Personal page and articles by Dr. P. Saravanamuttu
Human Rights and Reconciliation Challenged in Dambulla and by Disappearances
In more ways than one, a sleeping Buddha in Dambulla Rock Cave Temple. Courtesy University of Peradeniya Whilst the country...
Continue reading »Quo Vadis, the Conga Line?
When Sri Lanka vied for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, there was a telling photograph taken at one of the bashes...
Continue reading »Thus Spake Gothabaya
[Editors' note: An edited version of this article appeared in the Daily Mirror today.] “The existing constitution is...
Continue reading »The Indo- Sri Lanka Joint Communique: Delineating the Parametres of Action in Response to the Panel Report
[Editors' note: An edited version of this article appeared in the Daily Mirror on the 26th of May 2011.] 4....
Continue reading »How Decent a Society are we?
Editors’ note: This article was first published in the Daily Mirror on the 18th of March 2011. Groundviews invites its...
Continue reading »Governance, Rights and Reconciliation: The National Anthem and Other Disturbing News from Sri Lanka
Original photo from Business Today The headline story of the Sunday Times of 12 December 2010 was deeply disturbing. According...
Continue reading »The 18th Amendment: Constitutional Reform as the Consolidation of Power
Politics is about power and the constitution is about protection of the people against the excessive concentration and exercise of...
Continue reading »Making Foreign Policy on the Street
The declared threat, the demonstration, siege, fast unto death outside the office of the UN in Colombo by the Wimal...
Continue reading »Hard Talk
Many readers may have seen if not read about Defence Secretary Gothabhaya Rajapaksa’s interview with Stephen Sackur of the BBC...
Continue reading »On Commission and Omission
Editor’s note: An edited version of this article appeared in the Daily Mirror today. A section of the last sentence...
Continue reading »Remembering Chanaka
The idea of liberalism in Sri Lankan politics is intimately associated with the life and writings of the leader and...
Continue reading »The Slide in Sri Lanka
The 24th of February marked the first month anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, the Lanka E-News journalist. Two...
Continue reading »Rajapaksa vs Fonseka: Tweedledum vs Tweedledee?
The results of the national elections are now by no means certain. There is a contest and as a consequence,...
Continue reading »Needed: An Agenda for Reform on Groundviews
Whilst it is not clear as to whether we would be voting in both the presidential and general elections on...
Continue reading »GSP Plus: Minding our business
The Final Report of the investigation initiated by the European Union under the terms of the GSP Plus concession entitled...
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