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Parama Weera: What it takes, and what it means
Image credit Ishara S.Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images via The Baltimore Sun The eyes stared expressionlessly back at me from the fifteen small...
Continue reading »Holes in the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts Report: Examining the Probable Alternate Events
Last week, I attended a seminar conducted by the Colombo-based Marga Institute, a think tank devoted to studying and influencing...
Continue reading »Out in the Wilderness – Dayan Jayatilleka on 13th Amendment and getting sacked by Boggles
Sri Lanka’s soon-to-be-ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva took time off from his busy schedule of sipping martinis,...
Continue reading »Our very own Blackwater? Sri Lankan mercenaries in Iraq
I walk into the bar at the Sapphire, knowing I’m early for this interview, but I don’t want to keep my...
Continue reading »My name is Cedric. Do you remember me?
July usually passes me by without too much notice, beyond the vague worry that there might be a Tiger attack...
Continue reading »Slow Creep — the World Tamil Movement and Tharisanam TV
The banning in Canada last week of the World Tamil Movement (WTM) and the taking down in London of Tharisanam...
Continue reading »PRIVATISATION & LOYALTY IN THE WAR ON TERROR
A recent post by Indi on the correctness of allowing people with foreign interests to hold high military office got...
Continue reading »How to kill innocent women and children
It’s easy. You just lead them a little less. It’s an old joke, born in the Vietnam War, and first...
Continue reading »Should We Fight Terror?
Terrorism is bad. OK. But how bad? And is it all bad? Or is it more like saying bacteria is...
Continue reading »Minister of what?????
Really, does Sri Lanka actually need a Minister of bloody Indigenous Medicine? Or a Minister of Special Projects (whatever that...
Continue reading »Do Tigers Swim in the Sea?
Do they really? Everyone says they do; but I’m not convinced they do it anymore. Yes, I know they did...
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