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A public apology to Michael Meyler
Michael Meyler is an innocent Britisher going about being innocent with respect to language and language politics, he would have...
Continue reading »The Buddha Sasana: Sri Lanka’s biggest NGO?
Sometimes words are used so often and so uncritically that they not only lose communicative value but those who utter...
Continue reading »Presidential hopefuls and escape-routes for the ‘hopeless’
The buzz in political circles these days is the possibility of there being a ‘common candidate’ (CC) to challenge President...
Continue reading »The IDP situation in Sri Lanka: Let’s keep things real and a response to Rohini Hensman
[Editors note: This article was published in The Sunday Island on 28 June 2009. Groundviews does not usually reproduce content...
Continue reading »The heartbeat of my country
The heartbeat of my country Crashes as wave against rock Bursts into spray and song, It roars down monsoon-swollen rivers,...
Continue reading »Media watch: To write or not to write the truth
I once asked the following question, not from anyone in particular of course: Why don’t pens, pencils and paper go...
Continue reading »For Lasantha and others
Murder is a moment to point fingers Murder is a moment to crawl into shells. But moments don’t forbid, there...
Continue reading »On dimensions of ‘lyricality’ in times of war
Aboorvan Prabanjana takes great pains to drive home a point in a piece titled “Why does Malinda justify excesses of...
Continue reading »Mehmet Bal: A Turkish-Sri Lankan story
Content of this submission deleted on the request of the author who fears for Mehmat Bal’s...
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