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Radical UNP and its New Constitutional Proposals: A Radical Farce?
Photo courtesy Sunday Observer When regimes are dictatorial and dangerous, alternative forces which promise a better society and future do...
Continue reading »People, Politics and the Constitution: Reading ‘The Sri Lankan Republic at 40′ (edited by Asanga Welikala)
Photo courtesy Vikalpa, taken at the launch of the book in Colombo. Reading a tome on constitutional history, theory and...
Continue reading »‘Long War, Cold Peace’ & the Return of Dayan Jayatilleka
After what seemed to be a brief but palpable and conspicuous absence from serious public engagement (in late 2012), Dr....
Continue reading »Geneva and Bodu Bala Sena: Two Dimensions of a Crisis
Original image by Azzam Ameen, on Twitter There are tensions and schisms erupting, there is a crisis in the...
Continue reading »LLRC & the Lessons on Devolution: Sri Lanka’s LLRC Revisited
Learning lessons is a humbling experience. It takes place with the admission that one has made mistakes. Having made them,...
Continue reading »The Challenge of Opposing the Impeachment Motion
Photo courtesy Euronews The clash between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, popularly (and wrongly) perceived as a...
Continue reading »Re-imagining Lakshman Kadirgamar in Contemporary Sri Lanka: A Different Reading
From 2003, Lakshman Kadirgamar addressing a press conference with the Mahinda Rajapaksa (before he was President) and Sarath Amunugama are...
Continue reading »ITAK and the New Chapter in Post-War Politics of Sri Lanka
Photo courtesy Virakesari, via dbsjeyaraj.com From its inception in late 1949 as the Tamil Federal Party, the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi...
Continue reading »Mobs, Monks and the Problems of Political-Buddhism
Original photograph REUTERS/Damir Sagolj It is always a curious and odd little matter, to witness how even Buddhists become so...
Continue reading »The Geneva II debacle
Photo courtesy Vikalpa, from protest against US resolution in Colombo, 27 February 2012 The US-sponsored resolution at the UNHRC had...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka and its ‘Geneva-problem’
Maria Otero, US Under Secretary, Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights meets Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary of Defence in February 2012....
Continue reading »In Search of Something More than the 13th Amendment
Photo courtesy First Post During his recent visit to Sri Lanka, India’s External Affairs Minister, Mr. SM Krishna reminded that...
Continue reading »The LLRC Report: A Critical Reading
Photo credit Ada Derana For quite sometime, ever since the establishment of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the Government...
Continue reading »Lessons from a TV interview on the state of political resistance in Sri Lanka
These are revolutionary days, days of resistance. Especially in Egypt. Not in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, the situation is...
Continue reading »CHOGM-2011: HOW DIPLOMATIC VICTORIES END IN DISGRACE
[Editors note: As noted by the author below, an example of the distressingly bad propaganda of the Sri Lankan Government,...
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