Rajkumar Kanagasingam

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Rajkumar Kanagasingam is the author of the book German Memories in Asia.

[edit] Biography

Kanagasingam in a demonstration on a global landmine crisis and world affairs for German university students in Sri Lanka on 3rd November, 2005.

Kanagasingam was raised in the war-torn Jaffna peninsula. He was a columnist for an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka and contributed number of articles on international issues and lectured on globalization, US economy and international economy at various seminars in Sri Lanka and abroad.

He was an officer at CARE International and founded PDIP, a think tank on post-conflict, economic and gender issues, which coordinates in association with the Asian-German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP) to create awareness on landmine issues in association with the US State Department's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement.

Rajkumar Kanagasingam (Far Right) with Judge Christopher Weeramantry (Third from Right), a former vice president of the International Court of Justice, Dietmar Doering (Fourth from Right), the Founder/Director of the Asian - German Sports Exchange Program (AGSEP), German University Students and others in Sri Lanka on 24th October, 2006.

[edit] German Memories in Asia

German Memories in Asia is about Kanagasigam's experience growing up in the war-torn Jaffna Peninsula in the northern part of Sri Lanka and working for an American non-governmental organization on a tsunami relief mission with German students in jungles under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The book is a testimony to the German students’ life and fashion in their time in Marawila, a western coastal town of the Island facing the Indian Ocean.