Jaffna
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Oct 30, 2026
Anoma WijewardeneGUEST
And I was just reading and whatever.
Anoma WijewardeneGUEST
But then also what the subject matter was that I went to Jaffna in 2002.
JasonHOST
And that was like while the war was going on?
Anoma WijewardeneGUEST
Well, during the ceasefire, before the war reassumed.
David SwarbrickHOST
Next up was a wandering priest, Friar Andrew, an English Franciscan who had fled the English Reformation.
David SwarbrickHOST
He wound up as a Catholic missionary in Jaffna, though he was soon martyred in a fracas with Candian forces.
David SwarbrickHOST
All through the 1600s, Trincomalee played a reluctant host to random ships of the English East India Company in search of shelter, provisions and trade.
David SwarbrickHOST
But it wasn't until November 1659 that the first real observer, the English one that is, of Sri Lanka arrived, Robert Knox.
Charlie BraxtonHOST
Um, and then I saw two in the wild in Sri Lanka when me and Nev were driving up to Ca- uh, not Kandy, from-
James BraxtonHOST
Up to Jaffna
Charlie BraxtonHOST
...
Charlie BraxtonHOST
Jaffna.
Charlie BraxtonHOST
Up to Jaffna.
James BraxtonHOST
Yeah.
Charlie BraxtonHOST
And it was...
Kumaran NadesanGUEST
But it's been a journey on business with a founder whose values connected ultimately in community.
Kumaran NadesanGUEST
and in Come Do It, and our shared heritage as two men who are around the same generation that left Jaffna because of the war and grew up in a few different countries and then came to Canada.
Kumaran NadesanGUEST
And how does that third culture thinking help inform our identity and how we want to look at purpose and serving our community? And we've codified all of that into business.
Kumaran NadesanGUEST
So to be in a business with the business partner whom you've met in Switzerland, where we're thinking about business and yes, we want to make money, but thinking about community and thinking about the responsibility we have to our heritage and identity and how we shape the future of others.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
He looked up.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
I'm trying to figure out if there's a KFC in Jaffna.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
I was thinking we get some chicken, a bottle of good scotch, hang out on the hotel roof, he said.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
And I knew that this meant, manifest this for me, please.
8 MINS LATER
Laurie WooleverGUEST
He sped off and away toward that dark overpass with my backpack containing my phone, passport, wallet, hotel key, the whiskey, all the notes for the story I'd been reporting in Colombo, and my eyeglasses bouncing in the back seat.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
I had left my bag on the seat so that the driver would trust me to come back and pay him.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
This was New York City taxi logic, useless in Jaffna.
Laurie WooleverGUEST
I yelled, hey, what the fuck, which had no effect.
Ian McMillanHOST
Could you share the opening lines of that poem with us so we can listen how Viggen does it?
Karen McCarthy WoolfGUEST
The fallen yellow leaves now oftener flare red Embers, blown-up chilli flakes The burning of the library at Jaffna
Ian McMillanHOST
It is astonishing how a poem can take us from fallen yellow leaves to something that takes us across time and place to the burning of books in Jaffna in Sri Lanka.
Ian McMillanHOST
It always seems to me, during this programme, that poetry is the best time traveller.
Ian McMillanHOST
And your own collection, Unsafe, makes huge leaps in very intimate ways across the Atlantic, asking who has the right to access land, who is prevented, and finding connections between plants, animals and people, often in the same plight.
Luc BultenGUEST
I have a theory.
Luc BultenGUEST
The theory is that, um, this started in Jaffna up north, um, yet very few of the tombos from Jaffna survive, sadly.
Luc BultenGUEST
Um, a lot of them were allegedly burned in the recent civil war, uh, in Sri Lanka.
Luc BultenGUEST
It only ended in 2008.
15 MINS LATER
Luc BultenGUEST
Uh, they write themselves and they write their names, but they, they write about other things than themselves.
Luc BultenGUEST
Um, and this was a, a class, class of mostly people of mixed descent that could read and write both Dutch, uh, and then one or more local languages like Sinhala or Tamil or Malay.
Luc BultenGUEST
Um, and, um, we know a little bit about the fact that they lived close, uh, to the urban centers of Colombo or Galle or Jaffna.
Luc BultenGUEST
Um, they tried to make a career.
Luc BultenGUEST
So by the 18th century, we have individuals with their own names, their own family relationships, their own social class relationships.
Luc BultenGUEST
social classification I should say their occupation or duty and their age that is that intervention comes at some point in the 17th century and I haven't been able to pin down when exactly and why I have a theory the theory is that this started in Jaffna up north Yet very few of the tombos from Jaffna survive, sadly.
Luc BultenGUEST
A lot of them were allegedly burned in the recent civil war in Sri Lanka.
Luc BultenGUEST
It only ended in 2008.
13 MINS LATER
Luc BultenGUEST
They write themselves and they write their names, but they write about other things than themselves.
Luc BultenGUEST
And this was a class of mostly people of mixed descent that could read and write both Dutch and then one or more local languages like Sinhala or Tamil or Malay.
Luc BultenGUEST
And we know a little bit about the fact that they lived close to the urban centers of Colombo or Galve or Jaffna.
Luc BultenGUEST
They tried to make a career.
Luke BultynckGUEST
I have a theory.
Luke BultynckGUEST
The theory is that, um, this started in Jaffna up north, um, yet very few of the tomboos from Jaffna survive, sadly.
Luke BultynckGUEST
Um, a lot of them were allegedly burned in the recent civil war, uh, in Sri Lanka.
Luke BultynckGUEST
It only ended in 2008.
13 MINS LATER
Luke BultynckGUEST
Uh, they write themselves and they write their names, but they, they write about other things than themselves.
Luke BultynckGUEST
Um, and this was a, a class, class of mostly people of mixed descent that could read and write both Dutch, uh, and then one or more local languages like Sinhala or Tamil or Malay.
Luke BultynckGUEST
Um, and, um, we know a little bit about the fact that they lived close, uh, to the urban centers of Colombo or Galle or Jaffna.
Luke BultynckGUEST
Um, they tried to make a career.