Yellow Banana
[Authors note: This was written around 4 weeks ago; the result of 48 hours of shock and anger following an Honest Penman being “put into the ‘Pen’”. ] “Yellow Banana” (with apologies…
[Authors note: This was written around 4 weeks ago; the result of 48 hours of shock and anger following an Honest Penman being “put into the ‘Pen’”. ] “Yellow Banana” (with apologies…
[Editors note: Two short testimonies on the plight of IDPs released from Menik Camp sent to highlight significant challenges facing reconciliation and resettlement in post-war Sri Lanka and the urgent need for…
Dayan Jayatilaka begins his article with the words, “I am proud of my country, Sri Lanka.” To demonstrate the differences in our points of view I would like to begin by stating…
[Editors note: An edited copy of this article appears in the of 27th September 2009. This is the full version.] It was a relief to hear that the government was at last…
I am proud of my country, Sri Lanka, which has just been able to vanquish a formidable, ferocious and fascistic foe, despite its vast global network and in the face of considerable…
The evening was good but perhaps Rajani deserved a bit better. She always told it like it was, named things by their name, confronted reality frontally. That quintessential spirit of Rajani, her…
Despite the successful military victory over terrorism, we continue to be warned by the state that a critical threat to national security continues to stalk the country. Consequently, we have passively assented…
The war it seems is not over. The international conspiracies to save Prabhakaran and the LTTE are now said to have morphed into a conspiracy to destabilize the government, initiate regime change…
“Where is the hope?” is a question that the writer encountered quite a few times when she asked people to pose with the HOPE board. The culture of impunity prevalent in post-war…
Click for larger image. When I took these pictures last year, I knew I was standing in front of what would be a perverse chapter in history. Then again, a few perverse…
The elite based political debate in Sri Lanka once again appears to gravitate around the primordial issue of deciding the best mode of power-sharing between the centre and the periphery, primarily between…
If you look at Batticaloa District on a map, you’ll see that in a sense there are two Districts. The first is the coastal strip, where you find Batti, Kattankudy, Valachchenai, and…
The widespread indifference to the continuing misery of 280,000 interned IDPs, most of them already unlawfully detained for about four months without any charges, is a sad reflection on the moral values…
The following is an except from a letter I wrote about the recent Tsunami Early Warning Test last week. I hope the readers of find it interesting. I have to preface this…
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