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Fighting a globalised LTTE
These closing climactic weeks of the conventional war have been accompanied by tremendous external pressure on the Sri Lankan state....
Continue reading »Get your humanitarian paws off my country
It is heartening that the Tamil Tigers have retained a sense of humor under extreme pressure. It is a lesson...
Continue reading »The Hypocrisy of the West and the Lack of a Lankan elite
We Sri Lankans have no excuse whatsoever. We have been forewarned. A piece by PC Vinoj Kumar in the latest...
Continue reading »MAN, OH (VANANGA) MAN!
Let me get this right. Two hundred and thirteen years since the first British colonial ships landed in Sri Lanka,...
Continue reading »The Lethal, the Legal, the Legitimate: Frames of our future?
An IANS report from Puducherry, March 25 read as follows: ‘Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said he was not...
Continue reading »Ending the War, Envisioning the Peace
The eyes of the world are upon us. This means two things: Sri Lanka must not blink on the fundamentals,...
Continue reading »WINNING LOCALLY, WINNING GLOBALLY
“The political moment is always connected with changes to borders” - Jacques Ranciere (2006) The Sinhalese and Tamils are in...
Continue reading »THE TIGERS’ TICKING TIME BOMB
Velupillai Prabhakaran is about to be defeated but he has left a time bomb hidden in plain sight which must...
Continue reading »THE INDIAN REALITY IN SRI LANKA’S EXISTENCE
How do we describe our country, Sri Lanka, and how is our country described by others? As an island in...
Continue reading »Tamil politics tomorrow: Options, challenges and pitfalls
The armies clash in the night but what of the morning after? The underlying ethno-national question, that of the relationships...
Continue reading »MULLAITIVU: CLOSING TIME
The trick is to grasp the main needs of the present while being able to see into the future, with...
Continue reading »THE MURDER OF AN EDITOR
“…The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… …And what rough beast, its hour come...
Continue reading »Hasta la Victoria Siempre! – Ever Onward to Victory!
“Hasta la Victoria Siempre!” (“Ever Onward to Victory!”) -Â Che Guevara “One thing is now required-to deal the death-blow to the...
Continue reading »Achievement 2008, Challenge 2009
Sri Lanka closes out its 60th year of Independence, though in the strictest sense it lasts till the beginning of...
Continue reading »Fidel’s Ethics of Violence
 [The following is the English translation of a review essay by Prof. Remy Herrera which has just appeared under...
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