MELBOURNE, 22 February, 2025: ‘Turtles Without a Sandy Beach’ , poetry collection launched today at the Museum of Australian Photography – Library, Wheelers Hill, is Dr. Rajmohan Ramanathapillai’s (Tamil exprate from Sri Lanka) therapy for trauma survivors ‘ of Lanka’s civil unrest and war which engulfed the Island nation for many years. Having taught philosophy, peace and human rights, and his background of poetry, human rights advocacy and photography made him what he is today.
VMC’s Lizzy Kuoth, moderated the event, introducing his journey from Sri Lanka to Canada and to Australia as a talented human rights advocate laced with concern for all. He read some of the poems and others joined him reading his different poems. True believers seemed to be impressed with the English poems on issues, episodes, and terrible dark happenings politically look dormant but linger subjectively. Dr, Rajmohan’s calm reading had listeners glued to his verses:
