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‘Kerosene’ by Kannan Arunasalam wins international documentary award
Groundviews is extremely pleased to recognise that Kannan Arunasalam has won the 2013 South Asian International Documentary Festival’s Prism Short...
Continue reading »Impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice and its impact: What do you think?
Photo courtesy Euronews Just a few weeks since the impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, no one is...
Continue reading »Lies, Damn Lies and Mahinda Samarasinghe at the UN HRC
Image courtesy JDS Sri Lanka Campaign has just released a very good compilation of rebuttals to points made by Min...
Continue reading »A Lenten Reflection by Bishop Duleep de Chickera
EVOLUTIONARY DECLINE AND THE ASCENT OF HUMAN RESILIENCE The weeks leading to Independence Day on February 4 were filled with...
Continue reading »The state of media in Sri Lanka: In conversation with Dilrukshi Handunnetti
Dilrukshi Handunnetti is currently Senior Deputy Editor, Ceylon Today and was, before Lasantha Wickrematunge’s murder, lead investigative journalist at the...
Continue reading »Stratfor and Sri Lanka: An initial study of ‘The Global Intelligence Files’
Groundviews and Wikileaks Groundviews has in the past published two key article based on content obtained through Wikileaks. Wikileaks on...
Continue reading »A former Ambassador speaks out: Interview with Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
In his first interview for public television in Sri Lanka upon his return to the country after his stint as...
Continue reading »Civil Society Organisations Condemn Anti Muslim Rhetoric and Attacks in Sri Lanka
Image taken from Protect the Buddhism – බුදු දහම ආරක්ෂාකරමු Facebook group. In recent months there has been an increased outpouring of...
Continue reading »Feminism bottom-up: Women’s Support Networks in the North and East
Before, during and after the three decade long conflict, women have played a major role in supporting their families, community...
Continue reading »A simple experiment to highlight ingrained racism in Sri Lanka
When Etisalat dreams of a Sri Lanka where everyone is connected, it’s clearly thinking only of the Sinhalese. Why else...
Continue reading »The Sri Lankan President’s Twitter archive and Propaganda 2.0: New challenges for online dissent
The President enters Twitter Last month, the President of Sri Lanka began tweeting officially as @PresRajapaksa. The account is already...
Continue reading »Interview with Alistair Burt on Sri Lanka
The BBC’s Charles Haviland interviewed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Minister Alistair Burt on 1st February...
Continue reading »In conversation with Nayomi Munaweera
The Los Angeles Review calls Nayomi Munaweera‘s first novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, “gripping, astonishing and utterly gorgeous”. At...
Continue reading »Alistair Burt: Archive of Twitter interview on Sri Lanka
Photo credit FCO [Editors note: Also listen to Interview with Alistair Burt on Sri Lanka] On 5th February 2013, UK...
Continue reading »Conflict dynamics and Islamic values from Mindanao to Sri Lanka: In conversation with Mehmet Rizal Derindag
Mehmet Rizal is a UN Ambassador For Peace and presently based in the Philippines. As noted in his biography, Rizal...
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