Abstract:
Regional development requires mush of pre-planning and needs
to consider various factors like available natural resource and the way
they could be exploited with the knowledge available and emerging to look
for some new development. However, destruction of the environment and
natural resources is the main danger that the modern world has to face.
There is an urgent need for institutional reform within modern society to
safeguard the environmental resources and to maintain the ecological
balance. Environmental sociologists have different views as to which
institutional traits can be held primarily responsible for the
environmental crisis. Further, there are other aspects like the effects of
war- bereavement, loss habitat, displacement and exile which slows down
the progress with regard to regional development of our country. The life
in the latter part of the 20th Century became very mush painful and
suffering due to the poor economic and deteriorating political conditions
that prevailed in Sri Lanka. The traditional concepts of life held by the
people further aggravated the people’s struggle for existence in the
conflict-ridden parts of the country. The ignorance of the people and
their fear psychosis led them to face more struggles to find a peaceful
life. In order to understand the ground situation for planning for
regional development there is a need to discuss what happened in the past
especially during the war. The writers who faced the challenge have
recorded their experience and the future agents could find suggestions for
new development. The knowledge emerging out of the short stories under
study would be helpful to go forwards towards regional development. The
pieces written by Sri Lanka Tamil writers available in translation which
appeared in Lute Song and Lament, A Lankan Mosaic, Tamil short stories
from Sri Lanka are taken for critical analysis. This paper attempts to
highlight the writers’ concern about the safety of the environment and the
ecological balance of natural resource which could be the base for new
understanding for sustainable development.
