Kindi that is Indi – Indi Samarajiva confesses.

I am Indi Samarajiva aka Indrajit Samarajiva aka Indi, Jit to thatha and Jito to my nangi subu.

I’m shameless. I’m a 27-year-old wannabe politician who will eventually be recovering from a severe addiction to politics. I love Ranil, his family and friends, his dick NGOs, and the popsicles they give me. I love the west. I like my government small. No jumbo cabinet please. I am accountable to my God, not my government. “Stimulating” the democracy with mahinda monopoly is stupid. I loathe Mahinda.

On a more serious note, I’m a former staffer of Dialog Telecom who got kicked out due to my big mouth. Since I’m a masochist, I ended up talking politics on my blog. I was a cognitive science major who really never wanted anything to do with cognition, and now I write (for a leader in yellow journalism). And do blog. And a whole bunch of activism, like fishing in Mirissa and eating crabs in Jaffna.

I’m the sole proprietor of www.indi.ca and the host of Kottu. I am also the Director of Internet Relations and New Media for SF Politics and the Director of Kottu Communication for Ranil’s loser show.

My day job is (wannabe) Internet Media Coordinator for Ranil, and it basically rocks my world.

My life is awesome.

Why I Write?

I write commentary. I am not a reporter. I say what I think, and feel. I have my senses you know.. I am not writing to please you or anyone else. I am not writing because I have all the answers to God and Government and have it figured out. I am developing views constantly politically and spiritually. Growth is healthy.

I can say with some certainty that God is not a MR or a SF. I know that Sitting nuts begs to differ. And I’m not gonna lie, this still makes me giggle.

I am a Buddhist, one that believes the Buddha and knows that he answers not to God – not his government. I know not all of you are. That’s your choice, and I will never look down on anyone for that. But that’s where my perspective is – take it or leave it.

I will hesitantly admit that I understand Sri Lanka on one level. I admit, it’s pretty convincing. However, as I see it, there is one major difference: Canada is heaven. Buddha was socialist, but God was not. He (God) gives to each according to what they can handle. God is not concerned with “equality”. And it is Indilical (like biblical) to give, to take care of others. Because I am Indi and it is Indilical to care, I care, much more than you ever can imagine you know.

But Indiology (Indi plus ideology that is) doesn’t work because Srilanka is imperfect. People cannot handle a system like that. We take advantage of it, and it is not a sustainable solution to the problems we are facing. To sum it up:

This is what I believe to be true: God wants us accountable to HIM, not the government. God doesn’t want us to beg for a king. He sets up government so we don’t destroy each other, so there is a basic order to things, but we are not to fully rely on our leaders, because they, at some point, will fail us. They are human, it’s their nature – I don’t care if they are MRs or SFs.

My motivation in politics is to minimize the conflict between God’s law and man’s law. From what I can figure, that can’t happen when the government thinks it’s running the show. THAT is why I don’t see Buddha being a liberal, and why I am a liberal. It has nothing to do with me being an evil person, with me thinking it’s okay for us to ignore those who are less fortunate. I love ignorant people and mahinda people and polar bears and beluga whales and all those other things that Weerawansa tells us we hate. I’m simply coming from the perspective that you cannot allow that responsibility to be placed in government hands. They screw things up. They do not have your best interests at heart – they have theirs. God is the one with your best interests at heart. Period.

Simply put, I’m asking for a government that doesn’t compete with God. They will ALWAYS lose. – Indiology 2010.

NB : Indi Samarajiva is on a spiritual (meditation) mode having gone through a miserable defeat. Indiology will continue. Await part two of “Kindi that is Indi” parody series.