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Who Killed Razeek? And Why? Unanswered Questions Two Years After His Abduction
(Editors’ note: The report below is a follow-up from the last update about Mr. Pattani Razeek’s case, which was published...
Continue reading »The End of War in Sri Lanka: Reflections and Challenges released as iBook
From 19 – 27 May 2010, Groundviews ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka. Over this week alone,...
Continue reading »In conversation with Prof. Harendra De Silva
In this video, Prof. Harendra De Silva – one of Sri Lanka’s best known paediatricians – speaks about the challenges...
Continue reading »Going beyond the 13th Amendment: Newspaper coverage of the Sri Lankan’s President’s assurance to India
Our affiliate Vikalpa did a short media monitoring exercise anchored to the front page reportage of the Indian Foreign Minister’s...
Continue reading »Curated updates from Indian Foreign Minister’s official visit to Sri Lanka
Tweets from Syed Akbaruddin, Official Spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs, India & other media reporting on Indian Foreign Minister’s official...
Continue reading »Interview with Alison Skilbeck: Are There More Of You?
Alison Skilbeck will perform her critically acclaimed production Are There More Of You? in Colombo on the 13th and 14th...
Continue reading »In conversation with Prof. Anil K Gupta: Grassroots innovation and development
Prof. Gupta teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and was in Sri Lanka recently to deliver the first...
Continue reading »Colombo night races: Racy development in post-war Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan photographer Devaka Seneviratne has some of the best photos on the web on the recently concluded night races...
Continue reading »The official report of the LLRC
The official report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission was tabled in Parliament today. The official government site the...
Continue reading »A Public Memo to Members of Parliament representing the Tamil National Alliance from the Tamil Civil Society
Translation of original in Tamil and released on behalf of the signatories. Read in full screen here. A Public Memo...
Continue reading »Bell Pottinger and Sri Lanka: A trail of spin doctoring and whitewashing
Aside from articles appearing last Sunday in the Sunday Times and the Sunday Leader, mainstream media in Sri Lanka has...
Continue reading »Old Dutch Hospital in Colombo: Now open to the public
Image from The Seventeenth Century Dutch Hospital in Colombo by C.G. Uragoda and K.D. Paranavitana Being Poya with nothing much...
Continue reading »The Incomplete Thombu: A compelling interlace of architecture, drawing, memory and art
Front cover of The Incomplete Thombu. Click here for larger image. Put simply, The Incomplete Thombu by Sri Lankan Tamil...
Continue reading »E01: The spectacular beauty & life-threatening dangers of Sri Lanka’s Southern Expressway
We drove down to Galle today on the newly opened E01 road, more commonly known as the Southern Highway /...
Continue reading »Web censorship in Sri Lanka: Documenting a growing trend
Over the weekend, a press release issued by the Director General of the Department of Government Information noted that all...
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