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The Island Abstains
The decision by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to abstain from the General Assembly vote calling for an...
Continue reading »Killer Representative
I am assembling the scene, a local hood and his gang come to a Christmas Eve gathering at a beach...
Continue reading »Measuring (After Nandikadal)
An embarrassment, to forget over short eats, ignore the bundle on his back, that sloshed set of poetry he cannot...
Continue reading »A Fisherman Testifies
I learned from Sri Lanka to go overboard, to flounder in the deep ocean while Navy sailors beat me with...
Continue reading »Prescient
When Lasantha wrote the editorial that predicted his imminent assassination he suggested the civil war would turn steadily uglier, then...
Continue reading »Cheran
He is writing history, where he lives, when he travels, to Denmark, Singapore, Tamil Nadu, Toronto. Edward Said wrote about...
Continue reading »Climate-Induced
Plantain leaves, steaming yellow rice, katta sambol, seer fish, passion fruit, the island’s culinary pleasures I think of first, batting...
Continue reading »Overseeing the Farm
Planning a visit home is not easy for a Tamil returning to Jaffna. First, he needs to fly into the...
Continue reading »The Destroyed Temple
The house at the end of the road, the giant multiple-walled house at the end of the road without a...
Continue reading »The Right to Respond
NGO: The numbers do not add up. Census says 430,000 people resided in the Vanni mid-2008. A year later, 290,000...
Continue reading »Cricket, Lima
In the mist that blows over the field at Lima Cricket near the Pacific, moist, cool air lets the wicket...
Continue reading »On Relative Rights
A short fall in human rights suggests a failure in the harvest, perhaps a missing plank in the slide, and...
Continue reading »Party
To spoil a party, call the police to enforce noise laws or prohibitions against drinking by minors, we can understand...
Continue reading »At Your Service
Islanders always like to baila, party, party, nibble the ear whispering, pump themselves with arrack and go courting on the...
Continue reading »On Anthems and the State of the Union
I have been stirred and moved even to tears by both the Tamil and Sinhala versions of the Ceylon, now...
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