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Responding to a facile appeal: Galle Literary Festival and the freedom of expression
Michelle de Kretser signing. Photo by Sharni Jayawardena, courtesy Galle Literary Festival The Editors of Groundviews received via email this...
Continue reading »Archive of Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) submissions and media reports
Image courtesy Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) Groundviews is pleased to announce the launch of two archives covering media...
Continue reading »Shyam Selvadurai: Literature, identity, politics and the Galle Literary Festival
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965. His book Funny Boy introduced gay fiction to mainstream English literature in Sri Lanka, and...
Continue reading »A perennial struggle: Women’s political representation in Sri Lanka
Women constitute 52% of Sri Lanka’s population, however women constitute only 2% of elected members of Local Authorities. A critical...
Continue reading »UPDATE: Google Map on Flood-affected areas in Sri Lanka
View Flood-affected areas in Sri Lanka – January 2011 in a larger map The map above identifies the main flood-affected...
Continue reading »UPDATE: Situation report on flood-affected areas and a call for assistance
The Editors of Groundviews have received several updates during the course of the day confirming that the situation on the...
Continue reading »On Flooding and Disaster Management
Photo courtesy www.facebook.com/battipeople Over the last two days, torrential rainstorms in the Central and Eastern province have caused severe flooding,...
Continue reading »A slumbering LLRC: The image of reconciliation in Sri Lanka?
The Editors of Groundviews were emailed the following story on a website called Athirvu.com. The photo is self-explanatory, and shows...
Continue reading »Fire and Storm: Essays in Sri Lankan Politics by Michael Roberts commends citizen journalism during war
Fire and Storm: Essays in Sri Lankan Politics is the latest book by Prof. Michael Roberts. Michael was trained in...
Continue reading »Top 20 posts on Sri Lanka over 2010
Featuring satire, poetry, photography and video to critical commentary and analysis, Groundviews covered major political events and processes in Sri...
Continue reading »A Book That Defies All Definitions: A review of the End of War in Sri Lanka
From 19 – 27 May 2010, Groundviews ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka. Over...
Continue reading »Interview with Asoka Handagama
Asoka Handagama is one of Sri Lanka’s best known and most controversial filmmakers. His films divide audiences and the critics...
Continue reading »Interview with Kanak Mani Dixit
Kanak Mani Dixit is editor of Himal Southasian regional magazine and publisher of the Nepali-language Himal Khabarpatrika newsmagazine. He was...
Continue reading »Launch of Groundviews 2.0: New features, enhanced readability, comprehensive search
Regular readers of Groundviews would have noticed the site upgrade that went live last week. The new website sports a...
Continue reading »Is the Tamil version of our national anthem a joke?
Recent media coverage in Sri Lanka has focussed on the confusion over the ban of the Tamil version of Sri...
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