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I/NGOs: Mea Culpa… Your Culpa… or Our Culpa?

Shanaka Amarasinghe Nearly three years have passed since the devastation of Boxing Day 2004. Those three years should have sufficed...

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(Mis)-apportioning the Public Money

By Muttukrishna Sarvananthan Ph.D The government has tabled the Appropriation Bill for the fiscal year 2008 in the Parliament on...

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A requiem by Karuna: The death of sub-regionalism?

By Shanthi Sachithanandam Vakarai division, largely jungle tracts crisscrossed with 14 or so villages and little hamlets, situated along the...

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Defeating MR: All but impossible

By Victor Ivan The forthcoming budget will be decisive to the United National Party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna...

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Are we winning hearts and minds?

“The guerilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog’s disadvantages: too much to defend;...

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Consensus building for peace

On a first reading of the poll results, what emerges is the gap between what people perceive as the hard...

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The fear of Jaffna

By Shanthi Sachithanandam “Last night was full moon Oh you Sinhala Buddhist For whom breaking even an egg on a...

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SRI LANKA’S TRAGEDY

By Frederica Jansz Thevani Yogaraja holds a photograph of her family while grieving for her missing husband Emanuel and two...

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Shedding the Master: The Challenge for the Muslims

Shanthi Sachithanandam “There is among the Ceylon Moors diverse opinion on this question in this house and throughout the country....

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Located at the Centre for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Groundviews is a citizen journalism website that uses a range of genres and media to highlight critical perspectives on governance, reconciliation, human rights, the arts and literature, democracy and other issues. The site has won two international awards, including the prestigious Manthan Award South Asia in 2009. The grand jury's evaluation of the site noted, "What no media dares to report, Groundviews publicly exposes. It's a new age media for a new Sri Lanka... Free media at it's very best!"

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