{"id":48161,"date":"2012-07-13T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=48161"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:10:30","slug":"rathika-sitsabaiesan-speaks-about-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rathika-sitsabaiesan-speaks-about-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathika Sitsabaiesan Speaks About Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rathika-sitsabaiesan-speaks-about-identity-crisis\/rath\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48163\" title=\"rath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/too-hot-for-politics-canadian-tamil-mp-at-centre-of-photoshopping-controversy-after-cleavage-is-mysteriously-retouched\/\">Rathika Sitsabaiesan<\/a><\/span> speaks about\u00a0Identity Crisis (She speaks in English after 10 minutes in this video). Rathika Sitsabaiesan\u00a0(<a title=\"Tamil language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamil_language\">Tamil<\/a>:\u00a0\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bbe \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0baa\u0bc8 \u0b88\u0b9a\u0ba9\u0bcd) (born December 23, 1981) is a\u00a0<a title=\"Member of Parliament\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">member<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a title=\"House of Commons of Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Commons_of_Canada\">House of Commons of Canada<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a title=\"New Democratic Party\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Democratic_Party\">New Democratic Party<\/a>, representing\u00a0<a title=\"Scarborough\u2014Rouge River\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarborough%E2%80%94Rouge_River\">Scarborough\u2014Rouge River<\/a>. She is the first person of\u00a0<a title=\"Tamil people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamil_people\">Tamil-origin<\/a>\u00a0to be elected to federal parliament in Canada and the first female and first person of\u00a0<a title=\"Person of color\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Person_of_color\">colour<\/a>\u00a0to be elected as Member of Parliament in Scarborough\u2014Rouge River. She is also the youngest Member of Parliament in the\u00a0<a title=\"Greater Toronto Area\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greater_Toronto_Area\">Greater Toronto Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Too hot for politics? Canadian Tamil MP at centre of Photoshopping controversy after cleavage is mysteriously retouched\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/too-hot-for-politics-canadian-tamil-mp-at-centre-of-photoshopping-controversy-after-cleavage-is-mysteriously-retouched\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Too hot for politics? Canadian Tamil MP at centre of Photoshopping controversy after cleavage is mysteriously retouched<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p7-iY8iZZFk&amp;feature=player_embedded#!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[2975,2974,2973],"class_list":["post-48161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-video","tag-identity-crisis-analysis-news","tag-rathika-sitsabaiesan-identity-crisis-video","tag-rathika-sitsabaiesan-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rathika Sitsabaiesan Speaks About Identity Crisis - 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