Personal page and articles by Kusal Perera
Waking up to migrant employment through Rizana Nafeek
Image via BBC Much is written on Rizana Nafeek’s extremely unfortunate fate in Saudi Arabia (SA). Some written with anger...
Continue reading »Eastern Province election: The big lie about shared power in Sri Lanka
Photo courtesy AP/Eranga Jayawardena Justice Minister Hakeem was reported to have told during campaigning, he should not be made to look...
Continue reading »Heard of a Sinhala Buddhist ‘Khomeini’?
Photo courtesy ahfesl.free.fr “Our future society will be a free society, and all the elements of oppression, cruelty, and force will...
Continue reading »LLRC roadmap: An ‘action plan’ to suit the US, not us!
Photo credit: Daily FT The government announced (26 July, 2012) it has drawn up a comprehensive “National Action Plan to...
Continue reading »Three Musketeers redux
Image from The Nation Close to four decades ago, Richard Lester’s film, “Three Musketeers” was one I still remember enjoying....
Continue reading »Reloading General Sarath Fonseka for a post-paid Sinhala package
Photo via JDS. AFP PHOTO/Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI. The V-Day celebrations were on, as this piece was written. A military victory being commemorated...
Continue reading »For a belated “Left” Option
More than 5000 people packed Colombo’s Sugathadasa stadium (photo above) for the inaugural conference of the Peratugami Samajawadi Pakshaya (Frontline...
Continue reading »Delivering on the LLRC Recommendations
Immediately after the Resolution on SL was adopted in Geneva a month ago, US Secretary of State issued a short...
Continue reading »Post 9/11 world: Compromises with war crimes and accountability
The President looking at war crimes in Vietnam. Courtesy Defence.lk A mapping of differences amongst and alliances within member States...
Continue reading »How bad is the crisis for Mahinda Rajapaksa?
Photo courtesy Lanka Standard “Although certain foreign powers have attempted to conspire against and oust me from the presidency, I...
Continue reading »No 13 “Plus”? APRC Proposals are better!
For the sixth time over, President Rajapaksa snubbed the Indian Big brother, on devolution and 13th Amendment with a “Plus”....
Continue reading »LLRC Recommendations: Can the Rajapaksa Regime Digest?
Photo credit Ada Derana Finally, the full report of the long awaited Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is in...
Continue reading »State Capitalism: Revitalising under performing businesses the Mussolini way
The factory of Sevanagala Sugar Industries Limited. Government supporters have stormed and occupied the factory earmarked for nationalisation under a...
Continue reading »Sinhala Buddhist Rationale In An Omnivorous Society
Photo courtesy Ada Derana My new neighbour, a quiet middle class, young Sinhala Buddhist professional from beyond Matara, who started...
Continue reading »De-greasing social speculation over “grease devils” in Sri Lanka: Part II
Read Part I here. ### Basically the whole plethora and all variations in media, from print to electronic to the...
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