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Exceptional responses to questions from media
Groundviews was able to obtain an audio recording of an exchange between Swiss journalist Karin Wenger and a well-known, senior...
Continue reading »Should Vice-Chancellors pledge support to the President?
[Groundviews was informed that this open letter was penned on 20 January 2010, before the presidential election. Tellingly, efforts to...
Continue reading »Updates capturing aftermath of presidential elections
From the first update after the close of polls at around 10pm on the 25th and then from around 3am...
Continue reading »Post-election updates from Colombo
I’ve been tweeting from around 3am this morning on what’s going on in Colombo after the elections, and in particular...
Continue reading »A bizarre polling card: Evidence of a flawed election?
We feature this video captured by Groundviews today without any additional comment because it is abundantly clear which candidate the...
Continue reading »Visualising Mahinda Chintanaya 2010: The President’s election manifesto
Groundviews was the first website in Sri Lanka to visualise key statements by a Presidential candidate in the public domain. We...
Continue reading »Journalist J.S. Tissainayagam released on bail: Implications for freedom of expression
Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was enlarged on bail today pending the appeal of his conviction under the Prevention of Terrorism...
Continue reading »A letter to the President on his re-election campaign spending
Dear Mr. President, As a tax payer and citizen of Sri Lanka, I am deeply concerned by, inter alia, the...
Continue reading »Robert Kaplan’s Savage Orientalism: A detailed critique
[Authors note: The original version of this article was drafted in September 2009. There was no response from Atlantic Monthly...
Continue reading »Visualising Sarath Fonseka’s key campaign issues and manifesto
Groundviews was the first website in Sri Lanka to visualise key statements by a Presidential candidate in the public domain. Visualising...
Continue reading »One year later: A murder unresolved, a government unashamed
Maybe we are numb too Though it’s warm and all we have today Is a cloudy sky Death at Noon,...
Continue reading »Paying global media for local elections
It is probably not the incumbent President himself in charge of the massive re-election campaign which has no qualms about...
Continue reading »Unsolicited SMS messages are spam. Please desist Mr. President.
All mobile phone subscribers, across all networks got an SMS from the President this morning – “Kiwu paridi obata NIDAHAS,...
Continue reading »Happy New Year!
Over the historic 2009, Groundviews featured international award winning online content on Sri Lanka. The first of many improvements planned over...
Continue reading »Groundviews wins prestigious Manthan South Asia Award
21 December 2009, Colombo, Sri Lanka: We are honoured and extremely pleased to win a prestigious Manthan Award South Asia...
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