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Why Sri Lanka must ‘win’ at UNHRC
Image courtesy Vikalpa from rally held in Colombo on Monday, 27th February. Unclear what the poster means, but the general thrust...
Continue reading »Abuse, violence and bullying: Post-war Sri Lanka is indeed a peaceful place
Photo courtesy JDS The idea of writing this note came to mind after watching the recent interview between an Indian...
Continue reading »The absence of Patriotism, Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism: ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ in retrospection
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Former Sri Lankan child soldier Warnakulasuriya Anthony Sunil Rexy (right) laughs with other inmates as they play...
Continue reading »The Darusman Report: Reflections on the real challenges ahead for Sri Lanka
In less than two weeks since the Darusman Report (hereinafter referred to as the Report) was handed over to the...
Continue reading »O country, Thy National Anthem…
It was reported lately that an interesting issue came up at a recent cabinet meeting, namely, the National Anthem of...
Continue reading »Managing diplomacy with melodrama: Sri Lanka’s Madness
Photo courtesy Vikalpa’s Flickr photostream on the NFF protest The point of departure for this note is the fast unto...
Continue reading »Freedom to create, censorship and the future of Sri Lankan cinema: an anecdote
NB: The following is a brief (and therefore rather incomplete) note on the censorship and state-control imposed on present-day Sri...
Continue reading »Sithuvili: On war’s end and a year later…
Prelude: The following is a ‘fragmented reflection’, on present-day Sri Lanka, war’s end and related issues. The objective was to...
Continue reading »Presidential promises and necessity for change? Sri Lankan voters at crossroads
This note concerns the forthcoming Presidential election in Sri Lanka, due on 27 January 2010. As several insightful articles on...
Continue reading »National referendums and the aspirations of a diaspora: a Saturday morning reflection
A week ago (Saturday 12 December 2009), I came across a news report about a referendum organised by Tamil nationalist...
Continue reading »Press freedom in the cyber age
When I first heard of Groundviews in 2006, I was delighted to see citizen journalism finding its place in Sri...
Continue reading »The SLAS entrance exam: an age-limit of near madness
This note concerns the government gazette notification (available at http://www.dailynews.lk/2001/pix/GazetteS09-10-16.pdf) on the open competitive exam for recruitment to Grade III...
Continue reading »A note on a father
It was one of those phone calls that one would always remember, the shock it generates pervades all through a...
Continue reading »Sending Dayan home: the triumph of folly in Sri Lankan politics?
I was tempted to write this article after a few days of reading different news reports about the ‘sacking’ of...
Continue reading »On women’s attire and gender equality: pondering on the long way ahead
I was strongly tempted to write this article after reading an article entitled On woman’s attire: Are we really tempting...
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