Personal page and articles by Mahesan Niranjan
Encounters with Upper Echelons
“What is the similarity between President Mahinda Rajapakse and our former President Dingiri Banda Wijetunge?” the Sri Lankan Tamil man,...
Continue reading »Don’s Diary II: A Flying Visit to Jaffna
In early December 2010, I made a short visit to Sri Lanka, spending two days in Colombo and three in...
Continue reading »The Story of Learning Lessons by Counting Costs
One morning last week, as I sat in my armchair reading the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliations Commission...
Continue reading »The Story of a Drunken Tamil Man’s Diary
Assume, like me, you are one of those expatriate Sri Lankans, living far away from home, often feeling the remorse...
Continue reading »The Story of the Hypocrite in a Tamil Man
Reaction to the recent programme by UK’s Channel 4, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, has great variety, ranging from “Ah, didn’t...
Continue reading »The Tamil Man’s Genes
My Tamil DNA, inherited from generations before, and the genes lined up along it, have now been analyzed: 99.99 percent...
Continue reading »The Offer from a Sri Lankan Tamil Man
My King! I propose a deal with you COMPATIBLE with my Membership of our country I hold so dear which...
Continue reading »Student Unrest in Universities
Unhappy university students are marching in the Island of Brinka, and I met my good old friend Sivapuranam Thevaram at...
Continue reading »Inquiry into a Sri Lankan Man’s Stolen Bicycle
On a beautiful late summer day, the eighth of September 2010 to be precise, outside the railway station in the...
Continue reading »Sivahamy’s Sorrow: Mission Accomplished!
My name is Madduma Bandara — a brave young journalist working for Ceylon Daily Lies. I am going to tell...
Continue reading »The Taxi Driver’s Story: In the Name of a Father
My name is Polgahawela Aarachchige Junius Soloman Hickmana Thanthiriya Bandarawela, and I am a taxi driver in Colombo — you...
Continue reading »Doing It in a Foreign Language
In Jumma: The last bastion of the boys, (Groundviews, 26 March 2010) Nazeeya Faarooq wrote: “…most of the Jumma sermons...
Continue reading »The Revenge of a Tamil Man
Some months ago, I arrived in Colombo on a trip to London from the Far East with Sri Lankan Airline....
Continue reading »Challenges of Development: The Next Phase
It is over. We have a winner, and we have a loser. The margin of victory has many messages. In...
Continue reading »Colour in Sri Lankan Politics
A particular aspect of Sri Lankan politics is color. Those days, there were two: Greens and Blues. Greens were to...
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