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AFTER A LONG JOURNEY HOME: SOLITUDE IN JAFFNA AND THE SILENCE OF A CITY
[Editors note: Dr. Rajini Thiranagama (née Rajasingham), was a Tamil human rights activist and feminist murdered in 1989 by the LTTE....
Continue reading »Ending the Exile and Back to Roots: Fears, Challenges and Hopes
[Editors note: The author was married to Dr. Rajini Thiranagama (née Rajasingham), a Tamil human rights activist and feminist murdered in...
Continue reading »JVP and the emerging crisis in Sri Lankan universities
[Editors note: See map of campus and university student related violence over 2010 alone here.] ‘Youth groups, not yet settled...
Continue reading »Political Character of the UPFA Regime: Is Democracy Safe?
“One of the greatest dangers, therefore, of democracy as of any other form of government, lies in the sinister interest...
Continue reading »The UNP’s Leadership Crisis: An Individual Conflict with Catastrophic Prospects or Redefinition of Current Political Tasks
Image courtesy Transcurrents Introduction The current crisis in the UNP has thrown its grassroots supporters into a sense of hopelessness...
Continue reading »Eelam War and the Long Arm of the Indian Rearguard Across the Palk Straits
Indo- Sri Lanka relations made a dramatic and unprecedented change with the beginning of the Eelam war. This change  contributed...
Continue reading »One Year On After the Guns Fell Silent at Vellamullivaikkal: Is There Foresight to Settle the Political Score?
In advising political leaders the Italian historian and political advisor Machiavelli (1469-1527) offered the  following words which have a relevance...
Continue reading »Revisiting the JVP: Will They Repeat Their Past?
It has been 39 years since the JVP’s armed insurrection. It was brutally suppressed and their ambitious project to light...
Continue reading »Politics of Sinhala Nationalism: Underpinning of the UPFA Victory and Undermining of the Sri Lankan Nationhood
“Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by a world of enemies, one against all,...
Continue reading »TNA and the New Era of Tamil Politics: Are They Living Up to the Challenge?
The TNA, the remnant of old politics in the Tamil community has entered a new era. The post LTTE politics...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka at Cross Roads: What a Victory for the UNF will Mean
It appears to be the most powerful electoral alliance that has ever been formed in the country.A political phenomenon, a...
Continue reading »Reflections on the Underlying Issues that Determine the Outcome of the Election: Who has got the Edge?
The Presidential election battle is gathering momentum with incredible speed. Defections and pledges of support to Sarath Fonseka (SF) have...
Continue reading »TNA’s Failure to Seize the Moment: Who Will Fill the Vacuum?
The TNA’s ability to negotiate a comprehensive devolution package for the Tamil community with either Mahinda Rajapaksa or Sarath Fonseka...
Continue reading »An Unprecedented Presidential Election and the Future of Sri Lankan Democracy
Never before has such a major rift opened up between the political and military leadership in electoral politics as what...
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