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The consequences of political representation or the lack of it
Image from AsiaNews.it The focus of my article in the Sunday Leader of 5 May was on the need for...
Continue reading »Responding to a reader who critiqued ‘Where every prospect pleases, man alone is vile’
I appreciate Anoja Fernando’s response (The Island, Tuesday 7th May) to my article (‘Where every prospect pleases, man alone is...
Continue reading »‘Where every prospect pleases, man alone is vile’
Image courtesy Aaron Joel Santos The title of this article is a line from a beautifully haunting hymn written by Bishop...
Continue reading »A Review of Quotas in University Admissions
Photo courtesy Vikalpa My good friend Somapala Gunadheera has made some thoughtful observations (The Island, 10 Sept 2012) on the...
Continue reading »The Geneva Debacle of March 2012: The lessons not learnt
Photo courtesy Vikalpa The outcome in Geneva last year (March 2011) of the voting on Sri Lanka’s conduct of the...
Continue reading »Sri Lankan Tamil Destiny is Inextricably Grounded Within Sri Lanka: A Response to D.B.S Jeyaraj
This is a belated response to D.B.S. Jeyaraj’s article titled “Tamil Destiny is inextricably intertwined with that of the...
Continue reading »Caste in Sri Lanka and India
There was an interesting work shop on ‘Conceptualizing Caste in Sri Lanka’ at the ICES on Tuesday 15th March 2011....
Continue reading »Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Bill: Progress or Regress?
For nearly six decades since Universal Adult Franchise was introduced in 1931, our State Council/ Parliamentary elections have been on...
Continue reading »Articulating the Concerns of Ethnic Minorities in Relation to Constitutional Proposals
It may be useful to begin by going back over 80 years to the time when , in the mid...
Continue reading »A Liberal Dilemma
‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ was the lead slogan of the French Revolution which has been an inspiration to many movements around...
Continue reading »Parliamentary Elections, April 2010: An opportunity for voters in the North and East
I remember visiting Jaffna in 1997. Local government elections were due. Several leading political figures had been assassinated in the...
Continue reading »A Reply to Tissa Devendra on Rebuilding Sri Lanka
[Editor's note: Devanesan Nesiah provides a rejoinder to Tissa Devendra's vehement response to his article 'Rebuilding Sri Lanka' that was published first...
Continue reading »Rebuilding Sri Lanka
A perceptive and sensitive Sri Lankan has noted; “It is reported that the people of the North, especially in the...
Continue reading »Citizen’s Commission: Expulsion of the Northern Muslims by the LTTE in October 1990
Sri Lanka has been increasingly the scene of much ethnic violence. The Northern Muslims are the victims of the earliest...
Continue reading »The Tamil Population and the Politics of Boycotts and Non Participation
The first opportunity that the population of this island had to vote in an election based on universal adult franchise...
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