adaptability, community, and the pursuit of growth. Remember to check out the show notes for more information and subscribe for more fascinating stories from the South Asian Diaspora. 00:00 Introduction to Diasporaa 00:39 Meet Ranil Herath: A Journey Across Continents 01:41 Life in Kandy and Cricket Memories 02:56 Education and Early Career in Sri Lanka 06:25 Transition to Canada: First Impressions and Challenges 10:25 Settling in Canada: Building a New Life 23:42 Career Growth and Moving to Calgary 24:44 Calgary's Tight-Knit Community 25:40 The Calgary Stampede Experience 27:31 Comparing Immigration Experiences 30:28 Life in Canada vs. the US 34:18 Shorelight's Mission and Services 36:51 Angel Investing and Networking 42:44 The Rainier Club and Social Networking 45:04 Nostalgic Sounds and Smells 46:10 Mango Memories 48:13 Conclusion and Farewell List of Resources: 1996 Cricket World Cup Semi Final - India vs. Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens, Kolkata: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/icc-world-cup/news/world-cup-semifinal-of-1996-a-day-to-forget-for-indians/articleshow/105252281.cms Calgary Stampede: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Stampede Delhi University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_University Kandy Asgiriya Cricket Stadium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgiriya_Stadium Kumara Sangakkara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Sangakkara Muttiah Muralitharan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttiah_Muralitharan Nigerian Church in Mira Road: https://stjosephchurchmiraroad.com/ Rainier Club: https://www.therainierclub.com/ Raw Mango with Spices Recipe: https://vspiceroute.com/tota-keri-chaat-raw-mango-chaat/ Shorelight: https://shorelight.com/ Sri Lankan Civil War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war Washington State Opportunity Scholarship: https://waopportunityscholarship.org/ About the Podcast: Diasporaa was the name of Aditya's startup based in Vancouver, BC. It focused on helping new immigrants in Canada find their feet, get off to a running start and ease their assimilation into Canadian life. A big part of the platform were conversations, community and support. Though the startup stopped growing once Aditya moved to Seattle, WA - it remained alive in the form of several discussion groups and online communities. About Aditya Mehta: Aditya is a Bombay boy who has lived in Austin, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Vancouver before making it to his current home in Seattle. He has degrees in marketing, urban planning, real estate and strategy but has spent his career in financial services, social media and now real estate - mostly as an entrepreneur and partly as an employee at Amazon. Connect with Diasporaa: -Instagram: @diasporaapodcast -YouTube: https://linke.to/dspyoutube -Bio Link: linke.to/diasporaa -Listen on Spotify: https://linke.to/dspspotify -Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://linke.to/dspapple -Diasporaa Podcast on KKNW Alternative Talk Radio: https://linke.to/kknw1150

The Grammy award-winning Lainey Wilson is a country music trailblazer. She has made her way from Hannah Montana impersonator to performing at the Grand Ole Opry and she's been awarded seven Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year in 2023 and six Academy of Country Music Awards. As a prolific songwriter she's scored seven No. 1 hits including: Watermelon Moonshine and Heart Like A Truck. Her latest album, Whirlwind, earned a Grammy nomination and she is currently on a world tour promoting the album. She will be headlining at the Country to Country Festival at the O2 in London this weekend. She joins Nuala McGovern to discuss why she thinks country is cool again.In 2021, the Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the Grand National in the 182-year history of the race. The first woman to be leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival with six victories, including the Champion Hurdle, and the following year she became the first female jockey to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Yesterday, she continued to make history winning the Stayers' Hurdle aboard Bob Olinger to complete a Cheltenham Festival double. All the more remarkable as she was sidelined for three months with a neck injury after a fall in September. We speak to Fern Buckley, BBC sports journalist, ahead of Blackmore's participation in Friday afternoon's Gold Cup race.In Bangladesh, there's been shocking news that an eight-year-old girl who was raped last week, has died from her injuries. Fierce protests have erupted in the country following the girl's death yesterday with people demanding that the government expedite justice for rape victims and reform laws related to women and children's safety. We hear from the BBC's South Asia Correspondent Samira Hussain who is based in Delhi, India.In the next of our Women's Prize discussions, we hear from Clare Mulley on her book charting the life of Agent Zo – a courageous Polish female resistance fighter in World War Two, and VV Ganeshananthan about her novel Brotherless Night set during the Sri Lankan Civil War – winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction last year. What can these writers in very different genres tell us about the experience of women in war?Catherine Cox from Nottingham was one of thousands of women who took the epilepsy drug sodium valproate while pregnant, something which is now advised against. She's been campaigning for compensation for more than 20 years. Her son Matthew, who's now 23, was born with a range of conditions, including autism, ADHD, epilepsy and several learning disabilities. At 18 months old, he was diagnosed with foetal valproate syndrome, indicating the medication Catherine took was the cause of his problems. Catherine joins Nuala alongside Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner, whose report, released just over a year ago, recommended the need to compensate those harmed by valproate.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey Editor: Karen Dalziel

Neha and Shruti discuss The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a book that starts with the death of a photographer and follows him in the afterlife as he attempts to find his murderer and his missing photographs. We talk about the nature of death and the afterlife, and share historical context about the Sri Lankan Civil War. We also explore why people might be afraid to critize books, particularly works by marginalized communities.Books mentioned & Shelf DiscoveryHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonThe Great Indian Novel by Shashi TharoorThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutIf you would like to get additional behind-the-scenes content related to this and all of our episodes, subscribe to our free newsletter.We love to hear from listeners about the books we discuss - you can connect with us on Instagram or by emailing us at thenovelteapod@gmail.com.This episode description contains links to Bookshop.org, a website that supports independent bookstores. If you use these links we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neurosurgeon Brindha Shivalingam says it is a privilege to go into someone's brain and repair the body's most vital organ. She didn't expect to become the patient in 2019

S. Shakthidharan's award-winning epic, Counting and Cracking, won seven Helpmann Awards and drew a huge audience to a story that many of them knew little about. Five years after its world premiere, Counting and Cracking is on in Melbourne as part of the RISING festival, after which it transfers to Sydney's Carriageworks and then New York.In 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat and drowned. 50 years on, an oratorio shone a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia. Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan is now being restaged by Opera Australia.

This week, A'ndre and Andrew interview Dr. Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch on the process of genocide, genocide in modern warfare, and efforts towards reconciliation. Dr. Stanton has been a key figure in the genocide prevention movement for several decades, and walks the audience through his '10 Stages of Genocide' framework. Dr. Stanton outlines why he believes total war / 'carpet bombing' is an act of genocide, citing the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, in addition to the atomic bombings, as examples of this. Dr. Stanton provides his thoughts on why he believes a 'double genocide' has been attempted by both the Israeli Government and Hamas, and also provides his thoughts on accusations of genocide during the Sri Lankan Civil War. The hosts and Dr. Stanton talk about the practicalities of transitional justice and reconciliation, discussing examples in Rwanda. Dr. Stanton also provides his perspectives on discussing genocide during the reconciliation process, since it is the 'ultimate accusation'.

Listen to the story of an Indian female spy who served the country in an extraordinary way. Sri Lanka was burning in a brutal civil war. A war that was hurting India too. Indian spies and intelligence officers were stranded in Sri Lanka and there seemed to be no way of saving them. That's when a 55 year old woman named Sundari came as a ray of hope. Today Sundari is a ghost - she cannot be found in any official document. Her identity will always be kept secret for her safety. Meet a mystery hero that rescued Indians from the Sri Lankan Civil War. Narrated by Purab Written by Mihir Joshi Audio Design by Aayush Mehra Creative Direction by Dhruv Lau For Feedback and suggestions write to us - podcast@redfm.in or DM on Instagram - @redfmpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With effects rippling into the present, the Sri Lankan Civil War, lasting more than 25 years from the early 1980s until 2009, has found an important place in our current cultural canon. Join lawyer and novelist of Song of the Sun God, Shankari Chandran, author of Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka and Anandavalli as they discussed the island nation's turbulent recent history and its influence in their storytelling. In conversation with prize-winning author Roanna Gonsalves.This event was presented by the Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Sydney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With effects rippling into the present, the Sri Lankan Civil War, lasting more than 25 years from the early 1980s until 2009, has found an important place in our current cultural canon. Join lawyer and novelist of Song of the Sun God and Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Shankari Chandran, author of Booker Prize–winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka, and Anandavalli as they discuss the island nation's turbulent recent history and its influence in their storytelling. In conversation with prize-winning author Roanna Gonsalves. Supported by UNSW Sydney. This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers' Festival.   If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  Sydney Writers' Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  After more? Follow Sydney Writers' Festival on social media:Instagram: @sydwritersfestFacebook: @SydWritersFestTwitter: @SydWritersFestTikTok: @sydwritersfestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

V.V. Ganeshananthan's new novel, Brotherless Night, dives into the Sri Lankan Civil War through the story of Sashi, a 16-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a doctor. As violence unfolds around her and her family, Sashi watches her goals – and personal stakes in the conflict – shift right before her eyes. In today's episode, Ganeshananthan speaks to Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about the long-lasting impact of colonization in Sri Lanka and the importance of writing from a place of historical accuracy, even while fictionalizing her characters.

With special guest: Para Paheer… in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson Para Paheer was five years old when civil war between Tamils and the Sinhalese government started in Sri Lanka and continued for the next twenty six years. At the time Para did not know that the causes went back to 1830 when the Tamil people were imported to Sri Lanka to work on the plantations in conditions that were not far off slavery. Para had spent his childhood in poverty by Australian standards but when the war began conditions got even harder. Survival required courage, ingenuity and in Para’s case the kindness of strangers. The inspiring part of Para’s story, as told in The Power of Good People: Surviving the Sri Lankan Civil War, is that he describes accurately and fully some of the horrors he witnessed and experienced personally yet he can focus his attention on the good things that people he has met along the way have done for him and his family. Podcast (mp3)

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of the book Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War and was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. In the interview, Ganeshananthan discusses her experience in journalism school and explains how it laid the foundation for her fiction writing. Then she talks about the unique POV of Brotherless Night, the book's multi-decade writing process, and the careful research that allowed her to depict the Sri Lankan Civil War.  After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about lessons learned in graduate school. Then they explain why you should dare yourself to take creative risks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of two critically acclaimed novels, most recently Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Sugi is also a former grad school classmate of ours, and she began Brotherless Night back when all three of us were at Iowa together. So one thing we talk about is that process, and what it's like to write and rewrite a novel over more than fifteen years. For our reading, Sugi chose Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness, the first of his novels to be translated into English, and which a friend of hers recommended, several years ago, when she was deep in the throes of her own book. Both her own novel novel and Moya's deal with atrocities, and both in some darkly humorous ways. So we talk to her about what she learned from Moya, and how reading this book helped her get her own novel over the finish line. You can learn more about Sugi, and her new book, here: https://vvganeshananthan.com/. If you like the podcast, and would like more of it, we're releasing two bonus episodes a month to our Patreon subscribers, for only $5: https://www.patreon.com/BookFight

S. Shakthidharan's new play for Belvoir St Theatre, The Jungle and Sea, adds dimension to his award-winning epic, Counting and Cracking. The Jungle and the Sea also builds on Shakthidharan's deeply held belief that the arts, and theatre in particular, can unite communities.  Also, Emilia Bassano pursued a career as a poet during William Shakespeare's time and a new play commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre argues that The Bard may have plagiarised Emilia's own work, and to mark the 100th anniversary of The Waste Land by TS Eliot, Identity Theatre will bring Eliot's multi-layered lament to the stage.

S. Shakthidharan's new play for Belvoir St Theatre, The Jungle and Sea, adds dimension to his award-winning epic, Counting and Cracking. The Jungle and the Sea also builds on Shakthidharan's deeply held belief that the arts, and theatre in particular, can unite communities. Also, Emilia Bassano pursued a career as a poet during William Shakespeare's time and a new play commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre argues that The Bard may have plagiarised Emilia's own work, and to mark the 100th anniversary of The Waste Land by TS Eliot, Identity Theatre will bring Eliot's multi-layered lament to the stage.

In this podcast we bring to you "Real Soldiers Real Stories", from the Indian Armed Forces. We reminisce about their yesteryears and bring their stories to you. For we believe “Every ordinary soldier lives an Extraordinary Life”. In our Season Two Episode Two, “The Forgotten War” we present to you Col Sanjay Pande, who speaks at length about the Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War , the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka and the events that unfurled. The army which intended to perform a peacekeeping role got deployed without proper briefing, proper preparations and was virtually blindfolded into the island territory. Despite the shortcomings the Indian Army performed its role with guts, determination and glory! We dedicate this episode to our valiant comrades whose acts of bravery went unnoticed and unspoken about. Join us to listen to this story. Also Available on Apple , Google, Spotify, Anchor podcasts and Amazon music Podcast Producers: Poonam Joshy Nandita Sankaran Prakrati Agrawal Music credits: Colonel V D Singh Contact us on: podcastcallofduty@gmail.com Follow us on: Instagram: @callofdutypodcast

Guests featured in this episodeNeloufer de Mel, Senior Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Drawing on feminist scholarship, postcolonial and cultural studies, she has published extensively on Sri Lankan society, gender, justice. Neloufer has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and grants from the MacArthur Foundation, a Fulbright Scholarship at Yale, and the IWM in Vienna. Some of her books are: Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka, Gendering the Tsunami: Women's Experiences from Sri Lanka, and Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007).  GLOSSARY: Who are the Rajapaksa Family?(04:10, p. 1 in the transcript)The Rajapaksa Family: Sri Lankan family, which has dominated the country's politics for much of the past two decades. During Mahinda Rajapaksa's presidency, it was seen as one of the most influential families in the country with many of its members holding senior governmental positions. The Rajapaksas were briefly out of the government after losing in the 2015 elections, but they returned to power with Gotabaya Rajapaksa as their presidential candidate in 2019. He won and soon after brought his elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, back to the government as prime minister and handed key positions to several other members of the family. The popularity of the Rajapaksa family collapsed after their actions caused the economic crisis that started in 2019, resulting in Sri Lanka defaulting on its debt for the first time in its post-independence history. Source What are the 2022 Sri Lankan protests?(04:50, p.2 in the transcript)Spring 2022 Sri Lankan Protests (also known as ‘Aragalaya' – Sinhalese for ‘struggle'): A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka's worst-ever economic crisis.  During the period, the protesters forced a president and a prime minister to resign, with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa even fleeing the country to escape the uprising. Tens of thousands of people hit the streets in Colombo, occupying important government buildings, including the official residences of the president and the prime minister. Source What was the Sri Lankan Civil War?(05:50, p.2 in transcript)Sri Lankan Civil War: Political unrest, which escalated in the 1980s as groups representing the Tamil minority moved toward organized insurgency. Tamil bases were built up in jungle areas of the northern and eastern parts of the island and increasingly in the southern districts of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where Tamil groups received official and unofficial support. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) — popularly known as the Tamil Tigers — was the strongest of these, but there were other competing groups, which were sometimes hostile to each other. The Sri Lankan government responded to the unrest by deploying forces to the north and the east, but the eruption of insurgency inflamed communal passions, and in July 1983 there were extensive organized anti-Tamil riots in Colombo and elsewhere. Sinhalese mobs systematically attacked Tamils and destroyed Tamil property, and the riots forced refugees to move within the island and from Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu. Source   What is the Galle Face Park?(08:10, p.2 in transcript)The Galle Face Green Park: a five-hectare ocean-side urban park, which stretches for a half kilometre along the coast. The area was occupied during the 2022 Sri Lankan Protests with the protesters establishing a ‘village' named ‘Gotagogama', or ‘Gota go village', in Sinhala. Gota-Go-Gama has been set up (similarly to Occupy Wall Street) like a small model village, providing basic necessities, including free food, free water bottles, toilets as well as limited free emergency medical services. Source

In this podcast we bring to you "Real Soldiers Real Stories", from the Indian Armed Forces. We reminisce about their yesteryears and bring their stories to you. For we believe “Every ordinary soldier lives an Extraordinary Life”. In our Season Two Episode Two, we present to you Col Sanjay Pande, who speaks at length about the Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War , the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka and the events that unfurled. The army which intended to perform a peacekeeping role got deployed without proper briefing, proper preparations and was virtually blindfolded into the island territory. Despite the shortcomings the Indian Army performed its role with guts, determination and glory! We dedicate this episode to our valiant comrades whose acts of bravery went unnoticed and unspoken about. Join us to listen to this story. Also Available on Apple , Google, Spotify, Anchor podcasts and Amazon music Podcast Producers: Poonam Joshy Nandita Sankaran Prakrati Agrawal Music credits: Colonel V D Singh Contact us on: podcastcallofduty@gmail.com Follow us on: Instagram: @callofdutypodcast

In this podcast we bring to you "Real Soldiers Real Stories", from the Indian Armed Forces. We reminisce about their yesteryears and bring their stories to you. For we believe “Every ordinary soldier lives an Extraordinary Life”. In our Season Two Episode Two, we present to you Col Sanjay Pande, who speaks at length about the Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War , the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka and the events that unfurled. The army which intended to perform a peacekeeping role got deployed without proper briefing, proper preparations and was virtually blindfolded into the island territory. Despite the shortcomings the Indian Army performed its role with guts, determination and glory! We dedicate this episode to our valiant comrades whose acts of bravery went unnoticed and unspoken about. Join us to listen to this story. Also Available on Apple , Google, Spotify, Anchor podcasts and Amazon music Podcast Producers: Poonam Joshy Nandita Sankaran Prakrati Agrawal Music credits: Colonel V D Singh Contact us on: podcastcallofduty@gmail.com Follow us on: Instagram: @callofdutypodcast

Producer: Maya Viswa. This podcast will explore the 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War and its' repercussions in modern day Sri Lanka. It will focus on the concept of disappearance as a symbol of a never ending conflict. It connects together a lack of closure, lack of truth and a mask of the true brutality that occurred. Through exploring the history of the Sri Lankan civil war, its' modern day repercussions and the forgotten stories of the Tamil victims, this podcast will highlight that the Sri Lankan civil war never ended and perhaps may never end.

The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography. In the mid-2000s, increasingly accessible compact digital cameras and mobile phones in the hands of an eager public rapidly supplanted film photography. Unrestrained by finite exposures or time-consuming and costly processing, hundreds of images could be immediately generated, viewed, modified, stored or transmitted globally by a single device. As a result, a surplus of such digital images documenting the horrors of Sri Lanka's ‘No Fire Zones' were captured by both victims and perpetrators of wartime atrocities. In the postwar, these photographs and footage persist in active online and offline circulations underpinning competing political claims and demands for justice and accountability. Centred on the public commemoration of the 2009 Mullivaikkal massacre, I examine the unruly afterlives of atrocity photographs within contexts of Tamil civilian resistance and remembrance in northern Sri Lanka. I consider how these postwar mobilizations serve as visual enumeration of state violence and reinforce collective imaginings of alternative political futures as both necessity and possibility. Vindhya Buthpitiya is an anthropologist and curator working at the intersection of conflict and visual culture. Her current research focused on war, photography, and civilian resistance in northern Sri Lanka considers the local and global aftermaths of civil conflict through the making and moving of images. Vindhya is an Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and a member of PhotoDemos: The Camera and the Political Imagination at UCL Anthropology.

"The journey is the oldest story known to humanity", says bestselling American author Amor Towles, whose third book is based on this archetypal narrative and takes a group of lost boys on an unpredictable road trip in The Lincoln Highway. Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Anuk Arudpragasam with A Passage North and Vietnamese American Monique Truong's exploration of Lafcadio Hearn, the 19th century Creole cookbook author and Japanese folktale collector, in The Sweetest Fruits.

"The journey is the oldest story known to humanity", says bestselling American author Amor Towles, whose third book is based on this archetypal narrative and takes a group of lost boys on an unpredictable road trip in The Lincoln Highway. Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Anuk Arudpragasam with A Passage North and Vietnamese American Monique Truong's exploration of Lafcadio Hearn, the 19th century Creole cookbook author and Japanese folktale collector, in The Sweetest Fruits.

For our latest Saucy Deep Dive, we picked Funny Boy, a movie adapted by Deepa Mehta (an Indo-Canadian director) based on Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name. Funny Boy is a coming-of-age story about a boy called Arjie from an affluent Sri Lankan Tamil family. It chronicles his journey from childhood to adolescence and early adulthood amidst the ethnic tensions and the divisive Sri Lankan Civil War.While we loved the queer coming-of-age aspect of this movie, Arjie's exploration and queerness often felt like an afterthought to the plot. We also felt that as a movie intended for non-Sri Lankan audiences, it could have done a much better job of contextualizing the conflict and presenting it as a whole. In its current form, the movie left us perplexed about whether it was a historical queer movie or a historical movie with a queer character?We also talked about how it fared on our very own film rating system - the Sauce Meter.To know more about our discussion, read the extended show notes on our website with additional resources and content! More available on SareesOnScreen.com - - -[Music Prod. By LuKremBo]Advisory

In the fourth installment of our miniseries "Sri Lanka: Debt, Development, and Democracy?", we interview incumbent State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya to get the Government's take on economic diplomacy, U.S.-China, and the response to the United Nations Human Rights Council initiatives against Sri Lanka. Mr. Balasuriya, whose role is new and similar to that of a Deputy Foreign Minister with a regional focus, gives his take on the state of Sri Lankan foreign policy under the Rajapaksa Government, first discussing Sri Lanka's regional relations, highlighting ties with India. The State Minister disputes the notion that the Rajapaksa Government is 'pro-China', blames the previous government for the 99-year lease on the Hambantota Port, but does assert that China has been helpful to Sri Lanka's economic priorities. Balasuriya outlines why the Sri Lankan Government rejected the U.S. Millennium Challenge Compact (a proposed deal which was the subject of a visit to Sri Lanka by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a week before the 2020 Presidential Election), while asserting that U.S.-Sri Lankan relations are good, and asserting that Sri Lanka wants to maintain geopolitical neutrality. The State Minister rounds out the conversation with his response to initiatives by the United Nations Human Rights Council that have sought to bring about accountability with regards to the controversial ending of the Sri Lankan Civil War -- initiatives which were rejected on the day of our interview by Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris, Mr. Balasuriya's immediate superior.While Mr. Balasuriya provides the Government's perspective on these key foreign policy issues, you can hear from other voices in the miniseries (and also hear A'ndre and Ryan's reactions to the interviews) via the links below:Episode 1: Journalist Uditha Jayasinghe on the State of Sri Lanka's Political and Economic LandscapeEpisode 2: Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on U.S.-China, Domestic Governance, and Political TurmoilEpisode 3: Tamil National Alliance MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam on Post-War Reconciliation and Political EnfranchisementEpisode 4: State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya on Economic Diplomacy, U.S.-China, and the UNHRC

The Burn Bag Podcast is launching a limited miniseries entitled "Sri Lanka: Debt, Development, and Democracy?" The series will explore Sri Lanka's geopolitical position and developmental goals, in order to showcase how smaller countries can highlight U.S. foreign policy lapses amidst heightened U.S.-China competition, and will feature interviews with several key players from the Sri Lankan political landscape and Sri Lankan-based experts who will contextualize the country's story for us.In our first installment, A'ndre speaks with Uditha Jayasinghe, a veteran journalist who most recently worked as Deputy Editor of the Daily Financial Times, to provide an overview of Sri Lanka's political and economic landscape since the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009. Uditha delivers a background on some of the key players in Sri Lanka's political landscape, which includes profiles on the two brothers who currently govern the country, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, among others. We then contextualize Sri Lanka's developmental goals since the end of Civil War in 2009 and how the Sri Lanka-China relationship has unfolded over the past decade, including Sri Lanka's strategic importance for China's Belt and Road Initiative. Uditha provides her take on why China has succeeded in pulling Sri Lanka closer to its sphere, and answers questions on the state of Sri Lanka's debt to China, and how it relates to the debt it owes to other foreign entities.

This week on Growing up with gal-dem, Charlie and Natty are joined by Sri Lankan musician Priya Ragu, who's work fuses her Western influences with her South Asian origin and merges intercultural accumulation of traditional rhythms and contemporary r&b and soul. Raised in Switzerland by refugees of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Ragu and her brother, Japhna Gold, were not encouraged to pursue music, however Ragu did it anyway. Priya joins Natty and Charlie to talk through her vision board - our first ever vision board for Growing up with gal-dem! What at the time felt like distant dreams came to fruition for Priya over an incredible year, with vogue features, NPR tiny desk appearances, and record label attention. Through the episode Priya talks to Natty and Charlie about trusting and investing in your dreams, collaborating with friends and family, and balancing international musical success with a day-job in accounting. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Links1. “The Free and Open Indo-Pacific versus the Belt and Road: Spheres of Influence and Sino-Japanese Relations," by Giulio Pugliese, Aurelio Insisa, Pacific Review, December 23, 2020.2. “Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds,” by Giulio Pugliese, Aurelio Insisa, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.3. “Commitment by Presence: Naval diplomacy and Japanese defense engagement in Southeast Asia,” by Alessio Patalano, in Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia, Routledge, 2017.4. “America’s Naval Presence Problem," by Jerry Hendrix, War On The Rocks, January 26, 2016.5. “Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China Quad," The Economist, November 17, 2020.6. “Sri Lanka revives port deal with India, Japan amid China concerns," AFP, Al Jazeera News, January 14, 2021.7. “The Sri Lankan Civil War,” by Kallie Szczepanski, ThoughtCo July 8, 2019.8. “Sri Lanka says to conduct investigation into war crimes allegations,” AFP Yahoo News, January 22, 2021.9. “UN rights chief sends critical report on Sri Lanka to Government," by Easwaran Rutnam, columbogazette.com, January 21, 2021.

In this episode of the Colon podcast, we invited Dr Akram who is one of the most esteemed doctors in the UK who has his own show on Sky 782 (Health Talk with Dr Akram). We discuss the procedure of conducting an anesthetic on a patient and the process in general which happens in the hospital. Later in the episode we talk about the book Dr Akram has written which is about the unique perspectives and stories of people who shared their experience of the war in Srilanka. This book has over 100,000 copies sold on Amazon and took almost 5 years to write, its called Flying with Flamingos. Our IG / FB / Anchor -https://linktr.ee/Colon_Podcast Subscribe And Follow -https://youtu.be/KUmlsvMDIq4

Last Spring, Amiththan Sebarajah hiked the 1000+ kilometre Arizona Trail. The trail starts at the US-Mexico Border in Southern Arizona. These borderlands are contentious, uneasy places for brown-skinned people to negotiate, where border patrol agents are vigilant. As he hiked, Amiththan, hoped to promote diversity on the trails. But as he walked, he also carried the trauma of his memories from the Sri Lankan Civil War.

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us fourteen new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison’s subjects are 52 Blue, deemed “the loneliest whale in the world”; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings — with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity — in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth. Jamison is in conversation with Chris Kraus, the author of four novels and three books of art and cultural criticism.

Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) is an American poet and diplomat, He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published sixteen poetry collections thus far, including the just-released Coconuts on Mars (www.paperwall.in), En busca de posada (Editorial Apogeo, Lima, 2019) and Paolo 9 (Manofalsa, Lima, 2019).  The Elephants of Reckoning (Hanging Loose Press, NY, 1993) won the 1994 Paterson Prize in the United States. Uncivil War (Tsar/Mawenzi House, Toronto, 2013) tells the history of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems (Hanging Loose Press, NY, 2008) was written in the wake of the Asian Tsunami of 2004. Other books include Il n'est de solitude que l'île lointaine (Legs Editions, Haiti, 2017), and Ventana Azul (El Tapiz del Unicornio, Mexico City, 2016), In music, he has released Rankont Dout (available to download from all the music stores). He has written on poetry for the blog  http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com. He directs Poetry at the Port, a monthly spoken-word series at Port Au Prince restaurant in Silver Spring. He is on the Board of Directors of DC-ALT, an association of literary translators. He writes a weekly column featuring poems for the newspaper Haiti en Marche. Amirthanayagam is a past recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

On this episode, the AHSIA crew chats with artist and comedian D'Lo! D'Lo talks about growing up in outskirts of Los Angeles in a small town and recounts the challenges he grew up with. D'Lo also drops knowledge on the Sri Lankan Civil War that ravaged the country spanning 3 decades, along with his own personal identity and how it was formed, and how he uses that to connect with budding artists around the world. Debesh is low key jealous of D'Lo's hat.

Happy Women's History Month at Rock Candy! We are kicking things off with the amazing story of M.I.A. She had a pretty tough childhood as a refugee from the Sri Lankan Civil War, and the injustices she witness would become the main topics in her hit music later in life. She took her desire to share her story and used that to become not just an unforgettable musician, but visual artist and film maker as well! So grab yourself a can of Space Kitty from Rohrbach Brewing and get high like planes for a story unlike any you've heard before.

Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical directed by Jack O'Brien and starring Paul Slade Smith, we meet dance educator Athol Willoughby — winner of the 2018 Australian Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement — and find out how his voice became known to ballet students all over the country, Judith Lucy considers giving up on men, and S. Shakthidharan's massive play about a Sri Lankan family in Australia comes to the Sydney and Adelaide Festivals.

Since we can’t see Padmavati, we discuss three Bollywood films that have been mired in controversy. Show Notes: Padmavati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmavati_(film)) ‘Padmavati’: Incidents that made headlines about the Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh-Shahid Kapoor film (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/padmavati-incidents-that-made-headlines-about-the-deepika-padukone-ranveer-singh-shahid-kapoor-film/Ranveer-Singh-reveals-why-he-cried-during-Padmavati-shoots/photostory/62047771.cms) Historical Fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction) Billu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billu), Aamir Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanaa_(film)#Controversy), Gunday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunday) Trends in Bollywood controversies (https://www.scoopwhoop.com/entertainment/controversial-bollywood-movies/) This Film Is Not Yet Rated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated) Making sense of these controversies The Wind Rises (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Rises#Controversy) Bandit Queen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandit_Queen) Shekhar Kapur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhar_Kapur) and Phoolan Devi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoolan_Devi) “The Great Indian Rape Trick (http://arundhati-roy.blogspot.ca/2004/11/great-indian-rape-trick-i.html)” Roger Ebert’s Bandit Queen review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bandit-queen-1995) Aarakshan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarakshan) Reservation in India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India) Equality versus equity (http://culturalorganizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/originalequityvsequality.jpg) Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(Canada)) Aligarh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligarh_(film)) (INTERVAL (“Ud-daa Punjab (https://youtu.be/Ezsb5afVXQQ) from Udta Punjab) Madras Cafe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Cafe) Sri Lankan Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War) and the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Rajiv_Gandhi) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam) M.I.A. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)) The location of the titular café is not clear in the film Udta Punjab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udta_Punjab) Traffic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_(2000_film)) and The Wire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire) Matt on That Brown Guy podcast (http://bollycast.libsyn.com/episode-12-review-of-udta-punjab) Udta Punjab controversy: How a Bollywood film won a historic battle against Censor Board (http://www.catchnews.com/bollywood-news/udta-punjab-controversy-timeline-how-a-bollywood-film-won-a-historic-battle-against-censor-board-udta-punjab-movie-latest-news-1465824531.html) Interview with Pahlaj Nihalani (https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/clearing-indu-sarkar-without-cuts-main-reason-behind-my-sacking-says-pahlaj-nihalani-1739488) ‘Udta Punjab’ Censor Copy Leaks Online, Producers File Cyber-Crime Complaint (http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/06/15/udta-punjab-leaked_n_10480546.html) Puducherry cable channel airs pirated copy, HC bans 600 online links (http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/udta-punjab-updates-puducherry-cable-channel-airs-pirated-copy-hc-bans-600-online-links-2840376.html) Deglamourizing Punjab NEXT TIME: Katrina Kaif is a badass Pakistani spy in Ek Tha Tiger and the new Tiger Zinda Hai, also Salman Khan is there Bollywood is For Lovers is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network powered by ATB Financial (http://www.atb.com/listen/Pages/default.aspx) Check out the Well Endowed Podcast (https://www.thewellendowedpodcast.com/?utmsource=Publicate&utmmedium=embed&utmcontent=It%27s+Good+to+be+Well+Endowed+%7C+ECF&utmcampaign=Oct+2017+APN+memb...

Natalie Anderson is best known for being the season 29 champion of the CBS reality show, Survivor.  However, fans of the show might be surprised to know that the struggles and stresses of being stranded on a deserted island paled in comparison to the turmoil Natalie faced while battling post-concussion syndrome (PCS) after being named soul survivor in San Juan Del Sur. While growing up in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War with her twin sister Nadiya (who also competed on Survivor), Natalie was always into playing sports.  Specifically, Natalie swam, played rugby and threw the javelin in high school, but focused on rugby while studying at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY.  This is where Natalie suffered her first diagnosed concussion (2007), which left her feeling hazy, sluggish and with headaches.  Rugby was a club sport at Fordham and there were no athletic trainers covering their games, so there was no return to play protocol followed, but her symptoms subsided after about a week.  It looks like they could have used insights from my man Dr. Robert Huggins at the Korey Stringer Institute (Episode 41) who was instrumental in implementing athletic training coverage for club sports at Sacred Heart University and UCONN. During our conversation we also talk about her recovery from an ACL injury she sustained while playing rugby during her senior season.  This is where her interest in physical therapy and athletic training was sparked. While taking pre-requisites for graduate school in 2013, Natalie suffered concussion #2 when she closed the trunk of a car, forgetting there was a bike rack attached to it.  This concussion left her with blurred vision, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound all of which lingered for close to a month.  After this concussion, Natalie grew concerned over her future brain health, especially in regard to her future academic goals.  Before this concussion, Natalie and her sister Nadiya competed on their first reality show together, which was the 21st season of The Amazing Race, after a friend submitted a video application in for them. They also competed in the 24th season All-Stars edition of the show.  School was put on hold while filming these shows so when the decision was finally made to attend Seton Hall University and earn a masters degree in athletic training, the third and most recent concussion was that much more devastating. Natalie (Left), Twin Sister Nadiya (Right). Natalie utilized CrossFit training while preparing for competing on Survivor.  During our interview, she gives partial credit to CrossFit and to her training partner, Sheila Barden (CrossFit Games Competitor) for her success on the show.  However, her post-survivor training ultimately led to concussion #3 while standing up into a racked barbell after adjusting her knee sleeve.  To make matters worse, she was in grad school at this time and was ac

Natalie Anderson is best known for being the season 29 champion of the CBS reality show, Survivor.  However, fans of the show might be surprised to know that the struggles and stresses of being stranded on a deserted island paled in comparison to the turmoil Natalie faced while battling post-concussion syndrome (PCS) after being named soul survivor in San Juan Del Sur. While growing up in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War with her twin sister Nadiya (who also competed on Survivor), Natalie was always into playing sports.  Specifically, Natalie swam, played rugby and threw the javelin in high school, but focused on rugby while studying at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY.  This is where Natalie suffered her first diagnosed concussion (2007), which left her feeling hazy, sluggish and with headaches.  Rugby was a club sport at Fordham and there were no athletic trainers covering their games, so there was no return to play protocol followed, but her symptoms subsided after about a week.  It looks like they could have used insights from my man Dr. Robert Huggins at the Korey Stringer Institute (Episode 41) who was instrumental in implementing athletic training coverage for club sports at Sacred Heart University and UCONN. During our conversation we also talk about her recovery from an ACL injury she sustained while playing rugby during her senior season.  This is where her interest in physical therapy and athletic training was sparked. While taking pre-requisites for graduate school in 2013, Natalie suffered concussion #2 when she closed the trunk of a car, forgetting there was a bike rack attached to it.  This concussion left her with blurred vision, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound all of which lingered for close to a month.  After this concussion, Natalie grew concerned over her future brain health, especially in regard to her future academic goals.  Before this concussion, Natalie and her sister Nadiya competed on their first reality show together, which was the 21st season of The Amazing Race, after a friend submitted a video application in for them. They also competed in the 24th season All-Stars edition of the show.  School was put on hold while filming these shows so when the decision was finally made to attend Seton Hall University and earn a masters degree in athletic training, the third and most recent concussion was that much more devastating. Natalie (Left), Twin Sister Nadiya (Right). Natalie utilized CrossFit training while preparing for competing on Survivor.  During our interview, she gives partial credit to CrossFit and to her training partner, Sheila Barden (CrossFit Games Competitor) for her success on the show.  However, her post-survivor training ultimately led to concussion #3 while standing up into a racked barbell after adjusting her knee sleeve.  To make matters worse, she was in grad school at this time and was actually struck in the head by a soccer ball while taping an athletes ankle during her first clinical emersion at a local high school.   This was all while still symptomatic from the training accident. Natalie is a survivor through and through and credits a lot of her success to her ability to push and persevere.  Unfortunately, the symptoms from these two concussions eventually became too much to handle, even with assistance from disability services at school (any athlete struggling with PCS should seek out this type of help from their school, it is your right). Natalie teaches us how to utilize the support of disability services at schools in this episode. After receiving a text from her classmate and good friend, Pete saying "A Champion Knows When To Rest,"  Natalie decided to take a medical leave from school, but plans on re-enrolling this fall now that she is feeling better. Natalie about to hit some front squats! Like many athletes, the survivor mentality can work to both your advantage and demise at times.  Sometimes you need to know when to wave the white flag and take care of yourself.  Most of us don't have that voice in our head's, but sometimes we need a friend to be that voice. Natalie found great help and symptom relief from utilizing the services from our Episode 14 guest, Dr. Mike Teytelbaum, who is a chiropractic neurologist.  I encourage you to listen to this episode if you struggle with PCS.  She also found hope emotionally through listening to many of the concussion related interviews on this podcast.  Search "concussion" on the home page to find all episodes pertaining to concussions. Some other topics we cover include : Her winning strategy going into Survivor The weirdest thing she ate on survivor What she did with her winnings Donation to her mother's non-profit Bridge 2 Peace Mission: To empower the marginalized and under -privileged through Peace Education and Vocational Training based on Montessori principles. Background on the Sri Lankan Civil War Her parent's Romeo and Juliet story How the ketogenic diet benefited her PCS symptoms WHERE CAN YOU FOLLOW NATALIE ANDERSON? INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | Twitter Download Episode 64 : iTunes | Stitcher | SoundCloud Permalink

Photo: Tamil demonstrators hold photos of their relatives who disappeared during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Credit: Buddhika Weerasinghe/GettyImages.

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