War of Words Over a Sri Lankan Literary Festival

What though the spicy breezes blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle/

Where ev’ry prospect pleases, and only man is vile?

--Bishop Heber

Is it appropriate for a registered charity dedicated to Sri Lanka’s December 2004 tsunami relief to sponsor a foreign literary festival in the middle of what to all intents and purposes is an ethnic and civil war? Of course, says G…