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THE SRI LANKAN REPUBLIC AT FORTY: REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL PAST AND PRESENT
Image courtesy Daily News Forty years ago this week, at the auspicious time of 12:34 p.m. at the Navarangahala on...
Continue reading »DEVOLUTION AND THE CONCEPT OF CONCURRENCY: ABOLITION OR REFORM?
Among proponents of devolution as a means of power-sharing in Sri Lanka, one of the key bones of contention about...
Continue reading »JAYATISSA, JEYARAJ AND JACOBINISM: DEBATING ‘SRI LANKAN-NESS’ IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA
Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian Much is being written nowadays about post-war Sri Lankan identity and the challenges of unity...
Continue reading »The Full Implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment: What Can Be Done?
Photo courtesy CNN. AP/Getty Images. There has been in recent weeks a revival of interest in the full implementation of...
Continue reading »VIOLENCE AND ITS MORAL DILEMMAS: FIDEL ACCORDING TO DAYAN JAYATILLEKA
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s book, Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The Moral Dimension of the Political Thought of Fidel Castro, is a...
Continue reading »KUMAR SANGAKKARA’S COWDREY LECTURE
Photo courtesy Cric When Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara, Trinity Lion, Ryde Gold Medallist, and former captain of Sri Lanka, delivered what...
Continue reading »War Crimes Accountability In Sri Lanka: Is There A Liberal Democratic Alternative To International Action?
Sri Lanka’s President pictured here with the Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal (L) and his brother Basil...
Continue reading »SIRIMAVO: A REVIEW
Sirimavo: Honouring the world’s first woman Prime Minister, edited by Tissa Jayatilaka, is the commemorative volume published by the Bandaranaike...
Continue reading »A MATTER OF DECENCY: MATCH-FIXING ALLEGATIONS AND THE STATE MEDIA
For anyone familiar with ITN’s Vimasuma programme, the storm of controversy it raised this week with a thinly veiled allegation...
Continue reading »THE RANDIV-SEHWAG AFFAIR: MISTAKING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
Professor Michael Roberts, in a letter to the editor of The Island, has raised a matter of moral philosophy with...
Continue reading »THE POLITICAL LESSONS OF THE SMILING ASSASSIN: MURALI, CRICKET AND SRI LANKAN IDENTITY
Photo credit: Associated Press, published in Sydney Morning Herald Savouring the richly deserved cascades of press coverage last week of...
Continue reading »WHERE EVERY PROSPECT DOES NOT PLEASE
Editor’s note: The article below is an eulogy to the life and work of the Sri Lankan journalist and Editor,...
Continue reading »SRI LANKA’S POST-WAR FUTURE: A RADICAL PLURALIST RESPONSE TO THE ETHICAL REALIST VIEW
I had not intended contributing to Groundviews’s commemoration of the first anniversary of the end of the war, for the...
Continue reading »BUDGET OR NO BUDGET? IT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION
There has been speculation this week that the government is planning to present a Vote on Account rather than a...
Continue reading »TWO CONCEPTS OF THE CONSTITUTION: AN ESSAY IN MEMORY OF CHANAKA AMARATUNGA
19th April marks the 52nd birthday of the late Chanaka Amaratunga, the former leader of Sri Lanka’s Liberal Party, quondam...
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