And Then They Came For Me!

Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge (5 April 1958 – 8 January 2009) was a Sri Lankan journalist, politician and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009. The following is an editorial Wickremange had written shortly before his death, and that was published posthumously And Then They Came For Me No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism.

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I am Hrishikesh (natively written as ഋഷികേശ് in Malayalam). The name is of Sanskrit origin, meaning “The lord/master of senses”. I am a software engineer, privacy advocate, pythonista and a free software enthusiast. Most of my contributions has been in the language computing space under the aegis of the organisation Swathathra Malayalam Computing. I also contribute to the PeARS Project - which is an ongoing effort to build a fully distributed, p2p search engine.

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