Mahinda College is the School by Sundara Nihathamani de Mel
(Check out the Sinhala article here ) Search for identity is considered a very important feature of esteem needs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Identity can be all inclusive as well as narrow to margin. If all human kind is the broadest of identity the narrowest can be one's self. But here our focus is on social identity. As a person who liked the leftist social identity I tended in most of my life to value broader identities especially due to dislike of ethno-religious chauvinism of Sinhala Buddhists we were engulfed in and perhaps due to masculine superiority which I like to deny fundamentally. I have relentlessly argued against concurrent Sinhala Buddhist identity on the basis that it is chauvinism. I wanted to be a Sinhala man looking forward to progress, i.e. integrating to world society crossing nationalist borders. But seemingly narrower identities also have beauty. As Yamu studies "Colombo is home to rather a lot of sports clubs. Covering a wide range ...