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Mahinda, Marxism and Michael
Photo courtesy Daylife. Activists of Sri Lanka’s opposition Marxist People’s Liberation Front, wearing masks that represent President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his...
Continue reading »Defending Sri Lanka: Response to Michael Colin Cooke
Image taken from ‘Interrogating a public intellectual: Noted bloggers and youth activists engage Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka‘, published on Groundviews The phrase...
Continue reading »PROBLEM & SOLUTION: PARAMETERS OF POSSIBILITY
Photo courtesy JDS The New Year brought a valuable gift in my email. It was a dossier entitled ‘Seeking Space...
Continue reading »LLRC REPORT: REASON, REFORM, ROADMAP
Photo, courtesy JDS, is of Sri Lanka’s President reading the LLRC report on a ‘haansi putuwa‘ at his official residence. Though not...
Continue reading »Reflections on the ethics of violence: Just wars and morality
[World Philosophy Day is a UNESCO initiative to make philosophical reflection and spaces for the stimulation of critical thinking and...
Continue reading »THE NORWEGIAN STUDY: A CRITIQUE
The Norwegian (NORAD) commissioned study ‘Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009’, is useful and...
Continue reading »Progressive Politics & The Right Kind Of Left
Bharatha Premachandra’s wife and daughter Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s grieving daughter (and possible political successor) was probably not even born when...
Continue reading »Reading the results of the municipal elections in Sri Lanka
Is this a functioning democracy or what? The governing coalition’s sweep of the local authorities election, the UNP’s successful resistance...
Continue reading »Authoritative Ethical Realist Reads Rajapaksa’s Role
The Pope with Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Though my political approval of and personal liking for Mahinda Rajapaksa, (certainly in relation to...
Continue reading »Marking The Mahinda Moment In Lankan Politics
Photo courtesy Al Jazeera, Sri Lanka boosts presidential power Perhaps never before has there been so wide a gap, so clear...
Continue reading »Crossing Red Lines: The New Tamil Consensus in Sri Lanka
R Sampanthan is a Member of Parliament and leader of the Tamil National Alliance and Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi. Photo...
Continue reading »Libya, Sri Lanka and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s leader, speaks at an equestrian show at the Tor di Quinto cavalry school in Rome, Italy, on...
Continue reading »What Sri Lankans really think
“Seek truth from facts” (Deng Xiaoping) It is ironic, is it not, that those Western voices and Lankan liberals who...
Continue reading »Darusman Deconstructed: Godfrey Gunatilleke’s Critique
With the solitary, honourable exception of Sunday Times columnist Lasanda Kurukulasuriya, (‘Give a dog a bad name and hang him’,...
Continue reading »Heroes and Heroism: Osama Bin Laden and Prabhakaran
Photo: AP Osama Bin Laden. Dark avenging hero, Arabian knight, Arabic Lawrence of Arabia. Osama versus the USA: David versus...
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